Washington Daily News, 22 February 1929, page 11: Capone gang claims attempt to link it in massacre
Capone Gang Claims Attempt to Link It in Massacre
- Paper
- The Washington Daily News (Washington, D.C.)
- Date
- 1929-02-22
- Page
- Page 11
- Headline
- Capone Gang Claims Attempt to Link It in Massacre
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Page 11 of the Washington Daily News, 22 February 1929. The story is credited “By United Press” with a Chicago dateline and opens: “An old trick of gangland—“planting” murder evidence against their enemies—was believed to be responsible today for the presence of the dismantled “firing squad” auto in the heart of Scarface Al Capone’s beer territory.”
It reports that police traced the car and its siren and arrested suspects at the nearby Circus Cafe, described as owned by a close friend of Capone, and that questioning turned up the theory that the car had been “planted” to throw blame on the Capone gang. It also reports that Police Commissioner Russell had transferred 61 policemen “for the good of the service,” and that a city council resolution would offer a $20,000 reward.
The planting theory is a claim from the men questioned, as the paper reported it. This archive takes no conclusion about the car from this page and does not name the men arrested.