NOTORIOUS GANGSTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20819, 11 March 1931, Page 11

NOTORIOUS GANGSTER.

FATHER ON HIS SINS.

LIEUTENANTS DEPORTED. CHrCAGO, March 2. An old ruan living in Hungary, says a message from Berlin, claims to be the father of the notorious gang leader A 1 Capone. The doings of his son so incensed him that he went to the Crosswardein police station and excitedly demanded that the police should telegraph to the Chicago Federal Court and insist upon the severest punishment for " Scarface." \

" He was a young devil as a boy," said tho old man, who is named Ladislaus Kabovic. " For all the thrashings I gave him when he was young he was a perfect terror, and frequently in conflict with the police."

At first the police thought their visitor was demented, but Ivabovic is reported to have satisfied them by means of documents and photographs that he really is the father of Capone, who came to America when he was 17 years olcjj

It looks as if Capone may spend most of the remainder of his life in gaol. The Federal war on hoodlums is marked by the departure of a special deportation train, with 125 aliens aboard. In a day or two they will be east-bound across the Atlantic. Thirty per cent, of these deportees were Capone's lieutenants.

Two of his gambling-house managers revealed to the grand jury what was his share of the profits, and indictments are being issued against Capone for failing to pay his income tax, with the prospect of a. long term in Leavenworth piison.