“Smashing Blow”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 253, 26 October 1931, Page 7

“Smashing Blow”

AL CAPONE’S SENTENCE QUARTER MILLION INVOLVED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Oct. 25, 5.5 p.m. CHICAGO, Oct. 24. Al Capone, gangster leader, on Saturday was sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and fined 50,000 dollars, following his conviction for evasion of the income tax laws. In addition he must pay the costs of the prosecution. The defence announced that an appeal will be taken. Meanwhile Capone has been sent to prison. Apart from the sentence and fine, Al Capone must pay 10,000 dollars and 137,328 dollars due' for back income taxes. It was a smashing blow to the gang chief who tried to take it with a smile, but which proved wry. Capone will spend the week-end in gaol, after which he will petition 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 get through with it,” said Capone later, but his temper was not of the best. Ho attempted to kick a little old man who is the Internal Revenue Department’s process server, when he handed him a writ attaching his property, and also tried to punch a photographer. Capone’s sentence was “big news” in Chicago. The man on the street thought all along, “Ho is too big for that. He has got too much money and too much influence.”