Although most of Capone's competition eventually gave-up (or were shot dead), Bugs Moran was still causing "Big Al" a great deal of trouble. As a result, Capone devised a plan to get rid of Moran, too.
On the morning of St. Valentine's Day, 1929, Bugs Morgan was late for a meeting at his warehouse. Waiting for a shipment of whiskey, his men were already there.
When a group of men - ostensibly police officers - arrived at the warehouse, Moran's men thought they would be arrested for violating Prohibition. Facing the wall, with their hands in the air, they expected to be arrested. Instead, they were killed in cold blood. The visitors were not police officers, after all.
Moran survived the disaster, because he'd been late for the meeting. He pointed the finger at Capone, but Al had a solid alibi. At the time of
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While in Philadelphia, he and some of his men were arrested for carrying concealed weapons. Capone got his wish - to stay out of Chicago for awhile - although he hadn't planned on a one-year sentence.
The Federal government also turned its sights on Capone. While he was in a Philadelphia jail, several of his top aides were arrested and convicted - all on income tax charges.
Released from jail, Capone returned to Chicago in March of 1930. He now had another name, bestowed upon him by Chicago's Crime Commission.
Called "Public Enemy Number 1," Capone fought back. Among other things, he opened a soup kitchen to help the hordes of Chicagoans suffering from the Great Depression. His kitchen fed about 3,000 people a day.
Although Elliott Ness and the Untouchables have always had a high profile in the story of Capone's demise, the reality is that IRS agents - not FBI agents - were responsible for his fall. With painstaking care, they meticulously searched the ledgers of Bil Al's