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see ————— ee rr al ee ee | eR OR . woes -——- Fortroit of a Man Talking to Capone . ® he wasn't sick at a | thought he'd die from OMETHING told me at the time 1 wouldn't yee Capone for a ions epell...I mean the Jest time i met him in his Florida mansion... He seemre pretty shim fier he got that call fron Crucago—and they told him thit lecai poliniciars, aspinng for the neicshts, were re opening the Colcsimo thing aeain...He never dieamed ihe. they would tinally trap him via the income tax gag...The size of Alphonse was ehat impressed me more Unon anything about him...A mutual friend asked me if I would like to meet Capone. and I said I wouid..- Mir!t have made a tot of toin from all those macazines that asked for an article on the eisit titled “The Caponts at Home”... But 1 tola Capone I wouldnt fo commercial on the cai and 1 didn't...He sa:4 be @idn't care wheiher 1 did or mot—that nme neve: met a hewspe ptr man stt who didi cro him...Wondcr :f at is true what I Reara abou him?...That peiore retiring each mehi he tried hke a baby. HAD alwavs picturrd him asa small and fat person... He's over six fect!... When 1] wes entering his Place, he saw me coming up the three ete, leadint fo rhe parior ..He was cieeonn cards with ‘inrec nushies. .. Their bicks wre ote the ooreCarore faced ati... Oh, ere he eahea as he ote me. and in the peta trent he mais meee ottd ta the Oe, Serpae: So heesiee They speared quiceer then the bird esate the: tar ga ute ae Ele Was sxerpns the tate clean % cards and chins...1 gat coun oon a Eiitee reer his sinc of the table...°Sit. over here.” he said..."No, this i oat} orice Po eaonie “et ONO, sit over here. ples co a parce hoe Taint mint... Tiy oro, hed caught £682 ot ibe largest sutomaic Tever gaw...It was resin tn ane of the table novns, where they keop ching, ] eucss. and he Gidnt want me to be eorpied...He enerid the Run with one of is cemene pews and mid uw es tre other side of the pee... C1 dant under pis Vat” Dora eer ne af com@etain7 to eu. “Hert you are piece a came of card? with vor frieme~, Puc ver aeep a gun hangy” . 7] have mo frerc:.” he tid as he handed me ea fiass of grand ber~. AMONG other thincs T Jearved during {hat ral] wa- inat mery pure yeu referred te it as fis fans. he carrerteg you wih omy ofan paver. 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I LHe sighed heavily. added: “That's hate wined and dined rgnt crossed me"...He handed flight of stairs!"... wes too stiff, and he pa he told the Government.” was rover sick”... ®. prop senile. ep ee murder on me. us had a hearing’ told me about the time they Phitis, where be did time... tickets bacx to Ch-caso. told the ticket fur to keep the chance. loge Jo oruess. pid detectives, WL apres. panions to # mo-.r. when thes came out. time between trains... ."Wr were.” Capent started a panic in penole, That's no tim WAS looking beer was too good... pretty dangerous. ...One of the c returned the salutation... the officer quemed.. ect it’...Capone exp | a good thing he didn’t remove the self. for that is what ¢ - yr “7 = Ld xr 1 | eve shot me down. claiming eelf-defense. set ?”...They took him b+ | Oh, bor.” said i heard the tal-down he cave 1) me evervihine in the world, rat, a th:s and that. the time 1 thouzht thing. Anybody I m my own house has me the third beer.. .Swelegent! reputation against the phone call he and seemed sway off.. I asked. “nothing ‘bunch in Chicago is rood?” . rer wilh aA opt faid, “Hello, “Got a gun on " eatd Al, “ga and lained to me thar it Fas . Bure. No when afl the while he _.."Qnce," be pneumonia down a whole cali from Chicago came...Before it arrived Capone was in 8 Ey mood..-He likes to talk, it seems—and he vas defending his a first impression...After came back into the parlor “What's the matter?” "ae “Aw.” ne said, “that uring te pin the Colos.mo Tha: was yerrs 200! The Aol with them!"...He hove suc at him through one eye—his “Yean,” I vaid, “that's Nl those people arouna” Al,” and Al fhe cons wanted. . G2pone. for the benefit of reportcrs courtrocm. Bo 1 toon it als. stop...He teld me he sas rorry put mein the electric ehaar righ aeif!...Funclly 1 promoted a lawyer and f: , But the juése, wh3 trying to erash the Re coniinuéed giving me shen he said €35.000 off my banarcttl. id the bail would t in that jar it the $50 Upt” t | the bat would be iow. once was my pal, was tt heht th me i} am pce of Eu mind. Eo |. bail and I started to he ehauzed his mr.d atc 52 be hivner.. HY tne Ume Tsp cost me $110.000..-A!l over apo" coe tee OL MLS ES eee ee 69-089 perl it ef. wav ——__—__— “Jo was buying said, “and I re at the stafien It was # $50 bil, Sn for beings fe he phoned the police, ae'lars’., 1 7e traced’ Fari and his con przstd hon They had gone te bs at Crazy cops thry “They that lobby with all those c or place to eet excited ana mito’ a dot of pespic coutd get hurt!" * Capone im the ca iifiy {ore a maisirate there “you should heve 1 was a bum, 8 He mitted nothing. he was puitinz on & Ehow gid others in tne Bin he woulen’ that he couldnt t then, him-