Contempt of court investigation of the Cook County Jail superintendents (December 1931)
Records of a December 1931 contempt-of-court investigation of Cook County Jail superintendent David T. Moneypenny and assistant superintendent George Gibson, filed in the U.S. Attorney's Capone prosecution file.
- Date
- 1931-12-17
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- NAID
- 12021805
- Rights
- A record of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Department of Justice, held by the National Archives at Chicago in Record Group 118. A United States government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists access and use as unrestricted.
The catalog title is “Contempt of Court Investigation; David T. Moneypenny, Superintendent; George Gibson, Assistant Superintendent; Cook County Jail,” dated 17 December 1931. The catalog holds it as fifteen page images and a PDF.
It is filed in the U.S. Attorney’s Capone prosecution file. The link to Capone’s treatment in the jail comes from that file and from the catalog note on the telegram of 2 December 1931, which says an official inquiry followed. This is a 1931 matter about the jail; it is not the 1929 contempt case against Capone.
The pages were not read for this archive, and this page does not state the outcome. The description follows the National Archives catalog entry.
