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Capone's first arrest was on a disorderly conduct charge while he was working for Yale.In accordance with gangland etiquette, no one admitted to hearing or seeing a thing so Capone was never tried for the murders.The unpretentious Capone home at 7244 South Prarie Avenue, far from Chicago's Loop and Capone's business headquarters.Soon Capone was helping Torrio manage his bootlegging business.Please help improve this article by adding reliable references.January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al Capone or Scarface, was an Italian American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s.Born in Brooklyn, New York, to southwestern Italian emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, Capone began his career in Brooklyn before moving to Chicago and becoming the boss of the criminal organization known as the Chicago Outfit (although his business card reportedly described him as a used furniture dealer).By the end of the 1920s, Capone had gained the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation following his being placed on the Chicago Crime Commission's "public enemies" list.Although never successfully convicted of racketeering charges, Capone's criminal career ended in 1931, when he was indicted and convicted by the federal government for income tax evasion.Early life
2 Early criminal career
3 Chicago
4 Activity in Cicero, Illinois
5 Capone's wealth and power grows in Chicago
6 St.Valentine's Day Massacre
7 Federal income taxes and downfall
8 Capone's image
9 Prison time
10 Physical decline and death
11 Popular culture
11.Gabriele was a barber from Castellammare di Stabia, a town about 15 miles (24 km) south of Naples, Italy.Teresina was a seamstress and the daughter of Angelo Raiola from Angri, a town in the province of Salerno in southwestern Italy.January 31, 1967), Rose Capone (born and died 1910) and Mafalda Capone (later Mrs.In the new neighborhood, Al Capone met both gangster Johnny Torrio and Mae Josephine Coughlin, whom he would marry a few years later at St.Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church.He then worked at odd jobs around Brooklyn, including in a candy store and a bowling alley.It was at this time that he began working as a bartender and a bouncer at Yale's establishment, the seedy Harvard Inn.Her brother, Frank Gallucio, pulled a knife and slashed Capone in the face three times before leaving the bar with his sister.Word of the fight eventually reached Yale, who forced Capone to apologize to Gallucio.Another story is that he asked a Sicilian barber to give him a particular style of haircut popular with Sicilian gangsters and the barber refused (perhaps because Capone was a Neapolitan), upon which Capone vandalized the shop, knocking down a row of personalized shaving mugs belonging to customers and the barber then slashed his face with a straight razor.However, the knife wounds left gruesome scars, which plagued Capone for the rest of his life.Capone was familiar with Chicago, having been sent there previously by Yale in order to help crime boss James "Big Jim" Colosimo dispose of a troublesome group of Black Hand extortionists.Capone went to work for Colosimo's empire under Giovanni "Johnny" Torrio, another Brooklyn native.Colosimo's reluctance to move into this area of crime led to his murder on May 11, 1920, in the foyer of his own nightclub.The house served as Capone's first headquarters.Activity in Cicero, Illinois
After the 1923 election of reform mayor William Emmett Dever in Chicago, Chicago's city government began to put pressure on the gangster elements inside the city limits.The war resulted in over 200 deaths along with the infamous "Hanging Prosecutor" Bill McSwiggins.The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history, with voters threatened at polling stations by thugs.Capone's mayoral candidate won by a huge margin but only weeks later announced that he would run Capone out of town.He ordered the closure of all the speakeasies in Cicero for a day as a mark of respect.Maritote took place at St.This wealth was generated through all manner of illegal enterprises, although the largest moneymaker was the sale of liquor.Banion, Bugs Moran and lieutenant Earl "Hymie" Weiss.Such opposition led to attempts to assassinate Capone throughout the 1920s.Nobody was hurt in the raid (Capone's bodyguard threw him to the ground at the first sound of gunfire), although the headquarters was riddled with bullet holes.For his trips away from Chicago, Capone was reputed to have had several other retreats and hideouts located in Brookfield, Wisconsin; Saint Paul, Minnesota; Olean, New York; French Lick, as well as Terre Haute, Indiana; Dubuque, Iowa; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Johnson