AL CAPONE’S CAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1934, Page 3

AL CAPONE’S CAR

JUDGE AND EXHIBITION. LONDON, July 14. Judge Sir Alfred Tobin, at Westminster County Court yesterday, criticised the public exhibition in London of an American gangster’s car. He was hearing a claim by Mr Wilfred Thomas Organ, timber merchant, Southall, for £5B/5/5, against Haymarket Amusements Ltd., Haymarket, S.W., and Mr Charles Deakin, managing director. Mr Holroyd Pearce, for Mr Organ, said timber was delivered at the defendants’ amusement place in the Haymarket. Mr Charles Deakin said he gave no order to plaintiff. If there was such an order it must have been given by Mr Beresford Bennett, who exhibited there a car said to belong to the American gangster, Al Capone. Judge Tobin: 1 suppose he was a murderer? —Yes.

Are there not other ways of makingmoney in England than by exhibiting American murderers’ cars? 'You might as well take a trunk from Brighton and exhibit it. Was it for the educational benefit of the English working classes that they should see a car belonging to a murderer? Wasn’t it from first to last for the benefit of Mr Bennett’s own pocket? —Yes.

I hope the gangster car exhibition has not been a success. —1 don’t think it has. Judge Tobin suggested a settlement, and after consultation it was agreed that the action be adjourned on Mr Deakin undertaking to pay fifty guineas in full settlement of claim and costs in twenty-eight days, with liberty to plaintiff, if this were not done, to apply for judge’s order.