Chicago Heights, 127, 169. See also Chicago Heights
Cicero expansion, 51–53, 54–55, 61. See also Cicero
Daley allows to flourish, 538–539
Fitzgerald breaks up, 540–541
labor racketeering, 176–177, 515–516, 525
last major distillery raided, 514
milk business, 305
Nitto influence growing, 256, 376–377, 515–516, 517–519
O’Hare talking to Wilson, 290–291, 518
Prohibition indictment, 493
racing as revenue source, 266, 516–518
respectable workingmen, 347, 349, 350, 509, 547
RICO Act codifying Ness tactics, 540
Roche targeting for Lingle killing, 297, 298
“Snorky,” 278, 421
special agents targeting, 265, 277–278
St. John at Cicero Tribune, 62–64
tax evasions, 205–207. See also tax evasion
Thompson harassing, 115
tip line for Untouchables raids, 414
Torrio forming, 46, 47
Torrio giving to Capone, 59, 137, 214, 215, 296, 329
Untouchables bribery attempts, 360–361, 364–365, 391, 484–485
Untouchables harassment, 361–363, 364
Untouchables Kid working for, 358–360, 362, 413–414
Untouchables take vehicles, 362–363, 364, 413, 420–421, 474, 509
Untouchables work, Capone jailed, 463–464, 473–475, 492–493
virtually insolvent, 412
weakened and under pressure, 412–414, 419–421, 508–509, 540–541
Chicago Tribune
Dick Tracy, 549
Lingle and, 271–277, 549
O’Hare and Capone investigation, 516–518
strikebreaking by Capone, 335
Cicero, Illinois, xxi
Capone running Outfit, 61–64, 108
Cotton Club, 139, 236
Greyhound Inn, 236, 261
Hawthorne Kennel Club, 265–269, 289–290, 291, 437
Monmartre Café, 236, 237–239, 260, 494
PD distributing guns, 82
Secret Six speakeasy, 234
special agents targeting, 235–239
Sportsman’s Park, 517
St. John at Cicero Tribune, 62–64
St. Mary’s church, 333–334
Torrio suburban expansion, 52–53, 54–55, 61
Untouchables brewery raid, 352–354, 364
wiretapping, 236–239, 244, 259–261, 277
See also Hawthorne Hotel; Hawthorne Smoke Shop
Clark Street garage, xxi, xxxii, 174, 534–535. See also St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Clawson, Samuel, xxix, 446–448
Cleveland, Grover, 34
Cleveland, Ohio, and Ness, 529–530, 545
Cloonan, Bernard V. “Barney,” xxviii, 328, 353, 399, 475, 484–485
Collins, Max Allan, xi, xiii
Colosimo, James “Diamond Jim,” xxiv, 12
café, 24, 25, 26
café torn down, 533, 549
killing of, 12, 26–27, 478–479
Torrio as right-hand man, 23–24, 26
Connors, William, 421, 475
Conti, Frank, 357, 419
Converse, Clarence, 99–100, 206, 397
Cook County Jail, 460–461, 469–473, 485–489, 491, 493–494, 496–497, 498–501, 517
Corey, Irwin, 557
Corman, Roger, 534
Cornelison, Michael, xv, xvi
Costa, Albert, 143, 182, 432
Costello, Frank, 214–215
Costello, James, Jr., 171
Costner, Kevin, 547
Cotton Club (Cicero), 139, 236–239, 264–265, 277
Coughlin, Mary, 22–23. See also Capone, Mary
Coyne, Robert, 520, 521
Crosby, Bing, 236
Crowe, Christopher, 548
Crowe, Robert E., xxvi, 83–85, 89, 146
Cummings, Homer, 514
Curtis, Harry, 297
Daley, Richard J., 533–535, 538–539
Daley, Richard M., 542
D’Andrea, Phil, 227, 396, 425, 434
Dawes, Charles, 195–196
De Courseys, xxi
De Niro, Robert, 557
De Palma, Brian, xv, 547, 548
Debs, Eugene, 34
Delaney, Bert, 322–323, 356–357, 358, 413, 441, 474, 509, 510
Dempsey, Jack, 187
Deneen, Charles S., 145–146
Depression
1932 bank failures, 503
beer legal, 512–513
beer prices down, 509
bootlegger bankruptcy strategy, 510
Capone business downturn, 259
Capone comments on, 415
Capone soup kitchen, 302–305, 340, 372, 456
Capone tax trial jurors, 432, 449
