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Al Capone — Part 6
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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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