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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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. rents. “ All the way front the Federsh? | > 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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