Record

Hearing

1950-12-20

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

Kefauver Part 5: testimony of Ralph J. Capone (December 1950), pp. 1226-1250

Ralph J. Capone testified that he was born in Naples, was convicted of income-tax evasion in 1931 and served three years, and sold beer to taverns from about 1923, buying through 'a man by the name of Guzik.'

Date: 1950-12-20
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.

Ralph J. Capone, 56, of Chicago and Mercer, Wisconsin, testified in December 1950 (Part 5, pp. 1226-1250). The date is taken from the session heading that precedes his testimony in the OCR, Wednesday, December 20, 1950.

He said he was born in Naples, Italy, and was brought to the United States as an infant; that he was convicted of income-tax evasion in 1931 and served a three-year sentence; and that he had earlier liquor fines. He said that from about 1923, for six or seven years, he sold beer to taverns, not in business with his brother Al, and that he bought it (pp. 1228-1229) through “a man by the name of Guzik,” whom counsel identified as Jack Guzik. He said he later managed the Rex Hotel in Mercer.

The witness’s own account. Quotations follow the Internet Archive’s OCR of the printed volume. Page numbers are the printed running heads and can be off by one near a page break.

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.itemCapone v. United States, 51 F.2d 609 (7th Cir. 1931): the appeal of Ralph J. CaponeThe Seventh Circuit's July 1931 decision in the income-tax appeal of Ralph J. Capone. It reverses one count and affirms the rest. It is not a ruling in Alphonse Capone's case.