Typed copies of the Miami affidavits in the Capone contempt inquiry (March 1929)
A numbered set of Dade County affidavits gathered for the 1929 contempt inquiry, including Dr. Samuel D. Light's statement that he treated Capone in early January 1929 and a statement that Capone was questioned for two hours on 14 February 1929.
- Date
- 1929-03-25
- Kind
- case-file
- Source
- FBI Records: The Vault
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
Part 24 of the FBI Vault’s Capone file opens (scans 1 to 7) with typed copies of numbered affidavits sworn in Dade County, Florida, in March 1929. They belong to Bufile 69-180, the 1929–1932 contempt and perjury file. Each copy reproduces the signature and the notary’s jurat as “(Signed)”. The stored image is scan 2, page “-7-” of the set.
Item IX on that page is the affidavit of Dr. Samuel D. Light, a Miami physician, sworn on the twenty-fifth day of March 1929. He states that on or about January 2 he was called to Capone’s house on Palm Island and again on or about January 5, that Capone was suffering from influenza “which later developed into double pneumonia”, that two nurses were needed, and that he made sixteen or seventeen calls between January 5 and 14. “On January fourteenth when patient was last seen by affiant, Capone was still in bed suffering with congested lungs and having a temperature.” He says his services ended when a Doctor Omens, described to him as Capone’s family physician in Chicago, arrived to take charge, and that Dr. Phillips had been called in consultation several days before. Item X, which begins on the same page, is the affidavit of Captain William P. Tremblay, master of the steamship New Northland on the Miami–Nassau run, about the voyage of February 8, 1929 on which Capone travelled.
Scan 1, read from OCR only, holds the end of an earlier affidavit in the set. As far as the OCR can be read, a Dade County official (the OCR reads “County Solicitor”) swears that on February 14th, 1929 he and an assistant district attorney of Kings County, New York, questioned Alphonse Capone for about two hours. The research index for the part describes the same affiant as a county police officer; the page image of scan 1 has not been checked, and this archive does not settle the point. The affidavits are statements of private witnesses collected for a federal proceeding; they are quoted here as statements, not as findings.
