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—_— CAPONE IN ISLAND CELL! JAY PRISON OF ALCATRAZ GETS| FORMER’ GANG CHIEF, Runs of Coast Gnard Catter Cover) | Final Stage of Transfer of Twu fo Nereonds ee Athen Pater oners. fay the Anvecited Prev.) Sa Francisco, Aug. 32—Al (Sear-! tece) Capone and iifty-two other| segregnted prisoners slept tonight 4n their cells on Alcatraz Island, the new federal prizon where horns bellow throaty biesta when fog sweeps j through the Golden Gate, } ‘The former gang leader of Chicago and his fellow prisoners arrived at the new prison today from Atlante, pent- Jtentiery, where an escape plot had been discovered and quickly were locked in cells declared to be escape- proct. Extreme ascerecy surrounded the transfer of the convicts from tne| speclal armored prison train to the! j bleak, 12-acre ‘island in San Fran cisco Bay, a mile and s half from the mainiand, A coast guard cutler, guns ready for any emergency, | maneuvered near-by as a barge carrying the three pelson railway coaches was lowed (0 the fsland dock. CONFIRMATION PROM WASHINGTON, | Warden James A. Jobnston, who dicected the bringing of the prisoners from the mainland, even refused 10 adait that Capone was among the group unti) Sanford Bates, director of |the federat prison: bureau at Wash- ington, admitted the former Chicago gangster had been sent to the so {called American “Devil's Island.” ‘The train, which left Atlante Sun- Pp day, was brought Lo Tiburon, a smalt town on the bay's edge north of Al~ catraz by 2 clrenttous route, d i This wes done to prevent ony pos ible attempt of confederates to iber- ate ie prisoners who were chalned In pairs fo the seats of the coaches, {* Crowds gathered at the small sta | tions as the train neared its destina j Hou, but guards kept curious specta tors at a safe distance. . uNusror. eny FoR “A At one station = ery went up for | AL" but Capone did not answer, | Two of the three coaches were ot- i cupled by the prisoners end guards In Ube ouner kept constant watch, tne barge, docked at Tiburon, and tn custody of the prlsoners was (urn: ever to him by Warden A. C. Aderholt of Auante. Capone recelved the same treatment ax the other prisoners upon hls are vival at the Jsiand. ‘The convicts received numbers from #9 to 101, ag forty-eight numerals al ceady had been used for forty-seven yaisonere already on hand and one tnan had been sent to Folsom prison Pavlth an Alcstraz number. ‘The new prison, formerly an army | “disciphnary barracks, once was an THE KANSAS CITY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1934,” —_——