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by Max Allan Collins


  toxic liquor, 69, 76

  Volstead Act, 96–97

  Wickersham Commission, 241

  Prohibition Bureau, xxvii, 60, 88, 316

  into Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 545

  into Alcoholic Beverage Unit, 514–515

  Capone guilty plea, 398–399

  Chapman’s lifestyle, 495

  disbanding, 485

  Intelligence Unit relations, 442–443, 546

  to Justice Department, 311, 316, 442

  making buys to build cases, 101–102

  as Prohibition Unit replacement, 100

  special agent Golding, xxvii, 121–126, 128–135, 155–158

  special agent Ness beginnings, 123–126. See also Ness, Eliot

  Untouchables broken up, 417

  Untouchables formation, 196–197, 312–314, 317–321. See also Untouchables

  Untouchables vs. regular forces, 475

  Prohibition Unit, xxvii, 60, 88

  administrator Yellowley, 97–100. See also Yellowley, E. C.

  Intelligence Unit policing, 97–100

  Jamie joining, 69–71. See also Jamie, Alexander

  Prohibition Bureau replacing, 100

  Volstead Act, 96–97

  public enemies, 256–257, 298, 342, 466, 467, 513, 525

  Capone as Public Enemy Number One, 256–257, 342, 373, 388, 530

  public enemy brother Maritote, 333–334

  The Public Enemy (film; 1931), 478, 480

  Pullman, George, 31–32, 33–34

  Purvis, Melvin, xxix, 472–473, 522–524

  Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act (1970), 539–542

  radio broadcast of inaugural address, 195

  Ralph Sheldon gang, xxi

  Rand, Sally, 524

  Randolph, Robert Isham, xxviii

  Capone meeting, 346–347

  Capone sentenced, keep working, 463, 464

  Century of Progress arrests, 525

  Jamie as Secret Six chief investigator, 313

  Kub as Jamie partner, 507

  legal beer movement, 350, 512

  modern Chicago, 549

  Prohibition repeal support, 505

  Republican Party convention, 468

  Ries to Uruguay, 295, 434

  Secret Six formation, 231–235

  Rathbun, Charles, 275, 297, 299, 307

  Remus, George, 267, 289

  Retail Credit Company, 68, 70

  Ricca, Paul, 91, 92, 516

  Rice, C. L., 233

  Richman, Harry, 140

  Ries, Fred, 291–292, 295, 434–439

  Rio, Frankie, xxiv

  Capone bodyguard, 91, 210, 217

  Carey search, 487

  Hawthorne Hotel attack, 91–92

  Outfit takeover plot, 210

  Philadelphia arrest, 217–218, 220, 244

  as public enemy, 256–257

  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 180

  wiretapped, 278

  Rivera, Geraldo, 64, 537–538

  Roberto, Dominic, 85–86

  Robinson, Edward G., 443–444, 477–478

  Robsky, Paul Wenzel, xxviii, 355, 360–361, 398–399, 484

  Roche, Pat, xxx, 288

  arrests at Mafalda Capone wedding, 333

  Capone contract on, 308–311

  Capone custody delay, 245

  Capone requests meeting, 299–300

  Intelligence Unit brewery raid, 98–100

  Intelligence Unit tracking Juliano, 128

  Lingle investigation, 275, 279, 280–283, 286–287, 297, 298, 306–307

  Nitto arrest, 288, 294

  Rogers, John T., 289–290, 308, 330, 376–377, 423, 518

  Rogers, Will, 486

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 511, 512

  Roosevelt Finance Company, 266, 267

  Rosenwald, Julius, xxviii, 233

  Rosselli, Johnny, 539

  Runyon, Damon, 380, 382, 425, 432, 444

  Russell, William F., 167, 273–274, 275

  Saltis gang, xxi

  Samuelson, Tim, 536, 545

  Sandburg, Carl, 547

  Scalise, John, xxiv, 77–78, 79, 84, 178, 186, 208, 209, 210–213, 216, 218

  Scarface (film; 1932), 462, 478–480

  The Scarface Mob (TV; 1959), xii

  Schofield, Lemuel B., 217–218

  Schultz, Dutch, 472

  Schwartz, A. Brad, xv–xvi, xviii

  Schwarz, Charles, 364–365

