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Al Capone — Part 6

80 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 80 pages OCR'd
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Capone's “home” for the next stx years here, along with $6 other Federal, confiscated when newsmen ap-f 25 1034 prisoners. Eventually, the number| proached too close. ‘Train guards will be increased to 200, were heavily and astentatiously Gloomy old Alcatraz stands’ mile | armed. sand one-fourth from the nearest Boats Patrot Bay whore. Watch towers project trom| Here the train was maneuvered the castlelike battlements of its| across Martines Bridge to the freight | : ments of isl ferminsl at Tiburon: Fvom the Sey Brison bulidings. In those towers.on| o's ‘claimer Of histog as, Cost | ceaseless vigil. are erack-shot guards! Guard patrol boats and. prisan| with high-powered rifies, imunches cruised between the island No bost, no swimmer, no alrplane|ind the mainland. | Small boats, y a ‘steamers and even passenger ferries may approach within 300 yards Of| ere diverted from thelr courses. the island. Signs inthe day and| "Machine guns and 2 small cannon Ughts at night warn visitora not to} were tralned on the Alcatraz sector, come near. Sub-machine guns and shotguns’ i ‘The Department of Justice took were in the patrol boats. ver the prison to house two types) Shortly later the prison’s steel of felons—those it considers incor-| doors clanged shut on the nation’s ngfble, whose sole thought ts of | worst eriminals, escape, und those who attempt to maintain contact with friends out- Bide. ‘apone, already the No, 1 prisoner of old Alcatraz, falls into the latter class. Few Visitors Allowed Visitors will be few at the new prison.” rigid system of permits Fras been set up anil if the visitor mitted to enter he will be uncer | supervision of the gutds every | Infnute during ls presenoe on the | Bands Pritale conversations. wits | the prisoners are forbidaen, ipone snd the 82 other prisoners nt neve Uy special ain yess were “dveed In goon after their erival. After thelr ght mover outils nad been exchanged {or heavier” weat—cook toga end Cooler winds sweep this lonely island “tte prisoners were fed In the Rew frees Bal in the celling stove them were sire! kets: From thove hinobe can Dour suffocating floods of tear eas for ii'is the Federal theory” that Jest prison lola tart inthe meas Tint hi the authorities seek ta pre= ent disturbances Bt Alcatraa, Talde Ganrdn Unarmed Foliowing this same plan of pre- venting outbreaig, the thalde guide carry bo erms. But the men on the Sttlementa are auld to be the Feene ri aharpahootera in Federal crea rae of Capone wil be ag APL reas
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