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ee 7 a “buildiay up a series of tax-evasion convic« tions against his benchmen. “They began to crack4up fast when we got Jack Guaik. indicting, trying and sentence ng him to a five-year term, alf within thirty days. You'll remember, be was Capone's “financial secretary. He was the brains of the organization. Capone was the power that made the wheels go. Guzik’s out on an ap- peal which the Supreme Court will probabiy reach in the latter part of this month. “Frankie |.ake, the ex-firefighter, is doing _ one and a half years in Leavenworth. Terry Druggan, who was a cabbiz before he jomed up with Capone, on March 5 started a two and-a-half-year stretch. .Ralpiv Capone.” Al's brother. is doing three years. Frank “otti's m ” for eighteen months Sam Guzik has gone up for a year and Louis Lipschultz is under indictment. “When the witnesses we needed saw thoze leaders of the Capone oreenization petting knocked off in rapid-fire order, it began to dawn upon them that the United States Gov- emment meant businers and that Capone, pethaps, after all was up against some:hing he couldn't beat this time. H-d failed to fix it for the fellows closest to him. ae “so SHUMWAY TALKED. It was his testimony “that we needed most. It tied the account up with Capone and the Cicere establishment in a way that couldn't be untied. Of course, we had other evidence, and we presented plenty of it, alP kinds of ft, but none so clinching as this. However, we weren't taking any chances. For example, the United States Attomey must gave taken duo, ove pussivic witnesses before the grand jury just to get them on record as swearing they didn't know anything about Capone’s business. That was so the defense couldn't use them as alibi wit- ’ nesses later on. “To go back a bit—Caffone was fighting every inch of the way. Witnesses we needed were being smuggled out of town, out of the State, even out of the country. . & “put at had made one big mistake. And be Thad made it six years before—at noon on -Kentucky Derby day in May, 1925. That ‘was when the West Suburban Ministers’ and Citizens’ Association tricked the Sherta and his deputies into taiding the Hawthorne oke Shop at Cicero. | , sat was from the Hawthorne Smoke Shop, afterward called The Ship or The Subway, “that the book, which I found, and which Shumway identified, had come. That Tittle tobacco store, right in the heart of Cicere, on ita main street across from its two lead- ing banks, just about 300 fert from the gnain office of tbe Western Electric Company e Cicero, was the front for a luxurtous.g2m- Ghling joint that occupied (wp floors and Wey “roulette wheels, blackjack Teyouts, craps > tables and poker tables, as well as wire faciii- ties for betting on the ponies. °C . “He also drew & share of his Income ’ brothels, operated with very modern book- ~ keeping systemd and ‘on definite sthedales iic- “cording te which the women fm then were - gotated about the circuit. He operated bars - da these bouses, but that was his only sake in retai] bquor selling. Otherwise, he con- fined his operations to the manufacture and wholesale distribution of beer and alcoliol. ¢ “He had other rackets, teo, particularly - the cleaning and dyeing business. ~~” ST ee ede Maree’ wlan TEU, Vee FC wey te Cicers that day, Al aime dashing gcroes the street from bis hotel with only his pan apd coat over his pajamas. The guards tried «to gop him, and right there AI began mak- ing mistakes. He said it was bis ‘party’ and “his place and he was going in. : . ak “wHEN Hr ToT Ix he made his next mis- take. He began ordering people around, tell- ing Shumway to take away the cash on hand and in several other ways Jetting it be known definitely that the joint belonged to him. He threatened the raiders; be had them “beaten-up by his gang as they left the place. ‘And fifteen minutes after the raid, tbe house “was operating full blast again. % “But the big mistake be made was to try to dicker with the minister in charge of the raid. He told their leader that he'd take his bewdy houses out of Stickney if they'd “Met him alone in Cicero. They'd had hit houses in Stickney raided a week before. They “wouldn't trade, so he threatened them. - | “He made ‘his threats good. One of the “men in the minister's organization was shot before the case was to come to trial. His ‘family then prevailed upon him not to tes- , tify. The other witnesses also decided to keep ? their mouths shut on that occasion. But when the Govertiment“took Capone before Judge {James H. Wilkerson in Chicago last ial, they talked and presented evidence te prove “that in the 1974-1929 period be bed ap in- ‘come of more than $1,000,000; bow much more nobody knows: - F “The account bocks we hed fron the a “‘Hawthome Smoke Shop were stised ip 8 . paid in 1976 after W. B. McSwiggin, Assist- i ant State’s Attorney, was killed mear the ;. gambling foint, but their valué ‘escaped - a So te Me rae, a a el a th eg on ee a ae a “Ege Pp ee v Fa//nore Sup larch ad WP I 2. b t