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Al Capone — Part 6

80 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 80 pages OCR'd
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By WEBSTER K. KOLAN. ALCATRAZ FEDERAL PENT- TENTIARY, SAN PRANCISCO, Aug. 23 (By International News service), — From this oridgeless felet ‘wround whose rocky apron & wirling sea races toward the olden. Gate, “Segriace” AL.Ca- ‘ etsiwhile monarch of the underworld, today gazed ab the gaunt half-completed stent. skele- ton of the world’s two mightlest bridges.. ‘They. seemed: to mock the link- jess loneliness of this Gibralta- like. “Devil's Island’ that is row (the home. of the farmer gangster king and of 98 lesser entities from the nether life. Cap | 4 ra a_select assortment of the pounitys “most, desperate felons® were. bragght here fron: ' Atlanta, manacied ; traveling fortress that. did not dis- porgé. its Iuman cargo until Al- catran itself was teacher. | FEPTERED TO SEATS, Chetied and bolted In their “chair car” seats, Capone and his 52 companions of the bizarre tour were released only when the harge cars moored ment whari, it was the first time in the. bis- tory of this grim Hitle islet. fn raidstrean: that 8 train hed touched its:steep and rocky shores. Warden James. 8. Johnston sald the famous aggregation of con- viets is making gtself ‘ab home and apparently ikes the new surrown ings. that ‘is, compared the penttentiaries, “Ko one v7. name or number on Alcatraz,” Johnston. Within a few hours after th transfer had been effected, all “the newcomers had been. phote- |eraphed, fingerpriuted crombered and gerbed in the new raimentjf specially. provided by the Gavern-" ment for its Aleatraa prisoners. a al i ever know the af « prisoner said Warden. in. pairs OT Bir he
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