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f CAPONE-AND 52 |- OTHER FELONS) . | ONDEWIL'SISLE} U.S. Moves Mass. Transfer of Incorrigible Criminals te New Prison at Alcatraz By EDWARD McQUAID SAN FRANCI6CO, Aug. 22 (UB) —Acrost the gray waters of San Francisco Bay there moved today the most sinister cargo of; Jocal history. It was x human cargo, and re Juctantly it reached journey’s end—the glowering battlements of Alcatraz, America’s newly chris ‘tened “Devil's Isle,” CAPONE ONE OF THEM Manacled in pairs, 53 of the na- tion's worst desperadoes, among them the once powerful “Scarface Al" Capone, stepped — sulenly ashore and marched to their cells amid a sudden, ironic burst of sunshine that ’ bared the full beauty of the hills and the bay and the skyline that many of these men will never see again ex- cept from behind bars. ‘Thus ended one of the most bizarre incidents in American’ penal history—a mass transfer of incorrigible criminals across the rontinent, attended by ail the se- erecy and special precautions that | marked wartime troop move- - ments. All the way from the Federal prison in Atlanta, Ge. they ca! to institute at ARatrarthe ne Federal policy of segregating th unregenernte, _ Was just a locomotive and five cars. poss Jal break” of its passengers, the: Brison train back-trecked into ai today, awitched to a littleused “singie spur track ab Greenbrae and fl picturesque Little yachting center in 26 years.! But despite the supposed pe crecy of the train's movement, the town was there en masse io see it roll into the yards. ‘They didn’t see much. ‘There ‘Two cars were left bebind. A Jocomotive shunted the remsining | thres onto = waiting barge, De partment of Justice agents and raliroad detectives, brandishing, [ Hilles, kept the crowds at ® dis tance as the cars groaned onto, ‘the pler. : " All thet could be discerned pe hind the thick steel mesh covering the prison car windows wes a row | of wryly grinning faces, each in- | distingulshable from {ts nelghbor,|. | and a blur of blue denim shirts. Boon the barge, towed by bel { tux Ses Rover, left the tip of | Marin county’y south shore and { alld through Haccoct™ Straits, in t ‘the shadow of the beautiful villas ‘on Belvedere's wooded hills, and on to Alcatraz. « Mr. Nathan - Talson an? ¥0id both sensation seckert ” cieyere