The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-03
CAPONE SULKS
AS HE WATTS
PRISON ride
Swears and Storms in Cell
When Visitors Try to
Approach Him.
TOUGH GUYS ABSENT
None of Ex-Henchmen Go
to Say Farewell to
Ex-'Big Shot,
BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN
United Press stan Correspondent


United Press stan Correspondent
CHICAGO, May 3.-A Capone
sulked in his county jail cell today
cursing those who sought to see
him before he starts tonight for
Leavenworth penitentiary to begin
serving the eleven years he must
spend behind bars for income tax
evasion.
Go to hell. you lousy rats" Ca
pone beloved when newspaper men
approached his cell.
Want to take me for a ride some
more, Ell? Well. I'm not talking
seel Get TO hell out Of here"
The pound gangster trembled
with rage. His face went TO sickly
purple. He shook his fist.
While the man who once ruled
the Chicago gangs with machine
gun and bomb. making this his
capital of crime whence he drew
millions in revenue from liquor, vice
and gambling, stormed in his cell,
last arrangements we're made for
sending him to the federal peni-
Tertiary at Leavenworth, Kan.
Fear Trouble at Train
He will 60 with some sixteen
other federal prisoners. narcotics
dealers, automobile thieves and the
like, on a Chicago, Burlington &,
Quincy train. He will be taken
from the Jail directly to the Union
station.
Capone will be handcuffed like
the others. Guarding him will be
United States Marshal Henry c. w.
Laubenheimer and three of the
brawniest deputy marshals in the
Chicago office. Each weighs 200
pounds or over.
Time of the trains departure was
not announced. The officials feared
disorder at the station, or pos
Sible attempt to liberate Capone.
The scar-faced gangster saw only
wife, mother and sister in the
county jail today. They are loyal
although the big shot is only a
convict hoodlum now.
wife, Mother Say GOod-By
His wife, May Capone, married
sister and his aged mother spent
a considerable time talking with him
in low tones. Capone managed q
crooked smile when they came in.
But no friends other than the
three women helped 5carface Al
spend the last day in Chicago that
he will spend here for some seven
years. He must stay approximate
ly that long in Leavenworth. count
ing time of for good behavior from
his ten-year penitentiary sentence.
Then. when he does come back
to Chicago, the city he took for a
ten-year. s1O,000,o00 ride. it will be
to return to the county jail to serve
years Jail sentence.
Warden David Moneypenny of
county Jail and federal guards who
hvae watched Capone's cell said
none OF his henchmen had at
tempted to bid him good-by.
Ignored by Tough Guys"
So Capone. prison-bound, will &c
like petty hoodlum. ignored by
the tough guys" he drilled into a
ruthless criminal army, and by the
scores Of gay livers on whom he
lavished jewels. diamond belt
buckles and expensive liquor parties
He wouldn't watch his step and
the big guy slapped down." a gang
dom spokesman said.
al ways always too stubborn.
From the time Johnny Torrio
brought him in here to bounce at
the Four Deuces cafe. AL was a
know-it-all guy. 1t worked all light
in the gang for a while because he
gave orders that nobody dared to
slip up on.
But he was too stubborn when
he was wrong. Plenty of smart
heads in the gang told him to go in
and get straight with the govern
ment on his tax.
He'll, they can't touch me.
didn't sign my name to anything,
he told them.
But the government gave him
the works, and now look where he
is"
There we're critics in plenty today
some Of them who would never
have dared speak disparagingly OF
the gang leader in the old days
when ne lived in the Lexington
hotel in az armed camp, and hi:
gambling halls and vice places ran
wide open from Cicero to Burnham
: and from the loon 10 the levee.