William White (gangster) Torrio-Al Capone organization, White would be declared a public enemy in the Chicago Crime Commission's first published report in 1923 of those ""who are constantly in conflict with the law"" along with James "Mad Bomber" Belcastro, Edward O'Donnell, Jake Guzik, and Al Capone. The following year, White was twice convicted for the murder of Forest Park policeman Edward Pflaume and, despite being released on appeal by the State Supreme Court; he was imprisoned for several years. Following his release, White returned to work for the Chicago Outfit as a labor racketeer competing against rival mobster Roger Touhy (eventually planning the
Frank J. Wilson take to put notorious gangster and bootlegger Al Capone behind bars. They had been trying to get Capone for quite some time but Eliot Ness, and his group called the Untouchables were unable to succeed in this effort. The two men then decided to bring the Treasury Departments Special Intelligence Unit, headed by Elmer L. Irey to take point on the investigation. Ness and the "Untouchables", working under the Bureau of Prohibition, tried to use brute force to take down Capone. They did manage to take some of Capone's illegal establishments out of the picture, but Ness was not the