No Alibi

Without the aid of a "good alibi," and near the scene of the crime instead of outside the county, John ("Garry") Scaccio, henchman of pasty-faced Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, went on trial at Catskill, N. Y. last week. He was accused of torturing a Greene County cider hauler in the course of an applejack war. In Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only 40 min. and one ballot for a jury of indignant farmers to decide the Scaccio case. Verdict: guilty. Gangster Scaccio faces a minimum imprisonment of ten years. He and his chief will be tried in Manhattan this week for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Act. Last week Diamond was at his fortified home in Acra, N. Y. He did not appear to testify for his henchman.

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