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1950-09-22

U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive

Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Harry Russell, Miami Beach, on Chicago acquaintances and a question about Al Capone's home (22 September 1950)

Counsel asks a Miami Beach resident whether he was ever in the homes of Tony Accardo, Charles Fischetti, Al Polizzi, Jack Guzik or 'Al Capone's home in Miami Beach'; he invokes the Fifth Amendment on most and says he did not know or meet Capone. Printed p. 681.

Date
1950-09-22
Kind
hearing
Source
U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A hearing print of the United States Senate, published by the Government Printing Office. A work of the United States Congress, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The Internet Archive item marks it not in copyright.

Harry Russell of Miami Beach testified in Washington on 22 September 1950 (his testimony runs pp. 657-687 of Part 1; the Capone question is at p. 681). Counsel Rudolph Halley asked whether he was ever in the homes of Tony Accardo, Charles Fischetti, Al Polizzi, Jack Guzik or “Al Capone’s home in Miami Beach.” Russell invoked the Fifth Amendment on most of these questions and said he did not know or meet Al Capone.

Daniel Sullivan had testified earlier (p. 167) that Russell had been a member of the “S. & G. Syndicate” for about fifteen months and “formerly was connected with the Capone Syndicate” in the gambling operations of Charles Gioe and Ralph Pierce at a South State Street address in Chicago. That is Sullivan’s statement. Russell’s answers invoking the privilege are not findings.

The reference to Capone’s home is in counsel’s question; this volume does not itself state an address or that Capone owned a home there. Federal records of Capone’s Palm Island residence are filed elsewhere in this archive.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 1: Florida (1950)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 1, Florida: sessions in Miami and Washington, May to September 1950.itemKefauver Part 1: testimony of Daniel P. Sullivan, Crime Commission of Greater Miami, on Broward County gambling (13 July 1950)The operating director of the Crime Commission of Greater Miami presents charts on gambling in Dade and Broward counties and Miami Beach hotels, placing the Colonial Inn, Club Greenacres and Club Boheme and naming the 'S. & G. Syndicate' as a bookmaking group. Pp. 152-174.itemHoover reply stating that Capone died on 25 January 1947 at Palm Island, Miami (15 January 1964)A Bureau form reply to a Memphis writer gives Capone's tax sentence of 24 October 1931, a release from Terminal Island dated 19 January 1939, and his death on 25 January 1947 at Palm Island, Miami. A file note gives the sources for the death.itemTyped 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.itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 5: Illinois (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 5, Illinois: testimony taken from September 1950 to January 1951, including Paul DeLucia, Louis Campagna, Anthony J. Accardo, and Joseph Aiuppa.