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by Max Allan Collins


  Capone sentencing, 401–403, 406–412

  Capone strategy, 265, 277

  Capone tax statute of limitations, 496–497

  Capone trial, 423, 435, 439, 452–453

  Capone trial juror bribery, 423

  Capone verdict, 458, 463

  Chicago Heights, 128, 129, 161, 162–163, 167

  Chicago Heights Capone subpoena, 186, 187–190

  Hoover in Springfield, 399–400

  Hoover people losing patience, 311–312

  Jamie as key asset, 123

  Ness recommendation, 521–522

  Ness report on activities, 492–493

  Nitto plea bargain, 294–295, 377–379, 491, 492

  Ralph Capone charges, 206–207, 235, 264, 265

  Secret Six, 234–235, 507

  son on Prairie Avenue home as landmark, 543–544

  “square shooter” per Guzik, 369

  Untouchables formation, 312, 313–314, 317, 321

  “Untouchables” name, 364–365, 391, 476

  Untouchables praise, 391–392, 522

  Untouchables urged to make headlines, 474–475, 476

  Wilkerson on plea bargain, 395–396

  Yellowley versus, 204–205

  Joliet, Illinois, arrest of Capone, 117–118, 119

  Jones Law (1929), 264

  Juffra, Nick, 441–442, 513

  Juliano, Lorenzo, xxv, 127–128, 154, 163, 170

  jury for Capone tax trial, 423–426, 440

  deliberation, 453–457

  verdict, 456–459

  Justice Department. See U.S. Department of Justice

  juvenile delinquency prioritized, 529–530

  “Kansas City Massacre,” 514

  Karlson, Phil, xii

  Keeler, Leonarde, 192, 202, 203

  Kemp, Mr., 519, 523

  Kennedy, Robert, 539

  the Kid, 358–360, 362, 413–414

  King, Marion Andrew Rockwell, 355–356, 399, 417

  Kirk, Mark, 545, 546, 547

  Klenha, Joseph, 54

  Klondike O’Donnell gang, xxi, 83

  Kooken, Donald L., 129–133, 159–160, 162, 201, 313, 318

  Kroc, Ray, 532

  Kub, Shirley, xxviii, 506–508

  Kuhn, Ted, 70, 71, 99

  Kuhn, William, 506

  Kulak, Joe, 519–520, 523

  Kutner, Luis, 236

  La Cava, Gregory, 481

  labor racketeering, 176–177, 515–516, 525, 539

  Lahart, Martin J., xxviii

  Capone guilty plea credit, 399

  Chicago Heights, 163–164

  Cicero, 235–239, 261

  Lingle killer, 279

  to Minneapolis, 417

  Outfit bribery attempts, 360

  Outfit truck convoy, 420

  special agent with Ness, 125

  Untouchables, 328

  Lake County, Illinois, raid, 509–510

  Lang, Harry, 511

  LaPresta, Lawrence, 113

  Larson, John, 202, 203–204, 323–324

  LaRue, Victor E., 397, 398, 418

  Laubenheimer, Henry, 498, 499

  Leavenworth penitentiary

  Capone to, 345, 458, 460, 498

  Nitto imprisonment, 376–379, 491–492, 518–519

  O’Hare visiting Nitto, 376–377

  Wilson visiting Nitto, 377, 518–519

  Leeson, Joseph D., xxviii

  away from Untouchables, 325

  battering-ram truck, 356

  Capone guilty plea credit, 398

  grandson on graft, 361

  Untouchables brewery raid, 351–352

  Untouchables formation, 317, 318, 321

  LeRoy, Mervyn, 477

  Lewis, J. Hamilton, 519

  Lewis, Joe E., 139–140

  Lexington Hotel, xxi, 528

  Capone brothel investigation, 399

  Capone during trial, 433, 445

  Capone headquarters, 150–151, 175–176, 246, 346–347, 369, 405, 414–417, 436, 454, 549

  Capone headquarters wiretapped, 278, 322–323, 421

  Capone’s vault, 64, 537–538

  confiscated vehicle parade, 420–421

  De Palma’s Untouchables film, 548

  torn down, 538, 549, 550

  lie detector, 192, 202, 203–204

  Lincoln, Abraham, 108, 150, 176, 246, 399–400

  Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, 486–491

  Lingle, Alfred “Jake,” xxvi

  Capone finding killer, 299–300, 306–307, 308

  Chicago Tribune reporter, 244, 269

  hunt for killer, 278–283, 284–285, 286–287, 289, 307

  killing of, 270, 271–277, 347

  Mount Carmel Cemetery, 525

  Lipschultz, Louis, 291

  Little Caesar (Burnett), 477, 480

  Little Caesar (film; 1931), 477–478, 480–481, 540

  Loesch, Frank

  Capone guilty plea, 401

  Capone meeting, 149, 150–151

  Cermak murder, 511

  Hoover crime commission, 241

  Public Enemies list, 255–257

  Secret Six, 233

  war on crime won, 468

  Lolordo, Pasqualino “Patsy,” 178

  Lombardo, Tony, xxiv, 92

  Longergan, Richard “Peg Leg,” 80–81

  Luciano, Charles “Lucky,” 214–215, 229, 472

  Lyle, John H. (judge)

