Philadelphia, Mar. 17.
Following a day of uncertainty fas to what was due to happen to Al "Scarface" Capone, the Chicago gang chief, on his release from Prison to-day, Warden Herbert Smith of the Eastern Penitentiary announetd here at eight o'clock this evening that Capone had been smug gled to the now state prison Graterford, 35 miles to the nort! ward, where he had been released at 4 pam.
Capone thys evaded newspapermen and others re waiting all day outside the gates of the Eastern Penittntiary for his release from imprisonment started a year ago after conviction for carrying a concealed deadly weapon, Meanwhile a tri-motored Ford air liner waited at Camden, presumably to carry Capone and his henchmen to Chico The welcoming committee at Chicago, which included friends} planning feast and enemies plannmurder, was confounded Capone's latest disappearing Among those desiring to have a talk with the famed racketeer, were, federal officials who planned to voarrest him for failure to pay an income tax on his huge earnings a dispenser of bootleg beer in the, Chicago "ring" which he controls.
All_were nonplussed at the news that Capone had vanished and many rumours at once sprung up, includ: ing tale that he was Cuba, another that he had boarded a train for Chicago, still another that he was driving in an automobile to the west coast with the intention of sailing for Hawaii, and a fourth that he had caught the limited express for his Juxurious winter home Miami, Florida.
Meanwhile Capone's aged mother, after attending mass, went to a butcher shop and ordered two 18-Ib. turkeys.
The body of an unidentified man, apparently a.gangster, was hurled from a speeding sedan in Chicago to-day, shot five times through the head and heart,—United Press.
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