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Al Capone — Part 32
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Convict, ‘Says “Silly Rules’:
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‘of fe in Alcatraz Island prison in} “The guards try kindergarten oy aN
Sian Francisco Bay was told yesterday! staff en prisonera who sre sup-
by William Henry Ambrose, former; posed to be the worst im America.
marcotics dealer who was removed for] Silly rules like this:
* . @eportation to England
ae Ambrose told a story of a prison
af almost continual silence, where
“even hard characters Khe Al Ca-
Ponce, one-time Chicage vice ferd,
are “burning up ever the rules and
regulations.” .
“If you leave bits of food on your
Place, you lose ene meal. Bo if
you take a frankferter and leave |
the skine becanst they're too
tough, you lose ane meal the next
day.
“No radios, not « single newspaper,
ab ¢
He revenled that Capone, first of| 120, AS huy magazines, but they
America’s Heyer i Public Enemies,” has|torn out. Your letters come to you
n promo to prison librarian. [censored and retyped. Out af a three-
; “Capone bas been thrown in the|nage letter you may get eix or seven
- , hhole three or four times for talking,”| lines. :
Ambrose said. “Not a word can be] “It's the silly, agravating things—:
spoken by the convicts in line, at the/such as grabbing the safety razor
table, at work or in their cells. ‘We|beck from you just as soon as you've
got to talk once a week—on Saturday | finished shaving in cold water—that
afternoon, from 1 to 3:30, when welgets on your merves.”
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