CAPONE GOES FREE.
CHARGES OF VAGRANCY. WITNESSES REFUSE TO SPEAK. (Received April 5, 5.5 p.m.) CHICAGO. April 4. The vagrancy charges against the notorious gang leader A 1 Caponc were dismissed to-day. The State attorney confessed his inability to produce a single witness who could prove that Capono was a, frequenter of disreputable resorts. Several policemen escorted tho elegantly attired gangster into the Court, whero he posed for photographers and exchanged banter with detectives. The case was quickly disposed of, as not one policeman would testify that Capone had so much as frequented a " speakeasy." Therefore tho chief of Chicago's " public enemies" strolled out of Court with tho earlier threats of what would be done to him if he were apprehended by the authorities quite unfulfilled.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20840, 6 April 1931, Page 9
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