https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4 By: Hunter Butcher en-us 2017-01-12 19:46:03 UTC 2025-11-30 10:19:17 UTC hello@padlet.com msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146910135 Born in Brooklyn, New York ]]> 2017-01-12 19:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146910135 msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146910953 When his family moved to New York they lived in a poor tenement where he was raised. 

His family moved to a better house in a town that exposed him to more culture and caused him to become interested in crime ]]> 2017-01-12 19:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146910953 msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146911315 Met Johnny Torrio who was running a numbers and gambling operation near Capone’s home when Capone began running small errands for him. Although Torrio left Brooklyn for Chicago in 1909, the two remained close.]]> 2017-01-12 19:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146911315 msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146911816 Both of his parents were Italian immigrants and came to America to seek a new life. ]]> 2017-01-12 19:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146911816 msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146912510 During sixth grade he began acting out and skipping school forcing him to repeat it. ]]> 2017-01-12 19:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146912510 msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146914489 He was expelled from school for striking a female teacher and never went back to school. ]]> 2017-01-12 20:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146914489 hbutcher18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146914534 In 1920 during the height of Prohibition, Capone’s multi-millidon dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling dominated the organized crime scene. ]]> 2017-01-12 20:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146914534 hbutcher18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146914746 Raised by a respected and professional family 

Eight children in his family, 7 siblings ]]> 2017-01-12 20:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146914746 msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146916495 His car was customized to protect him, which had things like bulletproof windows, a police siren, and a window that dropped down so guns could be fired.   

Was later taken by the US Treasury and used as Franklin Roosevelt's limo. ]]> 2017-01-12 20:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146916495 msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146917102 His nickname Scarface was given to him by the press due to three scars on his left cheek when he was slashed across the by a gangster]]> 2017-01-12 20:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146917102 hbutcher18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146920393 When Capone was 19, he married Mae Coughlin just weeks after the birth of their child, Albert Francis. ]]> 2017-01-12 20:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146920393 hbutcher18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146920570 After an attempt on his life in 1925 by rival mobsters, Torrio decided to leave the business and return to Italy, turning over the entire operation to Capone. ]]> 2017-01-12 20:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146920570 hbutcher18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146920760 In 1926, when two of Capone’s sworn enemies were spotted in Cicero, Capone ordered his men to gun them down.]]> 2017-01-12 20:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146920760 hbutcher18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146921229 In response to the public outcry over the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, President Herbert Hoover ordered the federal government to step up its efforts to get Capone on income-tax evasion.]]> 2017-01-12 20:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146921229 msperry18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146921285 Retired from being a gangster in 1925 with 30 million dollars after he was almost killed. ]]> 2017-01-12 20:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146921285 hbutcher18 https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146921537
Capone spent the first two years of his incarceration in a federal prison in Atlanta. ]]> 2017-01-12 20:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hbutcher18/xgno0yxzi0g4/wish/146921537