Show ca capone p one goes free af after ter 8 year rap but mantle of glamour Is strangely missing from scarf scarface ace al B by WILLIAM BARNES released by western newspaper union C CHICAGO they tell you in this town about the heyday of scarface al ca pone who was so rich he could squander in eight years of gambling whose fine italian hand was deenin some chicago gang deaths between the years of 1925 and 1930 and who beat two murder charges and a couple of miscellaneous legal entanglements entangle ments before the federal government caught him on the small item of income taxes covering the chicagoans dont quiver or goggle wh when enyou you tell them al capone leaves prison this month since the spring of 1932 2932 when he be rode to atlanta penitentiary handcuffed ignominiously to a smalltime small time auto aitto theft suspect the onetime one time beer baron has lost face among windy catl 1 14 mrs capone visiting al at terminal island tries to avoid photographers ans when he steps from terminal island correctional prison at san pedro calif this month there will be few to cheer sigh or groan underworld nas has passed not even the underworld will call a holiday because Chi cagos under world what it used to be moreover the buggs who once worked for scarface al have heard stories about him first theres that paresis report the story that al Is suffering from decay of the brain tissues and coni has been deranged to a dangerous extent one week in tour four then theres his reputation as a model prisoner at alcatraz which is anathema for a gangsters reputation one story says this former enemy of society has subscribed to a magazine devoted to social progress survey graphic despite his efforts to win parole by good behavior capone had at least two scraps in alcatraz the first was in 1936 when james C lucas texas bank robber knifed him in the back with a pair of barber scissors al dealt a return blow on the chin that sent lucas reeling before they were both carted off to the hospital in 1938 a rall mail robber named roy gardner was treed freed from alcatraz bringing forth the story that he and capone had mixed it up one day and that al was sent to solitary con four days as a result resul t another paroled convict said capone had been branded a yellow rat for refusing to join a mutiny but capones calones Ca pones resolution did bring one result he succeeded in getting three years lopped from the original 10 20 year sentence and last january he left alcatraz with only a years imprisonment on a misdemeanor count and payment of in fines standing between him and freedom but after freedom what next even if the paresis story is untrue the glamorous and reckless life of the mad twenties is no longer open to al AI he can only return to his home in florida and relax with memories of the most insane period of american history when organized crime fought with itself and with the law usually to the batters lat distress johnny To torries Torr los al came from naples originally he had just turned 2 22 2 in new york 1 when the theno notorious johnny took him to chicago to be bodyguard tor for big jim colosimo a former street sweeper who pulled himself into a place of power in Chi cagos south side night life was a henchman of lefty louie and gyp the blood who with others were supposedly hired by a manhattan police lieutenant in 19 1912 2 to slay the gambler herman rosenthal sentha sen thal 1 they were nice clean fellows all of them seized control of Colo simos kingdom when the latter was shot down behind his own liquor bar he taught capone the ropes of racketeering and built vice and crime into a a week business before he made the mistake of engineering dion OB anions murder dion also had a gang and they took a few shots at johnny in retaliation sotorrio so left town to save his skin and al capone inherited the empire the business grew not many young men reach such eminence at 28 but al was already a veteran undeniably a keen executive in his line he streamlined gang warfare by introducing the machine gun he expanded the business adding gambling dog races and politics this was a billion dollar enterprise and he protected it by stifling the competition obanion odonnell bennas and gangi gangs were liquidated but it was bloody business capone once said they blamed him tor for everything except the chicago fire and that was no exaggeration A new death was chalked up almost daily and tor for two of them the beer baron was hauled in joe howard a smalltime small time hijacker told police before lie he died that young all al had done him in later william H assistant cook county states attorney was murdered his old father a police officer is supposed to have confronted al with the charge that he capone w was as responsible whereupon says the story al handed ils his gun to the elder with the admonition if you think I 1 did it kill me law caught up at last but even a ring of steel protect him at the end they get him for murder tor for election fraud or tor for violating the dry laws but tax evasion was scarface als AIs waterloo his notoriety reached a climax during the trial and in subsequent I 1 months when he languished in atlanta prison but there were ru mors of an escape plot and the charge which reached congress that capone was given special favors a I 1 at atlanta so one dark night in august 1934 aa a heavily barred railroad car slipped into the prison siding at midnight the great capone and 52 other dangerous prisoners prisoner were hurried away A few days day later they were safely stored away in alcatraz the beer baron died that day when they release him this month hell just be plain mr alphonse capone |