RACKETEER OUTLAW

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 80, 28 December 1935, Page 16

RACKETEER OUTLAW

Echo of Al Capone

One of the last surviving partners of Al Capone, the fallen king of Chicago’s racketeers, has been discovered aimlessly sailing backward and forward across the Gulf of California.

Tony “Gentleman” Zybosko, who used to be Capone’s “out-of-town salesman,” was once threatened by a rival gangster organisation. He felt safe while Capone was at liberty, but as soon as his chief went to jail he became accursed with fear of sudden death.

He roamed all over the country, but always he thought he was being followed.

In 1932, when he was in Mexico, he had a sudden idea that he would huy a yacht and spend the rest of his days at sea, where he would be safe from gangsters’ bullets. “Gentleman,” not quite so debonair

as in his heyday, never comes ashore from his yacht. He puts into port, usually in Mexico, only when supplies are needed. His three dark, brawny Mexican sailors do all the buying.

Then he puts out to sea again and doesn’t touch civilisation for another three or four months.

Zybosko seldom talks to bis crew. Burned black by constant sunshine, be spends most of hi s days reading novels, magazines, and every detective story he can lay hands on. He forbids his sailors to carry guns because he is afraid they might turn on him, but he always has a submachine gun at his side, even when the yacht is far out in the Pacific, lost, at some unexpected moment, the sudden death he dreads should confront him.