| Show al capone goes F free r ee after eight year I 1 ear rap nap j but mantle of glamour Is strangely missing cr from scarface scar face WILLIAM BARNES released by western newspaper union C CHICAGO they tell you V in this town about the heyday of scarface scarf ace al capone who was so rich he could squander in eight s years of gambling whose fine italian hand was seen in 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 underworld has passed W chicagoans dont quiver or goggle when you tell them al capone leaves prison this month since the spring of 1932 when he rode to atlanta penitentiary handcuffed ignominiously to a smalltime small time auto theft suspect the onetime one time beer baron 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 not even the underworld will call a holiday because Chi cagos underworld what it used to be moreover the buggs who once worked tor 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 consequently 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 sub 4 f Z mrs capone visiting al at terminal island tries to avoid P photographers h 0 tog raphers scribed ascribed 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 ot 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 1933 a 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 was sent to solitary confinement four days as a result another paroled convict said capone had been branded a yellow rat for refusing to join a mutiny but ca cagnes ones resolution did bring one result he succeeded in g getting et 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 pares paresis 1 is 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 al came from naples originally he had just turned 22 in new york when the notorious johnny took him to chicago to be bodyguard 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 1912 to slay the gambler herman rosenthal sen thal |
