AL CAPONE Scarface

BIOGRAPHY

Alphonse Capone

Born Jan. 17, 1899, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.

Died Jan. 25, 1947, Palm Island, Fla.

he amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million

dollars

 leader of the Chicago mafia during the Prohibition era.

the fourth of nine children, quit school in Brooklyn after the

sixth grade, and joined a gang

BIO CONTINUED

Responsible For Countless Murders

 In 1925 Torrio retired, and Capone became crime

czar of Chicago, running gambling, prostitution, and

bootlegging rackets and expanding his territories by

the gunning down of rival gangs

 The most notorious of the bloodlettings was the

St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in which members of

Bugs Moran's gang were machine-gunned in a north-

side garage on Feb. 14, 1929.

HOW HE WENT TO JAIL

In June 1931 Capone was indicted for federal

income-tax evasion and in October was tried,

found guilty, and sentenced to 11 years in prison

and $80,000 in fines and court costs. He entered

Atlanta penitentiary in May 1932 but was

transferred to the new Alcatraz prison in August

1934.

DEATH

In November 1939, suffering from the

general deterioration of paresis (a late

stage of syphilis), he was released and

entered a Baltimore hospital. Later he

retired to his Florida estate, where he

died in 1947, a powerless recluse.

HERO OR VILLAIN

Murderer

Law breaker

Smartish (out of all the things he

did he went to jail for tax evasion)

AL CAPONE WOULD BE DESCRIBED AS A VILLAIN IN

HISTORY

He was involved in the Saint Valentine's Day

Massacre, which resulted in the death of seven

of Capone's rival gang members.

 it is believed that Capone personally

murdered dozens of people and ordered the

killing of hundreds of others.

VILLAIN CONTINUED

There is a story about 3 of his men planned

on betraying him so he invited them over for

dinner. Then after they were tied to their chairs

will Capone beat them with a bat. After he was

done they were shot in the head

IMPACT CAPONE HAD ON HISTORY

AL Capone effected history by supplying people

during prohibition with alcohol , in doing this he

convinced people of the time that a ban on alcohol

wasn’t necessary.

Also the FBI became a honest efficient law

enforcement agency because No one was able to

bribe them like they could the police.

FUN FACTS

Capone’s specially-outfitted, bullet-proof Cadillac was seized by the

U.S. Treasury Department in 1932 and later used by the government

as Franklin Roosevelt’s limousine.

Capone got his “Scarface” nickname after a bar brawl in Coney

Island that left him with three large slashes on the left side of his face.

After suffering a mental and physical decline as a result of

neurosyphilis, a Baltimore psychiatrist and Capone’s personal

physician performed tests that showed his mental capability had

diminished to that of a 12-year-old.