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Eig, Jonathan. Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010

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On November 15 1920, Al Capone's father died at 54 making no one the leader of the Capone family. In result Al seems the best out of the eight sons to lead the family. So after his fathers death he moves from Brooklyn to Chicago in 1920 with his family to work for Torrio a gangster or after he created a big scene in Brooklyn it is assumed

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Al Capone and Johnny Torrio hire brewers to sell beer to people after it was banned. The profit could have got up to $250,000.

"but after 1921 federal legislation banned beer as a medicinal product, which cut dramatically into the market available to the nations legitimate breweries." (13)

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After Torrio and his wife head home from a shopping spree. Torrio is greeted with a Cadillac across the street that had two men inside with guns. They shot Torrio in the face and chest and ran away. Surprisingly Torrio was still alive and after recovering left Chicago to New York leaving everything to Capone.

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McSwiggin's who we do not know why he disliked Capone unlike other gangsters he let slide. His boss sent three hundred police officers to get Capone. But once they looked everywhere he was not to be found. Turns out he left to Michigan and didn't return until after summer.

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"Capone knew it couldn't last, though. One day late July, he phoned a couple of newspaper reporters in Chicago and told them he had nothing to do with the murder of McSwiggin and intended to prove it."(40)

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After Al came back from his trip he was suspected a murder of McSwiggin. He proved it and was left alone.

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"In fact, Capone went on, he had good reason for keeping the young prosecutor alive. "I paid McSwiggin," he said. "I paid him plenty and got what I was paying for."'(41)

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As Capone was at Hawthorne eating lunch, from outside a Thompson sub machine gun was shooting. Capone was not shot but it was unknown who it was shooting to or who was shooting.

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Submachine gun, lightweight automatic small-arms weapon chambered for relatively low-energy pistol cartridges and fired from the hip or shoulder. Most types utilize simple blowback actions. Using cartridges of such calibres as .45 inch or 9 mm, they usually have box-type magazines that hold from 10 to 50 cartridges, or occasionally drums holding more rounds. A short-range weapon, the submachine gun is rarely effective at more than 200 yards (180 m). It fires at rates as high as 650 or more rounds per minute and weighs 6 to 10 pounds (2.5 to 4.5 kg).

Developed during World War I, the submachine gun came into great demand during World War II because of the need to increase the individual soldier's firepower at close quarters. The Germans developed the first such weapons, modeling them to some extent after the Italian double-barreled Villar Perosa, or VP, a 1915 innovation that fired so fast it emptied its magazine in two seconds. The Germans identified their weapon, the first true submachine gun, as the MP18, or the Bergmann Muskete. This weapon was first issued in 1918, the last year of World War I. In Britain submachine guns came to be called machine carbines; in Germany, machine pistols; in the United States, submachine guns. The Thompson submachine gun ( q.v.), or tommy gun, an important American type, was patented in 1920. After 1925 numerous evolutionary models appeared: the Bergmann Model 34 and the Schmeisser 28 II in Germany, Italy's Beretta Model 38, and the Hungarian Model 43. During and after World War II, many new types and models appeared: the British 9 mm Sten gun; the Soviet 7.62 mm PPSh M1941 and PPS M1943; the German Schmeisser MP38 and MP40; the Israeli Uzi submachine gun ( q.v.); the Czech Model 23; and the American M3, a .45-inch calibre, nine-pound weapon called the "grease gun" because it resembled the device used to grease automobiles.

Typically, expansion gases move a submachine gun bullet forward when the weapon is fired. The gases also push the heavy bolt back against a spring. The movement extracts and ejects the spent cartridge while the magazine spring pushes the next bullet into place. Holding the trigger down causes the strong spring behind the bolt to maintain its pressure until all the rounds have been used. New models have incorporated many new concepts to reduce weight, increase safety, and simplify maintenance.

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Submachine gun, lightweight automatic small-arms weapon chambered for relatively low-energy pistol cartridges and fired from the hip or shoulder. Most types utilize simple blowback actions. Using cartridges of such calibres as .45 inch or 9 mm, they usually have box-type magazines that hold from

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Capone, Drucci and Moran came together for peace. Capone was very glad for this because he didn't have to fear for his life anymore.

