No. 1 convict," has suffered a mental collapse at Alcatraz Island prison, the san Francisco News" reported to-formerly "Public Enemy would be transferred to an eastern Federal institution for treatment.
"He is suffering from paresis which affects the mind," the paper said. "He suffers spells of melancholia and then suddenly goes berserk. In these spells he kicks other convicts and spits in their faces. As he quiets down, he spends hours laboriously making his bed and then taking it apart again."
Capone, who failed in an attempt to obtain his release through the Supreme Court last year, has been unpopular among other convicts at Alcatraz since beginning his ten-year sentence. He was convicted for failure to file income tax returns for 1926, 1927 and 1928, the only charge on which Federal officers were able to detain the once notorious ruler of Chicago gangland—United Press.
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