City, Tennessee; and Lansing, Michigan.In 1928, Capone bought a retreat on Palm Island, Florida (Miami Beach.Al Capone orchestrated the most notorious gangland killing of the century, the 1929 St.Valentine's Day Massacre in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Chicago's North Side.McGurn is thought to have led the operation, using gunmen disguised as police and toting shotguns and Thompson submachine guns.The massacre was Capone's effort to dispose of Moran.The North Side gang had become increasingly bold in hijacking the Outfit's booze trucks and encroaching on the South Side and Capone was ready to put it to an end.They assigned the task to McGurn and told him to use "outside torpedoes" to avoid implication.McGurn secured the services of triggermen from New York, Tennessee, Detroit, and downstate Illinois.Such freelancers often hijacked such shipments from both gangs and sold them to the highest bidders, so no suspicions were aroused in the Moran camp.Canadian whiskey) was brought to the garage, and the deal was done.As hoped, the entire Moran gang was there.On January 13, the freelancers called again and set up another transaction for the next day.The freelancers were expected to drive the truck right into the garage, where McGurn hoped the entire Moran gang would again be assembled.At the set time, a stolen Chicago police car pulled up and uniformed "officers" entered the building, along with others who had been standing nearby.Moran, spotting what he thought to be a police car outside, decided to keep walking and did not enter the garage.People in the neighborhood saw the police go in and heard what they thought were a series of backfires, which were common at a garage.The "police" later led some men out to the car and left.The grisly scene was discovered after the mechanic's dog began to howl so loudly that neighbors went in to see what was wrong.Frank replied, "Nobody shot me" denying any justice on the murderers.When asked by reporters if he believed Capone was behind the killings, Moran scornfully replied "Only Capone kills like that!"An indignant Capone countered, "Oh yeah!Capone arranged to have himself jailed in Philadelphia for a year to avoid numerous "murder for hire" outfits that were hunting for him.McGurn was gunned down at a bowling alley on the anniversary of the garage slaughter, and two others involved in the killing disappeared.It is said that Nitti became enraged with McGurn (whom he considered to be a rival) over Moran's escape and the unfavorable publicity that ensued.Although Capone always did his business through front men and had no accounting records in his own name (even his mansion was in his wife's name), Al Alcini started linking him to his earnings.This brought the Government's attention to the fact Al Capone was not paying substantial income tax.During a routine warehouse raid, they discovered in a desk drawer what was clearly a crudely coded set of accounts.Capone's legal team offered to pay all outstanding tax and interest and told their client to expect a severe fine.Capone's image
Part of the reason Capone was taken to task in this way was his status as a celebrity.When Charles Lindbergh performed his famous transatlantic flight in 1927, Capone was among the first to push forward and shake his hand upon his arrival in Chicago.For example, he started a program, which was continued for decades after his death, to fight rickets by providing a daily milk ration to Chicago school children.Also during the Great Depression, Capone opened up many soup kitchens for the poor and homeless.Capone retained a personal style, and hundreds of dollars worth of flowers were sent to the funerals of important opponents.On occasion even Capone and some of his men went to the funeral.Capone paid all her hospital bills.Capone could often be seen sitting in box seats with his son and bodyguards at Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs games.He gained a great deal of admiration from many of the poor in Chicago for his flagrant disregard of the Prohibition law that they despised.Such efforts, however, did not change his reputation for violence and murder within the city.Capone did not help his own PR problems by being linked to an incident where two men were bludgeoned to death with baseball bats after they were thought to be disloyal to the Outfit: accounts of this incident put the bat in Capone's hands.He was then transferred to Alcatraz, where tight security and an uncompromising warden ensured that Capone had no contact with the outside world.He attempted to earn time off for good behavior by being a model prisoner and refusing to participate in prisoner rebellions.When Capone attempted to bribe guards he was sent to solitary confinement.During his early months at Alcatraz, Capone made an enemy by showing his disregard for the prison social order when he cut in line while prisoners were waiting for a haircut.He was eventually allowed to remain in his cell until the strike was resolved.Reassigned to mopping up the prison bathhouse, Capone was nicknamed the "wop with the mop" by inmates.He was later stabbed in the back by Lucas, who was sentenced to solitary confinement.Capone was hospitalized for a week.Though he adjusted relatively well to his new environment, his health declined as his syphilis (contracted as a youth) progressed, and he spent the last year of his sentence in the prison hospital, confused and disoriented.Physical decline and death
