CHICAGO GANGSTER
DISMISSAL OF CHARGES. NO EVIDENCE TENDERED. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) New York. April 3. The vagrancy charges against Al Capone were dismissed to-day at Chicago, when the State’s attorney confessed his inability to produce a single witness who could prove that the gang chieftain was “a frequenter of disreputable resorts.” Several policemen escorted the elegantly attired gangster into court, where he posed for photographers and bantered with detectives. The case was quickly disposed of, as not a single policeman would testify that Capone so much as frequented a "speakeasy.” Thus “Number one of Chicago’s public enemies” strolled out of the court with the earlier threats of what would be done to him if he was apprehended by the authorities quite unfulfilled.
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Southland Times, Issue 21362, 7 April 1931, Page 7
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123CHICAGO GANGSTER Southland Times, Issue 21362, 7 April 1931, Page 7
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