His full name is Alphonse Capone. He was from a Italian immigrant family. Around age 14 he started to become a criminal. Although he lived in a normal and polite family. He was the leader of the Chicago mafia during the Prohibition era. But why did he, Al Capone, became the man as we know him today?
As I said, Capone was from a respectable and professional family. His father, Gabriele, was one of the thousands of Italians who arrived in New York in 1894. He was a educated man, 30 years old and from Naples where he earned a living as a barber. His wife, Al Capone's mother, Teresa was bringing up two sons: 2-year old son Vincenzo and infant son Raffaele, but she was also pregnant. Al Capone was the fourth of nine children. They moved to a poor apartment in Brooklyn were Al Capone was born. On January 17, 1899. Al Capone lived a typical immigrant life.
Al Capone went to elementary school in Brooklyn. He was a good student, but he began falling behind and had to do sixth grade over again. About that time he began to hang out at the Brooklyn docks, at age 14. One day Capone's female teacher hits him for insolence, but he struck back. Then he was expelled, and never went back. He moved to a better home, to Park Slope in Brooklyn. Here he met his future wife and Johnny Torrio, his
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Torrio knew that Capone was good with numbers as a bookkeeper. So Capone joined Torrio in his operations. Torrio promoted Capone as his partner. Torrio was a low-profile man, while Capone wanted the attention. Capone became a drinker. While Capone was drunk, he was driving and then he hit a parked taxi cab. Which got him arrested. When Torrio found out, he got him off quickly as possible by using his city government connections. Capone had to clean up his act when his family came to Chicago as well. His wife and son, his mother and his younger brothers and sister all moved to Chicago. Then Capone bought a small house in the middle-class South