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CAPONE LANDS” IN ALCATRAZ OVER PROTEST Secrecy Cloaks Transfer of 43 Felons to Island Prison; Heavy Guard Meets Train! SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22—UP ~Scarface Al Capone, former Chl- ago gang lord, and forty-two other convicts were Imprisoned amid ut- mort secrecy today in the new fed- erst prison on Alcatraz Island in San Fanclseo Bay. Official announcement that Ca- one was tn the group came from Sanford Bates, tederal prison dires- for at Washington, shortly after| the special train bearing the pris ‘oners from the Atlanta penitentiary arrived here, The train was shuoted several times as It neared its destination to. prevent any possible attempt ta es ape and to avold crowde which wathered at townn along the route, A group of heavily armed federal men and guards from the new: prison hastened ta Tiburon, # town borth of the island, a3 tha train! arrived” The cars then were switched fo a large barge and & launch towed it to the island dock, Spectators, who were warned by the guards rot to approach too closely, they observed gray-clad men. ~Aag_the eoreen window a 63 99933 - A Mr, Fotvon Mr. Cees ite, Heuphman,.. chet Clerk , Mr. Cottey... Cowley Eawerds..... Eoan Harbo - Keith, Guinn peniider fer. Famm, BRPLALKED AS PRECAUTION. WASHINGTON; Aug. sanrtel pone, ex-Chicago gangland Ming, ‘war lodged today ta Uncle Sam's new “Devit's Ieland™ prison in San. Francisco Bay, the Department of Juatice announced officially. “Just precautionary,” eaid Ban, ford Bates, director of federal prin ens, in explaining Capone's re- movel from the Atlanta peniten-| tiary. Capone had not been violent, Bates added. Others in the party with Capons, Bates dlaclased, included “Frisco ‘Euddie” O'Brien, a train robber, and Jamen Colson.’ Alvin Crip, a Chi- cago gunman and enemy of Ca- pone, was not in the party. Bates @eciined to make public the entire Wat, but said most of the men were not well known, ‘ CAPONY PROTESTS. ~ ATLANTA, Aug. 22.—UP!—Shaken ftom a sound sleep and hauled out ot his cell in the federal prieon here at midnight, Al Capone pro- tested vigorously, his attorney said, against such treatment being ac corded “a model prisoner.” Frank A. Doughman, Janta attorney, today Tearned that the former Chica; gangeter was the Sast prisoi tinded up.