Al Capone
Al Capone was a famous American gangster in the 1920s. He was born on January 17, 1899. Capone was known for bootlegging, prostitution, gambling and organizing crime scene. He was raised in a poor New York tenement. He was from a respectable and professional family. Gabriele, his father was an italian who arrived in New York in 1894. He was 30 years old, educated and from Naples. 1918, he married a middle class, Irish girl named Mae Coughlin. They had one child together, Sony. He started off a bookkeeper and later fell into the role of a gangster (Al Capone).
In his Copones early years, A famous gangster Torrio was running a number of gambling operation near Capones home. He began running small errands for him. Torrio introduced
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George Moran was an Irish gangster known for muscle than brian power. On February 13th, 1929, a phone call to Moran had a truckload of Whiskey that just arrived from Detroit and could have it at a bargain price. He has it ordered and delivered for 10:30 the next day. It happened on St Valentine's Day, a police car drove up to the building and five men got out and two were dresses in police uniforms. They went into the garage, witness heard loud noises. The five men came out and drove away with the two men in the police uniform with guns. Reports say that six dead men and another who was dying. Five men that died were part of Morans gang. Capone was not in Chicago at the time but there was assumptions that he had ordered the massacre. After investigation, two of Capones men were accused of the killings and sent to trail, one was murdered. Moran managed to keep authority of his territory and the North Side gang never recovered and was taken over by “Chicago Outfit”. This drew attention to Capone and he was later convicted of income tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to prison for 11 years, he died in 1947 (The Posters That Sold World War I to the American