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Capone with his mother. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, on January 17, 1899. [3] His parents were Italian immigrants Teresa (née Raiola; 1867–1952) and Gabriele Capone (1865–1920), [4] both born in Angri, a small municipality outside of Naples in the province of Salerno.
Capone was born in 1892, in Angri, Province of Salerno, Italy. [2] He was the first of the nine children of Gabriele Capone, a barber, and Teresa Raiola, a seamstress. In 1894, his parents emigrated to the United States with their children, James and Ralph, settling in downtown Brooklyn. During his early years in America his siblings Frank, Al ...
Al Capone (1899–1947), prominent Chicago gangster from the 1920s; Albert Francis Capone (1918–2004), also known as Sonny, son of Al Capone; Frank Capone (1895–1924), Chicago mobster, brother of Al Capone; James Vincenzo Capone (1892–1952), legally changed his name to Richard James Hart after the First World War, oldest brother of Al Capone
Love him or hate him, Al Capone is a legend. The infamous mobster remains a household name more than half a century after his death. On this day 84 years ago, the gangster was sentenced to 11 ...
Edward Joseph O'Hare (September 5, 1893 – November 8, 1939), a.k.a. "Easy Eddie", was a lawyer in St. Louis and later in Chicago, where he began working with Al Capone, and later helped federal prosecutors convict Capone of tax evasion. In 1939, a week before Capone was released from Alcatraz, O'Hare was shot
The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN 0-306-80821-8; Parr, Amanda Jayne. The True and Complete Story of Machine Gun Jack McGurn: Chief Bodyguard and Hit Man to Chicago's Most Infamous Crime Czar Al Capone and Mastermind of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Leicester: Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2005.
James Crittenton Lucas (June 11, 1912 – November 28, 1998) was an American criminal who served a life sentence in Alcatraz.He is best known for being part of an attempted escape from Alcatraz Penitentiary in 1938, and for attacking Al Capone in the prison's laundry room on June 23, 1936.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Gleckman, known as the "Al Capone of St. Paul", kept a permanent suite at The Saint Paul Hotel as his business headquarters. [3] Using an unlisted telephone, Gleckman made regular calls from his suite to business associates in Chicago, New Orleans, Milwaukee, New York City, Havana, and Montreal.