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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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ie ratinehsaneces + 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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