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Al Capone — Part 32

80 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 79 pages OCR'd
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hole three or four times for talking,” | lines. rose anid. “Not a word can pe! “It's the silly, agravating things— ' spoken by the convicts in line, at the/such aa grabbing the safety tazor _ got trtelleonce a week~-on Saturday | finished shaving in cold _ AUG? 14, 1935 . Edwards -..--.-- . Egan... eneee « Keith . 2.1 snes » Lester -. 12... en0 » Quinn ........ Mr. Scheidt ...004 -a0- Mr. Schilder ......00« Mr. Tama ....1.+00- ‘Convict Says ‘Silly Rules’ =. (Sto Kt Alcatraz Irk Al Capone) [“2= Copyright, 1935, by United Press - SAN FRANCISCO—A sordid version | were allowed out in the yard.” of lite in Alcatraz Island prison in] “The guards try kindergarten San Francisco Bay was told yesterday| stuff en prisoners who are sup- by William Henry Ambrose, former; posed to be the worst in America. nareoties dealer who was removed for| Billy rules I Hke this: A@eportation to England. : “If you leave bits of food en your Ambrose told a story of a prison | Place, you Jose ene meal. So if ef almost continual ‘silence, where | you take » frankfurter and leave even bard characters ke Al Ca. | *¢ skins because theyre too pone, one-time Chicago vice iord, sa? you lose one meal the next regal warning =p ever the rules and “No radios, not a single newspaper atone. You can buy magazines, but they He revealed that Capone, first of|/come to you with pages and articles America’s “No.1 Public Enemies,” has|torn out, Your letters come to you been promoted © prison librarian. | censored and retyped. Out of a three- Capone has been thrown in the! page letter you may get six or seven table, at work o¢ in their cella. Wel] back from you just as soon as youve —~-—That afternoon, from 1 to 2:30, when we! gets on your ner#es.”
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