toxic liquor, 69, 76
Volstead Act, 96–97
Wickersham Commission, 241
Prohibition Bureau, xxvii, 60, 88, 316
into Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 545
into Alcoholic Beverage Unit, 514–515
Capone guilty plea, 398–399
Chapman’s lifestyle, 495
disbanding, 485
Intelligence Unit relations, 442–443, 546
to Justice Department, 311, 316, 442
making buys to build cases, 101–102
as Prohibition Unit replacement, 100
special agent Golding, xxvii, 121–126, 128–135, 155–158
special agent Ness beginnings, 123–126. See also Ness, Eliot
Untouchables broken up, 417
Untouchables formation, 196–197, 312–314, 317–321. See also Untouchables
Untouchables vs. regular forces, 475
Prohibition Unit, xxvii, 60, 88
administrator Yellowley, 97–100. See also Yellowley, E. C.
Intelligence Unit policing, 97–100
Jamie joining, 69–71. See also Jamie, Alexander
Prohibition Bureau replacing, 100
Volstead Act, 96–97
public enemies, 256–257, 298, 342, 466, 467, 513, 525
Capone as Public Enemy Number One, 256–257, 342, 373, 388, 530
public enemy brother Maritote, 333–334
The Public Enemy (film; 1931), 478, 480
Pullman, George, 31–32, 33–34
Purvis, Melvin, xxix, 472–473, 522–524
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act (1970), 539–542
radio broadcast of inaugural address, 195
Ralph Sheldon gang, xxi
Rand, Sally, 524
Randolph, Robert Isham, xxviii
Capone meeting, 346–347
Capone sentenced, keep working, 463, 464
Century of Progress arrests, 525
Jamie as Secret Six chief investigator, 313
Kub as Jamie partner, 507
legal beer movement, 350, 512
modern Chicago, 549
Prohibition repeal support, 505
Republican Party convention, 468
Ries to Uruguay, 295, 434
Secret Six formation, 231–235
Rathbun, Charles, 275, 297, 299, 307
Remus, George, 267, 289
Retail Credit Company, 68, 70
Ricca, Paul, 91, 92, 516
Rice, C. L., 233
Richman, Harry, 140
Ries, Fred, 291–292, 295, 434–439
Rio, Frankie, xxiv
Capone bodyguard, 91, 210, 217
Carey search, 487
Hawthorne Hotel attack, 91–92
Outfit takeover plot, 210
Philadelphia arrest, 217–218, 220, 244
as public enemy, 256–257
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 180
wiretapped, 278
Rivera, Geraldo, 64, 537–538
Roberto, Dominic, 85–86
Robinson, Edward G., 443–444, 477–478
Robsky, Paul Wenzel, xxviii, 355, 360–361, 398–399, 484
Roche, Pat, xxx, 288
arrests at Mafalda Capone wedding, 333
Capone contract on, 308–311
Capone custody delay, 245
Capone requests meeting, 299–300
Intelligence Unit brewery raid, 98–100
Intelligence Unit tracking Juliano, 128
Lingle investigation, 275, 279, 280–283, 286–287, 297, 298, 306–307
Nitto arrest, 288, 294
Rogers, John T., 289–290, 308, 330, 376–377, 423, 518
Rogers, Will, 486
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 511, 512
Roosevelt Finance Company, 266, 267
Rosenwald, Julius, xxviii, 233
Rosselli, Johnny, 539
Runyon, Damon, 380, 382, 425, 432, 444
Russell, William F., 167, 273–274, 275
Saltis gang, xxi
Samuelson, Tim, 536, 545
Sandburg, Carl, 547
Scalise, John, xxiv, 77–78, 79, 84, 178, 186, 208, 209, 210–213, 216, 218
Scarface (film; 1932), 462, 478–480
The Scarface Mob (TV; 1959), xii
Schofield, Lemuel B., 217–218
Schultz, Dutch, 472
Schwartz, A. Brad, xv–xvi, xviii
Schwarz, Charles, 364–365
Seager, (Samuel) Maurice, xxviii
Capone guilty plea credit, 398
Cicero, 235–239, 259, 260, 262
leaving Untouchables, 476
special agent with Ness, 235
Untouchables brewery raid, 351–352
Untouchables evidence report, 495
