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Al Capone — Part 36
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_. Existence in the outside .
- Bay.
worid, protected by alert
well-paid gunmen, ig one
thing.
Inside’ stony Alcatraz
Prison, ‘all guns in the
hands of guards, Af Ca-
pone finds life more com-
plicated, surrounded, as.
he ia, by désperadoes that-
are not his ‘gunmen or
killers, ©
After a prison mutiny,
a hundred convicts were
locked up in solitary con-
finement, on ‘bread and
water. Capone had re. ° i
fused to join the mutiny, =
knowing that men with *
8,
bare hands could not
break through twenty feet
of solid stone and then
swim across San Francisco
Now other and “tough-
er” convicts in Alcatraz,
denounce Capone as a
“rat” because he did not
join the mutiny; his life
may be in danger.
The mutineers cannot
break out, but they can
murder, ,
pcre -~ o
a a en
os ” . ws
! are them greaseballs' do-
un” Kelly, also. Harvey.
Bailey and Albert Bates;
associated with Kelly
kidnaping Charles F.
échel, oi! millionaire,
jeorge,
a
—_—e
_ Al Capone, however, is
usually able to take care
of himself, outside of Fed- &
-, According to legend,-pe-
Yong ago, before the wo eo ee
“racketeer. had--come
into everyday use, Al Ca- -
Pone and another, both
with black hair and dark
complexions, went to a
Brooklyn waterfront ball
organized by hard-fisted,
Trish Jongshoremen. Ca-
pone and his companion
each escorted a fair-
haired girl. One long-
shoreman remarked, un-
fortunately for him, ‘What
an ae
ing with white girls?”
Nobody knows just |
what happened, or how,
but lights went out, and
when they were turned on
again, the gentleman who
made the “greaseball” re-
mark was dead,
There has never been
any suspicion that Al Ca-
pone had anything to do
with it, but some of those
Alcatraz “insiders,” using
the unpleasant word
rat," might learn that
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