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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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NE ot foatateat of, hil denccipes the big boy's cellmates an “igade mob. : ¥ ARLETON COLLIER. ATLANTA, Nov. 11—A dark yee siping paused at the eee apn desk in en Atianta Hotel Hobby the other night ng wrote ® message 10 nit, f ne :Jnounced the lad’s et ‘Jconcludeds Pe “yon are the bi gain the grorld.—Bon." ge "47 ‘thé boy ¥as John Bapone, son of pelsongt No. 4088g%! The ante Federal Penitentlary. Arriv~ ing from Chicago for bis monthly visit to his father, be Hed per Tormed the first duty imposed on ‘him by his father’s friends, to say ail was Well and he had added for himself that assurance of loyalty REDEEMING QUALITY, Alphonse Capone, undoubte possessed sortie quality that at- _ tracts. the Soyalty of those he trusts and commands without it Ine could. not have become the Header of a powerful outlaw lempite in which men lived and fattened on. violence, and every me had a price on his head. This loyalty. may not always be Who men that forms Al Capone's bodyguard in the Aildage Benitentiary and protect hi Bf fascinating series on Capone, ¢ meted clubs from the priso. SON MOB LF-FROM FOES from t rat of assaasina- pe his, the Inst Collier ‘and their manner of operation as |. thops are DG leas dangerous DOMINATES FIVE MEN: Capone dominates also the five men who live with him in celt 3-7 of section “A” in the Aflants| prison. It is 2 mutually sympa theti¢ group which dwells there) (subject, of course, to being shifted at any ime even ss this is writ- ten), ‘They are outlaws with the burden of many years imprison<| ment upon them, reckless. souls, Sentences of the ex men total 117 years and ali but one of the other five are facing longer terms then Al Capone. That one fs doe| MeCann, sent from New York for jnuney order theft and falsitica~ tion and, Uke Capone. in for a stretch of ten years. ‘The others have the name of}: desperate criminals, xs thelr hone Jess.y long germs siknity, and three restless and’ fong chances. | Denny Kolback and Chippie Robinson are two of them. ‘They were partners in a mail tobbery ‘ Louls which ended, as ail outlaw ventures must end] at lust, {n failure, in arrest and in) BOD¥YGUARD—One of Al as a bodyguard in prison, Th 10 years for money order the Capone's cell-mates, who acts his is Joseph McCann, serving ft in New York, inspired by affection ns in the case of his son, Reward of one sort or another, promise of re~ ‘ard, or moral and spiritual in- midation may gather men to & leader. In ‘the Atlante penitentiary Capone hes mustered a following f fellow-prisoners, x sort of new js, wn accompany bim upon sions of recreation when all “risoners mingle together, He may need help sometime, yecause he has enemies here an ‘a cense fs “on the spot," envious of this reputed wealth, several * prisoners are Known to have made j srrogent demands upon him for dmoney.. A more active dangar ‘menaees from underworld figures who had reason to hate him in the old gang days and whom fate sentences of twenty-five years each. ‘They were sent to Atlanta) from Leavenworth. Carter Rose is Capone's celimates In for a 25~ year stretch.,He was sentenced in| Atlanta, also, for mall robbery. jarmand Marquis Js the sixth man of the group. Marquis is the un- usua! type. 8 ‘ark, Intense, ner- yous man, Hebas the name of be-7! tng a “pyromaniac,” 2 “fire-bug, ang be is doing’ 22 years for arson, "Phe six are huddied together in) the large cage nearly 12 hours of every day, for the most part with- | Jout much conversation but with}: a great deal of understanding. Capone's dominance of the group] seems inevitable, but bis leader~ ship outwardly has amounted to] mars then to establish ® of them have Known the game ots another of} jor RECORD! he,
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