AL CAPONE
The roaring 20's for many people may bring to mind flappers or changing times of a positive nature. But on the flip side of the coin during that decade were a lot of activity in the crime world as well and in magnitudes no one could predict beforehand. Breweries, smoking, swearing, cheating, gambling, frequenting places called speakeasies which sold alcohol during the Prohibition, brothels and murder were headline news for much of this time for a man by the name of Alphonse (Al) Capone. Al Capone was born the fourth child to Gabriele Capone and Teresina (called Teresa) Capone on January 17, 1899. A seemingly normal family who was striving in the 'New World' after Gabriele and Teresa arrived in the United States in 1894 with 43,000 Italian immigrants. Al's father was a barber by trade and Teresa raised her family and also took in sewing piecework for extra income. Laurence Bergreen wrote in his biography called Capone: The Man and the Era" in regards to Capone's upbringing that "...nothing about the Capone family was inherently disturbed, violent or dishonest." He further stated that the family, as a whole, "were law-abiding, unremarkable Italian-American family with conventional patters of behavior and frustration; th
In elementary school, Al did very well bringing home mostly A's and B's on his report cards. He had a seemingly change of heart in many ways after Torrio's death and after his only son continued to be in somewhat of bad health but Capone was too far in the organized crime world to pull back, even if he had truly wanted to. Mae continued to stick by him until he died on January 25, 1947 of a cardiac arrest 8 days after his 48th birthday. Educational goals for Italian children were very poor; the school system didn't help with their prejudices of immigrants. Capone even brought forth a press agent, Damon Runyon and with that, attracted even the attention of President Herbert Hoover. Although Capone was called for the grand jury in Chicago, he felt he had a more pressing issue that had to come first. . Years after running errands and gaining the trust for Torrio, who seem to be involved discreetly in the criminal world, he met a man who was nothing like that character, his name was Frankie Yale. By 1925, Capone was a rich and powerful man who became a target for not only law officials but of rival gangs as well. He had to put a lot of effort into restraining himself from calling a 'war' upon the police force for what they did to his brother, Frank and kept it together all of five weeks. The editorials were effective enough to threaten Capone-backed corrupt politicians in the 1924 primary election. At the point in time, he was fairly hidden as Torrio liked to be, his crime participation was not well known. Political corruption was running strong, lawyers, judges, policemen, congressmen and even a reported assistant state attorney were all involved with Colosimo's world. Capone made it clear to most that he wanted an all out conquest of the town.
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