Milwaukee Leader, 20 March 1929, page 1: Matches wits with U. S. in gang probe

The front page of the Milwaukee Leader, Mail Edition, for 20 March 1929 prints a story headed “MATCHES WITS WITH U. S. IN GANG PROBE,” with the deck “Police Guard Gangster From Reprisals by Foes.” It is datelined Chicago and has no wire credit on the OCR. It says Capone “matched wits with his Uncle Sam today behind the heavily guarded doors of a grand jury room on the eighth floor of the federal building.”

It reports that he was questioned “about the operations of the beer syndicate which debauched the once peaceful suburb of Chicago Heights,” and a later paragraph says “it was learned that he had spent the night in Chicago Heights, the suburb which became the locale of the beer wars after Capone withdrew his organization of thugs and bootleggers from Cicero.” It adds that deputy United States marshals guarded the eighth-floor corridors.

Phrases such as “his organization of thugs and bootleggers” are the writer’s characterization, not a finding or testimony. This archive cites the page for the named suburb, Chicago Heights, as the subject of the grand jury’s questions, and for the “eighth floor of the federal building.” The page prints no street address for the building.