Capone's control and interests within organized crime had decreased rapidly after his imprisonment, and he was no longer able to run the Outfit after his release.Alphonse Capone was originally buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, in Chicago's far South Side between the graves of his father, Gabriele, and brother, Frank.These characters are often shown as wily and crafty, rather than contemptible, criminal characters.In the 1932 film Scarface, Capone is fictionalized as "Antonio 'Tony' Camonte" (played by Paul Muni).Literature
In Mario Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather, Capone played a small role in the fictionalized "Salvatore Maranzano mob war" of 1933.In real life, Maranzano had been killed in 1931).In the novel, Maranzano refuses Don Vito Corleone's request for a partnership and sharing of the gambling and other rackets that Maranzano controls in New York City.According to the novel, Maranzano asks his good friend Al Capone send two of his best gunmen to New York to finish off "Corleone".However, Corleone hitman "Luca Brasi" and his men intercept the two Capone gunmen at the train station, usher them into a cab, and bring them to a warehouse."Brasi" hacks the limbs off one man with an ax, causing him to bleed to death."Corleone" then send a message to Capone, telling him, a Neapolitan, to stay out of the affairs of two Sicilians, and to never to come to New York City, as it is "unhealthy for Neapolitans".The Don esteemed Capone as a "stupid, obvious cutthroat."The Night's Dawn Trilogy, Capone returns from the Beyond to the 27th century and plays a prominent role as one of the leaders of the "possessed movement".In Gennifer Choldenko's 2004 children's book Al Capone Does My Shirts, Al Capone plays a minor role in the story as a laundry worker.Television
The 1959 television film and TV series The Untouchables highlights Capone and his era, perpetuating the myth of the personal war between Capone and Federal Agent Eliot Ness.In Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Capone is portrayed by a character named "Rat Capone".The character's schemes are somewhat similar to the real Capone's, such as smuggling cheese (whereas Al smuggled alcohol).In Lois and Clark, episode seven of season two, Capone appears as a clone created by evil scientist, "Dr.Air, Will is by himself and starts to say a rhyme and of the lines mentions Al Capone.Capone is the subject of the Prince Buster song Al Capone.Brazilian singer Raul Seixas has a song named Al Capone, that also mentions Jules Verne and Frank Sinatra.Capone is the namesake of Rancid's song Young Al Capone.An image of Capone appears in the album art for Sufjan Stevens's 2005 album Illinois.Comedic songwriter Wesley Willis has a song about Al Capone on his second greatest hits album.In the Tintin series of children's comics, Capone's gangsters are first encountered in Tintin in the Congo.Capone himself makes a brief appearance in Tintin in America when "Tintin" goes to Chicago to fight the criminal syndicates.In the Batman series, an enemy named the "Ventriloquist" operates and commits all of his criminal acts through a dummy called "Scarface".Video games
A fictional likeness of Al Capone appeared in the XSEED game Shadow Hearts: From The New World along with representations of Eliot Ness and his sister Edna Capone when Johnny and the others go to Chicago.For court decisions regarding Al Capone and his tax problems, see Capone v.New York: Da Capo Press, 2005.Capone: The Life and Times of Al Capone.New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.Welcomed Visitor: Al Capone in Miami.Capone
A short profile of his older brother Vincenzo
An article on the Brothers Capone
Al Capone at the Internet Movie Database
johnsonsdepot."Little Chicago" (Johnson City, Tennessee)
