Al Capone
American gangster and co-founder of the Chicago Outfit
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Alphonse Gabriel Capone was an American gangster and businessman who co-founded and led the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931 during the Prohibition era.[1] Capone died on January 25, 1947.[1]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Alphonse Gabriel Capone
- Born
- 17 January 1899
- Birthplace
- New York City, U.S.
- Died
- 25 January 1947
- Place of death
- Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
- Resting place
- Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois, U.S.
- Conviction penalty
- 11 years imprisonment (1931)
- Occupation
- Gangster
- bootlegger
- racketeer
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
He showed promise as a student but was expelled at age 14 for hitting a female teacher.[2] Capone played semi-professional baseball from 1916 to 1918 before being influenced by gangster Johnny Torrio.[2] He married Mae Josephine Coughlin on December 30, 1918, and their son Albert Francis was born earlier that month.[3] In 1919, he moved to Chicago at Torrio's invitation and began as a bouncer in a brothel, where he likely contracted syphilis.[4]
Capone was widely assumed to have ordered the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, which killed seven members of the North Side Gang.[5][6][7] He was eventually convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to prison.[8] While working as a bouncer at the Harvard Inn in Coney Island for Frankie Yale, Capone was slashed on the left side of his face by Frank Galluccio, which led to the nickname "Scarface".[9]
What the cited sources add
A CBS News report states that Capone owned a hideout in Couderay, Wisconsin, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which included a stone home and two guard towers reportedly manned with machine guns.[8] The same source notes that the property was later bought from Capone's estate in the 1950s and operated as a bar and restaurant.[8] The "Origins of the Scars" account gives the official date of Capone's scarring as December 8, 1918, and notes that photos from 1917 show no scars.[10] That source also reports that Capone required up to 30 stitches at Coney Island hospital after the slashing.[10]
The Myalcaponemuseum.com account describes how on September 20, 1926, Hymie Weiss led eight carloads of Northsiders past Capone's headquarters at the Hawthorne Hotel, firing about 1,000 rounds into the building.[11]
References
- Wikipedia, "Al Capone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "the definition of al capone", Dictionary.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Al Capone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Notorious Crime Files: Al Capone", The Biography Channel; Kobler, 27.; Balsamini, "Al Capone played semi-pro baseball in Brooklyn before turning to crime", May 17, 2020; Kobler, 26. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Al Capone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Iorizzo, "Al Capone: A Biography", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003, p. 26; Bair, "Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend", Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Al Capone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted, by Jonathan Eig. p. 17 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Al Capone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre", Chicago Tribune, February 14, 2014; "Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway", Wayne State University Press, 1995, p. 146; "George 'Bugs' Moran", Bugs Moran; My Al Capone Museum "Vincent 'The Schemer' Drucci", Mario Gomes, accessed 2/7/14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Al Capone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Slay doctor in massacre", Chicago Daily Tribune, February 15, 1929, p. 1; "Trace killers; lid on city", Chicago Daily Tribune, February 16, 1929, p. 1 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Al Capone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Men Pose as Police, Mow Down Rivals", Rhinelander Daily News, February 15, 1929, p. 1 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Al Capone's Couderay, Wisconsin Hideout Home for Sale; Asking Price $2.6M", CBS News, October 7, 2009. facts only, no text reused. cbsnews.com
- Wikipedia, "Al Capone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Five Families", MacMillan, 2014, p. 42; Kobler, 36.; Bardsley, "Scarface", Al Capone; "Slasher of Capone Seized by O'Dwyer; Galluccio, Who Carved Scar on Racketeer's Face, Asked About Gang Murders", The New York Times, March 28, 1940; RJ Parker, "Top Cases of The FBI", 2012; "Origins of the Scars"; Kobler, 36.; Kobler, 15.; "Mobsters and Gangsters from Al Capone to Tony Soprano", Life (2002). (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Origins of the Scars". facts only, no text reused. myalcaponemuseum.com
- "Hymie Weiss", Myalcaponemuseum.com. facts only, no text reused. myalcaponemuseum.com
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