Washington Times, 9 January 1930, page 1: "Judge's Kin Is Capone Aide"

Front page of the Washington Times, Home Edition, Thursday, 9 January 1930. The banner is “Leroy Brady Named as Bomb Murderer,” a local case. A narrow column headed “Judge’s Kin Is Capone Aide” is datelined New York, Jan. 9; no wire credit is printed in the dateline. The headline was read from the scan; the Library of Congress OCR garbles it. The page-1 text does not explain the headline, and the story continues on page 28, which was not opened.

The story says Capone “now directs the largest rum running business in operation,” calls him the “feted guest of Enoch L. Johnson, Republican boss of New Jersey, and of John D’Agostino, whose licensed Atlantic county wine racket enables every drug store in the country to carry alcoholic beverages,” and says that “the New York Evening Journal’s expose of shocking conditions of corruption of officials in the Atlantic City district” reveals the operations of Capone and his gang. It quotes “a prominent magistrate and politician in Atlantic City”: “Nobody cheats on the Capones—it ain’t healthy.” It places Capone in “a Philadelphia cell,” “No. 63 in Holmesburg prison.”

This is one newspaper’s summary of another newspaper’s allegations. Nothing in it was tested in any court record filed here, and this archive does not take from it any fact about Johnson, D’Agostino or the unnamed magistrate. Capone’s Philadelphia sentence is reported in the Evening Star of 17 May 1929.