"Al Capone at the Windsor Hotel" Johnson City, TN Press, July 30, 2007."Did Al Capone once hide out in Johnson City?"All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Al Capone's mugshot, with his fedora hatQuite a lot has been written and said about Al Capone in newspaper and magazine articles, books, and movies that is completely false.When they came to the large American port cities they often ended up as laborers because of the inability to speak and write English and lack of professional skills.This was not the case with Al Capone's family.Gabriele Capone (not Caponi as often claimed) was one of 43,000 Italians who arrived in the U.He was from the village of Castellmarre di Stabia, sixteen miles south of Naples.Unlike many Italian immigrants he did not owe anyone for his passage over.The neighborhood was virtually a slum, given its proximity to the noisy Navy Yard, its many sailors and the vices that sailors seek when they're off duty.Gabriele's ability to read and write allowed him to get a job in a grocery store until he was able to open his barber shop.Teresina, in spite of her duties as a mother of a growing brood of boys, took in sewing piecework to add to the family coffers.Turner Entertainment New Media Network.Al Capone: The Al Capone Museum.The Al Capone Museum is the most comprehensive, historical journey on Al Capone
and Chicago during the nineteen 20's and 30's.Yale, Frank Nitti, Jim Colosimo, Hymie Weiss, Dean O'Banion, Bugs Moran, Jack
Zuta, Joe E.Lewis, Alcatraz, and much more.Alphonse Capone was made to be as big as he was by many things.Al Capone had made it big when the Great Depression rolled around.On April 23, 1930, the Chicago Crime Commission issued its first Public Enemies
List with 28 names on it.The Al Capone Museum is the most comprehensive site on the Big Guy and the
times.All the pages can be viewed from the home
page.Al Capone still remains one of the most notable residents of "the Rock."In a memoir written by Warden James Johnston, he reminisced about the intensity of public interest around Capone's imprisonment, stating that he was continually barraged with questions about "Big Al."Each day newspapers and press flooded his office with phone calls, wanting to know everything from how Capone liked the weather on "the Rock," to what job assignment he was currently holding.Before arriving at Alcatraz, Capone had been a master at manipulating his environment at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta.Despite strict convictions from the courts, Capone was always able to persuade his keepers into procuring his every whim, and often dictated his own privileges.It was said that he had convinced many guards to work for him, and his cell boasted expensive furnishings which included personal bedding along with many other amenities not extended to other inmates serving lesser crimes.His cell was carpeted, and also had a radio around which many of the guards would sit with Al conversing and listening to their favorite radio serials.His friends and family maintained residence in a nearby hotel, and each day he was flooded with visitors.Capone started his life of crime at a young age.Rumored to have started pimping prostitutes before reaching puberty, he was raised on the tough streets of Brooklyn and earned extra money as a bouncer in various brothels.City officials often were embarrassed by the politic strength of Capone, and began leveraging his illegal activities through police raids, along with setting intentional fires to his places of business.In the beginning, the public glamorized Capone's activities and identified with him as a modern day Robin Hood.It wasn't long, however, before the public started weighing against him when it was believed that he had ordered the death of a famed local prosecutor named Billy McSwiggin.Capone quickly went into hiding, fearing he would be tried for McSwiggin's murder.He remained out of sight for nearly three months, and then after realizing he couldn't live the remainder of his life underground, he negotiated his surrender to the Chicago Police.It was said that Capone was now big as life, and more powerful than the mayor himself.He was known to publicly talk against Capone, and maintained a sense of spiteful arrogance that was said to anger Capone so much that Moran became one of Al's routine topics of discussion.Capone playing cards during his transfer to U.Capone was living lavishly in Palm Beach, and assigned one of his top associates "Machine Gun" McGurn to mastermind the hit.McGurn had one of his bootleggers lure members of the Moran gang into a garage to buy liquor at an unreasonably cheap price.The deal was made and the delivery was scheduled to take place on Valentines Day.When they arrived, McGurn's gang pretended to be police making a bust, and ordered all of Moran's men to stand facing the wall.Thinking that they had just been caught by police, seven members of the Moran gang turned to the wall awaiting arrest.Valentine's Day Massacre received national attention, and Capone was glamorized in books and newspapers across the country.The publicity ultimately