Show V pone ollie goes tree free af after ter ea year R rap F for mantle of glamour Is 1 li langely angely missing issing Al from Sear scarface face al AI 6 kiy WILLIAM BARNES he afi ased by western weste rn newspaper union heV CAGO they tell you ean cit ji this town about the of scarface al ca ibri who was so rich he could ader ader in eight ss s of gambling whose Bt batalian Im alian ha hand nd was seen in Q inifi chica chicago go gang deaths yen en the years of 1925 tIN 1930 and who beat bea vill i murder charges and a 17 ell ye e of miscellaneous legal before the I 1 ial al government caught the small item of income SS covering I 1 chi cagians dont quiver or no f when you tell them al ca el keaves weaves prison this month since i N 4 45 t pi lt capone visiting al at upland gland if tries to avoid photo 0 1 ath dairs S ring pring of 1932 when he rode janta a nta penitentiary handcuffed Ii linious inious ly to a smalltime small time auto M suspect the onetime one time beer bar on has lost face among windy citi 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 has passed not even the underworld will call a holiday because Chi cagos underworld 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 ering from decay of the brain tissues and consequently has been deranged to a dangerous extent one week in four then theres his reputation as a model pris prisoner oner at alcatraz which is anathema for a gangsters reputation one story says this former enemy of society has sub scribed ascribed to a magazine devoted to social progress survey graphic C 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 0 on n the chin that sent lucas reeling before they were both carted oft off to the hospital in 1938 a mail robber named roy roy gardner was freed from alcatraz bringing forth the story that he and capone had mixed it up one day and that al was sent to solitary confinement four days as a result another paroled convict said capone had a d been branded a yellow rat for refusing to join oin a mutiny but capones calones Ca pones resolution did bring one result he succeeded in getting three years lopped from the original 10 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 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 dorrios To al came from naples originally he had just turned 22 in new york when the notorious johnny torro took him to chicago to be bodyguard for big jim colosimo a former er street sweeper who pulled himself elf into a place of power in Chi Mc cagos agos 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 1912 to slay the gambler herman rosenthal sen thal they were nice clean fellows all of them seized control of Colo simos kingdom when the latter was shot down behind 4 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 i gang and they took a few shots at johnny in in i retaliation so left town to save his skin and al capone inherited the empire law caught up at last but even a ring of steel protect him at the end they get him for murder for election fraud or for violating the dry laws but tax evasion was scarface als waterloo his notoriety reached a climax during the trial and in subsequent months when he languished in atlanta prison but there were rumors of an escape plot and the charge which reached congress that capone was given special favors at atlanta so one dark night in august 19 1934 34 a heavily barred railroad car slipped into the prison siding at midnight the great capone and 52 other dangerous prisoners were hurried away A few days later they were safely stored away in alcatraz the beer baron died that day when they release him hin this month hell just be plain mr alphonse capone |