  Capone contract on, 308–311

  Capone supporting Thompson, 337, 340

  Cermak murder, 511

  organized crime thriving, 467

  stool pigeon murder, 372

  vagrancy law on Capone, 297–298, 300, 304, 306, 334

  vagrancy warrant served on Capone, 341–342, 345

  Mad Butcher, xiv–xv

  Madden, Arthur P., xxix

  Capone contract on, 308–311

  Capone evidence to Wilkerson, 405

  Capone guilty plea, 397

  Capone indictment, 385

  Capone jail liquor business, 469

  Capone plan of action, 248–249

  Lindbergh baby kidnapping, 488–490

  O’Hare, 265–266, 267–268

  Maddox “Circus” gang, xxi

  Malone, Michael, 399, 434, 546

  Maloy, Tommy, 306

  Mamet, David, xv, 557

  Mangano, Lawrence, 372

  map of Chicago organized crime, xxi

  Maritote, John J., 333–334

  Martino, Joe, xxv, 130–132, 159–160, 169

  Massee, Bert, 197–198, 199, 200

  Mattingly, Lawrence P.

  Capone settlement offer, 248–249, 295–297

  Capone settlement offer as evidence, 386–387, 430, 431, 445

  grand jury testimony, 448

  McCormick, Robert R., 197, 275, 279, 335, 517, 549

  McCreary, Samuel D., 253, 254

  McErlane, Frankie, 51

  McGeoghegan, xxi

  McGurn, “Machine Gun” Jack, xxiv

  arrest in Miami, 252

  Genna vengeance by, 76, 78–79, 83

  golf with the boss, 151

  Gusenberg attempts at killing, 179

  “Machine Gun,” 83

  protecting Capone, 113–114

  as public enemy, 256–257

  roughing up Joe E. Lewis, 139–140

  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 185–186

  wiretapped, 278

  McSwain, W. A., 470–471, 472

  McSwiggin, Anthony, 89–90, 293

  McSwiggin, William H., xxvi, 83–85, 89–90

  Mellon, Andrew (Treasury Secretary), 196

  Menjou, Adolphe, 250

  Metropole Hotel, xxi

  Capone headquarters, 108, 117, 150, 436, 454

  Capone tax evasion trial, 432

  torn down, 535–536, 549

  Meyer, George, 212–213

  Miami, Florida

  Capone and St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 5, 181–183, 186,
245, 341

  Capone Palm Island home, 5–6, 136, 144–145, 178, 186, 187, 250, 251–252, 276, 283–285, 334–337, 366, 375, 380–383, 432, 443, 530–531

