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Al Capone — Part 15
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lane, through ths designing Short Shavings, is successful
and given his dus credit for $50.00. Thorpe, the physio therapy inmate,
having had no correspondence concerning money, fe denied his.
Mr. Fricz, the Chief Clerk W0i0.735 the money was sent by John
Capone's syndicats, which each month takes care of the payuents. Three
negroes, when questianed concerning the origin of the money, the sender,
and for what purpose it was sent, are unadle to present an honest story.
They have darned i< from Capone. « .they claim it is theirs, « « and the
Chief Clerk has no claim upon it) Lr. Frick, to the amarement of the
neproes, informs then that they cannot have it. . . that it will be
returned)
And returned it is! “het disposition is made of it in ,
Evansville is not our concer...
And once more Capon: pleads for an interviow with the Director.
Oh, if only he could talk to Fin. « . get only a word with hin] WaT HE
COULD ACCOLPLISH, he assures hinselS and others.
But no! and NO arain, says the Director. He's heard enough!
Ther, to Capone's amatement and humiliation, he is stripped
of his nicely laundered blue stirt, bleached pants and silk undervear.
He is paraded ignominously to the Clothing Roan, and his unique apparel
cast aside, 4 new outfit -- sinilar to the first he wore when admitted
to the institution «+ is furnished hia. His complaint about it scratching
his skin, the seams being so rough they cut, and above all it is ill-fitting,
avails him nothing, Captain Head is there to insure he doss not brite either
civiliars or immtes employed in the Clothing Room.
His chagrin and mortification ia so pronounced, and so deter-
“mined is he that he will have his wey that he mutters, when leaving the
Clothing Rooms “Watoh nol"
It's not a threat, but a warning. . . # warning that he will
not tolerate such treatment! That he will not wear such clothes which reduce
him to the level of the ordinary innate!
Then the startling news that the Director is closeted with Dr.
Beale, his inmate secretary, and othor hospital esployes, races through the
institution. Questions and oross-questions are hurled at then, separately
and privately! As a result of this investigation changes are made the
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