Untouchables formation, 317, 321–322, 326
The Secret 6 (film; 1931), 505
Secret Six, xxviii
Ahern and Fink bribed, 497
Capone beer business, 349
Chapman financial woes, 495
formation, 232–235
Jamie as chief investigator, 313, 505–508, 523
McCormick follows path, 275
paying Ries to hide, 295, 434
Randolph meeting with Capone, 346–347
Randolph Street, 549
reporter meeting with Capone, 369
Samuel Insull, 400
Serritella, Daniel, 110
Sharkey, Jack, 174, 187, 188
Shumway, Leslie A., 293–294, 329–331, 377, 387, 427–430, 517
Smith, Herbert, 221–223, 244
smokescreen from car, 283
“Snorky,” 278, 421
soup kitchen, 302–305, 340, 372, 456
South Prairie Avenue. See Prairie Avenue
Spike O’Donnell gang, xxi
Sportsman’s Park (Cicero), 517
Springfield, Illinois, 399–400
St. John, Archer, 63
St. John, Robert, 62–64, 544
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, xxi, xxxii, 174
American Boys as hit squad, 179–181, 182–183, 227–229, 487
author Burnett viewing, 477
ballistics, 192, 197–200, 228–229
Burke as machine gunner, 227–229
Capone in Miami, 5, 181–183, 186, 245, 341
Capone’s downfall, 8, 184, 185–186, 245–246, 526. See also forensics
Capone’s success, 184
coroner’s inquest, 197–200
description of events, 1–5, 178–181
garage demolition, 534–535
life-sized dummies in Chicago, 543
The Maltese Falcon copyright year, xiii
Moran and, 5, 178–181, 182, 183–184, 489
Nugent to Palm Island, 182–183
Scarface film, 462, 478–479
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre film, 534
Thompson submachine guns, 2–3, 199, 228, 278
Winkeler on hit squad, 180, 375, 516
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (film; 1967), 534
Stack, Robert, xii, 485, 532, 547
Stahle, Edna, 124–125, 158, 166, 201, 520. See also Ness, Edna
Startling Detective Adventures, 208, 380, 383
statute of limitations
liquor crimes, 410, 412
tax evasion, 239, 329–330, 331, 387–388, 396, 426, 449, 496–497
Stege, John, 167–168, 209, 213, 242, 244–246, 273, 275
Sterling, Robert D., xxviii, 354, 399
stock market
1929 crash, 224–225, 239–241
1929 ride, 194, 503–504
1932 bank failures, 503
as gambling to Capone, 138
Stribling, William, 187, 188
strike insurance, 177
strikebreaking by Capone, 335
Stutzman, Warren E., xxviii, 326–327, 398
Sullivan, James, 399
Supreme Court of the United States, 496
Swanson, John A., 146, 167, 169, 231–232, 234–235, 245, 259, 261, 275, 372, 507
Swoboda, Steve, 353, 357
syphilis, 21, 23, 39, 81–82, 145, 221, 530–531
tax evasion
Capone acquittal fix, 375–376, 518
Capone brewery records, 277–278
Capone bribing Internal Revenue, 297
Capone case under Wilson, 268–269
Capone dodging liability, 190, 205, 244, 247, 265, 267
Capone guilty plea, 384, 395–399, 402, 406, 407–410, 418
Capone indictment, 331, 385–388, 389, 390, 398, 410–411
Capone pushed out by Nitto, 518–519
Capone reward for Lindbergh baby, 486–487
Capone sentencing, 400, 401–403, 405–412, 458–461, 497
Capone settlement attempt, 248–250, 295–297, 430–431, 433, 444, 450
Capone tax history, 247–249
Capone trial, 404, 410, 418–419, 422, 426–439, 440, 445–449, 534
Capone trial appeal, 426, 443, 458, 460, 469, 485–486, 496–497
Capone trial jury deliberation, 453–457
Capone trial jury selection, 423–426, 440
Capone trial verdict, 456–459, 546
Capone vault contents, 537
Chicago Heights financial records, 170–171, 205, 239
first Chicago gangster conviction, 263, 265
Frank Nitto, 171, 205, 239, 247, 294–295
indictment for beer sales tax, 496
Jack Guzik, 171, 205, 247, 291, 292, 295, 369, 434, 498
