CAPONE GOES TO GAOL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17608, 26 October 1931, Page 7

CAPONE GOES TO GAOL

AN 11 YEARS’ SENTENCE SMASHING BLOW TO GANGSTER (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) CHICAGO, Oct. 24. A 1 Capone, the gangster leader, on Saturday was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment and fined £IO,OOO, and in addition he must pay costs of the prosecution, following conviction for evasion of the income tax laAvs. The defence announced that an appeal would bo taken. Mean-while, Capone has been sent to prison. Apart from the sentence and fine, Capone must pay. £20,000 and £27,460 due for backineohic taxes. It was a •smashing blow to the gang chief, who tried to take it with a-sniile, but which proved wry. Capone will spend the week-end in gaol, after which lie will petitioii the -Circuit Court of Appeals for release on bail, pending an appeal against the court's decision. “Well, you can say that I intend to go through with it,’’ said Capone later, but his temper was not of the best. He attempted to kick a little old man who is the Internal Revenue Department’s process server, when he handed him the writ attaching his property, and also tried to punch a photographer. Capone’s sentence was “big news” in Chicago. Tho man in the street thought all along: “lie is too big for he has got too much money and too much iiifiuenee.”