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Al Capone — Part 15

73 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 73 pages OCR'd
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i 174, Wigrins, formerly Capone's mort reliable mer, upon release from Solitary 4s assigned the menial duty of "slinging hash" in the Dining Hall, ‘This duty -- carrying a bucxet of food and forming part of the detail thet monotonously walks back and forti reeding the seated inmates -- 4s knowm as the decradin:; punishment. It is no. onl, huniliating and en- barrassing because Le doing it is compelled to be subservient to other corvicts, but it is the only resort the officials ave for tke ipnorant and unintellipert. ‘leturall;, an incate feels, anythin; is preteracle to “slinging hash". dig-ins harbors an injured vanity. To think, he protests, that his lest few weeks must be cerved at so mezial wu tass! He bead been iooked upor by other inmates as one of al's cronies. To now dra; his weary legs from one end of the section of rows to the other end, “taking lip” fron grumbling, dissatisfied and finnicky inmates, coes acuinst his prein. Further, he has discovered to his resentment and disappointment thot Capone has not made the last pa;ment -- tie one due while he vas ir the hole. A mcsagce to Capone is ignored. “igzins knows the uselessness acd futility of appealing further. ile knows a lot about Capone, he boasts, and if he omnts to talks « « Wiggine knows too that in a few days he will be “on the bricks” (free), and it is an annoying thing to live ir constant fear of soncone stepping up behind you and silencing you forever! He knows that other men have gone from the prison, and have been found along some deserted road « « « in se ditch. . . the dead occupant of a deserted house! No, he resolves, he can't take the chance. He shail not go back to Miani, his bona fide residence to where passage has been arrangeds Anything but that! Any place else -- providing Capone cannot learn whore it ist But Capone learns the most secret movements of his former aides. He learns everything, Wiggins reseons. Yet, he'll try. Maybe. « « maybe the Director of Frisons will understand, . .
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