n June 16th however Wilkerson quickly changed his mood. The judge said he would consider Johnson's recommendation but was not bound by it. October 17th 1931 a jury convicted him of tax evasion, (they were not convinced by the majority of Ness' evidence) he was sentenced to eleven years jail and $50,000 fines as well as another $30,000 more in court costs. Ness made special arrangements to ensure Capone was lead to his last train ride by The Untouchables. That was the last Ness saw of Capone who was infected with syphilis and died in prison, the world's greatest crime boss died a near vegetable. In July 1934 Ness was promoted and continued his war on bootleggers, in less than a year he and his team made it too expensive to bootleg liquor in Ohio. In November of 1935 Mayor Harold Burton of Cleveland elected Ness to safety director. This entailed cleaning up the corrupt fire and police departments as well as ridding the city of rampant mob activity. Ness immediately made it clear that good police work would be rewarded while bad police work would be severely punished. Then there was The Blackhawk Inn. After hearing of its existence from one of his informants Ness put it under surveillance. To his dismay it seamed as though a precinct captain of the police actually owned this illegal gambling operation. He lead a raid on the Inn and was confronted by a cocky young man who claimed his father was the precinct captain, Ness laughed and introduced himself as Eliot Ness, "and I run the police in the entire town." A scapegoat took the young man's place in jail but Ness was now on to Captain Michael Harwood. Who attempted to resign a few days later but Ness was able to take him to court, destroying his pension. This reinforced Ness' idea of getting rid of the bad apples in the force and inspired him to make a new group of Untouchables. These six were never unmasked and were charged with policing the police.During this time Ness also crushed the M...
