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- te 1 = = ah ~ a aae- 2 7 ~~ . bar] i t t cae + ~_ « cen a , . . wee _ : ’ Fi , : a ¢ es ——— 4 iad -« - Teer y + . v7 a ak Pa + . fet Loses Fight To Go Free} Sty International ‘News Bervice “goarface Al” Capone, former overlord of Chicago gangdom, to day lost his second appeal to the Supreme Court in an effort to escape his sentence of charges of dodging income tax. . | ‘The bigh court, without expla- ~ 4 nation, denied a petition for re- j yiew in a habeas corpus proceed- ing, in which Capone's lawyers contended that the statute of imitations prevented his trial. -Thus the high court jeft unan- jewered the question of whether or not Capone's lawyers made & | fatal error when he was tried in Federal court in Chicago by not raising the statute of limitations question in the proper way. Capone was sentenced to a year in jail on misdemeanor charges and 10 years for dodging income; tax for 1925, 1926, and 1927. | At the trial his layyers moved ‘vor a directed verdict and asserted that three years had elapsed since): the offenses. THE Government re- |’ | plied that a six-year statute ap! \Iplied in Capone's case. | pear ig + + r