LIKE COMIC OPERA
(.'H 1C ADO GANGSTER'S TRIAL CHICAGO, f'ept. IS. Gangsters congratulated the jury for bringing in a verdict of not guilty in a charge of vagrancy a gain sit the liquor baron and colorful underworld leader, Spike O’Donnell, who has been in the spotlight since Capone was interned. The proceedings were like comic opera. One gangster, in the character of u witness, when asked his address. said he changed it frequently, and did not know his present address till he looked up his hook. O’Donnell, on the stand, kept Iho court alive with witty sallies, at the expense of the prosecutor. When asked the involved question of whether his reputation on the date of the warrant was that of gun carrier, he responded, “Come again. Shove that tiling around n little plainer, Mr Prosecutor. ’ ’
A rotfirod policewoman said that she had known O’Donnell since his birth and In' bore an unblemished reputation. The judge was forced to clear the court ■when the .spectators cheered O'Donnell and his gangster friends.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 5
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171LIKE COMIC OPERA Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 5
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