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Al Capone — Part 13
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‘There goes the stockade bell! Dimer over, we return unseen
ed wnotserved to Capone's coll. Me are now impatient to see how he acts on
stockude. The little gift -- the morsel of chicken before dimer -- seems to
have buoyed He spirite, If he can have chicken delivered to hin, then why
can't he have things, he reasons? Perbaps while on stockade be will be
aecoste by the Good Sexariten or Senta Claus who wat eo thoughtful. Regard
¢ row te fests about going out. » . hie qualas and fears, smd the re-
de likely to receive --= perhaps # visible repetition of last night's
$ denocetretion be must go. After a1, there are guards
reception
here. Hon feolish, he realizes, that be kept bis mon out of the "pen". At a
tine Like this they would have proved indeed encouraging.
Tie tang on to his shoulders as he lusbers down the incline
to the stockade. It is an immense yard, reached after wo bave passed the
Laundry and Shoe Shop, the Deputy Warden's Offios and Isolation Building,
the Fire Houce, Camissary, Tailor Shop, and Spinning and Weaving Mills (Duck
Kiils) ogposite each other. Down we go te the dirt and einder compound. And
| for the firet time wo are amare that there is towering well rising skyward,
on it are perched - at about 500 foot intervals - little Kiosks, in which are
armed sentriec. fe learn they are actually looked in after they snter the
fe foot of the spiral stairmy outside the well, and there they re-
door at
main until relieved eight hours later.
As we follow Capone's glance towards the Kiosks we hear «
bevel of voices greeting him, He is the center of « welcoming group or dele~
gation. Amoug then we aee the fanous Dinty Colbeck, leader of Byan's St. Lente
Rate. Dinty is doing 25 years for mil robbery, Then, close beside him is
Dago Marquis, the firebug, doing 10 yeare for setting fire to goverment proper-
tye approaching! Jos Uriaytia. » » the mam who te doing fifty
years for mail robbery, and who, with five other convicts, cowered the entire
persone} of efficers into mubeissson in an attenpted escape, The most daring
in the history of the Atlante institution! The hero of the instituion - Joe
Urbeytis. . « The bad mant
Al certainly gots © warn gresting. Sven those standing yonder, -
representing the country's inveterate dope peddlera, ear thieves, Mquor rumors,
Dig-shot bootleggers, post office robbers, aati rovers, ship scuddlarsy white
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