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Al Capone — Part 6
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three prisoners. who was een the) which were taken fe the isiand: ‘on Tk was anmounced ‘that Cupane
new federal penitentiary Gm Alcatraz (a car ferry. The prisonces, under the) would reaume prison job as a shoe.
Island. bh San Francisca Bay recently, watchful eyes of the guard carrying |maker..-". “ Seeae eee eee
jormer & o gang | e potogr the £ ut es; axe Shown leaving thet
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“ ‘igoing té let the outside werld know
{SOLATION FOR CAPONE!? which dutlesihey hieve: Been ps
ee ‘laigued." the warden commented:
com l“yhe men are famfljar with prison
VN youtine and. tere should be no ditt
PLETELY CUT OFF AT ALCATAAZ. ‘eulties encountered in establishing”
; . 'pormal penitentiary Hfe here.". .
7 ee I Johnston, former warden at Folsom
AW Knowledge of Obishle Events end San Quentin state prisons, ber |"
Wilt Be Peeiibited by Gavern-: came & grandiather today, with: thes.
Ment jo Attempt to Break birth of a git] to his daughter, M: 13
Gaugeier Contacts. tNellle. Parker, st Meread, oe
EX-UNDERWORLD CHIEF ..
a oan eer ees
(sy the Asaonigfed Presa.)
Han Francisca, Aug, 23—ANy pos~
eihle contact with Use oulslde world
for Al Capone, former Chicago gang
Jeader, and fifty-iwa other prisoners
brought Irom the Atlanta prison, was
cut off teday by Warden James A.
Jotinston of the new federal peniten~
tary on Alcatraz Island in San Frao-
tisco: Bay.
Birict orders to prevent the prison-
ers from communicating with ineir
former underworld sssoclates were ls-
BUed by Warden Johnston in carrying:
wut the orders of Homer S. Cummings,
pitorney general,
Cummings, ou a recent inapdotion
of the island prison sald i was the’
plan af thé department of Justice to”
“segregate” the so-called incorrigible:
convicts, thereby preventing outbreaks (
of trouble tn ether penitentiaries. =“!
“They are not-even going to have;
an opportunity to know what goes;
on outside." Warden Johnston ‘sald.
“These mer; were sept here because
the government wants Wo break thelr |
contacts with the wnderworld. That-'
is going to: be done” + f°
Debters. te relatives will be censored,
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dohnston: eeid, ahd 1)
yiat be permitied to. heve redios in
instr cells. :
“The prisoners WH not be dented
recreation privilegts, however,” the
warden added. j
“The new: prisoners: are belog as-
signed to their duties, but we are nol!
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