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Show BAN G CHIEF 1 MUST SERVE : JML TERM Capone Loses Fight In High Court Appeal Case. i CHICAGO, May 3 (U.R) Al Capone, the Coney Island barkeep who built an underworld under-world empire in defiance of law and order, will leave in a few hours for Leavenworth penitentiary, his empire shattered, shat-tered, his defiance shrunk to Llie whining of a common criminal. The fat gangster whose scarred face became symbolic of the murderous mur-derous terror of the gangs, is expected ex-pected to depart tonight in company com-pany with a cprload of convicted dope peddlers, auto thieves and counterfeiters to start a ten-year sentence for defrauding the government gov-ernment of the tax on his ill-gotten income. 't'vvo l-'utal Words Two words pronounced by Chief Justice Charles Kvans Hughes of tlie LT. S. supreme court struck in a fraction of a second the false glamour from the pcuty gangster. They were: "Certiorari denied." The words hi ought a climax to the firm, victorious march of the federal government against leaders lead-ers in the ruthless outlawry that came to be known as the "Capone syndicate." It meant refusal of the court to review the Capone case and ended the last legal delay in carrying out the conviction and sentence. |