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JAMES SAMMONS’ RECORD READ TO INDIANA JURORSi.Gangster Is Lucky Says Prosecutor During His ArgumentCrown Pmnt. Ind. Nov. 20 AP James lt;Fur) Sammons’ career ini •** ’:* ZkW? * * • 'A*.1* i !- .* *’ ■' •• Ve * *'•*■ ' ” - * ’• . *.-«* ’•** . * ’* «»♦“I crime was recounted to the jur ! this morning as Lake county prosecutors began then attempt to show! that the Chicago gangster is a': habitual criminal, and subject to rt ; life imprisonment sentence on thal score.The story was told to the jurv ; over vigorous protests from the gangster's attorney, who complained that the prosecutors had notj proved the James Sammons whlt; had four convictions to his record was the James Sammons now or I trial. INone of Sammons' four eonvic-1tions, Assistant Prosecutor Johi 1Underwood told the jury, ever!caused the Chicagoan serious in-f convenience IH* Had Good Lurk 1Hlt;» has had good luck in court!Underwood said, since he first venjltured into crime as a boy of IS I Cook county criminal records! through winch th»» prosecutor;, traced Sammons’ career, were rearf; tn show that he was arrested ami convicted then on a charge of rapef Although ho was sentenced thento Pontiac reformatory, Sammomj was up and doing again bv 1303* when he was again tried and con-1 victed, this time for robbery. 1 rrhe climax of ins life m crime and a slip which almost ended it came the next year. He was id trouble then over a charge of murder, and went through court agairi Tliis time he was not only con victed but sentenced to hang. A commutation from the Governor o Illinois saved him.
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Dixon Evening Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Wed, Nov 29, 1933
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