  Seager, (Samuel) Maurice, xxviii

  Capone guilty plea credit, 398

  Cicero, 235–239, 259, 260, 262

  leaving Untouchables, 476

  Outfit bribery attempts, 360

  special agent with Ness, 235

  Untouchables brewery raid, 351–352

  Untouchables evidence report, 495

  Untouchables formation, 317, 321–322, 326

  The Secret 6 (film; 1931), 505

  Secret Six, xxviii

  Ahern and Fink bribed, 497

  Capone beer business, 349

  Chapman financial woes, 495

  formation, 232–235

  Jamie as chief investigator, 313, 505–508, 523

  McCormick follows path, 275

  paying Ries to hide, 295, 434

  Randolph meeting with Capone, 346–347

  Randolph Street, 549

  reporter meeting with Capone, 369

  Samuel Insull, 400

  Serritella, Daniel, 110

  Sharkey, Jack, 174, 187, 188

  Shumway, Leslie A., 293–294, 329–331, 377, 387, 427–430, 517

  Smith, Herbert, 221–223, 244

  smokescreen from car, 283

  “Snorky,” 278, 421

  soup kitchen, 302–305, 340, 372, 456

  South Prairie Avenue. See Prairie Avenue

  Spike O’Donnell gang, xxi

  Sportsman’s Park (Cicero), 517

  Springfield, Illinois, 399–400

  St. John, Archer, 63

  St. John, Robert, 62–64, 544

  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, xxi, xxxii, 174

  American Boys as hit squad, 179–181, 182–183, 227–229, 487

  author Burnett viewing, 477

  ballistics, 192, 197–200, 228–229

  Burke as machine gunner, 227–229

  Capone in Miami, 5, 181–183, 186, 245, 341

  Capone’s downfall, 8, 184, 185–186, 245–246, 526. See also forensics

  Capone’s success, 184

  coroner’s inquest, 197–200

  description of events, 1–5, 178–181

  garage demolition, 534–535

  life-sized dummies in Chicago, 543

  The Maltese Falcon copyright year, xiii

  Moran and, 5, 178–181, 182, 183–184, 489

  Nugent to Palm Island, 182–183

  Scarface film, 462, 478–479

  The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre film, 534

  Thompson submachine guns, 2–3, 199, 228, 278

  Winkeler on hit squad, 180, 375, 516

  The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (film; 1967), 534

  Stack, Robert, xii, 485, 532, 547

  Stahle, Edna, 124–125, 158, 166, 201, 520. See also Ness, Edna

  Startling Detective Adventures, 208, 380, 383

  statute of limitations

  liquor crimes, 410, 412

  tax evasion, 239, 329–330, 331, 387–388, 396, 426, 449, 496–497

  Stege, John, 167–168, 209, 213, 242, 244–246, 273, 275

  Sterling, Robert D., xxviii, 354, 399

  stock market

  1929 crash, 224–225, 239–241

  1929 ride, 194, 503–504

  1932 bank failures, 503

  as gambling to Capone, 138

  Stribling, William, 187, 188

  strike insurance, 177

  strikebreaking by Capone, 335

  Stutzman, Warren E., xxviii, 326–327, 398

  Sullivan, James, 399

 
Supreme Court of the United States, 496

  Swanson, John A., 146, 167, 169, 231–232, 234–235, 245, 259, 261, 275, 372, 507

  Swoboda, Steve, 353, 357

  syphilis, 21, 23, 39, 81–82, 145, 221, 530–531

  tax evasion

  Capone acquittal fix, 375–376, 518

  Capone brewery records, 277–278

  Capone bribing Internal Revenue, 297

  Capone case under Wilson, 268–269

  Capone dodging liability, 190, 205, 244, 247, 265, 267

  Capone guilty plea, 384, 395–399, 402, 406, 407–410, 418

  Capone indictment, 331, 385–388, 389, 390, 398, 410–411

  Capone pushed out by Nitto, 518–519

  Capone reward for Lindbergh baby, 486–487

  Capone sentencing, 400, 401–403, 405–412, 458–461, 497

  Capone settlement attempt, 248–250, 295–297, 430–431, 433, 444, 450

  Capone tax history, 247–249

  Capone trial, 404, 410, 418–419, 422, 426–439, 440, 445–449, 534

