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THE KANSAS CITY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1984." | +8 APONE IN ISLAND CELL! AY PRISON OF aLcaTRAz seTs| FORMER GANG CHIEF, Gans .of Coast Guard Catter Cover! ; # inal Siage of Transfer of Taw Carloads af Atiantg Pris. oners, Ady the Avsoctated Prens.4 Ban Faancisco, Aug. 22.-~Al (Scat face) Capone and Jifty-two other segtegsied prisoners slept tonight in 4 thelr celis on Alcatraz Island, the new federal prison where Horne bellow |throuty plesta when foe sweeps through the Golden Gate, ‘The former gang leader of Chicago |: and his fellow prisoners arrived at the|’ new prison today from Atlanta peni~ tentlary, where an escape plot had been discovered and quitkiy were locked in cells declared to be escape- proof, Extreme. secrecy. surrounded the ‘| tratisfer of the convicts from: the special armored prison train to. the! bleak, 1i-sere ‘island in San Fran: | cisco Bay, a mile-and a half from the mainland. A coast guard cutter, guns ready; for any emergency, maneuvered | | near-by a$ a barge carrying the thres prison railway coaches was towed to the island dock, CONFIRMATION FROM WASHINGTOR, Warden James A. Johnston, who | directed the bringing of the prisoners |i, from the mainland, even refused) ta |k ;edm@lt that Capone was among the group uti] Sanford Bates, director of the isderat prison: biiréay ab Weash- ington, admitted the former Chicago [Mi gangster had: been sent. to the: so- Ee called American “Devil's Island.” be The train, which left Atlanta Sun- /P day, was brought to. Tibyron, a. small town on the bay's edge north of Al~ , catraz by 2 cirenitous route. ; This was done to prevent any pos- sible attempt of confederates to liber- ale ihe prisoners who were chalned Ur pairs to the seats of the coaches, iy* Growds gathered at the small ata- con thing ag the train neared tts destina» ( tou, but guards kept curlous apecta~ tors at a safe distance. Mo, eey FOR “AL” UNHETOED. At one sation a try Went up for | “AL but Capone did not answer, t Two of the three coaches: were. oc- | cupled by the prisoners end: puards | in the other kept constant Walch, Warden. dohnston was waiting Une barge. docked at Tiburon, and. thu custedy of the prisoners was lur Bo cver to him by Warden A. ©. Aderholt of Atlante. ; Capone recelved the saris treatment § Rous the olher prisoners upon his. are g rival atthe isignd. The convicis received numbers from B29 to 101, as forty-elght numerals al< mes scady had been used. for forty-seven | yaisonera already: on hand and one imn had been sent to Folsom prison with an. Aléstraz wumber. . The new prison. formerly an army “disciplinary barracks, onée WAS Ar} | ! ‘ i k F