Al Capone's Notorious Outlaw

Al Capone

Al Capone is a notorious outlaw there aren’t many people that don’t know about him. He is famous for when his “business” took off. It all started before the prohibition but that is what really kick started it. The smuggling of alcohol was one of the biggest things that they could do.

Alphonse Capone, was born January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 25, 1947, in Palm Island, Florida the most famous American gangster, who was at the top of organized crime in Chicago from 1925 to 1931. capone’s parents immigrated to the United States from Naples in 1893. Al, is the fourth of nine kids, dropped out of school in Brooklyn after the sixth grade and joined Johnny Torrio’s James Street Boys gang, rising eventually to the Five Points Gang. In a youthful scrape in a brothel-saloon, a young hoodlum slashed Capone with a knife or razor across his left cheek, prompting the later nickname “Scarface.”

Al Capone made it to the very top of the underground alcohol business during the 1920's. He made it known to the public and even law enforcement that he could not be toyed with. He successfully controlled a good portion of all the alcohol business and the police. Most law in the Chicago area

was under Capone's influence and knew they could not touch him. He controlled all of this and he was the best at the time. Anybody who Al Capone was not fond of or who messed with his business, was murdered and so was their family. He was not afraid to do what had to be done. Doing all this made him millions during the prohibition. We all know Al Capone to this day to be considered the biggest, and most feared gangster of all time.

Capone's most notorious killing was the St.

Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, four of Capone’s gang men entered a garage on Clark Street. The building was the main liquor depot of bootlegger George Moran “North Side gang”. Because two of Capone's men were dressed as police, the seven men in the garage thought it was a police raid. As a result, they dropped their guns and put their hands against the wall. Using two shotguns and two machine guns, the Capone men fired more than 150 bullets into the men. Six of the seven killed were members of Moran's gang; the seventh was a friend. Moran, was across the street when Capone's men arrived and stayed away when he saw the police uniforms. As usual, Capone had an alibi; he was in Florida during the

action.
Though Capone ordered dozens of deaths and even killed with his own hands, he often treated people fairly. He was known for his violent temper and for his strong sense of loyalty and was overall a pretty honorable man. He was the first to open soup kitchens after the 1929 stock market crash and he ordered merchants to give clothes and food to the needy at his expense. Even though I think it was to cover his own teakes or boost his public image.
By 1927 he had become a sight to see. Tour buses regularly past his headquarters in the Metropole Hotel, south of the Loop. When the four Italian aviators Mussolini had sent on an around-the-world tour to glorify his reach in Chicago, the police recruited Capone as an official greeter on the sound theory that his presence would forestall a threatened anti-fascist demonstration more surely than would the riot squad's.
In June 1931 Capone was arrested for federal income-tax evasion and in October was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to 11 years in prison and $80,000 in fines and court costs. He entered Atlanta Penitentiary in May 1932 but was transferred to the new Alcatraz prison in August 1934. In November 1939, suffering from the general deterioration of paresis (a late stage of syphilis), he was released and entered a Baltimore hospital. Later he retired to his Florida estate, where he died in 1947.
Even today, well over 60 years after his death—thanks to movies and TV shows most people know at least the highlights of Capone's career. But he was never caught for murder or even bootlegging, but for tax evasion.