backfired and attracted the attention of President Herbert Hoover.Mellon collected harsh evidence against "Big Al" which exploited his gang affiliations, bootlegging, prostitution rings, and flagrant evasion of taxes.On May 4, 1932, Capone began serving out his federal prison sentence at Altanta.Capone quickly flaunted his power and started to again have the ability to dictate his privileges.He was given unlimited access to the Warden, and was said to maintain large reserves of cash hidden in his cell, often generously "tipping" guards who would assist him by yielding to special requests.His time spent at Atlanta would not be as plush as when he was confined in Cook, but he still had means to manipulate the system.From the first moment of his arrival, Capone worked to manipulate the system.Capone was grinning, and making quiet smug comments from the side of his mouth to other inmates.Johnston quickly provided him his prison AZ number, and made him get back in line with the other convicts.During Capone's time on Alcatraz, he made several attempts to con Johnston into allowing him special privileges, but all were denied.Johnston maintained that Capone would not be given any special rights and would have to follow the rules as would any other inmate.Capone eventually conceded and one day made the comment to Johnston, "It looks like Alcatraz has got me licked."Capone's time on Alcatraz was not easy time.Capone got into a fight with another inmate in the recreation yard and was placed in isolation for eight days.Capone was admitted into the prison hospital and released a few days later with a minor wound.Capone eventually became symptomatic from syphilis, a disease he had evidently been carrying for years.In 1938, he was transferred to Terminal Island Prison in Southern California to serve out the remainder of his sentence, and was released in November of 1939.Capone died on January 25, 1947, in his Palm Beach Mansion from complications of syphilis.Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899, of an immigrant family, Al Capone quit school after the sixth grade and associated with a notorious street gang, becoming accepted as a member.About 1920, at Torrio's invitation, Capone joined Torrio in Chicago where he had become an influential lieutenant in the Colosimo mob.Torrio, abetted by Al Capone, intended to take full advantage of opportunities.Torrio soon succeeded to full leadership of the gang with the violent demise of Big Jim Colosimo, and Capone gained experience and expertise as his strong right arm.In 1925, Capone became boss when Torrio, seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, surrendered control and retired to Brooklyn.The investigative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Investigation during the 1920s and early 1930s was more limited than it is now, and the gang warfare and depredations of the period were not within the Bureau's investigative authority.The Bureau's investigation of Al Capone arose from his reluctance to appear before a Federal Grand Jury on March 12, 1929, in response to a subpoena.Attorney's Office, Bureau of Investigation Agents obtained statements to the effect that Capone had attended race tracks in the Miami area, that he had made a plane trip to Bimini and a cruise to Nassau, and that he had been interviewed at the office of the Dade County Solicitor, and that he had appeared in good health on each of those occasions.On May 17, 1929, Al Capone and his bodyguard were arrested in Philadelphia for carrying concealed deadly weapons.Within 16 hours they had been sentenced to terms of one year each.Capone served his time and was released in nine months for good behavior on March 17, 1930.Guzik, Frank Nitti and other mobsters were subjects of tax evasion charges.On June 16, 1931, Al Capone pled guilty to tax evasion and prohibition charges.While awaiting the results of appeals, Capone was confined to the Cook County Jail.Upon denial of appeals, he entered the U.Penitentiary at Atlanta, serving his sentence there and at Alcatraz.On November 16, 1939, Al Capone was released after having served seven years, six months and fifteen days, and having paid all fines and back taxes.Suffering from paresis derived from syphilis, he had deteriorated greatly during his confinement.New York, New York, 1936