  Capone Palm Island home lien, 459, 461

  Capone renting, 142–144

  Capone’s “Summer White House,” 195, 298

  governor banishing Capone, 251–255, 285

  Penney mansion housing Hoover, 193, 194, 195

  Ponce De Leon Hotel, 143, 148

  speculative mania, 194

  Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 532, 533, 534

  milk business of Capone, 305

  Miller, Harry, 511

  Mitchell, William D. (Attorney General), xxix

  Capone guilty plea, 388, 401, 408, 409

  Hoover’s Prohibition enforcement, 196

  inter-bureau resentment, 443

  Johnson delay, 311–312

  Mob Museum (Las Vegas), 535

  Moneypenny, David, 470, 471, 472–473

  Montmartre Café (Cicero), 236, 237–239, 277, 494

  Moore, E. A., 317, 325

  Moran, George “Bugs,” xxv

  Aiello alliance, 179, 213, 281

  “Bugs,” 178, 184

  Capone buying out, 300, 489

  Capone tax trial, 445

  Carey murder, 489

  Chicago syndicate, 215

  fleeing to France, 183, 215

  Lake County rackets, 509–510

  ledgers seized, 286

  North Side gang, 92, 95

  North Side head, 110, 178, 184, 300

  O’Banion gang, 50, 178

  as public enemy, 256–257

  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 5, 178–181, 182, 183–184

  Torrio assassination, 58–59

  Zuta running North Side gang, 281

  Morgan, Frank, 426–427

  Morici, Vito, 499, 500

  Mount Carmel Cemetery, 77, 209, 525

  movies

  Beer Wars, 368, 462, 477–481, 534

  Secret Six, 505

  Moyamensing Prison (Philadelphia), 219

  Muni, Paul, 462, 479–480

  Murder Twins. See Anselmi, Albert; Scalise, John

  Murdock, George, 262–263

  Murray gang, xxi

  Nabers, Albert M. “Nine Toed,” xxvii, 129–135, 164–166

  Nash, Tommy, 424

  national crime syndicate

  beer and liquor market, 513–514

  Chicago Outfit, 539, 540–541

  Cleveland Syndicate, 529

  FBI against Mafia, 539

  foundations of, 214

  Kub’s Crime Syndicate and System, 507–508

  Robert Kennedy against Teamsters, 539

  National Prohibition Act (1919), 96–97. See also Volstead Act

  Ness, Edna, xxvii, 201, 313, 507, 520, 521

  as Edna Stahle, 124–125, 158, 166, 201, 520

  Ness, Eliot, xxvii, 60, 88, 120, 316, 348, 482

  becoming Prohibition agent, 60, 67–68, 69–71, 100–103, 104, 545

  birth, 35

  Capone brewery and ledgers, 277–278

  Capone bribery attempts, 360

  Capone direct contact, 10, 397, 420–421, 482, 499–501, 545

  Capone evidence to Wilkerson, 405

  Capone guilty plea, 397, 398

  Capone tax evasion trial, 442

  Capone to Atlanta, 482, 499–501

  Capone verdict, 463–464, 546

  Cermak-Nitto war, 511

  childhood, 28, 36–43

  Cincinnati office, 519–521, 527

  Cleveland public safety director, xiv–xv, 529–530, 545

  college life, 64–67

  criminology, 200–204, 260, 279, 280

  death of, xii, xviii, 531–532

  description of, 9, 164, 355, 465–466

  Dick Tracy based on, xi, 394–395, 530

  Division of Investigation job switch, 515, 519–524, 527

  final raid, 511–512, 514

  grand jury appearance, 412, 417

  Hoover as boss, 515, 519–524

  Juffra arrest, 442

  Kulak still ignored, 519–520, 523

  legacy, 545–548

  life-sized dummy, 543

  Lingle killer hunt, 278–280

  marriage to Edna, 201, 521, 523

  novels portraying, xiii–xiv, xv, xvi

  “on the take,” 158–160

  Outfit death threats, 362

  pressure of the job, 483

  promotion to chief investigator, 493, 508–510

  reputation as omnipresent, 420

  RICO Act codifying tactics, 540

  salary, 70, 360

  special agent beginnings, 123–126

  special agent in Chicago Heights, 126–135, 158–159, 162–166, 167–169, 205

  special agent in Cicero, 235–239

  tax evasion defendant roundup, 390–391

  Untouchables formation, 313–314, 317–321. See also Untouchables

  The Untouchables memoir, xii, xviii, 531–532

  “Untouchables” name, 364–365, 391

  Untouchables praise, 391–395

  Untouchables Prohibition report, 492–493

  Untouchables’ “calling card,” 353, 356, 357, 419, 473, 474

  as Untouchables’ face, 391–395, 474–477

  Wilson relationship, 443, 546

  Ness, Emma King (mother), 31–32, 37, 43, 165

  Ness, Peter (Peder) Johnsen (father), 10, 29–35, 37, 38, 40, 43, 165, 473

  Newton, Walter, 519–520

  Nitti, Frank

  De Palma Untouchables, xv

  as Frank Nitto, xviii

  Ness after assassination attempt, xiii

  as Ries’s boss, 434

  running Chicago, 458

  Nitto, Frank “The Enforcer,” xxiv, 288, 502

  arrest, 294–295

  assassinations for Capone, 93, 180, 212, 300–301

  baseball bat banquet, 212, 213

  Brothers as Lingle killer, 307

  Cermak war, 510–511, 549

  Chicago Outfit senior partner, 374, 375, 492

  Chicago Syndicate, 215–216, 248, 256, 374–376, 386, 515–516, 517–519, 526

  childhood with Capones, 16–18, 517

  Frank Nitti as, xviii

  Hawthorne Kennel Club, 290, 437

  labor union takeovers, 515–516

  Leavenworth imprisonment, 376–379, 491–492, 518–519

  running Chicago, 116, 178, 181, 219, 375, 458, 492, 511, 526

  tax evasion, 171, 205, 239, 247, 294–295

  “the Enforcer,” 180

  working for Torrio, 49, 518

  North Side gang (Moran), xxi, xxv

  Capone war, 90–94, 95, 107, 111, 213, 215, 300, 489

  ledgers seized, 286–287

  Lingle on wrong side of, 276, 281, 299–300

  Moran as head, 110, 178, 184, 300

  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 184. See also St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  Weiss as head, 90