Chicago debt and unemployment, 467
Hoover and Hoovervilles, 239–241, 400
Howlett’s three cars, 464
jobless shuffle, 358
Miami enjoying Capone, 251
movies on Beer Wars, 368, 462, 477–481, 534
Ness salary, 360
racketeers viewed with loathing, 393
Secret Six funding, 233
Des Plaines, Illinois, xxi, 532
Dever, William E., 51, 54, 83, 108–110
diamond-studded belt buckle, 143, 275–276, 280, 284–285, 387, 432, 452
Dick Tracy (comic strip), xi, 394–395, 490, 530, 549
“Dick Tracy Detective Squad,” 530
Dillinger, John, 522–523, 527
Dion O’Banion gang, xxi
Ditchburne, Harry, 245–246
Division of Investigation
formation, 514–515
Ness job switch, 515, 519–524, 527
Dodds, Johnny, 139
Doran, James, 123–124
Drucci, Vincent “Schemer,” xxv, 50, 90, 92, 95, 110, 128, 183, 525
Druggan Lake gang, xxi
dumdum bullets, 157, 160, 165, 166
Dunbar, J. C., 291, 436, 437
Dundee, Illinois, raid, 510
Durbin, Dick, 545, 547
Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia), 220–225, 243–244, 336, 375
Egan’s Rats gang (St. Louis), 112, 147
Eig, Jonathan, xvi, xvii, 557
Eighteenth Amendment
Capone conspiracy indictment, 418–419, 464, 493–494
Capone guilty plea, 398–399, 402, 406, 407–410, 418
illegal manufacture, transportation, sale, 322
illegal transport by Capone, 364
Jones Law, 264
legal beer sales movement, 350, 512
legal consumption and purchase, 24–25, 73–74, 255
repeal of, 393, 415, 505, 512, 514, 524
Volstead Act, 96–97
See also Prohibition
Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life (play/film; 2004/2005), xv, xvi
Ellis, Oliver J., 170–171
Esposito, “Diamond Joe,” 111, 145–146
FBI
Jamie joining, 41–42, 67. See also Bureau of Investigation
Little Caesar viewings, 540
Mafia acknowledgment, 539
Ness as G-man, 521–524. See also Division of Investigation
Untouchables as G-men, 527
fedoras
Dick Tracy, 394
pearl-gray, 6, 188, 226, 238, 242, 279, 332, 339, 345, 422, 482, 499
Feltrin, Tony, 163
Fermi, Enrico, 532, 542
films. See movies
Fink, Albert
Capone tax trial, 404, 424, 426–439, 444–451
Capone trial sentencing, 459–460, 498
mishandling of case, 497–498
First National Bank, 363–364
Fischetti, Charles, xxiii, 54, 58, 449
Fitzgerald, Patrick, 540–541
Florida banishing Capone, 251–255, 285. See also Miami
Ford, Henry, 544
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forensics
ballistics, 192, 197–200. See also ballistics
Chicago crime lab, 199–200, 203
Crime House at Century of Progress, 524
criminology courses, 200–204
lie detector, 192, 202, 203–204
Northwestern Crime Lab, 200, 203, 278, 279, 280, 524
wiretapping, 236–239. See also wiretapping
Forest View, Illinois, 51–52, 84
Forsythe, James “Red,” 281
Foster, Frank (Ferdinand Bruna), 278–279, 280, 286
4 Against the Mob (Fraley), xii
Four Deuces (Chicago), xxi, 45–46, 48–49, 57, 534
Fraley, Oscar, xii, xiv, xviii
Franklin, Arthur, 156–157
Friel, Thomas J., 328
Froelich, William J., xxix
Capone contempt of court, 470
Gardner leave refused, 326
on Ness and Jamie, 507–508
Ness recommendation, 522
Ness urged to make headlines, 474, 475–476
touched Untouchable let go, 484
Untouchables formation, 312, 313
Untouchables leader Ness, 313–314
Fusco, Joe “Shrinking Violet”
beer business top brass, 322–323, 364, 369
Century of Progress arrest, 525
Gold Seal Liquors license, 513
Juffra working under, 441, 442
Nitto running Chicago, 516
running beer racket, 509
visiting Capone in jail, 469
Gabriel over the White House (film; 1933), 481
