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Al Capone — Part 13

73 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Oct 19, 1935 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 73 pages OCR'd
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aee om © tH — eS a a 7 There goos the stockade bell! Dinner over, wo return wiseen aid unobserved to Capone's cell. We are now impatient to see how he acte on stockade. The little gift -- the morsel of ehicken before dimer -- seams to have buoyed his spirite. If he can have chicken delivered to him, then why cac't he have other things, he reasons? Perbaps while am stockade he will be aecosted by the Good Samaritan or Santa Claus whe was 60 thoughtful. Regerd- less of row be foals about going out. os hie qualms and fears, and the re- ception he is likely to receive --- perhaps a visible repetition of last night's reception ard denoretretion --- be must go. After all, there are guards here. Yo. foolish, he realizes, that be kept his men out of the "pen". At a time like this they would have proved indeed encouraging. Yie hang on to his shoulders as he jorbers down the inclines to the stockade. It is en immense yard, reached after wo have passed the Laundry and Shoe Shep, the Deputy Narden'’s Office and Isolation Building, the Fire House, Commissary, Tailor Shop, and Spinning and Weaving Mills (Duck Mills) opposite each other. Down we go te the dirt and cinder compound. dnd for the first tima we are aware that there is a towering well rising skyward. On it are perched - at about 00 foot intervals - little Kiceks, in which are armed sentries. ‘oe Jearn they are actually looked in after they enter the door at the foot of the spiral stairmy outside the wall, and there they re- main until relieved eight hours later. As we follow Capone's glence towards the kiosks we hear @ babel of voices greeting him. He is the center of a welcoming group or dele- gation. Among them we seo the fanous Dinty Colbeck, leader of Egan's 8t. louie Rats. Dinty is doing 25 years for mil robbery, Then, clos¢ perlde him is Dazgo Marquis, the firebug, doing 10 years for setting fire to goverment proper- ty. dnd look who's approaching? Jos Urbaytia. « . the man who is doing fifty years for mail retberys and who, with five other convicts, cowored the entire personel of of ficers into submission in an attempted escape, The moat daring in the history of the Atlanta {nstitutien! The hero of the instituion - Joe Urbeytis. . « The bad mani Al certainly gots © warm greeting. ren those standing yonder, . representing the country's inveterate dope peddlers, car thieves, liquor runmers, big-shot bootieggers, post office robbers, wail robbers, ship scuddlers, white
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