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, CHICAGO, Mrr 2X.^OP)—Surface^ ► __. * ' ■ **Al Capone gave1, himself up to policetoday’-arid became a-free man..... The, gang: chief, .hunted .acrosshalf , the country since , his ’ release .from a Philadelphia prison, last Monday after^serving ten* month^ for carrying concealed weapons, found out1 .the police did'not wak* kin* after all, \hat the state’s* attorney had nothing- against Turn /and* that1 the government was in no hurry to press 'its delinquent income, tax changes orcontempt of court proceedings.1 * \Capone, the, gang chief, dive* keeper,^and.liquor lord, whose name has1 been linked with* a score .of gangster killings, calmly walked; into? Chief of Detective. John Stege’s; of-fice this afternoon, accompariiedr by^ his attorney, and said: -!pere fam^ As. it developed, he might well have added: “What.of it ?V ‘ ^ r' ‘4 Soft spoken*. well dressed, Capone cliatted with newspaper ’ men, explaining how he eluded - everybody When he was released from prison, leisurely motored back' to 'Chicago with his bodyguard, Frank Rio, who had served the 10 months with him, and arrived here two days ago whileKWmVHJZZ, 193QT -squads ;oS: po!i^^«1^tectives \vC;e watching f0; a •. - trace c^him^iH^M%^elhad• ^ t: to; the home of a **ffiend’*5 where histayed until he |alked With hts lav} yer, Thomas th .Nash, this, afternoon, and decided to surrender and “have it out with the cops.” v%-k . - * _ “ , 4 M ■- Nash got in touch/with Stege ana arranged for the Surrender. The .police/ apparently were unprepaid for the event After Capone, accompanied by Phil B’Andre, reputed city hall“front/vfor the Capone crowd, arrived and chatted briefly with the newspaper boys and others in Stege\s ^office*, he was taken under heaw guard to the federal building to see what- District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson wanted, if anything. ;■ Johnson was not in, neither was his first assistant and those on duty, knew of nothing, for which Capone shbuld be held: Sq the entourage hurriedly -drove out to the criminal courts building to see what it was =Pat Roche,, the chief investigator for ^State’s Attorney John A. Swanson, likd to talk to Capone about, Roche, ‘also,-happened to be out and his aides'; professed surprise that Capone /should be brought ^.there.SEE“BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK”DON’T MISS IT
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Chicago Daily Illini
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Mar 22, 1930
Page 2
Full Page
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Michael W.
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