Galluccio, Frank, 21, 80
gambling
Capone trial money loss strategy, 444–445, 449
Capone’s business, 182
Capone’s compulsions, 5, 106, 137–138
Capone’s honor, 113, 434, 476–477
Hawthorne Kennel Club, 265–269, 289–290, 291, 437
Hawthorne Race Track, xxi
Hialeah Race Track, 187, 189
Miami Beach Kennel Club, 251
racing as Outfit revenue source, 266, 516–518
Sportsman’s Park, 517
stock market as, 138
Washington Park racetrack, 273
See also Hawthorne Smoke Shop
Gardner, William Jennings, xxviii, 317, 319–321, 326, 328–329
garlic on bullets, 77
Genna, Anthony, xxv, 78
Genna, “Bloody” Angelo, xxv, 76–77
Genna, Jim, 78
Genna, Mike, xxv, 77–78
Genna, Pete, xxv, 78
Genna, Sam, 78
Genna brothers, xxi, xxv
description of “Terrible Gennas,” 75–76, 525
O’Banion conflict, 56
O’Banion-Torrio buffer, 50–51
Unione Siciliana battle, 76–79
Get Capone (Eig; 2010), xvi, xvii, 557
Giannoni, John, 129–134, 159, 169
Gibaldi, Vicenzo, 76. See also McGurn, “Machine Gun” Jack
Gilbert, Daniel “Tubbo,” 273
Gilbert, LeRoy, xxx, 161–162, 169
Girton, Fred, 380–383
Giunta, Joseph “Hop Toad,” 178, 208, 209, 210–213, 215, 216, 218
Goddard, Calvin Hooker, 192
bullets gathered for, 209
Crime House at Century of Progress, 524
Lingle murder weapon, 278, 279, 280
Ness learning from, 203, 279, 280
Northwestern Crime Lab, 200, 203, 278, 279, 280, 524
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 198–200, 228–229
Zuta murder, 286
Goetz, Fred, xxiv, 147, 148–149, 179, 180, 516
Golding, George Elias “Hardboiled,” xxvii, 121–126, 128–135, 155–158, 321
Goldstein, Louis, 181–182
golf, 151–153
Gould, Chester, xi, 394–395, 490, 530
Green, Dwight H., xxix
Capone guilty plea, 397–398, 418
Capone tax trial, 418, 424, 426–427, 445
Capone tax trial witness, 448
Insull fraud trial, 504
Ness recommendation, 522
Greenberg, Alex, 266
Greyhound Inn (Cicero), 236, 261, 264–265
Grossman, Jacob, xxix, 427–429, 433, 435–437, 449–451
Guilfoyle gang, xxi
Gusenberg, Frank, 4, 179
Guzik, Jack/Jake “Greasy Thumb,” xxiv
Capone “nutty as a cuckoo,” 530
Capone tax trial, 429, 434–435, 436, 438, 446, 449, 454
Chicago Outfit, 46, 49, 55, 181, 213, 292
Chicago Outfit senior partner, 374, 375
Chicago syndicate, 215–216, 374–376, 386
Hawthorne Kennel Club, 290
as Jake, xviii
public enemy, 256–257
relaxation, 151, 227
reporter O’Brien interviews, 369–370
tax evasion, 171, 205, 247, 291, 292, 295, 369, 434, 498
Untouchables Kid working for, 359
wiretapped, 278
Hagenauer, George, xiii, xiv, xv, xviii
Haller, Percy, 264
Harney, Malachi, 508–509
Harvard Inn (Brooklyn), 20–21
hats pearl-gray. See pearl-gray fedoras
Hauptmann, Bruno Richard, 490
Hawks, Howard, 478, 480
Hawthorne Hotel (Cicero), xxi
Capone celebrating release, 244
Chicago Outfit base of operations, 53, 91, 108, 276, 287
McSwiggin murder, 85, 89–90
Weiss war, 91–92, 94, 478–479
Hawthorne Kennel Club (Cicero), 265–269, 289–290, 291, 437
Hawthorne race track (Cicero), xxi
Hawthorne Smoke Shop (Cicero)
Capone trial, 426–430, 445–448, 453
handbook daily value, 53
ledger and Shumway, 293–294, 329–331, 377, 427–430
ledger as best evidence, 387–388, 446
Reverend Hoover raid, 74–75, 426–427, 453
Ries talking to Wilson, 292
headquarters of Capone, xxi. See also Lexington Hotel; Metropole Hotel
Hearst, William Randolph, 481
Hecht, Ben, 478, 479
Hefner, Hugh, 532
Heitler, Mike “de Pike,” xxiv, 372
Henderson, Parker, Jr., 143, 144, 148, 182, 432
Herbert, John F. J., 354
Herrick, C. W., 249–250
