The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-30

ENU0AANMAA I ' sScarfaceS Al Capone, dettroned crime oyerlord, has been dealt an- other telling blow. The second step in the latest move of the govern Inent to collect e12O.OOO.00 in back liouor revenue taxes from him and IA of his henchmen was taken to- day and many secrets of the inner workings of his crime syndicate. disclosed for, the first time. The Treasury Department has now for- mally accepted the assessment cer- tified to 1t last month by Joseph Lawrence, administrator for the, at- torney general in charge of the taxes and penalties unit of the D. s. Department of Justice.
 Capone, now in Alcatraz federal prison, and the members of his once powerful syndicte head the list of the remaining 5000 prohibi- ton boOtleggers from whom the taxes and penalties unit of the De- partmert of Justice Department, in collaboration with the Treasury De- partment, is demanding for Uncle Sam all justly due liquor taxes to help toward reducing the bill of the recovery program.
 "Capone and his ilk ,defied the law and terrorized decent men and women and even little children for many years,~ said MT. Lawrence. "This is why law enforcement agencies find so little misplaced sympathy for this former overlord of crime. These tax demands fur nish additional evidence that the government catches up, in the end, with law-breakers. This action against Capone and other conspir- ators should encourage those nil- lions of law-abiding citizens who are to-day helping their govern ment to enforce liquor and other laws, and. who are always willing to carry their fair part of the com mon tax burden. They realize, too, that helping the post-repeal boot legger and the racketeer adds to that burden, and they decline to carry these tax-eyaders and graft CTS on theif backs" @
 Biggest Raid in History i,
 This assessment covers only 19,- 900 barrels, at $500 each, of the rivers of beer that flowed from Capone controlled brewerjes, and is the outgrowth of the biggest raid on the illicit beer business made by Uncle Sam's agents in prohibition history. It brought in 77 trucks loaded to the roof and all the beer on hand in r. different breweriess
 A studious reporter has figured that if all the baryery Of beer the government is now assessing in this case were laid end to end, they would make a aiiine over 12 miles long, or could supply one full glass of the beverage to almost 100000 people. ir v l. x su.
 This is a civil, proceeding against Capone. Criminal liability can be asserted no longer, due to repeal. Hence, many interesting and here tofore undisclbsed phases of this gangs membership and operations have now come to light. Z
 It is reported that Capone used the name of, Al Brown and 13 other aliases during his long reign in Chi cago. The majority of the con- spirators in the syndicate had sev- eral aliases and one, John J. Nolan, had 31. qs, 49,
 There are indications that certain sign painters must have thrdved during the reign of the beer barol, and his henchmen. The large fleet of trucks used in, the traffic would be painted one time, for example, World Motor Service Co.,, then be changed to Donald Transport atiOl and Hauling Service, then De changed again to Big Load Motor Service" etc. And git was q coin- mon thing for federal agents to find large "vant' and For Rent'l signs painted on buildings in which illicit breweries were being oper- ated at full blast day and night.
 It is learned that the syndicate often used as many as four armed convoy cars to protect their beer shipments from hijackers as there was no end of double crossing on the part of temporarily aggrieved members of the syndicate and opp posing factions, For example, after a certain large brewery had been seized, from which 1t was impossible for government agents to have the equipment distnantled and removed over a certain weekend, the govern ment was informed by such enemies that an attempt would be made by the evicted operators to return on Sunday and break into the seized premises and cart away the equip- ment. Several guards were sta- tioned on the premises with iil- structions not to disturb the "vis- itors" until they had all the eqpip- ment nicely loaded on their truck at which time another arrest was made for violation of the Criminal Code, in removing seized govern ment property. Tn this comic-opera incident the government was saved the expense of dismantling and loading this equipment, and, in ad- dition, came. Into possession of Q brand new auto truck.
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 The records further, show that the notorious. Dion o'Banion, for- mer beer baron, was arfeSted iu this Chicago raid at the old Eeiben brewery, 1470 Larrabee street, ,cp- erated at the time by tho Capoae syndicate, with Louis Alterie, Weii- known yiolatcr and gliatnan,
 
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