As reported in the Chicago Daily News, sister publication of the Chicago Sun-Times:
Nothing lasts forever — not even Al “Scarface” Capone’s luck.
On Oct. 17, 1931, a jury convicted the notorious gangster of tax evasion in a federal Chicago court. A few days later on October 24, the judge announced his sentence: 11 years and a $50,000 fine.
“Mr. Capone was denied bail and turned over to the United States marshal for immediate banishment from the city which he has done so much to besmirch in the eyes of the world,” the report in that day’s edition of the Chicago Daily News said.
Capone’s lawyers attempted to stall the gangster’s departure from “a region populated so densely by his friends and dotted so artistically by graves of his less popular rivals,” but judge held firm.
“This meant, even to the numbered consciousness of the formerly sinister Mr. Capone, that he would probably be on his way to Leavenworth tonight,” the report said.
