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Al Capone — Part 6
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Gennes ta on ericcns em Joseph McCann, serving
10 years for money order theft in New York,
1 iSebised by afvection na tm the /sonieucan of twenty-five years
sore Of bis son. Reward of one feach. ‘They were sent to Aliens
sort or another. promise of re- | from Leavenworth. a
Nard, or moral and spiritual in-| Carter another of]
{imidation may gather.men to a {Capone's cellmates in heres “oo
leader. Year stretch. He was sentenced in
ga the Atlanta penitentiary | Atlanta, also, {or mall robbers
Capone has mustered a following | Armand Merquls fe the aixth mop
of Yellow-prisoners, a sort of new | of the group. Maraula te the mee
mob, who accompany him upon | usual type, @ dark. Intense’ ners
Qctasions of recreation when alt| vous man, He bas the name of be-fl
Prisoners mingle together, ing a “pyromaniac,” « “fire-bug,
He may need help sometime,|and he is doing 22 years far
because he has enemies here und | a1s0n.
in sense ts “on the spot,” envious | The elx are huddled together in
fils Tebuted wealth, several |the lerge cage nearly 12 hours of
risoners are known to have made | *¥ery day, for the most part with,
srogant demands upon him for| out much conversation but win
money, . A more astive danger |& eteat deal of “undersiandive:
who hed rom underworld figures | Capone's dominance of the group.
who had reason to hate him in|Seems inevitable, but hie eae
the old gang days end whom fate |Ship outwardly has amounted to;
has gent to the.Atlente prison. |nothing more than to estatiien &|
And then there are men whose | Standard of quiet deportment
fislike he has teurred for one{ , Others who have dwelled in sec-|:
Yeason or another — for grievs| tion “A” say there has neve tong
ances fancied, trival, or serious—|@ quarrel among these prisoners
sirce he has been here. “Already | ‘There has never ‘been gains
there are tales of several brushes |ference, for example, about ‘the!
{2 which Capone or members of joceuparicy of the bunks, two of
ais) bodyguard have tigured—| which are upper berths, four lower
fizhts the details of which have | Capone eleeps below.
|been carefully veiled by the tight ber 40886 watches silently}
PARTNER-Edward W. O° 5 i Canons
usual tennis partner in the Atlanta Federal prison, O'Brien
* was star shortstop of the prison ball team known as the
. “Commodore Feds,’ x
yh ped attl ude of the under- y with & contained interest while his)
“geld and aenlch aae pot FON | cellmates play at dominoes in the
Tn the bodyguard of the ‘big|Iisure hour atier the radio ie
hot ure to be found “Barber turned off Cards and dice being
Roreg. pasar Marks, Carl ol, Herbldgen— tha ye later are
Metauin sis eeeles.” Armand | contrived occasionally In aecn
fara sore from auDgzy | prisoners have devised a ‘sors of
Jets 8, Diisoner’ from Wash | Poker to be Played with dominoes,
qington “known genial is, | Tt can, and does at times, be-
Weng anpther Ramed “McGinnis, fone a ‘turlous gambling. game
Teng (ew others. ut Capone rarely takes part. He:
loyal “Capang. accion “ii ihe asks of oumSire ates
FRmlanes outside, figures a may | 945 mal « parcipant,
“need help bere. ‘The old menace culation among was ane
‘in, Of machine gins and shotgun |# cltculation among the prisones,
joi slugs 1s. gone, but knives fun lelgareites become the preter
Sea Tency. With cigarettes you buy
PRES aig. ¥| favors, you reward services, you
: Up the barber, you ‘bet on ball
games, ‘They are legal tender in
this halt-world,
y Nelther et gambling nor back.
ing gambiers, whether the pawn
38 a cigarette’ or = million dcllars,
is Al Capone likely. to be stirred
iscomfited. He 16 described ea
‘deep one,” poised and rational,
His habits and tastes are normal
and intelligently calculated te be,
of service to his nesze ce
pee alc
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