Alphonse Capone
Born in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899, to Gabriel and Teresa Capone. He lived in a tough neighborhood the first ten years of his life. His schooling began not far from the Sands street "stews" at P.S. 7 on Adams St. with a 16year old teacher. There he became good-friends with one of the borough's toughest delinquents Salvatore Lucanio, Better Known In later life as Lucky Luciano. The two of them became life long friends. Later Capone fell under the influence of an old Navy Street Neapolitan gangster who called himself John Torrio. Torrio was born in Naples in 1883 and his nickname form his followers was "Little John" due to his shortness in height. Torrio had belonged to Manhattan's ...
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with his teacher, so she reproved him and he struck her for it. After this incident he quit school, never to return. He worked at many places such as a clerk in a candy store, a pinball setter in a bowling alley, then as a paper and cloth cutter. For a while Capone worked for Yale's Saloon as a bouncer, but only after making a rude comment to a woman caused her brother Frank Galluccio to come after Capone with a knife, cutting a 4" gash on his left cheek, only later to be recruited as a loyal bodyguard for Capone.
Street gangs soon proliferated in every slum of every city and the greater the foreign influx, the more numerous the gangs. The family unity began to erode due to the daily abrasions of tenement life. There were so many people crammed into one living space, sleeping, bathing, and dressing in it, it was easy to see why and how someone could get tired of this kind of life. Thus, street gangs were seen as an escape, as a freedom, and offered outlets for the youth. ...
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A good example of the culminating violence of the Chicago gang era was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on Feb. 14, 1929. It was here that seven members of the "Bugs" Moran mob was gunned down against a garage with sub-machine guns by 5 members of Capone's gang posing as police. The massacre was generally ascribed to Capone's mob, although Al Capone himself was in Florida at the time of the shooting.
The Bureau's investigation of Al Capone arose from his reluctance to appear before a Federal Grand Jury on March 12, 1929, in response to a subpoena. On March 11, his lawyers formally filed for postponement of his appearance, submitting a physician's affidavit dated March 5, ...
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