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The 4th attempt on Capone's life came from within his own ranks, Louis "Mops" Volpi called @ meeting of 7 other Capone guards & told them Capone was spending their money, The plot was to put Ralph Sheldon:in the kings chair, but Capone's more loyal friends heard of it & Volpi was turned out of office & driven out of town, Capone was making $1,250,000 yearly & his @ids only recieved $300, to $500. per week, Capone slept in a room with the windows & doors protected by bars & netal sheeting. In front of his room there were 2 other smaller rooms for his body guards, 2 guards to each room, Capone kept 2 pistols under his pillow, When he ate, his food was carefully testes & tasted by his faithful brother, Mimi Capone, who was @ good chef, Mimi prepared all of Capone's meals & nothing reached AL's lips without first being tested by Mimi, Capone was as wary of poison as of bullets. Capone sat in the front seat of his car, it was ‘a 1 ton, armored bullet proof, Cadillac limosene, It was equipped with gun racks & 2 bodyguards, usually Louis Campagni & Willie Zenie, 2 other cars carrying bodyguards accompanied Gapone, 1 ahead & the other behind, Capone had 200 gangsters ‘in his organization. . Capone's power extended from the Municipal Government in the city & most of it's suburbs, to the Municipal & state courts. During the horse racing season in 1925,. ‘Capone lost 12,000 on the horses. - In 1926, Capone shot & killed Attorney William He McSwiggin &2 of his companions with a machine gun while on @ raid’ in Cicero, In 1927, Capone's gang collected $60,000,000 from bootlegging. Capone's biggest competitor was George L. "Bugs" Moran, - oy On February 14, 1929, Capone imported gunmen from Detroit & had them kill 6 of Moran's men by the use of machine guns & sawed off shotguns, It was so bloody that they called it the "St, Valentine's Day Massacre", Capone was in Miami, Florida, at the time of the massacre, He recieved a long distance phone call from Chicago 20 minutes after the massacre, Who made the call is still unlaiown,- On February 16, 1929, George Moran told police & local news “reporters, ‘ Quote: "Only Capone's men could have done a job like that, aided vy # the Cicero police", ‘ On May 19, 1929, Frank Costello called a meetizg at Atlantic City where he knocked together the Heads of Capone & his rivais & told them to behave or else, . On May 21, 1929, returning from this meeting, Capone was arrested & held under $35,000 bail for carrying a concealed weapon in Philadelphia, Edward Carney was the judge, Capone pleaded guilty & was sentenced to 1 year in prison, This was the lst time Capone had gone to jail, His stay in Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary was comfortable, He hed a Sea with 2 easy chairs, a radio, a bookcase, a rug on the floor & other Be . oe tee ee ree id \ t 4