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- S, “A ’ Se ee ee ed t vv eee ry Be Hee eee eee cme eee ee ee ee a ee ee ee _. SO The National Daily CAPONE BECOMES Forger Who Was One| ae Of His Net Mates Gives Report NEW YORK. Oct. 17.—“Scar- face Al” Capone, still optimistic! about getting out of Atlanta. Ge. Pedersl prison without serving his full liyear sentence for incom:; ; tax law evasion, has developed! into a “crackerfack” of a good ten- ) Dis player, as wel ag & model . | prisoner. The first authentic report of | ‘the Chicago “Big Shot's” activi- | ties behind the walls of the South. ‘em institution was brought to | New York today by one of the ‘Bearfaced One's” ertwhile “net mates’—a forger, who completed his term and intends “going straight.” . A “Sore Loser” As a tennis player, however, | Capone is a decided ‘sore loser,” according to his friend. On more than one occasion when luck was against him, he showed this by cracking his racket across bis ; mnee. Of course, it was polnted out, this was Capone's prerogative, in- asmuch as be pays for his own racquets, as do most of the Fed- era! prisoners within the jail, who go in for “sports.” The Windy City racket rar | tinued good tried to make the prison bass pine soon after his arrival inere, t ; t ‘ “ . Nathan .. : -. fo'son — Teo. CHeRE Se vo, Bowe ds x wr, Beer *: oa td Hur Mi 2 ‘tursDAY—OCTOB. FINE TENNIS PLAYE! "deccemenemegiaag AIT ; He Loses, Breaks His Racket onal period—-1% hours a weekdays, and Saturday and ay afternoons. Despite his wealth, capt neither receives, nor has be sough}{ wer /any special favor at the hands = ‘Warden A. C. Aderbold, who, ; anything has held Capont a Isttld en 7 resi » stk, x 4 | public opinion, . Gets Ne avers ; Of recent months, Capone . shad & “break,” oo far as [riend- | ship “\s concerned, however, ‘Cause of the presence of \Druggan, apother Chicago Bhot.” who recently was trans}? ™ {ferred to Atlanta from the Hopes For Change He is regulariy emplicyed in the prison shoe repair shop, where he labors a full eight hours every day, but he has visions of an easier assignment in the cotton “duck mills,” where prisonets are awarded an extra “two days off a month" for good work and ton- ad good hehavior, jis tennis playing occurs dur- ' the regular prison recree~ . : NOY RECORDED — 69-18 6 te ER ee ne ee te SS A ES STEERER pre cimmtones Sam fa SS me See WARES. tw . ~