points in Cicero for approximately five years. The establishment was first located in the Western Hotel, #4837 West 22nd Street, and later at numbers 4818, 4838, 4835 and 4738 West 22nd Street, Cicero, Illinois. This book reflects a net profit from the business covering the period of May 1 to December 31, 1924 of $300,250.95, from January 1 to December 31, 1925, of $117,460.00, and from January 1 to April 26, 1926, of $170,011.00. On the night of April 26, 1926, Assistant States Attorney for Cook County W. H. McSwiggin, was murdered in Cicero, Illinois. Mr. McSwiggin had a few months before interviewed witnesses in a murder case in which Capone was alleged to be involved. Al Capone was accused of the McSwiggin murder and the police raided his Cicero gambling establishment on that date. This book was found in the safe of the establishment by the police during the raid and it was turned over at that time together with other records seized, to Special Agent P. F. Roche of the Chicago Division. As no tax case was then pending against Capone, no use was made of this book and it was filed in the Chicago office. After this investigation had proceeded for several months during which time a careful search was made in Chicago, Cicero and other cities, for records relating to the income of the Capone organization, this book was accidentally discovered by the writer in a miscellaneous lot of apparently unimportant papers left by Mr. Roche when he resigned from the government service. The book had no identification marks upon it and its value as evidence relating to the income of Alphonse Capone had not been realized. After a thorough analysis of the entries in the book it was evident that it was the daily record of a large gambling business. A careful comparison of the entries in it with specimens of the writing of various members and employees of the Capone organization established that most of the writing in it was that of Mr. Leslie A. Shumway and that a small part of the entries were made by Peter Penovich, Jr., and Ben Pope. Investigation by us then established that Messrs. Shumway, Penovich and Pope had been the managers and cashiers of the Hawthorne Smoke Shop, a gambling establishment conducted in Cicero during the years covered by the entries in this book.
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