  Capone trial appeal, 426, 443, 458, 460, 469, 485–486, 496–497

  Capone trial jury deliberation, 453–457

  Capone trial jury selection, 423–426, 440

  Capone trial verdict, 456–459, 546

  Capone vault contents, 537

  Chicago Heights financial records, 170–171, 205, 239

  first Chicago gangster conviction, 263, 265

  Frank Nitto, 171, 205, 239, 247, 294–295

  indictment for beer sales tax, 496

  Jack Guzik, 171, 205, 247, 291, 292, 295, 369, 434, 498

  Ralph Capone, 205, 206, 262–263, 265, 338, 449

  Ralph Capone illegal income, 171–172, 206–207, 247

  statute of limitations, 239, 329–330, 331, 387–388, 396, 426, 449, 496–497

  Treasury and Justice plan strategy, 205–206

  Taylor, Robert, 181

  Terkel, Studs, 512

  Terrible Gennas, xxi, xxv, 75–76, 525. See also Genna brothers

  Tessem, Nels, 291, 292, 377, 397

  Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,” xxvi

  Capone office portrait of, 108, 150, 246

  Cermak battling gangs, 510

  Cermak challenging, 338

  driving Capone out of Chicago, 115, 116–117

  Lyle challenging, 337, 340

  Michigan Avenue Bridge plaque, 548

  “Pineapple Primary,” 145, 146

  presidential bid, 115, 118–119

  second mayoral term, 47–48, 51

  third mayoral term, 109–111

  Thompson submachine guns (tommy guns)

  about, 2, 82–83

  Aiello family bakery, 113

  Aiello murder, 300–301

  “Chicago lightning,” 83

  “Chicago typewriters,” 148, 479–480

  first New York killing, 148, 181–182, 228

  Geraldo Rivera firing, 537

  McSwiggin murder, 83–85, 89

  Scarface movie, 479–480

  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 2–3, 199, 228, 278

  Tommy Gun’s Garage, 549

  Weiss-Capone war, 91–92, 93

  Zuta murder, 286

  Time magazine cover with Capone, 250–251

  Torchio, Antonio, 113

  Torrio, John, xxiv

  assassination attempt, 58–59

  Atlantic City peace talks, 214–217

  Capone at Four Deuces, 45–46, 48–49

  Capone childhood, 18–19, 27

  Capone in Cook County Jail, 469, 472

  Capone tax evasion trial, 439

  Chicago Outfit, 46, 47, 51–53, 54–55, 58

  Chicago Outfit to Capone, 59, 214

  Chicago syndicate control, 215–217, 219

  as Colosimo’s man in Chicago, 23–24, 26

  home of, xxi

  mediator, 56, 309

  Nitto working for, 49, 518

  O’Banion setting up, 56, 441

  “plenty for everyone,” 526

  Prohibition profits, 25–26, 27, 46, 53

  Touhy gang, xxi

  Transportation Building, 124–125, 279, 321, 354, 363, 484, 500, 545, 548, 550

  Treasury Department. See U.S. Department of the Treasury

  Tribune. See Chicago Tribune

  True Detective (Collins), xiii

  Twenty-First Amendment, 514, 524

  Uale, Frankie, 19, 20. See also Yale, Frankie

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

  Unione Siciliana, 76–79, 111, 130, 148, 177–178, 210, 215

  U.S. Department of Justice, xxix

  Cloonan investigation, 485

  Division of Investigation, 514–515

  Prohibition Bureau to, 196, 311, 316, 442. See also Prohibition Bureau

  Untouchables formation, 196, 312–314, 317–321. See also Untouchables

  See also Bureau of Investigation

  U.S. Department of the Treasury

  Justice Department meetings on taxes, 205–206. See also tax evasion

  Prohibition Bureau to Justice, 196, 311, 316, 442. See also Prohibition Bureau; Prohibition Unit

  See also Intelligence Unit

  University of Chicago

  criminology courses, 200–204

  Meagher shooting, 231

  Ness as undergraduate, 43, 64–67, 365, 475

  Ness raid near, 511

  nuclear research, 523

  Untouchable Life (film; 2005), xv, xvi

  Untouchable Life (play). See Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life

