Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-04 | Page 4 | Capone's Tears

CAPONES CAPONE'S TEARS AL 2 L CAPONE shed tears when he learned that the supreme court had ruled against him hinl on his appeal from conviction on income tax charges The rat whined that he had not bee been given a chance by the government What chance did he ever give the girls who became enmeshed in his white slave enterprises enterprises enterprises en en- What chance did he ever give a sucker who bucked the tiger in his his' crooked gambling dens What chance did he ever give a rival gangster gangster gangster gang gang- ster against whom he sent his machine gunners gunners gunners gun gun- ners What chance did he ever give a policeman who attempted to arrest one of his underlings underlings underlings under under- lings And during all his warfare on law and order did he himself ever take a mans man's chance Safe in his citadel living a soft life in silk and luxury bought with dirty money the dangerous work of ot his gang was done by drugged parasites Without their dope they would have been as coward cowardly y and craven as their chief The surprise attack a knife Inthe in inthe inthe the back poison gas and armored cars these cars these were the weapons of Capone Too lazy to meet the world face to face and sweat for a living utterly devoid of conscience conscience conscience con con- science alien to every decent thing this cowardly cowardly cowardly cow cow- ardly Capone gang has spread terror in the dark There has been nothing dangerous brave brav daring or gallant about it IL For Capone to break in into to tears was the thing most to be expected Not the tears of remorse not even tears from pain they were merely the signs of fear in a cowards coward's heart There is only one regret that regret that it is not within the power of mans man's genius to contrive a punishment to fit this shivering gangsters gangster's crimes