After we let: ibid., pp. 52–53.
Lewis had become: Messick, The Beauties and the Beasts, pp. 26–32.
in August 1927: Coffey, The Long Thirst, p. 218.
“My contract’s up”: ibid., pp. 218–219.
November 9: ibid., p. 221.
Thirty minutes later: ibid., pp. 221–222; CT, November 8, 1927.
Six days later: Messick, The Beauties and the Beasts, pp. 31–32.
“Why the hell”: Fox, Blood and Power, pp. 83–84.
“Gangsters were known”: Richman and Gehman, A Hell of a Life, p. 6.
“On opening night”: ibid.
“the ruler”: ibid., pp. 8–9.
“Instead of going”: ibid., p. 10. Richman says Capone was living at the Lexington Hotel, but the racketeer was still at the Métropole at this time; the move would come in the near future.
“There was an American”: ibid., pp. 11–12.
“That’s too late”: Berle and Frankel, Milton Berle, p. 168.
“I don’t know”: ibid.
“You’re a Yid”: Adler, It Ain’t Necessarily So, p. 33.
“Look, kid”: ibid.
“the amazing”: Chicago Daily News, December 6, 1927.
“for the latest”: CT, December 5, 1927.
“sitting comfortably”: CT, December 6, 1927.
“I’m leaving”: ibid.
“I’ve been spending”: ibid.
Chicago Daily News estimated: Chicago Daily News, December 6, 1927.
“I could bear”: CT, December 6, 1927.
“I’ve never been”: ibid.
“YOU CAN ALL”: CT, December 6, 1927; Chicago Daily News, December 6, 1927.
“I feel almost”: CT, December 7, 1927.
“This gang war”: Los Angeles Examiner, December 13, 1927.
“I never saw”: CT, December 17, 1927.
“Why should everybody”: Los Angeles Times, December 14, 1927.
“I will place”: Chicago Herald and Examiner, December 20, 1927.
“CAPONE’S SON”: Chicago Herald and Examiner, December 15, 1927.
“It’s pretty tough”: Chicago Herald and Examiner, December 17, 1927.
“Pleased to meet”: ibid.
“Well,” said: CT, December 17, 1927
“They call Al Capone”: New York Sun, December 21, 1927.
December 22: CCC.
“and tell him”: CT, December 23, 1927.
“the garden of America”: The SunPost (Miami), February 28, 1991.
“only another”: CT, January 12, 1928.
hurricane: The SunPost (Miami), February 28, 1991.
“CAPONE HUNTED”: CT, January 12, 1928.
“one of the fairest”: NYT, January 22, 1928.
“If he’s here”: Literary Digest, June 15, 1929; CT, January 18, 1928.
“No record”: Robt. H. Lucas, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to Assistant Secretary Hope, March 19, 1930. HHL.
“The task”: Wilson, “Undercover Man,” Colliers, April 26, 1947.
“completely anonymous”: ibid.
“would be as”: ibid.
“His sources”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 87.
“It was common”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
In the course: Robt. H. Lucas, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to Assistant Secretary Hope, March 19, 1930. HHL.
July 11, 1874: Author’s interview with George E. Q. Johnson, Jr.
federal judges made: ibid.
“My father said”: ibid.
index-card file: NYT, April 3, 1932.
“Organized crime was”: ibid.
Guzik family dog: Johnson interview.
“Any man”: Asbury, Gem of the Prairie, p. 366.
367 murders: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 151–152.
To the Editor: NYT, January 10, 1928.
“CHICAGO BOMBERS”: NYT, February 18, 1928.
In March: Kobler, Capone, p. 217.
115 bombs: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, p. 255.
“blown to bits”: NYT, March 31, 1928; Johnson interview.
“You tell”: NYT, March 31, 1928.
“There are fifty”: ibid.
“The bombs are”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 220.
“Deneen is filling”: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 202–203.
“The public is not”: NYT, March 27, 1928.
“King George’s”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 221.
“most maligned”: NYT, March 31, 1928.
“It costs”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 220.
“And what does”: Runyon, The Damon Runyon Omnibus, p. 238.
“a day of sluggings”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 217.
“ballot rebellion”: ibid., p. 218.
“Why should I”: ibid., p. 220.
