SCARFACE CAPONE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16211, 8 December 1926, Page 10

SCARFACE CAPONE

i SHOT VICTIM LEAVES £600,000

NEW YORK, October 21. j The machine-gun battle in Chicago yesterday in which two liquor traffic ieiiddivs Vero killed and three wouhdfed is the. subject to-day of 'national discussion. The most significant comment on it' and on the conditions generally in Chicago is that, inade by Scarfdce Capone, whose adopted name is Browne. Capone, si resolute man of ,27, is the acknowledged "King" of the beer trade. Me received' reporters in his hotel and j issued an amazing interview Appealing ! for the immediate conclusion of peart* ! between himself and hia rivalß. ( Capone, whom the police say! it is useless to arrest because he is richly prd- , videil with alibis, began with a sdlenitl expression of his ''abhorrence of butchery." While speaking he held conspicuously in his hand photographs of 3i«s deaHy-beloved seven-year-phi son. iHo professed extreme regret at the death of Hymie Weiss, one of yesterday's victims, aud said that .he would certainly send flowers to his funeral I I

I MOTHER AND SISTER, i J The beer "King" -declared that he ; had bogged Weiss and his comitanidris to put away their pistols and "tajk I sense to me." Ho proceeded: I dem't iw-ant to break the hearts of the people who love me, and I make them think of 'their mothers and sisters. I persuade them to treat their business as something to work at and forget when tha S day's work is done; for personally I ; don't want to die in the street puncUured by machine-gun ike. S Ho explained that the gang murders 'of which Chicago has seen 110 in three j years, had their origin in the disloyalty !of members of his own organisation who 'began to think that they "were bigger jtbari we were." By "we" Capone i obviously meant himself and his nnir-

dered partner. Gapone. however, said he wa ( ; even then willing,' "to forgive and forget." He talked of Hyniio Weiss and others, sayinjr, "Do you want to die before you are thirty?"] Peace was then wmoludedi "We kept our bargain," said the beer king, "but they broke theirs." Wfaeh he wiis murdered yesterday Weiss was worth £600.000. fie was married to a charming New York girl only three months ago. Ho is to have u funeral rivalling in magnificence that of Don Q'Ranion, who was | buried in a silver coffin with gold mountings.