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10.There were men who did far more than Al Capone to foster organized crime in America, but his remains Public Enemy Number One.By instinct Capone was a heartless, mindless murderer.The gun, young Capone believed, solved all.Yet by the time he was 26 Capone was transformed from a mindless killer into a shrewd criminal executive, bossing an enormous payroll and charged with keeping criminal rewards flowing.At the zenith of its power the Capone organization numbered upward of 1,000 members, most of them experienced gunmen.Yet this represented only a portion of Capone's strength.Capone announced, and that was gospel.Chicago scene would have concluded that anywhere less than half of the city's police was on the Capone payroll.The payoff proportion for politicians was undoubtedly higher since their value to the mob was greater.The Capone organization's domination of Chicago approached the absolute; in such suburban areas as Cicero, Illinois, it was total.Politicians Capone put in power were expected to deliver upon demand.Capone seized His Honor on the steps of City Hall and proceeded to kick and punch him to a pulp.The fourth of nine children of immigrant parents from Naples, Al Capone was born in 1899 in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.He attended school through the sixth grade when he proceeded to beat up his teacher, was in turn beaten by the principal and then quit school for good.It was here that Capone picked up his moniker of "Scarface Al," after his left cheek was slashed in an altercation over a girl with a hoodlum name Frank Galluccio.Later Capone would tell acquaintances and reporters that he got the wound serving in the "Lost Battalion" in France in the Great
War, but he was never even in the service.He relocated in Chicago to take on new duties for Torrio, who had been summoned there to help his uncle, Big Jim Colosimo, the city's leading whoremaster, run his empire.By the time Capone arrived Torrio was deeply in dispute with Big Jim.He forebade Torrio to get into the new racket.Torrio now realized that Colosimo had to be eradicated so that he could use Big Jim's organization for his criminal plans.Together he and Capone planned Colosimo's murder and sent to New York for the talent to carry out the job.Capone and Torrio meantime would act out airtight alibis.Their most impressive coup was arranging the killing in 1924 of
Dion O'Banion, the head of the largely Irish North Side Gang.Torrio himself was badly shot in an ambush but, after lingering on the edge of death for days, recovered.Of course, he killed a number of ethnics if they did not bend to his will, but he did the same to many of Chicago's mafiosi, including the Gennas and the Aiellos, for the same reason.Capone did a thorough job of purging his city of Mafia Mustache Petes long before Luciano succeeded in doing so in New York.Although he was a murderer and continued to order wholesale butchery as head of the outfit, Capone nevertheless changed in public image, mixing well with political, business and even social figures.He took on the character of a "public utility" by limiting his mob's activities mainly to rackets that enjoyed strong public support, such as booze, gambling and prostitution.If you give people what they want, inevitably you gain a certain respectability and popularity; thus Al Capone was cheered when he went to the ballpark.Capone surrounded himself with gangsters he could trust, and this trust was, in turn, returned to him by his men.Capone backed him to the limit.Capone was shrewd enough even to hire Galluccio, the hood who had scarred him, as a bodyguard, an act that demonstrated to his men his capacity for magnanimity.It also caused some rival gangs to hook up with Capone, now believing his promises that they would prosper under his wing.Not that Capone could ever relax his guard, as he was constantly under threat of assassination.His most famous personal killings involved treachery within his own mob.Hop Toad Giunta and two of Capone's most lethal gunners, John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, were not only showing signs of going independent but were cooperating with other Capone enemies to kill him.This occurred in 1929, a fatal year for Capone, although it hardly seemed so.Valentine's Day Massacre in an effort to kill Bugs Moran, the last major leader of the old O'Banion gang.Capone hit men dressed as police officers.The victims thought they were being subjected to a routine bust and had offered no resistance.In Alcatraz Capone also exhibited signs of going "stir crazy," not uncommon with prisoners on "The Rock."Capone's family took him to his mansion in Florida where he was to live out the next eight years, alternating between periods of lucidity and mental inertia.His boys from Chicago visited him from time to time but there was no way he could be involved in mob activities.Few of the murderers were arrested and convicted of their crimes.Capone openly admitted how he had obtained his wealth.Capone was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment.Alphonse Capone died in 1947.What would he have been doing?He sat down again, brooding and sighing.I'm knocking the American system.
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