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====== Al Capone ====== | ====== Al Capone ====== | ||
- | ===== Early Years ===== | + | ==== Early Years ==== |
Capone spent his early years near his home on the docks of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was a good student in his youth, but when he was 14, he struck a teacher in the face while attending P.S. 133. According to some sources, Capone was expelled, while others claim he left school on his own. In any event, he never returned. [([[https:// | Capone spent his early years near his home on the docks of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was a good student in his youth, but when he was 14, he struck a teacher in the face while attending P.S. 133. According to some sources, Capone was expelled, while others claim he left school on his own. In any event, he never returned. [([[https:// | ||
- | ===== Beginning ===== | + | ==== Beginning ==== |
Capone went to work after graduating from high school, working at a candy store, a bowling alley, and a local bindery. [([[https:// | Capone went to work after graduating from high school, working at a candy store, a bowling alley, and a local bindery. [([[https:// | ||
- | ===== Semi-Pro Baseball Player ===== | + | ==== Semi-Pro Baseball Player ==== |
+ | With his brother Ralph, he was a player on a semi-pro Brooklyn baseball team. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Belonged To Several Gangs ==== | ||
+ | At the same time as he worked respectable employment, Capone was a member of street gangs that specialized in minor crime and destruction. In addition to the South Brooklyn Rippers and Junior Forty Thieves, Capone joined Johnny Torrio' | ||
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+ | ==== Scarface ==== | ||
+ | Capone allegedly insulted the sister of a local petty offender called Frank Galluccio, who then cut him across the face three times with a pocket knife. Two men approached “Alfonzo Capone” and cut his cheek with a knife.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Rise To Power ==== | ||
+ | Dean O' | ||
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+ | ==== Chicago Outfit ==== | ||
+ | Capone' | ||
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+ | ==== James Vincenzo Capone ==== | ||
+ | While one Capone got his money by breaking the worldwide constitutional ban on the " | ||
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+ | ==== Miami - Chicago Plan ==== | ||
+ | When Al Capone purchased a property on Miami Beach' | ||
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+ | ==== Soup Kitchen ==== | ||
+ | A year after the 1929 stock market crash, which precipitated the Great Depression, Capone opened a soup kitchen at 935 South State Street in Chicago, advertising "Free Soup, Coffee, and Doughnuts for the Unemployed." | ||
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+ | ==== Untouchables Scene Really Happened ==== | ||
+ | While some of the film's facts were twisted to fit a story (while Costner' | ||
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+ | ==== Public Enemy NO. 1 ==== | ||
+ | On April 23, 1930, the Chicago Crime Commission, directed by attorney Frank J. Loesch, produced its first Public Enemies List, which included 28 men. Al Capone took first place. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Capone In Prison ==== | ||
+ | It wasn't Capone' | ||
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+ | ==== Rock Islanders ==== | ||
+ | After serving the initial part of his term at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Capone was sent to the newly opened Alcatraz Island in August 1934. He was permitted to join the Rock Islanders, an inmate band, because of his exemplary behavior there. Capone was a banjo player. Capone is even rumored to have penned a song called " | ||
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+ | ==== Syphilis ==== | ||
+ | Capone got syphilis in his early days in Chicago, most likely via a prostitute. He was not treated, and he developed neurosyphilis early in his tenure in Alcatraz. In February 1938, his strange behavior led to a diagnosis of syphilis of the brain. Capone was treated with a new medicine called penicillin after his parole, but his physical and mental health deteriorated. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Death ==== | ||
+ | On January 25, 1947, the 48-year-old former criminal died of heart failure in Florida. [([[https:// | ||
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- | With his brother Ralph, he was a player of a semi-pro Brooklyn baseball team. [([[https:// |