Show Cocky Then nut What's lie Like Today fr L Mg 4 I IA A picture of Al ll l made the th I day his hi trial opened o in Chicago Still flushed with th success he Tw didn't didt expect time the year Id-year prison sentence that followed world Isn't what it used to be More More- Moreover Moreover Moreover over the who once worked for Scarface Al AI have heard stories about him First theres there's that paresis p report report- the story that Al is suffering from decay of 01 the brain tissues and con eonS has been deranged to o n dangerous extent one week in four Then theres there's his reputation as a model prisoner at mit Alcatraz which is anathema for a gangsters gangster's reputation One story says this for former mer enemy of society has hns sub subscribed scribed to a magazine devoted to social progress Survey Graphic Despite his efforts effort to win parole by good behavior Capone had at least two scraps in Alcatraz The first was in tn 1030 1936 when James C C. Lucas Texas bank robber knifed him in the back with a n pair of bar barber ber scissors Al AI dealt a return blow on the chin that sent Lucas reeling before they Uley were both bOUl carted ofT off to the hospital In 1033 1933 a mall mail robber named Roy Gardner was freed from Alcatraz bringing forth the story that he and Capone had mixed It up one day and that Al AI was sent to solitary con four days as a result An An- Another Another other paroled convict said Capone had hod been branded a yellow rat ral for refusing to join a mutiny But Capones Capone's resolution did bring one result He ne succeeded in get getting ting three years lopped from the original year 10 sentence and last Jast January he left Alcatraz with only a years year's imprisonment on a misdemeanor meanor count and payment of 50 In fines standing between him and freedom But after aller freedom what next Even if the paresis story is untrue un un- un- un untrue true the glamorous and reckless life lite of the mad twenties is no long er cr open to Al AI He lie can only re re- return return re- re return turn to his home homo in Florida and re re- relax relax lax with memories of the most in In- insane Insane sane period of cf American history when organized crime fought with Itself and with the law law usually usually to the tile latter's distress j Johnny Al AI came from Naples originally lie He had h d just turned 22 in New York when the notorious Johnny Torria took him to Chicago to be body bodyguard guard for Big Jim Colosimo a former street sweeper who pulled himself into a place of power in Chicago's south side night life lite Tor Tar rio was a henchman of Lefty Letty Lou Louie LouIe Loute ie te and Gyp GP the Blood who with others were supposedly hired by a Manhattan police lieutenant In 1912 to slay the gambler Herman lIerman Ro Ro- Rosenthal They were nice clean clenn fellows all of them seized control of Colosimo's kingdom when the lat latter ter was shot down clown behind his own liquor bar He ne taught Capone the ropes of racketeering and built buill vice and mId crime into a weck a business before he made the mis mistake take of engineering Dion murder Dion also had a gang and they took tooka a few shots at Johnny in retaliation So left town to save his skin and skin and Al AI Capone limber inherited the empire The Business Grew Not many young oung men reach rench such eminence at 28 but hut Al AI was al 01 already ready rendy a veteran Undeniably a n keen executive in his line he stream streamlined lined gang warfare by introducing the machine gun He lie expanded the business adding gambling dog races and politics This was a billion billion- dollar enterprise and he protected it by stifling the competition OBan ODan OBanion ion lon ODonnell O'Donnell and gongs gangs were liquidated I But Dut it was bloody business Ca Capone i pone once said sold they blamed him for everything except the Chicago fire tire and that was no exaggeration A new death was chalked up al 01 almost most daily daUr and arid for two of them the beer baron was hauled in Joe Howard a time small hijacker told police before he hc died that Young YoungAI Al AI had done him in Later Wil William Vil- Vil liam ham H H. assistant Cook county states attorney was mur mur- dered His 1 old father a police of officer fleer is supposed to have confront confronted ed cd Al AI with the charge that he Ca Ca- Capone pone pane was responsible re Whereupon says the story tor Al A handed his gun gunto gunto to 10 the elder with the admonition If It you ou think I did it kill me Law Caught up at Last But even a ring of steel couldn't protect him at the end They couldn't get him for murder for election fraud or for violating the dry laws Jaws but tax evasion was Scar Scar- Scarface Scarface face Als Al's Waterloo Ills His notoriety reached a climax during the trial and In subsequent months when he languished in At Atlanta lanta prison But Dut there were ru rumors ru- ru mors moms of 01 an escape plot and the charge which reached congress that Capone was given ghen special fa favors fa- fa favors vors at Atlanta So one dark night In August 1934 a heavily barred railroad car slipped sUpped into Inlo the prison siding At M midnight the great rent Capone and 52 5 other dangerous prisoners were hurried away A few rew day da later they were safely stored stared away in Alcatraz The beer brer baron died that day When they release him this month hell he'll just be plain Mr Alphonse Capone I |