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CG 92-677 The "Chicago Sun"! of January 26, 1947, reflected - that more than a score of AL CAPONE's old associates. of the roaring 20's were still active. The article continued oh that most of them were connected in one capacity or ‘another with “the still functioning crime syndicate built on the foundation of bootleg beer", Most of them were. then. connected with gambling and other assorted rackets. — Listed as” among Aone Of CAPONE! eomessociates still active around Cicero : JOSEPH AIUPPA, alias JOE O'BRIEN, described as, “an old CAPONE beer runner who then rules Cicero's rackets for the syndicate”. “parang 2 The DILLINGER Gang bd, ID advised that shortly after the gun pattie between FBI Agents and the members of the DILLINGER mob at bic. Little Bohemia, ameter 5°: O'BRIEN came to Aurora, Tilineis, with Doc BARKER, HOMER VAN-NMETER,: JOHN DILLINGE _ and JOHN HANILTON. HAMILTON . had been shot in the liver “~~ where the bullet mushroomed and he died soon. thereaftt Further, the above gangsters prought slong period o heat on the CAPONE gang in Chicago and therefore ; they stayed out of Chicago at that time, me & ed, bID HAMILTON died soon ‘therearter: and was: puried-in =v of Aurora, Illinois. oma 50% O° BRIEN had helped to bury HAMILTON, a : The. BARKER-KARPIS Gang advised that in the early 193) a : r With machine ba, bID individuals who supplied the BARKER-KARP IS. gan b7¢e guns were ay fore O'BRIEN,