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"'Now I can look at my family and not think that any day they may be called on the phone and told I've been shot"(80).

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Capone seemed to be making the headlines so often. Once a reporter came to is home and Capone opened the door with a aprom on and a pan with pasta in it and it still made the headlines.

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Al was on the road his friends spotted him and pulled next to him but Capone jumped out the car on a hill.

"Who had seen enough drive-by shootings to be justifiably panicked, opened the door of the moving sedan, jumped out, and tumbled down a hundred-foot hill."(91)

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There were assumptions that all the men on guard at the polling station. But the police sent those officers. All the years Al lived in Chicago he never did actually registered.

"The papers did report, however, that the police assigned two hundred fifty officers, including thirty-five machine gunners, to guard the polling places, and that Mayor Dever's allies supplemented this force"(96).

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Capone had an organization called "the outfit" it included he wasn't discriminatory toward who he hired. Some people were, Jack Guzik, Tony Lombardo, Ralph Capone his brother, Charlie Fischetti, Lawerence Mangano, Pete Penovich, "Red", "The Camel", "Three Fingered" and "Machine Gun".

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Capone had loved jazz music and almost every musician had known him.

"Fats Waller, composer of the hit songs "Ain't Misbehavin" and "Keepin' Out if Mischeif Now", claimed he was kidnapped and made to play for Capone's birthday party one year."(110)

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Touhy who sold Capone five hundred barrels at 37.50 per. Capone bought 300 more. but when he had to pay he complained that some were leaking so he would have to pay less but Touhy knew that wasn't true so Capone just payed the amount he needed to.

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Capone who just heard he wouldn't be charged because of the lack of evidence against him decided he was needed new clothes, new furniture for his home on the south Prairie and his hotel suite and elephant figurines which he so adored. Who knows where he had gotten all this money?

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Al Capone had a penchant for elephants. Especially those with turned up trunks. This was a sign of good luck for the big fellow. He used them throughout his dwellings. Some at the Metropole and Lexington Hotels, some for 93 Palm avenue in Miami. These were originally purchased at Marshall fields Chicago and at Peck & Hills during 1927-1928.

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Al Capone had a penchant for elephants. Especially those with turned up trunks. This was a sign of good luck for the big fellow. He used them throughout his dwellings. Some at the Metropole and Lexington Hotels, some for 93 Palm avenue in Miami.

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Capone was a high profile bootlegger but never lead any evidence that he was. He didn't know how much he was gonna pay for booze or if it were going to even get to him he still was on top tier in the business for two whole years.

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During Valentines Day, seven gang members were inside a garage for a meeting, as a Cadillac pulled up and two people dressed in cop uniforms and some not, they men  decided  to play cool because id it were cops they didn't want to get in trouble. But instead of asking questions they all were shot. And of course Capone was suspected for doing such act but he claimed he wouldn't do such a thing.

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"Capone said he had no idea who had killed Moran's men in Chicago"(197)

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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago's North Side erupted in gang violence. Gang warfare ruled the streets of Chicago during the late 1920s, as chief gangster Al Capone sought to consolidate control by eliminating his rivals in the illegal trades of bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. This rash of gang violence reached its bloody climax in a garage on the city's North Side on February 14, 1929, when seven men associated with the Irish gangster George "Bugs" Moran, one of Capone's longtime enemies, were shot to death by several men dressed as policemen. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, as it was known, remains an unsolved crime and was never officially linked to Capone, but he was generally considered to have been responsible for the murders.

The Rise of Scarface: Al Capone And Chicago

From 1924 to 1930, the city of Chicago gained a widespread reputation for lawlessness and violence. Not coincidentally, this phenomenon coincided with the reign of chief crime lord Al "Scarface" Capone, who took over from his boss Johnny Torrio in 1925. (Torrio, who was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in 1924, had "retired" to Brooklyn.) Prohibition, ushered in by the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1920, had greatly increased the earnings of America's gangsters through bootlegging (the illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol) and speakeasies (illicit drinking establishments), as well as gambling and prostitution. Capone's income from these activities was estimated at some $60 million a year; his net worth in 1927 was around $100 million.