Ralph Capone, 205, 206, 262–263, 265, 338, 449
Ralph Capone illegal income, 171–172, 206–207, 247
statute of limitations, 239, 329–330, 331, 387–388, 396, 426, 449, 496–497
Treasury and Justice plan strategy, 205–206
Taylor, Robert, 181
Terkel, Studs, 512
Terrible Gennas, xxi, xxv, 75–76, 525. See also Genna brothers
Tessem, Nels, 291, 292, 377, 397
Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,” xxvi
Capone office portrait of, 108, 150, 246
Cermak battling gangs, 510
Cermak challenging, 338
driving Capone out of Chicago, 115, 116–117
Lyle challenging, 337, 340
Michigan Avenue Bridge plaque, 548
“Pineapple Primary,” 145, 146
presidential bid, 115, 118–119
second mayoral term, 47–48, 51
third mayoral term, 109–111
Thompson submachine guns (tommy guns)
about, 2, 82–83
Aiello family bakery, 113
Aiello murder, 300–301
“Chicago lightning,” 83
“Chicago typewriters,” 148, 479–480
first New York killing, 148, 181–182, 228
Geraldo Rivera firing, 537
McSwiggin murder, 83–85, 89
Scarface movie, 479–480
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 2–3, 199, 228, 278
Tommy Gun’s Garage, 549
Weiss-Capone war, 91–92, 93
Zuta murder, 286
Time magazine cover with Capone, 250–251
Torchio, Antonio, 113
Torrio, John, xxiv
assassination attempt, 58–59
Atlantic City peace talks, 214–217
Capone at Four Deuces, 45–46, 48–49
Capone childhood, 18–19, 27
Capone in Cook County Jail, 469, 472
Capone tax evasion trial, 439
Chicago Outfit, 46, 47, 51–53, 54–55, 58
Chicago Outfit to Capone, 59, 214
Chicago syndicate control, 215–217, 219
as Colosimo’s man in Chicago, 23–24, 26
home of, xxi
mediator, 56, 309
Nitto working for, 49, 518
O’Banion setting up, 56, 441
“plenty for everyone,” 526
Prohibition profits, 25–26, 27, 46, 53
Touhy gang, xxi
Transportation Building, 124–125, 279, 321, 354, 363, 484, 500, 545, 548, 550
Treasury Department. See U.S. Department of the Treasury
Tribune. See Chicago Tribune
True Detective (Collins), xiii
Twenty-First Amendment, 514, 524
Uale, Frankie, 19, 20. See also Yale, Frankie
union labor racketeering, 176–177, 515–516, 525, 539
Unione Siciliana, 76–79, 111, 130, 148, 177–178, 210, 215
U.S. Department of Justice, xxix
Cloonan investigation, 485
Division of Investigation, 514–515
Prohibition Bureau to, 196, 311, 316, 442. See also Prohibition Bureau
Untouchables formation, 196, 312–314, 317–321. See also Untouchables
See also Bureau of Investigation
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Justice Department meetings on taxes, 205–206. See also tax evasion
Prohibition Bureau to Justice, 196, 311, 316, 442. See also Prohibition Bureau; Prohibition Unit
See also Intelligence Unit
University of Chicago
criminology courses, 200–204
Meagher shooting, 231
Ness as undergraduate, 43, 64–67, 365, 475
Ness raid near, 511
nuclear research, 523
Untouchable Life (film; 2005), xv, xvi
Untouchable Life (play). See Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life
Untouchable Tours, 528, 550
the Untouchables, xxviii, 316
ATF memorial, 547–548
battering-ram truck, 353, 356, 357, 419, 473, 474
Capone and liquor statute of limitations, 412
Capone evidence to Wilkerson, 405
Capone guilty plea, 397–399
Capone jailed, work continues, 463–464, 473–475, 492–493
Capone linked to brewery, 413
Chicago Heights raid, 358
Cicero brewery raid, 349–354, 364, 389–390
disbanding, xiii
final raid, 511–512
Fitzgerald completes the work, 540–541
formation of, 196–197, 312–314, 317–321
