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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