# Evening Star, 27 January 1947, page A-8: End of Capone (editorial)

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Unsigned editorial on page A-8 of the Evening Star, 27 January 1947, setting Capone's death beside that of Andrew J. Volstead and drawing a lesson about Prohibition.

The editorial page of the Evening Star, Monday, 27 January 1947 (page A-8). The unsigned editorial "End of Capone" opens: "It is symbolically interesting that Al Capone has died so soon after the death of Andrew J. Volstead. No two names were more intimately associated with the flamboyant and sordid dry era." The OCR reads the heading "Erfd of Capone"; the page image reads "End of Capone."

The editorial says it was "an income tax evasion that brought about his undoing" and "placed him behind the bars in Atlanta and Alcatraz," calls his last years an illustration that "crime does not pay," and closes that "a bad law, an unpopular or unsupported law, can be worse than no law at all."

This is the newspaper's opinion, written two days after his death, and is filed as a record of how one paper judged him. Its statements about his career are not cited elsewhere in this archive as facts.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1947-01-27/ed-1/?sp=8
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_2calder_ver01/data/sn83045462/00280604719/1947012701/0616.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1