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Al Capone — Part 6
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arma enced abet rel ne ety
TO yea
inspired by affection as ir the
Case of his son. Reward of one
sort or another, promise of re=
ward, or mora) and spiritual tn-
In the Atlanta penitentiary
apone has. mustered a following
Shot iellow-prisoners, a sort of thew
Mob, who Becompany him upon
occasions of recreation when. all
‘prisoners single together, .
He may need help. sometime,
because he hus enemies here und
it-b sense ix “on the spat," envious
of his reputed wealth, several
prisoners are known to have made
# S7rogant. demands upoy ‘him tor
and whom fate
has sent to the Atlanta prison.
a And then there are men whose
[dislike he has fneurred for ohe
e500 oF another —— for grieve
“in which Capone -or members of
his bodyguard have figured—
fights the details of Which have
been carefully veiled by the tight.
Fe
“4 was star shortstop of th
. “Commodore Feds.”
3 of pone
inte Capone's. conduct record,
: Tn the bodyguard of the big
shot ure to be found “Barber"
“ Daze": Marks, Carl Bol-
known as “Pegleg." Arniand
a Marauts, “Suwarce,’ 9 laundry
worker: x prisoner from Wash-
meton known genually as “Ult-
er “atother named McGinnis,
. {ated a few others, 4
This bodyguard 4 vigitant and
loyal, “Capone, accustomed to
vigilancs: outside, figures be maay
stited help bere. ‘The old menace
‘a, Of Machine guns ‘and - shotgun
_olgs is. gone, but knives and
a this halt-world,
'
mand intelliger
Slat tae REE
- . “ts im
rs. fop money order theft in New. Yorks,
2g PARTNER—Edward WO"
usual tennis partner in the Atlanta
Joeph McCann,
sentences. of twenty-five years
each. They wera
front Leavenworth,
Carter
Capone's
year stretch. He was sentenced in
Atlanta, also, for mall robbery.
Armand Marquis ts the eixth man
Of the group, Marquis 4s the un.
pervs ne
cellmates in for a “25.|
usual type, @ dark, intense, nore fe:
vous an. He has the naine of bes
ing a “pyromaniac,"
and he is doing 22 years for
arson,
The slx are huddled together in
Bent to Atlanta?’
& “fire-bug
¢
the large cage nearly 12 hours. of}
every day, for the most part with-
Gut much conversation but. ‘with
& great deal of understanding.
Capone's dominence of the group.
seems inevitable, but his leader-
ship outwardly hag amounted te
nothing more than ta establish a1
Slandard: of quiet deportment..
Others. whe have dwelled in ser
Gon “A'’say there has never been
& quarrel among these Prisoners,
(here has hever been 9
ference; for exampie, ‘about the
Lay
meat e
ie)
poccupaney of the bunks, two. off-
which are upper berths, four lower“
Cepone sleeps below,
Nuntber 40886 watches asflentty!’
Erien, whe js At Capone
Federal prison, O'Brien
@ prison bell teani known as the
;
with & contatned interest: white his
cellmates play ai dominoss Iw the
lefsure hour after the radio is
turned. off, Cards and dice being
forbiddeti—atthaugh the latter are
pontrived occasionally in sceret—
prisoners have
Poker to be played with dominoes,
Tt ean, atid does at times, be-
come a furlous gambling game.
devised a sort atl: -
but Capone rarely takes part. Hel
is the backer of gamblera rather
than himself e participant,
‘With no great amount of money
ward services, you
a T, ¥OU bet on ball,
Sy |Saines. They sre legal tencer in
Neither: at
ing garibiers, whether the pawn
is aclzarette or a million dollars,
is Al Capone likely to be stirred
or discomfited. He-is described as
a “déep one,” polsed and rational.
His. habits and tastes are normal
i lly caloulated be. be
of service to bi
fathbling nor back-| ~
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