Hialeah Race Track (Florida), 187, 189
Highball the dog, 4, 197
Higinbotham, Priscilla, 392
Hines, Earl, 139
Holmesburg Prison (Philadelphia), 219–220
Hoover, Henry C., 74–75, 426, 453
Hoover, Herbert Clark (president), xxx, 226
bankers worse than Capone, 504
Capone’s neighbor, 193–197
criminal justice reform, 195, 240–241
George Johnson promotion, 521
get Capone, 195, 241, 247, 248, 311, 389
got Capone, 467–468, 521
Hoover-ball, 226, 239
Hoovervilles, 239–240
at Lincoln tomb in Springfield, 399–400
Ralph Capone conviction, 263
stock market crash, 224–225
Untouchables formation, 196, 312
Hoover, J. (John) Edgar, xxix
Capone contempt of court, 188, 189, 190
Capone indictment credit, 345
Division of Investigation formation, 514–515
Jamie versus, 67, 68–71
Kub misleading Jamie, 507, 508
Mafia acknowledgment, 539
Ness as G-man, 521–524, 527
Palmer Raids, 42
Purvis performance, 522–523
“Untouchables” objections, xii–xiii
See also Bureau of Investigation
Hope, Walter, 247, 263
Hotel Metropole. See Metropole Hotel
Hotel Ponce De Leon (Miami), 143, 148
Hotel Sherman peace conference, 92–93, 95, 107, 526
Howard, Joe, 55, 56
Howlett, George, 322–323, 364, 464, 469
Hughes, Howard, 478, 479, 480–481
income tax evasion. See tax evasion
Insull, Samuel, xxviii, 232, 233, 400, 503–505, 534
Intelligence Unit, xxix
Capone evidence to Wilkerson, 405
Capone money orders, 364
Capone positive press memo, 488
Chicago Heights financial records, 239
Chicago unit head Madden, 265, 385. See also Madden, Arthur
handwriting samples gathered, 293
Lindbergh baby kidnapping, 488–490
Manhattan next, 399, 467–468
policing Prohibition Unit, 97–100
Prohibition Bureau relations, 442–443, 546
taxes on illegal income, 171–172, 206, 247, 263, 265, 291, 385–386, 434. See also tax evasion
Wilson out of Baltimore, 268, 383. See also Wilson, Frank
Irey, Elmer Lincoln, xxix
Capone guilty plea, 397, 408
Capone trial, 448
as hero capturing Capone, xvii–xviii
Intelligence Unit head, 97, 171, 248
Lindbergh baby kidnapping, 488, 489, 490
Manhattan next, 399, 467–468
Nitto parole, 491, 492, 518–519
on Wilson and Capone, 268
Italo American National Union, 177. See also Unione Siciliana
Jamie, Alexander Gleig, xxvii, 28, 88
Capone brewery and ledgers, 277–278
Chapman loan, 495
J. Edgar Hoover versus, 67, 68–69, 523
joining Bureau of Investigation, 41–42
kill revenue, kill gang, 350
Kub partnership, 506–508
Ness childhood, 28, 38, 41
Ness groomed for Bureau, 67–68, 100–101, 204, 313, 545
Prohibition agent, 69–70, 88, 98, 102
Ralph Capone Canadian booze, 264
Secret Six chief investigator, 312–313, 505, 506, 523
secretary Edna Stahle Ness, 166, 201, 313, 507, 521
special agent in charge, 158, 204–205, 235, 265
special agent under Golding, 123–124, 155–156, 157–158, 205
Jamie, Wallace Ness, 28, 38, 202, 508, 521
jazz, 139, 236
Johnson, Enoch “Nucky,” 208, 213
Johnson, George E. Q. (federal prosecutor), xxix
about, 103–105
Capone battle exhausting, 464–465
Capone bootlegging evidence, 389–390, 493, 494, 513
Capone contempt-of-court, 338–345
Capone contract on, 308–311
Capone custody delay, 244, 263, 311–312
Capone guilty plea, 397–398, 407–410
Capone indictment on tax evasion, 331, 385–388, 390, 397–398, 410–411
Capone jail liquor business, 469, 470–471, 472, 473
Capone plea bargain, 386, 388–389, 392, 395–396, 404, 405–408, 410–411
Capone positive press memo, 488
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