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ChildHood of Al Capone
Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York. Al Capone grew up in a tough neighborhood and was in two kid gangs called the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. When Capone was fourteen he dropped out of school. -
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Al Capones life
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Marriage & Family
Al Capone married to Mae Josephine Coughlin at the age of 19.
Because Capone was under the age 21 he had to have his parents put a consent for the marriage in writing. Later that month of marriage Mae Josephine gave birth to their son Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone. -
Prohibition and Bootlegging
Al Capone joined a gang called the James Street Boys gang runned by Johnny Torrios. Eventually Capone allegedly assisted Torrios boss, Big Jim Colosimohen. Prohibiton began so did bootlegging which brought in lots of wealth. -
Starting the Buisness
Torries has retired it was time for Al Capone to take over. He became the crime czar of Chigago. He had a buisness on gambling, bootlegging rackets and prostitution. He gunned down any rival gangs creating his buisness to grow all over the place. -
Buying Chigago
Al Capone was controlling horse and race track, nightclubs, breweries, gambling houses, brothels, ect. he winded up making $100,000,000 of income a year. With the money he was able to buy a house in Florida. Then he began to buy off the mayor controlling the police. He bought off the newspaper making them tell great stories about him and he bought off the comunity with bringing toys to the children and going to public events. He become the most popular man in chigago. -
Unstopible
Al Capone killed many rivals but because ganglands refusal to prosecute plus the mayor and the police were on his side. Capone was never tried for most of his crimes. Once he was tried for killing three people but the evidence was insufficient so he only had to stay one night in jail. The first time he was sentanced to prison was for carrying a gun in 1929. -
St. Valentine Day Massacre
Seven members of "Bugs" Moran are killed, They were lined up against a garage and machine gunned down by Al Capones men disguised as the police. Because they were disguised and Al Capone was in Florida with his family at the time they couldn't get charged for the muders. But it did brought attention to the public eye. -
Bringing Attention
Because of the St. Valentines Day Massacre The newspaper couldn't be bought buy Al Capone and had to exspose this world wide. This caused attention not only to the comunity but to all the Mob gangs world wide and most of all Presidant Hebert Hoover. The Mob gangs decided to join together becoming even stronger which became a threat to Hoover, -
Tax Charge
Because Herbert Hoover was so threatend by Al Capone's power over Chigaco that he ended up charging Capone for failing tax returns for the years of 1928-29. He was also indicted for income tax evasion of the years 1925-29. Because of his gambling profits a third indictment was added. Al Capone owed $215,080.48 of taxes to the Government. Capone pleaded guilty to all three charges with hope that he could make some kind of deal. But the judge did not make any deals. Al went to prison for 11 years. -
Death of Al Capone
Al Capone was 48 when he had a stroke and died. When Capone was released he never went back to Chicago, well not publicly. After an examination both his Baltimore psychiatrist and physician declared that he had the mind of a 12 year old child. Before his death he was living on Palm Island with his wife and immediate family.
