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Al Capone Born
Al Capone was born on January17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents Gabriel and Thersea were poor imagrants. http://www.exfamily.org/pubs/ml/b5/ml1422.shtml
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Meeting Johnny Torrio
Torrio and Al met in Brooklyn. He lived close to Capone so Capone started running errands for Torrio! Torrio taught Capone the importance of maintaining a respectable front. http://www.history.com/topics/al-capone
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First time Al got in trouble
Al was a good student up until 6th grade where he started falling behind and had to repete 6th grade. Al was suspended at age 14 for hitting a female teacher and he never went back after that incident. http://www.biography.com/people/al-capone-9237536#early-life -
Meeting gangsters
Torrio was reuntied to Capone through gangster named Frankie Yale. Capone then got a job as a bartender and bouncer from Frankie! There is where he got his nickname "scarface", he made a comment to a woman in the bar one night and her brother came and punched capone then slashed him across the face. http://www.history.com/topics/al-capone -
First Arrested
Capone was first ever arrested while working for Yale for disorderly conduct. He also murdered two men while working in New York. https://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html -
Capone getting married
Capone got married. He married Mae Coughlin just weeks after the birth of their child, Albert Francis. Johnny Torrio was the boy’s godfather! http://www.history.com/topics/al-capone -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
One of Capones longtime enemy George “Bugs” Moran ran an operation out of a garage in Chicago. On February 14 seven members of Morans operation were gunned down in the garage and 70 rounds of ammunition was fired. When police arrived they found one gang member, Frank, barely alive. They tried to pressure him to talk before he died but he wouldn't budge a word. http://www.history.com/topics/saint-valentines-day-massacre -
How the law finally caught up with Capone.
Capone violeted his probation laws. Capone said he couldn't make it why? He said been laid up with pneumonia for six weeks and was in no shape to travel. Agents went to his house and found out that his story didn't make sense! He was then arrested https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2005/march/capone_032805 -
Imprisonment
Capone was sent to the Alanta U.S. Penitentiary. Opon arrival he weighed 250 Pounds. There he was diagnosed with syphilis and gonorrhea. He was also suffering from a cocaine addiction. Capone had a job in the jail as being a person who stitched soles on shoes for eight hours a day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone -
Capones Death
Capone was released from jail in November of 1939 and taken to a hospital in Baltimore where he was treated until march of the following year. Capone slowly died until January 25, 1947 when he officially died. He died of cardiac arrest. http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/al-capone-death.html
