Alphonse Capone(1899-1947), also called Scarface the most famous American

gangster, who dominated organized crime in Chicago from 1925 to 1931.

Capone's parents immigrated to the United States from Naples in 1893; Al,

the fourth of nine children, quit school in Brooklyn after the sixth grade

and joined Johnny Torio's James Street Boys gang, rising eventually to the

Five Points Gang. Torrio went to Chicago and early in 1921 Al accepted an

invitation to go with him to Chicago. With his knowledge of business and his

experience with the brutal Frankie Yale, Capone would be good in the career

One February evening in North Chicago, seven well-dressed men were found

full with bullets inside the S.M.C Cartage Co. garage. They had been lined

up against a wall, with their backs to their executioners and shot to death.

With the exception of Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer these men were mobsters

working under the leadership of gangster and bootlegger, "Bugs" Moran.

Within a few seconds, while staring at a bare brick wall, these seven men

had become a part of Valentine's Day h

and five months for a combination of good behavior and work credits, in the

was too much overhead in my business anyhow, paying off all the time and

most famous prisoner. There were charges almost immediately that he was

For his remaining years, Al slowly deteriorated in the quiet splendor of his

mystery history. He had to take down "Bugs" Moran at any cost. But as one of

released from jail, a few months early because of good behavior. Then, a few

had become the crime czar of Chicago, running gambling, prostitution and

only because a certain set of laws decreed it, and then the laws were

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