The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-13
CAP0NE WANTS
TO SEE END OF
GANG MURDERS
Emo ugh Business For Us AL
Without Killing Each 9th.
cr.' Says Vice Lard
TALKS TO REPORTERS
Police Investigations Into
Mondays Slayings Fail to
Bring Clues

'Mcago.. De-. II. GN Al Sc T.
face" Cnpone. rcputcd king OF tha
Cicero underworld. md beer runne,
wants to see the end
Of gang murder in Chicago, "bccaus,
there is enough business for all Of u.
without killing each other like ami
mails in the street."
While police were investigating tho
wide ramifications of Mondays ma.
chine gun battle, which took thu
lives OF two north side beer barons
AID wounded three other mon, Ca.
pone. p year old cmigre from
Brooklyn. calmly told reporters in his
modest Cicero hotel room Of his
.abhorrence OF butchery" and his ef.
forts TO bring about peace in thu
booze running underworld.
II don't want to die in the stree;
punctured by machine gun fire." said
the Cicero vice lord, leader Of the
faction opposing Hymie Weiss, slain
gangster and north side booze over.
lord. But while police suspicion i'm
mediately was directed Ciccrowar,I
for an explanation Of the latest gar
killings, there wMs no direct evidence
and Chief Morgan Collins said it was
waste Of time to arrest Caponc.
Capone Has an Alibi
"Capone, Of course, has an alibi,'
he asserted. He was in Cicero when
the shooting occurred. If we bring
him in, it will be because we ha. G
the goods on him cold, but there is
no use putting him on the grill un-
til we do"
The chief declared it is his opin.
ion that the killers of Weiss and
Paddy Murray were imported, prob
ably from New York.
Capone, who has taken the name of
Brown. gave his version Of the gang
feuds in small hotel room, which
he said had been his home, office and
shelter for IA months. II contained
only a bed, dresser and three chairs
Capone Is reported to have made
more than two million dollars in the
booze game.
Wants Them to Talk Sense
Holding photograph of his sew
en-year-old boy in his hand and
speaking Of his love of the youngster
and his relatives, Capone declared he
had "begged those fellows to put
away their pistols and talk sense to
me. They've all got families too
What makes them SO crazy to end up
on slab in morgue with their
mothers heart broken over the way
they died?
III any one will get those fellows
tOgether-what's left of the north
side gang, and anyone else that
thinks they're bucking me in bust.
ness--and take their guns away and
sit them down to listen to me, III
make peace with all of them, and
I'll keep it too.
"rll tell them why | want peace
because don't want to break the
hearts Of the people that love me
and maybe can make them think Of
their mothers and sisters, and II they
think Of them they'll put up theii
guns and treat their business like any
other man treats his, as something ia
work ut and forget when he goe.
home at night"
Police Investigation of the Weiss
staying, while it failed to bring to
light any clues to the actual slayers
uncovered q mass of related details.
RumOrs Are Investigated
One inquiry was stIrted intt
charges that the murders had un.
covered q gang plot backed by at leas,
100000 to corrupt witnesses ane
jurors in the murder trial Of Joe Sal
tis, Weiss henchman. Simultane
ously federal authorities started ar
investigation Of vep0rt of plot t.
bomb the home Of United States Sen
ator Deneen and other federal Off
cials because gangsters believed then
responsible for starting o-and jury
quiz into Cicero vice conditions.
Police also were giving some at
tcntion to q theory that the Weis:
staying was double cross engineer
ed by his own heschmen. This wa,
based on testimony given at cor
oner's jury inquest that Sam Pellel
and Ben Jacobs. two Of the mer
wounded in the machine gun assault
were seen to fire pistols point blanl
at Weiss.