AMERICAN CRIME RULE
CASE AGAINST GANGSTER. AL CAPONE PLEADS GUILTY. CHICAGO, June 16. Al Capone, his power apparently crushed by the United States Govern ment, stood in the Federal Court today and pleaded guilty to charges of de frauding the nation of almost 200,000 dollars in income taxes and conspiring in a 200,000,000 dollars beer conspiracy. The plea marked the climax of the Government’s efforts to stamp out syn di cate crime rule in the country’s second largest city, where the municipal and State Governments >ermed helpless. Al Capone was told his sentence would be deferred until June 30. The maximum penalty can be 34 years’ prison and a 90,000 dollar fine, but it is reported that Al Capone’s term would be two and a half years in gaol, and a fine of probably 10,000 dollars.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 7
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136AMERICAN CRIME RULE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 7
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