Al Capone

A detailed Summary of Al Capone

"Anyone who ever went to him for help got it"

Al Capone was one of the if not the most powerful gangsters to ever live in America. It was once said by the head of CCC that: "Al Capone ran the city. His hand reached into every department of the city and county government ".

Al was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn N.Y. he was the fourth of 9 kids (7 boys and 2 girls) but the first the be conceived and born in the United States which he would brag about later in life. In the 6th grade Al was still maintaining a B average, and was also working as a shoe shine boy in the wall street lobby. When a kids gang ruined his chair and the cops wouldn't do anything about it Al realized that the police were not on his side. Soon after that while Al was in school one of his teachers hit him for disciplinary reason, Al being the tough kid that he was punched her back, getting himself expelled from school and sending him into a life of crime.

Soon after he was kicked out of school Capone found a job working for a Johnny Torrie, Torrie gave Capone a cover job and paid him 3 dollars a week. Torrie really got Al involved in the numbers racked and soon promoted him to collecting money for debts to Johnn

In 1939 Al was released from Alcatraz where he had spent a good portion of his sentence. Al had spent the end of his time at Alcatraz in the medical office because his brain was starting to be destroyed from the Clap he had inherited from one of his first relationships. When leaving jail it was estimated that Al had the intelligence of a 5th grader. He spent the last years of his life in a delusional haze fishing a lot some out of the swimming pool and getting very scared whenever a car would drive by the house.

So, Capone got some of his best hit men to arrange the murder of Bugs Moran and some of his associates. On February 14, 1929 a cop car pulled up in front of a parking garage outside of Morans headquarters and the police officers ran inside to where seven gangsters were meeting. The police officers told them they were under arrest, to drop their guns and face the wall. When the men turned to the wall the men took out their sub machine gun and shot guns and opened fire on the men killing all of them. Then the two men in cop uniforms hand cuffed the men in trench coats took them out to the car and drove away. No arrest was ever made in relation to these killings. Even though the killers had failed in their main objective to kill Bugs Moran (He arrived late saw the cop car and just kept walking) it destroyed his gang, leaving Al Capone with no competitors in the bootlegging business.

When Capone took full leadership of the gang they were in the middle of a huge gang war. While Capone sat and ate lunch one day a few cars drove by and opened up fire on Capone's restaurant with Tommy Guns. Nobody was hurt but the restaurant was in tatters and Capone was pissed! So he had the North side gang leader killed. The North side quickly replaced their dead leader with Bugs Moran.

Soon after 1920, the year Prohibition went into effect, Johnny Torrio called upon Capone to come to Chicago and serve as his body guard (Or it could have been as a professional assassin). Since Torrio was really stepping it up in addition to his Gambling, Brothels, and speakeasies he was moving into the bootlegging business, he would be needing his new body guard.

About this time is when Elliot Ness and the rest of his "Untouchables" (they were called the un

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