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Al Capone — Part 15
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we fer things potting Mhke they are. I got nothing to do with the rules —
and reprluticns. ell, when I cone here I could get anything I wanted,
Tien the nuall-clucce birds .tarted hornis' in and now I have to pay as
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: 2o,'i ou poun! fer cheese. And stele, at that] Feature that!
v.o4shet I'l ereeiint about the twornty buckceesl dom’tgive a dann what
wot ing cort: £¢ Ilowrt i.. It aint that! But it makes it hard on me
© el sy eo: teeute you pis Fave chiseled in,
"lebl, if Ide vo,” he ajis, risin,; and pacing his cell,
one wrdsgl: eemsii:. IY. goin to run that joint or know whyl I*1] have
& J
co teor! cr, Tey relis, I gotta, biriy. I gotta! iee? Fifty per
eeoek LR be a sponte anrher, ani the other fifty 'l1] keve to
“ce ruts te wert ols. woz, it's Kell. Just plain Heil.,.These joints?"
“Ong 4 dnp you set leur life you ai.t conma do there, al,
weft i. dave tha chasis kacen your tennis balls back ever the wall!
"le lu suver.d te wou wisecracy 7” Al asks Carter, “If
Pug, f §fast) ce oer. To weretr the tall's ein® over."
Muah ood 2%, ot's 11," Curter epologizes.
feo ceaehifig ase," Capo.e eoutlains. “and get this
Cile soulte all t ishing: From now on the pay roli's going to be eut.
Tet it fortin! out any sore than I rave to. Kot unless I know the goods
arc being delivered wiat It: payin’ for and as I want ‘ent
"Youl’ he points te keck. “and you!” to Dago. "And youl"
to Garter. « . “Set tis in your heads --- If Capone goes to Alcatraz,
be coe, bound hand and foot. He aint goin' willingly. As mich as I'd
like to get uvay fron all the yokels here, and te some place safe, I aint
.Oing to let the public know It: licked. I'm going te give them the im-
Fressior I went reluctantly.
"The public expects things of m. All right! They'll get
dt! They'll get all the sensational news they want, if I have to go to
Alcatraz, I'm gettin’ out of stir someday, Soon, maybe. When I do it's
goin’ to be somebody's rump. If they think they're doing me any good
letting me sit here and brood, and fear and worry, they've got another
thought coming. For they aint! I done my stretch -- af moh as I should
have done. That Goddamned judge had it in for me. Blse, he'd never have
thrown the book at me.” (Throwing the book, in pricon parlance, ie imposing
te
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