“The primary brought”: ibid., p. 219.
the party flew: Sullivan, Chicago Surrenders, pp. 86–87.
renovation of the Palm Island villa: Author’s interview with Henry Morrison.
“Don’t keep”: Kobler, Capone, p. 223.
Mae favored Louis XIV: Contents of the Capone Palm Island villa described in the April 15, 1992 bulletin of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers (Chicago): “Prohibition Era and 20th Century Crime Memorabilia and Ephemera.”
“I came to pay”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 85.
“like a tourist”: Miami Herald, June 23, 1968.
“When I looked”: ibid.
bootlegging arrangement with Frankie Yale: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 276; Pilat and Ransom, Sodom by the Sea, pp. 284–285.
Capone returned: NYT, June 28, 1928.
He then approached: CT, July 31, August 1, 1928.
“would prove a tremendous”: NYT, June 28, 1928; Miami Daily News, June 27, 928.
“MIAMI BEACH”: NYT, June 28, 1928.
When the Capones dined: Breslin, Damon Runyon, p. 14.
Sunday, July 1: Balsamo and Carpozi, Under the Clock, pp. 214—216; Pilat and Ransom, Sodom by the Sea, p. 103.
The funeral took place: Pilat and Ransom, Sodom by the Sea, pp. 286–287.
The weapons: CT, July 31, 1928; August 1, 1928.
“YALE DEATH”: CT, July 8, 1928; July 31, 1928.
“eased his bank roll”: CT, August 4, 1928.
On July 30: CT, October 15, 1931.
bulletproof: Burke interview.
“The Lexington”: Author’s interview with Vern Whaley. 291 To prevent: Kobler, Capone, p. 227.
His girlfriend: ibid., p. 228.
“I love”: Murray, The Legacy of Al Capone, p. 333.
kidnapping: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 229–231.
“Like most successful”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 278.
two men: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 231.
$150,000 war chest: NYT, June 24, 1928.
“All the kidnappings”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 279; Pasley, Al Capone, p. 235.
“the head center”: CT, March 25, 1931; Statement of Frank J. Loesch, February 2, 1933. DJ.
“I found him”: ibid.
“Mr. Capone, gunmen”: ibid.
murder of Pasqualino Lolordo: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 236–238.
Chapter 7: Slaughter and Sanctuary
“No one who”: Willebrandt, The Inside of Prohibition, p. 15.
Leroy Gilbert: Chicago Daily News, February 24, 1936.
In retaliation: Chicago Heights Star, January 8, 1929; Chicago Daily News, February 24, 1936.
“the revenue”: Willebrandt, The Inside of Prohibition, p. 151.
check for $2,130: Chicago Daily News, February 24, 1936; Chicago Heights Star, February 28, 1936; Kobler, Capone, pp. 272–273.
Eddie Waters: Nels E. Tessem to Chief, Intelligence Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue, February 24, 1932. BP-RC.
“My client”: Kobler, Capone, p. 273.
The investigation further: Nels E. Tessem to Chief, Intelligence Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue, February 24, 1932. BP-RC.
&n
bsp; Ralph J. Capone: ibid.
ruthless bank robber: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 259.
Claude Maddox: Helmer, The Gun That Made the Twenties Roar, p. 90; Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, p. 210.
“right off the river”: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 252.
He arranged to be: CT, May 27, 1931; Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, pp. 210–211.
Included were: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 252–254.
Dr. Reinhart H. Schwimmer: Burns, The One-Way Ride, p. 260.
At that moment: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 255–257.
“Who shot you”: Wisconsin News, February 15, 1929; Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 256–257.
In one instance: Trohan, Political Animals, p. 24.
“I was in”: Trohan interview.
“I opened the door”: ibid.
“There used to be”: ibid.
“The corpses”: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, pp. 219–220.
“I’ve got more”: Trohan, Political Animals, p. 25.
“I tell you”: CT, February 15, 1929.
huge rewards: Kobler, Capone, p. 247.
And on the morning: Lindberg, To Serve and Collect, p. 198; Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 144. Some accounts place the meeting between Capone and Taylor at Capone’s Miamihome, but records pertaining to Capone’s trial for tax evasion reveal that it took place in Taylor’s office.