  Untouchable Tours, 528, 550

  the Untouchables, xxviii, 316

  ATF memorial, 547–548

  battering-ram truck, 353, 356, 357, 419, 473, 474

  Capone and liquor statute of limitations, 412

  Capone evidence to Wilkerson, 405

  Capone guilty plea, 397–399

  Capone jailed, work continues, 463–464, 473–475, 492–493

  Capone linked to brewery, 413

  Chicago Heights raid, 358

  Cicero brewery raid, 349–354, 364, 389–390

  disbanding, xiii

  final raid, 511–512

  Fitzgerald completes the work, 540–541

  formation of, 196–197, 312–314, 317–321

  grand jury appearance, 412, 417

  Intelligence Unit relations, 442–443

  the Kid, 358–360, 362, 413–414

  Ness as face of, 391–395, 474–477

  Ness legacy, 545–548

  not G-men, 521–524, 527

  as omnipresent crime fighters, 420

  Outfit bribery attempts, 360–361, 364–365, 391, 484–485

  Outfit harassment, 361–363

  Outfit weakened and pressured, 412–414, 419–421, 508–509

  outside Chicago, 509–510

  personnel all named, 398–399

  personnel changes, 325–329, 354–356, 417

  praise and congratulations, 391–395, 398–399

  Prohibition activities report, 492–493

  Prohibition evidence, 494–496

  publicizing raids, 474–476, 477

  RICO Act codifying tactics, 540

  salaries, 360, 391

  South Side brewery raid, 356–358, 389–390, 413

  touchable agent on squad, 483–485

  “Untouchables” name, 364–365, 391

  vehicles of Outfit, 362–363, 364, 413, 420–421, 474, 509

  vehicles paraded, 420–421

  wiretapping Capone sites, 323–325, 414, 421, 483–484, 485, 494

  The Untouchables (film; 1987), xv, 543, 546, 547, 548–550, 557

  The Untouchables (Ness & Fraley; 1957), xii, xviii, 531–532

  The Untouchables (TV; 1959), xi, xii–xiii, 329, 532, 547

  The Untouchables (TV; 1993), 548

  Uva, Frank, 363, 417–418

  vagrancy law use, 297–298, 300, 304, 306, 334, 341–342, 345

  Vanderbilt, Co
rnelius, Jr., 414–417

  vault in Lexington Hotel, 64, 537–538

  verdict of Capone tax trial, 456–459, 546

  Vollmer, August, xxx, 202–204, 241, 476, 529, 538

  Volstead, Andrew J., 96

  Volstead Act (1919)

  amendment redefining “liquor,” 512

  Capone conspiracy charge, 418–419

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

  illegal manufacture, transportation, sale, 322

  illegal transport by Capone, 364

  legal beer sales movement, 350, 512

  Prohibition Unit, 96–97

  repeal of, 393, 512, 514, 524

  statute of limitations, 410, 412

  von Frantzius, Peter, 278, 280

  Waite, Charles, 198

  Waller, Fats, 139

  Washington Park racetrack, 273

  Waters, Eddie, 171

  Weiss, Earl “Hymie,” xxv

  Capone war, 91–94, 478–479

  Gennas killed O’Banion, 76, 183

  killing of, 93, 94, 95, 183, 525

  North Siders head, 90

  O’Banion confederate, 49, 50

  proclivity for violence, 50, 76, 77, 90

  Torrio assassination attempt, 58–59

  Welles, Orson, 140

  Wellman, William A., 478

  Wertheimer, Henry, 112–113

  Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV; 1959), xi, xii

  White, Frank L., 88, 101, 102

  White Hand, 80–81

  Wickersham Commission, 241

  Wilkerson, James Herbert (judge), xxix, 404

  Capone Chicago Heights subpoena, 187

  Capone contempt-of-court charges, 338–345

  Capone guilty plea, 396–398, 407–410

  Capone jail liquor business, 469–473

  Capone plea bargain, 395–396, 405–408, 410–412, 496

  Capone sentencing, 400, 401–403, 405–410, 459–460

  Capone trial, xviii, 410–412, 418–419, 427–439, 445–453

  Capone trial jury deliberation, 453–457

  Capone trial jury selection, 423–426, 440

  D’Andrea intimidating witnesses, 434

  Hoover support of, 468, 504

  Insull trial, 504, 534

  Ralph Capone tax trial, 262–263, 265, 338

  retirement, 505

  Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, xxix, 96, 188, 189, 190, 247, 442

  Wilson, Frank John, xxix

  on Capone at guilty plea, 397

  Capone brothel investigation, 399

  Capone contract on, 308–311

  Capone evidence to Wilkerson, 405

  Capone lifestyle, 383, 387

  Capone tax case assignment, 268–269, 295

  Capone trial, 423, 434

  Hawthorne Smoke Shop ledger, 293–294, 329–331

  Herbert Hoover in Springfield, 399–400

  as hero capturing Capone, xvii, xviii

  Intelligence Unit, 268, 383

  Lindbergh baby kidnapping, 489, 490

  Lingle murder and, 280, 289

  Ness relationship, 443, 546

 

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