Al Capone
In January 1899, Gabriel and Theresa Capone were awaiting the birth of their new son, unaware that he would eventually become one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. On the seventeenth of that month, their child Alphonse, later known as Al, was born. "He grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs," the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors" (www.chicagohistory.org/history/capone.html). He enlisted, "as a waiter-bouncer for Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn at Coney island in the summer of 1917, where his face was scarred in a knife attack by Frank Gallucia"( ,8). Capone was later forced to move to Chicago when he became wanted by the police for attempted murder. He began working for a former acquaintance Johnny Torrio, who handled a local vice lord's assets. The murder of the vice lord, rocketed Capone from h
They were resolved to destroy not only Capone's image but also his powerful position in the underworld. After Torrio was shot in the Chicago Beer Wars and he retired in New York, Capone inherited the Syndicate. is current position of a lowly bouncer all the way to a place in history as one of the Prohibition era's most prominent underworld bosses and one of the most treacherous gangsters of all time. Capone gangsters lined up six members of a rival gang and an innocent bystander and machine-gunned them. He was released in 1939 after an eight year long prison term with mental problems that were caused by untreated syphilis. gang, who introduced the Thompson submachine gun (into) gang warfare, to form the Chicago Syndicate, or Outfit"( ,8). This atrocity, cunningly named the Valentines Day Massacre, awoke a feeling of public indignation in all of America. Even as Capone and many syndicate members were destroyed, the Chicago syndicate not only continued but also prospered under new a leader Frank Nitti. Once he thought that his prison term had ended, he returned to discover that the FBI was pressing charges against him for income tax evasion. He was, in the end, sentenced to, "11 years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, and fined $50,000, plus $30,000 in court costs"( ,9). Capone combined many different gangs, "including the. They intended to turn the public even more against him. This secretive meeting was intended to bring peace and harmony to the hectic domain of the 20's underworld.
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