“Didn’t you ever”: Ross, The Trial of Al Capone, p. 64.
“Only Capone”: Lindberg, To Serve and Collect, p. 201.
fifty hoodlums: CT, February 19, 1929.
There are sixteen: Inquest on the Bodies of Albert Kachellek, et al., February 23, 1929. CCC.
Goddard was based: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, p. 224.
During most of 1929: St. Joseph Herald-Press, December 31, 1931.
Major Goddard studied: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 262–263.
in March 1931: NYT, March 27, 1931.
$1 a word: Wendt, Chicago Tribune, p. 433.
“Crime in Chicago”: Gunther, “The High Cost of Hoodlums,” Harper’s Monthly, October 1929.
“Probably no private”: NYT, May 26, 1929.
“The somewhat portly person”: Breslin, Damon Runyon, pp. 287–288.
the wife of Jack Koefed: Kobler, Capone, p. 247.
a small airplane: Tampa Tribune, January 26, 1969.
“they’re not touching”: Halper, The Chicago Crime Book, p. 112.
“At once”: Hoover, Memoirs, p. 277.
“Have you got”: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, p. 197.
“Since January 13”: Affidavit of Dr. Kenneth Phillips, March 5, 1929. FBI-AC.
The FBI had: Author’s Interview with William Roemer; Salerno and Tompkins, The Crime Confederation, p. 280.
“as a personal”: Memorandum from Mabel Walker Willebrandt for Mr. Hoover, March 22, 1929. FBI-AC.
In one affidavit: Report of J. J. Perkins, April 3, 1929. FBI-AC.
“Previous to”: J. J. Perkins to Director, Bureau of Investigation, March 27, 1929. FBI-AC.
“There is no”: W. A. McSwain to J. Edgar Hoover, May 14, 1930. FBI-AC.
“It would be dangerous”: CT, March 10, 1929.
“In dealing”: George E. Q. Johnson to Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, March 27, 1929. FBI-AC.
“Capone is popularly”: Memorandum for the Attorney General, November 8, 1930. FBI-AC.
“They say”: CT, March 6, 1929.
Indeed, the Feds: CT, March 19, 1929.
On March 19: CT, March 20, 1929.
“Capone will be”: ibid.
“split any difference”: CT, March 21, 22, 26, 1929.
seized records: CT, March 27, 1929.
The U.S. Attorney explained: NYT, March 27, 1929.
“The income”: Kobler, Capone, p. 274.
“This is”: Washington Herald, March 28, 1929.
“My hydroaeroplane”: CT, March 6, 1929.
He visited Nassau: NYT, March 27, 1929.
WALTER WINCHELL: Washington Herald, October 29, 1931. The visit to Capone’s Florida residence described in this column took place at least two years before it was published. Winchell dared to print it only after Capone had been sentenced to a long jail term for income tax evasion.
At the end: United Press dispatch, April 25, 1929.
“I am the most”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 148.
three traitors: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 331–332.
three disfigured corpses: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, pp. 221–222; Pasley, Al Capone, p. 332.
Three days after: NYT, May 16, 1929.
“From what I hear”: Runyon, The Damon Runyon Omnibus, p. 200.
“to pick”: NYT, May 16, 1929.
Accardo betrayed: Chicago Sun-Times, November 2, 1953.
“I think you”: Gosch and Hamner, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, pp. 105–106.
“There are two”: Messick, Lansky, p. 59.
where the “delegates”: Gosch and Hamner, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, pp. 106–107; Fox, Blood and Power, pp. 104—105.
Robert T. Loughran: Literary Digest, June 15, 1929.
“I extended”: CT, May 19, 1929.
“I had a most”: Literary Digest, June 15, 1929. Capone’s remarks are rearranged slightly for the sake of coherence.
By dawn: Time, May 27, 1929.
“QUAKER JUSTICE”: CT, May 18, 1929.
90725: CT, May 18, 1929.
diamond ring: ibid.
“It’s enough”: NYT, May 19, 1929.
“the Capone conviction”: CT, May 18, 1929.
“I’ve arrested Capone”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 328.
“Their living room”: CT, May 18, 1929.
“a radiant hostess”: ibid.
Eastern Penitentiary: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 333.
“I could have”: Kobler, Capone, pp. 262–263.
