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Gangster’s hotel marble hawked

NZPA-Reuter Chicago On the assumption that anything dealing with crime, corruption, Al Capone and Chicago will sell, an entrepreneur has started hawking chunks of marble from the gangster’s old hotel.

The paperweight-sized pieces of marble came from the lobby and halls of the Lexington Hotel, where a much-publicised but futile attempt was made a year ago to find something in what was alleged to be Capone’s vault.

Harold Rubin, who says he had compiled a collec-

ton of gangster-related memorabilia, is selling the first 100 numbered chunks of marble for SUS2IS each. Attached to the stone is a medallion bearing Capone’s image with slouched hat and cigar.

Another 500 of the souvenirs, numbered 101 to 600, are on the block for SUSI6S each. Capone ruled an empire built on prostitution, gambling and illegal liquor until a tax evasion conviction sent him to Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay in 1932. He died in 1948.

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Press, 5 March 1987, Page 15

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Gangster’s hotel marble hawked Press, 5 March 1987, Page 15

Gangster’s hotel marble hawked Press, 5 March 1987, Page 15

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