  Zuta running, 281, 299

  Northwestern Crime Lab, 200, 203, 278, 279, 280, 524

  Nugent, Raymond “Crane Neck,” 112, 147, 179, 182–183

  Obama, Barack, 541

  O’Banion, Charles Dean, xxv

  flower shop, xxi, 50, 54, 56–57, 93, 532

  flower shop torn down, 533–534

  killing of, 56–57, 76, 77, 183, 478–479, 525

  Prohibition profits, 49–50, 97

  O’Brien, Howard Vincent, 369–373

  O’Donnell, William “Klondike,” 83

  Oftedal, Alf, 155

  O’Hare, Edgar Joseph “Artful Eddie,” xxiv

  airport named after son, 517, 549

  Capone bribing jurors, 423

  Capone finding Lingle killer, 308–311

  dog track, 266–269, 289–291, 429, 437, 516

  killing of, 516, 546

  Nitto visit in Leavenworth, 376–377

  as possible interm
ediary, 299, 300, 307, 311, 330

  Wilson helped by, 289–291, 293–294, 516–518

  Operation CeaseFire, 541–542

  Operation Family Secrets, 540–541, 544–545

  O’Toole, Garson, 557

  Outfit. See Chicago Outfit

  Padden, Frank M., 345

  Paddock, George E., 233

  Palmer, A. Mitchell, 42

  Parsons, Louella, 368

  Pasley, Fred, 340

  Patterson, Eleanor, 334–336

  Patton, Johnny, 151, 152, 290

  peace talks

  Atlantic City, 213–217, 218, 251

  gang borders, xxi, 95, 107, 215–217, 539

  Hotel Sherman, 92–93, 95, 107, 526

  national syndicate formation, 214. See also national crime syndicate

  pearl-gray fedoras, 6, 188, 226, 238, 242, 279, 332, 339, 345, 351, 420, 422, 482, 499

  pearl-gray spats, 339, 369

  Penney, J. C., 193, 194, 195

  Penovich, Peter P., Jr., 427, 428, 434, 435, 436, 445–448, 449

  Philadelphia arrest of Capone, 217–223

  Phillips, Dr. Kenneth, xxiv, 187, 189, 337, 340–341, 342–343, 344

  Picchi, Mike, 165, 169

  Pinedo, Francesco de, 175

  Piquett, Louis, 307

  plea bargains, 102

  Capone tax evasion, 386, 388–389, 392, 395–396, 400–403, 404, 405–408, 410–411

  Nitto at Leavenworth, 294–295, 376–379, 491–492, 518–519

  Polito, Rick, 547

  Ponce De Leon Hotel (Miami), 143, 148

  Pope, Frankie, 372, 427, 428, 446–447

  Prairie Avenue

  Capone harassed by police, 118

  Capones living on, xxi, 43, 44–47, 73, 107, 213, 223, 381, 443, 531

  changes, 535, 541

  lien on Capone home, 459, 461

  Nesses living on, 43, 165

  preservation of Capone home, 536–537, 543–544

  Prochno, Arthur, 440, 453, 455–456

  Prohibition

  bootlegging rarely convicted, 102, 265

  Capone comments on, 415, 544

  Capone conspiracy indictment, 418–419, 464, 493–494

  Capone guilty plea, 398–399, 402, 406, 407–410, 418

  Chicago deliveries down, 259

  Chicago landmarks destroyed, 528, 533–538, 548–550

  eat-drink-and-be-merry spirit, 65, 66

  Eighteenth Amendment, 24–25, 73–74

  end of, 524

  Ford belief in, 544

  illegal manufacture, transportation, sale, 322

  illegal transport by Capone, 364

  indictment for unpaid sales tax, 496

  Jones Law, 264

  kidnapping popular, 112

  legal beer sales, 512–513

  legal beer sales movement, 350, 512

  legal consumption and purchase, 24–25, 73–74, 255

  mayoral promise of ten thousand new speakeasies, 110

  Ness opinion on, 103

  President Hoover enforcing, 195–197

  repeal of, 393, 415, 505, 512, 514, 524

  rewards of, 1, 5–6, 76, 95, 97, 117–118, 119, 136, 137, 169, 218, 296, 339, 340, 349, 386

 

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