Capone
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Waugh, William F., 326, 453
WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union), 62, 69, 70, 425, 439
Weinshank, Albert R., 308, 309
Weiss, Earl “Hymie” (Earl
Wajciechowski), 158, 197, 214, 222, 313–14, 525
background of, 139
Barko’s attack on, 204
Brooklyn-Chicago whiskey shipments and, 160
Capone and Torrio threatened and attacked by, 137, 138–39, 141–45, 147, 205–6, 207
Hawthorne Inn attacked by, 205–6
murder and funeral of, 208–9, 210, 238
as O’Banion’s ally, 132, 133, 136
Welles, Orson, 530
Wells, H. G., 75
Western Electric plant, 97, 106
West Suburban Ministers’ and Citizens’ Association, 152, 444, 446
WGN radio, 76
Whalen, Grover, 290
Whaley, Vern, 232, 291, 375–76, 380
White, George, 255
White, Willie “Three-Fingers,” 556
“White Hand” gang, 53
White League, 190
White Slave (Mann) Act (1910), 91, 140
Wilkerson, James H.:
Capone’s incarceration and, 498, 567
Capone’s subpoena and (1929), 324–325, 326, 327, 418–20
Capone’s trial and (1931), 430, 436–437, 438, 440, 442, 443, 450, 456, 458, 459, 460, 463, 466–67, 468, 473, 475, 481, 483, 484, 485, 489, 490, 587
D’Andrea’s trial and, 491–92
Ralph Capone’s trial and, 342, 363, 494
Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 300, 302–3, 323, 324
Willis, Harry, 233
Wilson, Frank J., 408
Capone’s finances investigated by, 272–73, 360, 387–89, 391–96, 399–400, 408, 413–15, 425, 429, 432, 433, 452, 464
Capone’s incarceration and, 505
Capone’s trial and, 438–39, 452, 587
in Florida, 413–15
health of, 413
Lingle and, 377, 380–82
threats on, 393–94
Wilson, Judith, 272, 273
Wilson, Samuel Paynter, 79
Wilson, Woodrow, 85
Winch, Bertha, 62
Winch (Hart), Kathleen (sister-in-law), 61, 62, 126, 242, 617
Winch, William, 61–62
Winchell, Walter, 328–29
Winnebago Indians, 67–68
Winter, Dale, 82, 83, 84
Wisconsin News, 313
Woelfersheim, Louis, 442
Wolfe, Thomas, 361
Wolheim, Louis, 523
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 62, 69, 70, 425, 439
Woodward, Charles E., 399
World War I, 19–20, 41–42, 54
World War II, 603–4
Yale, Frankie (Francesco Ioele), 87, 390, 525, 528
assassination attempt on, 84–85
Capone’s Brooklyn work with, 46–51, 53, 56, 58
Capone’s New York trip and (1925), 155–56
Capone’s purchase of whiskey from, 155, 160–62
Colosimo killed by, 82–84, 110, 158
Merlo’s death and, 133–34
murder of, 286–90, 292, 296, 317, 333
Yale, Maria, 48, 289–90
Youngquist, G. A., 360–61
Zuta, Jack, 214, 221, 389–90
Zwillman, Longy, 236, 333
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