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AFFAIRS OF A RACKETEER AL CAPONE’S MENTAL ILLNESS TOO DANGEROUS TO RELEASE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29 The one-time multi-millionaire racketeer \1 Capone is without means. This is revealed by Federal investigators. Internal Revenue agents state that Capone’s vast fortune has disappeared since he was sent to Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay. His only asset is said to be his heavily-mort-gaged Florida estate. The remainder of his assets have been swallowed up in attorney’s fees and in income-tax liens. The prisoner’s mental illness has made him “too dangerous to release.’’ Ordinarily he would have been eligible for release on January 19. But he may now be detained for another two years for treatment. The District Attorney, Mr William Campbell, has revealed that the former gangster is suffering from paresis. He lapses into bouts of irrational violence in one week out of every four. Capone’s relatives and attorney's will confer with Government officials soon in an attempt to decide what can be done with him. This man, who used to sit in a palatial office in Chicago directing his £2,000,000 a year vice and liquor rackets, now spends much of his time crouching in his cell. He is hated by his 300 fellow 7 prisoners, and has been involved in a number of fights. FORMER MILLIONAIRE CHARGES OF SWINDLING ON TRIAL IN AMSTERDAM lUnited Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 29 Sigfried Wreszynski, a former Park Lane millionaire, who was prominent in London in 1934, when he devised a scheme for thawing Germany’s frozen credits, lias been sent to gaol in Amsterdam to await trial on charges of swindling an Austrian refugee girl and a Dutch businessman. The Daily Express says that when Wreszynski lived in London lie had three luxury cars and (he walls of his Park Lane apartment were hung with pictures of Holbein and Van Dyck. His wife slept in a Queen Anne bedroom, and their guests drank ehainIpaign from gold cups and used gold I cutlery.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 5
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