grand jury appearance, 412, 417
Intelligence Unit relations, 442–443
the Kid, 358–360, 362, 413–414
Ness as face of, 391–395, 474–477
Ness legacy, 545–548
not G-men, 521–524, 527
as omnipresent crime fighters, 420
Outfit bribery attempts, 360–361, 364–365, 391, 484–485
Outfit harassment, 361–363
Outfit weakened and pressured, 412–414, 419–421, 508–509
outside Chicago, 509–510
personnel all named, 398–399
personnel changes, 325–329, 354–356, 417
praise and congratulations, 391–395, 398–399
Prohibition activities report, 492–493
Prohibition evidence, 494–496
publicizing raids, 474–476, 477
RICO Act codifying tactics, 540
salaries, 360, 391
South Side brewery raid, 356–358, 389–390, 413
touchable agent on squad, 483–485
“Untouchables” name, 364–365, 391
vehicles of Outfit, 362–363, 364, 413, 420–421, 474, 509
vehicles paraded, 420–421
wiretapping Capone sites, 323–325, 414, 421, 483–484, 485, 494
The Untouchables (film; 1987), xv, 543, 546, 547, 548–550, 557
The Untouchables (Ness & Fraley; 1957), xii, xviii, 531–532
The Untouchables (TV; 1959), xi, xii–xiii, 329, 532, 547
The Untouchables (TV; 1993), 548
Uva, Frank, 363, 417–418
vagrancy law use, 297–298, 300, 304, 306, 334, 341–342, 345
Vanderbilt, Co
rnelius, Jr., 414–417
vault in Lexington Hotel, 64, 537–538
verdict of Capone tax trial, 456–459, 546
Vollmer, August, xxx, 202–204, 241, 476, 529, 538
Volstead, Andrew J., 96
Volstead Act (1919)
amendment redefining “liquor,” 512
Capone conspiracy charge, 418–419
Capone guilty plea, 398–399, 402, 406, 407–410, 418
illegal manufacture, transportation, sale, 322
illegal transport by Capone, 364
legal beer sales movement, 350, 512
Prohibition Unit, 96–97
repeal of, 393, 512, 514, 524
statute of limitations, 410, 412
von Frantzius, Peter, 278, 280
Waite, Charles, 198
Waller, Fats, 139
Washington Park racetrack, 273
Waters, Eddie, 171
Weiss, Earl “Hymie,” xxv
Capone war, 91–94, 478–479
Gennas killed O’Banion, 76, 183
killing of, 93, 94, 95, 183, 525
North Siders head, 90
O’Banion confederate, 49, 50
proclivity for violence, 50, 76, 77, 90
Torrio assassination attempt, 58–59
Welles, Orson, 140
Wellman, William A., 478
Wertheimer, Henry, 112–113
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV; 1959), xi, xii
White, Frank L., 88, 101, 102
White Hand, 80–81
Wickersham Commission, 241
Wilkerson, James Herbert (judge), xxix, 404
Capone Chicago Heights subpoena, 187
Capone contempt-of-court charges, 338–345
Capone guilty plea, 396–398, 407–410
Capone jail liquor business, 469–473
Capone plea bargain, 395–396, 405–408, 410–412, 496
Capone sentencing, 400, 401–403, 405–410, 459–460
Capone trial, xviii, 410–412, 418–419, 427–439, 445–453
Capone trial jury deliberation, 453–457
Capone trial jury selection, 423–426, 440
D’Andrea intimidating witnesses, 434
Hoover support of, 468, 504
Insull trial, 504, 534
Ralph Capone tax trial, 262–263, 265, 338
retirement, 505
Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, xxix, 96, 188, 189, 190, 247, 442
Wilson, Frank John, xxix
on Capone at guilty plea, 397
Capone brothel investigation, 399
Capone contract on, 308–311
Capone evidence to Wilkerson, 405
Capone lifestyle, 383, 387
Capone tax case assignment, 268–269, 295
Capone trial, 423, 434
Hawthorne Smoke Shop ledger, 293–294, 329–331
Herbert Hoover in Springfield, 399–400
as hero capturing Capone, xvii, xviii
Intelligence Unit, 268, 383
Lindbergh baby kidnapping, 489, 490
Lingle murder and, 280, 289
Ness relationship, 443, 546