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gCAPONE:IN A CELL . iil, Atos 86, i085, [wpe mf Tolso: Mr. Clee. ALCATRAZ ISLE —_~_______. EATEN CAPONE IN A CELL ° With 42 Others He 1s Whisked ON ALGATRAZ ISLE ¥ to Bay Prison In Secrecy ; After Trip From Atlanta, | Continued rom Page Ons | Mr. Bean and the warden feced possibilities Mr tarbo of being eharged with granting bim pecial privileges if be was treated Mr. Baughman. Chtet Clerk. Mr. Coftey Mir, Cowley Mr. Edwards. HE PROTESTED TRANSFER Nr. Keiti | lon ne weit at other petsonere wilh Wee tes similar records. Bree + “They admitted to ms Capone's Felt it Would ‘Taint Record,” record was good,”” ar, Doughman eines a “ said ag he vehemently criticized the Attorney S€ys—Brother Is tra alles. it "an out- ra rageous act" because Alcatran hax Hold in Chicago Racket ‘been set aside for dangerous and By Tae Ansoctated Press, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22—Al Capone, former Chicago gang Jead- ‘ tt, and forty-two other convicts | Capone, serving ten yeard for tax were Imprisoned with the utmost evasion, has s year end « helf mor secrecy today in the new Federa? 12, 40278, before he will be eligible pared a brother of Al Caponay. and priyon on Alcatrax Toland in. fan fF PTO Font othar men, several of whom fi jer raemberd are balleved to be former mem Francisco Bay. ‘The announcement that Capone was in the group came from Ban- ford Bates, director of the Federal Prison Bureau at Washington, shortly after the apectal train bear- ing the prisoners from Atlante penitentiary arrived here, Tha train was shunted severe] times aa it nexred ite destination to prevent any possible attempt to anceps and to avoid crowds which gathered at towns along the route Warden James A, Johnaton, who several days ago informed Attorney General Cummings that ‘Alcatraz Is ready,” personaly auperintended the tronefer of the deaparadot from the mainland to the fortress: like faland prison, A group of heavily armed Fed svat men and guards from the new prison hastened to Tiburon, = town north of the itland, aa the train arrived, The cars then were switched to 2 large barge and a launch towed] It to the Island dock. Spectators, who were warned by the guards not to approach too closely, said they observed gray-clad men behing the rereen windows, * After the barge docked at the island, peivon automobiies took the convicts up the sleep rosds of t injand to the newly reinforced cells. ‘The prisonera were brought im the government's plan to segre-| kate the more desperate characters among the convicts, Atlanta prison ofticlale alo had reported an oe f4pe plot was brewing in the prison There and the convicts ware re moved Sunday night, four days ahead of sched —7 Capone Protected Transier, By Ths Asavetnted Praae, ATLANTA, Aug. 22—Shaken from & sound sleep and hauled out of his celt In the Federal prison here at rnidnight Sunday to ba taken to Al- atrax, Al Capone protested vigor aly agninat auch treatment being recorded “a model prisoner," hls Mtorney said today. Frank A. Doughman, the ator vev, wald guard entered Capone's: vil a the hundrede of inmates Jept and gave him only a few min- tex to prepare for the trip. Capone proteated all during the transfer to the guarded coaches, according to the lawyer, saxerting he bad obeyed all the rules. and get- ing guards to admit he bad « per- fect record. Mr. Doughraan declared prison nfticiale were “tickled to dexth” Ao opt Betiee San raid oma fat above a tavern i= BTW! ertera. suDUrD. “The Baate Attorney's office as sorted that Ralph Capone and bis Sheoclates ware forelng seloonkesp- 126i the wertare part of Cool | Saunty te buy the bear of the Calt- mart caty Brewing Compan; ME Gres reported. that. thi found ecoras in the flat whtek to-; ffonted ‘the extent of these opert Yona. which Ralph The procedure by which Ri pone sad hie newly organized Gapene, Pileged to bree atcempied BO58 eC saloon keepare into taklog the beer Is reminiscent, according to the State Attorney of the methoda used by Al Capone in the daya of hie power, when he was forelng speakeasy owners to handle his iilegal beer, When the tavern keepers de murred Ratp Capone's “sale force” wovld leave a barrel or two, telling the proprietor to use it and ay for it later, authorities ale feged. H a Cleere boring urbe the Capone men, through w! Alleged to be a tieup with thoritles, could force those saloons not takiag their beer to obey the TA. BC closing taw, while compet- ing saloons, which ‘took the beer, could stay open later, It is charged. Ralph Capone returned to Chicago aiter hig release Feb, 27 from the McNeil Island Federal penitentiary ‘at Seattle, where he served & sen tenes for Income tax evasion, and was reported to have begun tinme- Biately the reorganization of the remnants of his brother's olf gang. | nd neighboring sub-|