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Al Capone Owned or Received Profits from Gambling HousesBy RAY BRENNANCHICAGO,* Oct. 7—M3)—'The wide open gambling houses ^of ‘ Cicero during the days when AI :Capone niade the village his ' suburban stronghold, wer$ discussed at length today in the scar-faced gang leader’s trial in federal court on charges of incpme tax’evasion. ^ V’• But when -the day's court .session was finished, not one witness had said definitely, iri reply to persistent questions ' from *the^prosecutipri that Capone owned or / received profits from the gaming houses'. \x *Even the government's “star witness” for the day, Leslie H. Slium-way, an employq of what w;ere known as “Capope joints” in Cicero could not say definitely* he testified, that any of the profits from the roulette wheels, the rattling dice ^ames and the ho^se racing bets found their way ihto Capone’s pockets. ^Was Bookkeeper S hum way worked as bookkeeper in “five or six Qicero joints in which Frankie Pope, a w;eil known Chicago gangster said by polide to be in charge of gambling for Capone was manager,” he said! ‘ •Shumway even took the profits from the Subway, a notorious gam bling house, to a safe in a nearby building, : he testified, but he professed not to know who got the money from the'lsafe.In the final hour of the afternoon session, Federal Judgp James H. Wilkerson leaned across his desk and asked Shumway:“Do you know who the owner of the place was?”“Not definitely,” the witness re plied:Shumway testified he never had talked to Capone about hiring “dealers, shillers, or bouncers,” for the gambling resorts, or about other matters in connection with conducting the business of chance..‘That’s Right'“Once Al Capone asked me what I would do if I were held up while taking the money from the Subway to the safe.” Shumway related. “I told him I’d let ^them have the money, and he said ‘that’s right’.” Whether ot* not Capone owned the Cicero gambling places, they w'ere (Continued on Page Five) ,
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Chicago Daily Illini
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 08, 1931
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