CRIME: Good for You, Bad for Me

Swart Jack Zuta, business manager of Chicago’s North Side (anti-Capone) crime gang was suspected by police of having planned the murder of Capone’s friend, Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle of the Chicago Tribune (TIME, June 23). He narrowly escaped death last month when foes opened fire on an automobile of which he was an occupant in South State Street. Last week swart Jack Zuta strolled across the dance floor of a roadhouse at Delafield, Wis. He had just telephoned a girl in Chicago. He had a dime in his hand which he dropped into the mechanical piano. He looked happy. The mechanical piano began to grind out “Good for You, Bad for Me.”

Just then eight men filed in, lined up, produced a submachine gun, an automatic pistol and two “belly guns” (sawed off shotguns). They blew all the life out of swart Jack Zuta.

Forty miles away in Cicero, Ill. that evening, swart Alfonse (“Scarface”) Capone and 100 friends staged a homecoming party for Capone, who had arrived that day by plane from Florida.