Evening Star, 27 January 1947, page A-8: End of Capone (editorial)
End of Capone
- Paper
- Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
- Date
- 1947-01-27
- Page
- Page A-8
- Headline
- End of Capone
- Rights
- Post-1930 issue. The Library of Congress title record for this newspaper states that it is believed to be in the public domain or to have no known copyright restrictions; this archive treats that statement as a no known restrictions mark, on the editor's decision of 12 October 2026, pending a renewal check. The editorial is the newspaper's own text; the page also carries syndicated columns, which are not quoted. The page image is used as a record of the issue, and the editor's decision of 12 October 2026 is taken to cover those columns as printed on the page.
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.