# Records Relating to the Prosecution of Alphonse Capone (U.S. Attorney, Chicago)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6427838-usao-capone-prosecution-file/

The U.S. Attorney's file at Chicago on the 1931 income-tax prosecution of Alphonse Capone: correspondence with Washington, notes, reports and drafts. Seven items are digitized.

This is the file unit, not a single document. It belongs to Record Group 118, Records of U.S. Attorneys, in the series "Records Relating to Legal Precedents" (NAID 6423676). The creator is the Department of Justice, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern Judicial District of Illinois, and the file is held by the National Archives at Chicago.

The catalog describes it as the U.S. Attorney's file on the government's income-tax prosecution of Alphonse Capone, led by U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson and heard by Judge James H. Wilkerson. It lists correspondence with Johnson's superiors in Washington, wire taps, docket sheets, contempt-of-court reports, pre-trial and trial notes, and drafts of the closing argument, with some material on Ralph J. "Bottles" Capone.

Seven items are described and digitized individually, and each has its own page here. Photographs and clippings in the wider file are not reproduced. The description follows the National Archives catalog entry.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6427838