Best 1930 headlne newspaper AL CAPONE RETURNS to his HOME in MIAMI BEACH Florida

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Best 1930 headlne newspaper AL CAPONE RETURNS to his HOME in MIAMI BEACH Florida
Best 1930 headlne newspaper AL CAPONE RETURNS to his HOME in MIAMI BEACH Florida after serving time in a Pennsylvania prison
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SEE PHOTO(s) - An ORIGINAL front page of a Florida NEWSPAPER, the
Daily Democrat
(Tallahasse, FLORIDA) dated March 23, 1930. This original newspaper front page contains a bold banner headline with news that
gangster AL CAPONE is defiant in announcing that he would be returning to his home in MIAMI, Florida
after being released from a Pennsylvania prison.
This is the best display newspaper I have seen of AL CAPONE defiant in his decision to travel to Miami, Florida to his home there in the aftermath of his being released from a Pennsylvania prison.
This original newspaper front page has been professionally mounted on a thin white cardboard backing for preservation of this fragile item. It is perfect for framing and display.
In March, 1930 Al Capone, fresh from serving 10 months in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying a concealed weapon, returned to his 93 Palm Island home in Miami Beach.
He doesn't know new legal problems await him. Miami's civil society is up in arms. Local newspapers describe Capone as a menace to their way of life. So city officials and the local sheriff adopt the "Chicago Plan," geared to hassle the gangster so much he'll move out of his beautiful mansion by the bay.
An order to arrest Capone "on sight" is issued by Dade Public Safety Director S.D. McCreary. Every time he leaves home, Capone could end up in jail. That's just what happens four times during May 1930.
The first arrest comes as Capone is headed to a matinee showing of "The New Adventures of Fu Manchu" at the old Olympia Theatre, now the Gusman. The charges against him include the nonexistent crime of "investigation" and vagrancy because Capone doesn't have any visible means of support.
"All the methods they employed to arrest Capone were clearly illegal," said Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Scott J. Silverman, official historian for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, which is sponsoring the mock trial as part of the circuit's centennial celebration.
Capone fights back. He accuses McCreary of falsely imprisoning him. In retaliation, Capone is charged with two counts of perjury for alleging that during his arrests he was secretly confined and denied the use of a telephone.
At the original trial, the Miami Daily News described the scene:
"The courtroom was crowded, exits being blocked and many women and children were present. A sister of the defendant, Mafalda, was seated beside him and attracted much attention."
After days of testimony, the jury didn't get the chance to decide Capone's legal fate. Instead, Judge E.C. Collins announced his ruling from the bench. He acquitted Capone.
"As Judge Collins announced his decision, the crowd that had jammed the court room through the three days of the trial cheered wildly. They halted their demonstration only when the judge instructed bailiffs to arrest any who continued to cheer," The Associated Press wrote.
Capone smiled broadly and thanked the crowd, the AP said. He didn't know it, but it would be the last time he fought the law and won.
The day after his acquittal, Capone said he was abandoning his Palm Island mansion and moving to a 35-acre plot that he owned in Broward County, where he lived briefly. Pleased, prosecutors dropped all other pending perjury charges. It seemed as though the "Chicago Plan" had worked. Capone had been run out of town.
But Capone would return. After Chicago federal authorities sent him to prison for tax evasion in 1931, a sickly Capone was paroled in 1939 and moved back to his Palm Island home.
Capone died there of a heart attack on Jan. 25, 1947. He was 48.
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