“CAPONE CRIES”: CT, September 22, October 5, 9, November 1, 7, 27, 1929.
Six of the indictments: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 315.
October 8: Messick, Secret File, p. 44.
fresh contingent of investigators: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 105–106.
Chapter 8: Public Enemies
“The ladies”: Author’s interview with Louise Jamie.
In about 1928: Ness Collection. WRHS.
“The trouble”: ibid.
early raids: Chicago Herald and Examiner, May 4, 1929.
“the handsomest man”: Ness Collection. WRHS.
“rum-runners”: ibid.
“One time”: Pontarelli interview.
Martino was: ibid.
“he hanged himself”: ibid.
“we always travelled”: ibid.
“I got a message”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, p. 175. In his book, Ness suggests the incident involving the dumdum bullet occurred later, after the formation of the Untouchables. But in his original (and more accurate) manuscript, he placed the episode somewhat earlier, during his career in Chicago Heights. This is the chronology I have followed.
“His hands”: Chicago Heights Star, November 30, 1928.
twenty shotgun deaths: Chicago Heights Star, December 1, 1928.
“81 INDICTED”: Chicago Herald and Examiner, May 4, 1929.
“It was necessary”: Ness Collection, WRHS. Ness tells the same story, but more breathlessly, in The Untouchables, p. 113.
“I’ve got two”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 120–121.
“We arrested”: ibid., p. 122.
“there was a bright”: ibid., p. 123.
“offered a lot”: Chicago Herald and Examiner, June 15, 1931.
“It’s funny”: ibid.
Goddard had come: NYT, September 8, 1929; CT, September 7, 1929.
“Of course, we cannot”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 334.
To avoid a crush: ibid., pp. 346–347; CT, March 18, 1930.
“We certainly stuck”: CT, March 18, 1930.
Time magazine: Time
, March 24, 1930.
“No. 1 underwordling”: ibid.
“Poor little rich”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 355.
“a book that”: CT, March 23, 1930.
“We’re up”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 311.
“Jesus, Ralph”: Kobler, Capone, pp. 264–265.
the Lexington Hotel: CT, March 22, 1930.
“I burned it”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 312.
Al, what do you: CT, March 22, 1930.
“All I ever did”: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 349–350.
Frankie Frost: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 128—130.
“Acquiring the poise”: ibid., p. 128.
On the night of June 13: Nickel, Torso, p. 37.
begun to bribe telephone: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, p. 136.
“They said”: ibid., p. 138.
“Listen, and don’t”: Nickel, Torso, p. 37.
“Machine Gun” Jack: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 353–354.
raided Capone’s Palm Island estate: CT, March 21, 1930.
Like the charges: Chicago Daily News, December 25, 1936.
Nitti’s concealed income: NYT, March 23, 1938.
“In reference”: Telephone message from Mr. Youngquist, March 31, 1930. HHL.
“What was”: Wolfe, Of Time and the River, pp. 420–421.
“Mismanagement by Mayor”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, pp. 196–197.
he visited Burnham: Sullivan and Kobler, “Caddying.”
“We practically lived”: ibid.
“I’m sick”: Burns, The One-Way Ride, pp. 210–312.
The trial of Ralph Capone: To United States Board of Parole from Milton H. Summers, June 15, 1932, CCC; Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 316; Messick, Secret File, p. 44.
“You got caught”: Tully, Treasury Agent, p. 39.
By May: Associated Press dispatch, May 6, 1930; Messick, Secret File, p. 46.
“There is nothing”: A. P. Madden to Chief, Intelligence Unit, April 28, 1930. HHL.
“Mr. Mattingly”: ibid.
“The American people”: NYT, March 23, 1930; Fox, Blood and Power, pp. 133–134.
“I had the operating director”: Statement of Frank J. Loesch, February 2, 1933. DJ.
the order Loesch ranked: Criminal Justice (Journal of the Chicago Crime Commission), May 1930.
“The purpose”: ibid.
Secret Six: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, p. 197; Chicago Herald and Examiner, February 23, 1930; Hoffman, Business vs. Organized Crime, p. 13.
“To an energetic youngster”: Collier’s, March 7, 1931.
“Capone is”: Hoffman, Business vs. Organized Crime, p. 26.
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