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Al Capone — Part 6
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CAPONEAND 82.
OTHER FELONS
“ON DEVIL'S IoLE}
U. §. Moves Mags Transfer d
of Incorrigible Criminals to '
New Prison at Alcatraz
By EDWARD McQUAID
SAN FRANCI5CO. Aug, 22
(U.B2.—Acrosa the gray waters
of Ban Francisco Bay there moved
today the inmost sinister cargo of
local history. zc
it was « human argo, and re
juctanily lt. reached journey’: @
end—the glowering battlementé of B
Alcatraz, America’s newly chris Be
tened “Devil's Isle”
CAPONE ONE OF THEM
Manacled in pairs, 63 of the na-
tion's worst desperadoes, among |i
them the once powerful “Scarface |
Al" Capone, stepped sudlenly
ashore and marched to their cells ig. -
mid a sudden, ironic burst. of
sunshine that bared. the fulllz
heauty of the hills and the bay |R
and the skyline that many off
these men will never see again ex:
cept from behind bars.
Thus ended ome of the most -
hizarre incidents im American
penal history—a mass transfer of
incorrigible criminals: across the
continent, attended by ‘all the ge-
erecy and spécial precautions that E
marked wartime troop move
prison in Atlanta, Ge. they cam
to instituls at Algalratthe n
Federal policy of segregating th .
ieasnernte: *)
pa Bip. Nathar
* Mr. Totson. on _..
Mr. Clegg 2 oc. wae
Mr, Bauphinan...,
Ghtef Clerk .
Mr Coffer...
Mr. Cowley. .
FIRST ON 26 FEARS << y a :
To avoid both cranny 7
put Possippe. Aiiamots at 8 Trak.
RABOTE
prison: train back-tracked Into a Ae:
ehreultous route at dawn today,! -
awiteched te 8 littie-used “aingle ,
spur track at Greenbrae and fhe
ually arrived at Liburon;
it was. the first passenger trata |
that has visited the picturesque
_ Bittle yachting center in 28 years.
But despite the gupposed se]
etecy of the train's. movement,
the town wag there en masse to
eee tt roll into the yards. ouy
They didn’t see much. Theref .
was {usta locomotive and tive cars. i ae
Two cars were left behind. Apis.
locomotive shunted the remaining |". ...
threa: onto a walting barge, De
partment. of Justice agents ands
railroad. detectives, brandishing P -
| Tifles, kept the crowds at ® dix
' tente as the cars groaned onte
. the pler.
AN thet. could be ‘discerned. be!
_ hind the thick steel mesh covering’
the. prison car windows was a row
' gf wryly grinming faces, each in-]:
distinguishable fram its nelghbor,
and a blut-of blue denim shirts,
Boon the barge, towed by the:
i ing Seen Bever, Jett the tip ot ;
‘ Marin county’ uth shore and
' gid through See Straits, Ine:
the shadow of the beautiful. villas |:
> OBE Hetvadere's mooded Kills, and
‘ on to Aleatraz.:
Domest here ee emer per
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