Did you know? George "Bugs" Moran was on his way to the garage in Chicago at the time of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre; he missed getting killed by minutes. A few days later, he told reporters "Only Capone kills like that." Reached at his Florida home for comment on the murders, Capone offered his own opinion: "The only man who kills like that is Bugs Moran."

Over the years, Al Capone consolidated control over most of Chicago's crime rackets by ruthlessly gunning down his rivals. In 1924, authorities counted some 16 gang-related murders; this brand of slaying continued until 1929, reaching a high of 64 murders in one year during that time. Federal authorities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had much less jurisdiction than they have today, and did not include Chicago's gang-related activity.
READ MORE: How the Prohibition Era Spurred Organized Crime
Massacre on St. Valentine's Day

Chicago's gang war reached its bloody climax in the so-called St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. One of Capone's longtime enemies, the Irish gangster George "Bugs" Moran, ran his bootlegging operations out of a garage at 2122 North Clark Street. On February 14, seven members of Moran's operation were gunned down while standing lined up, facing the wall of the garage. Some 70 rounds of ammunition were fired. When police officers from Chicago's 36th District arrived, they found one gang member, Frank Gusenberg, barely alive. In the few minutes before he died, they pressed him to reveal what had happened, but Gusenberg wouldn't talk.

Police could find only a few eyewitnesses, but eventually concluded that gunmen dressed as police officers had entered the garage and pretended to be arresting the men. Though Moran and others immediately blamed the massacre on Capone's gang, the famous gangster himself claimed to have been at his home in Florida at the time. No one was ever brought to trial for the murders. It remains one of the biggest unsolved crimes in history.

The Downfall of Public Enemy No. 1

Though the St. Valentine's Day Massacre marked the end of any significant gang opposition to Capone's rule in Chicago, it can also be said to have marked the beginning of his downfall. With his highly effective organization, his impressive income and his willingness to ruthlessly eliminate his rivals, Capone had become the country's most notorious gangster, and the newspapers dubbed him "Public Enemy No. 1." Federal authorities began investigating Capone after he failed to appear before a federal grand jury after being subpoenaed in March 1929. When he finally appeared and testified, federal agents arrested him for contempt of court. Capone posted bond and was released, only to be arrested in Philadelphia that May on charges of carrying concealed weapons. Capone served nine months in prison and was released for good behavior.

In February 1931, a federal court found Capone guilty on the contempt charge and sentenced him to six months in Cook County Jail. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Department had launched an investigation of Capone for income tax evasion. Through diligent forensic accounting, Special Agent Frank Wilson and other members of the Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue Service were able to put together a case, and in June 1931 Capone was indicted for evasion of federal income tax. Convicted that October after an internationally publicized trial, Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison, first in Atlanta and later at Alcatraz. He was released in 1939 and died an invalid recluse at his Florida home in 1947.

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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago's North Side erupted in gang violence. Seven men associated with the Irish gangster George "Bugs" Moran, one of Capone's longtime enemies, were shot to death by several men dressed as policemen on the city's North Side.

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Capone went to see "Voice of the City" with a couple of his pals. The police spotted them but when they parked Al had gone inside since the police didn't want to make a scene the waited until the movie was over outside. Capone put his hand in his pocket and the police grabbed his hand, then they both pulled out a gun as Al's bodyguards disappeared. Capone couldn't pay to bail so he stayed at night in jail.

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This is the second time Al got sent to jail. He waits for his last day. As the day before his last day in prison he got sent to a different prison. That morning many people gathered along the prison to see him get out to their disappointment he never came out of that jail. So a reporter came to his home asking teen Ralph Capone what their having for Al's arrival and he answered with walnut flavored spaghetti, and that he wont tell the reporter a thing about anything and shut the door.

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During a court case the judge was very flustered because of the fact that Capone had done so many crimes and yet they could not prove this fact. They called him in court so many times and yet he was proven not guilty.

"'Because he is Alphonse Capone! Because he is the mythical Robin Hood you read so much about in all the newspapers! They have no evidence.'"(361)

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As Capone was called to court again after many times, he thought that he'd be alright but the opposite happened. He got sentenced eleven years in jail and fined $50,000.

"He turned to his lawyers and shook their hands, but without his usual vigor. The light had gone out of his eyes. "Well, so long," he said. Good-bye."(367)