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~ HLR.H. AL CAPONE | f THE—HGSTILITY toward news pebnen dis- | Mr. B.A. Temm.--- played by the law officers ansoletedmwht h the Mr. Cheme ...-----+-- recent formal release of Al Capone leads us to call Mz, Ladd.......--++-+ for a new deal insuring proper news in such cases Bie. Coffer .occn-s and fair treatmept of teporters and photographers ™ _eking legitiniale ne&s of importance, The majesty of government was not upheld Mr. Glewt ---oseo: when U. §, officers. and Henry Hill, warden of the Mr. Hirbo ....+-2: Northeast Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., for, Lette econnived to frustrate the newspapenmen and ever My, Benda ees permitted attacks on photographers. One camers Mr. Melntize 22. | was broken at the prison, from which the ex- Mr. Nichcis, .... | gang lord was spirited away in a car identified . He, Bowe eects + later as that of Warden Hill's. Government guards engaged in # brief and slightly “seri- Me. Gata canis monious” skirmish with Chicago Times ‘ynen later | Mr, Trets . at Harrisburg. The guards knocked down one lise Guns OF o . Chicago Times photographer, but his associate tour Boow ........\: ' took pictpres and thus upset the best-laid plans \ of the Federal officers to spirit Capone across the country in complete secrecy. t A scofe of newspapermen waited vainly at the Lewisburg penitentiary while Warden Hill con- veniently absented himself at the time of Capone's | release after refusing all demands for « statement. These newspapermen Ister held an “inquest” and they can hardly be Llamed for returning the fol- lowing verdict holding the Federal Government guilty of negligence in its duty to the public. “We, the jury, after due deliberation of the evi. dence at hand in the case of the Fourth Esta vs, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, do hereby fin tlhygt Bureau was ipdifferent j n jig geuLin dissemination of news incident to the | reigase of AI Capone, and we do hereby recom- mend that necessary steps. be taken to establiah a better relationship as a means of preventing a recurrence of these misunderatandings.” Why, we wish to ask James W. Bennett, director of Federal Prisons, was Capone shown such un- ; Wafrauted eonsideration, while the newspapermen | eavering his release werd treated as enemies of the government? An investigation of the facts is inorder by this bureau’s chief and a policy should be formulated barring a repetition of the mistreat- ment of the press in the release of any prisoner of Capone's or lesser importance. bing BIT of descri atl | THE_H? paper writers to the po int where we think abali { should be called to this practice, During the past week several stories erroneously identified, as “ch. eral en of loose writing, siti : ~ _ dustice declares the Federal Bureau of Investiga- ‘ - ‘a tion had nothing to do with putting Capone in! ‘ 3 TsGn. Or wi CAgiD im : . Newspapers et i the copy desks, from winch the “easy headline phrase spread) have i - , ective “attractive i every=wemad, WHO appears on the wit. d in a newspaper story. CT ee s made G-man to mean an FBI agent. The_term should not apphed generally to aovermment JA» men, W lieve if