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Al Capone — Part 6
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Held in Ghicage Racket
——
By The aavsinted Free.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug:
peen wet...
unruly prisoners.
‘ot the for
2—Al jy prison which waa
ade for
“unfair
Capotie, former Chicage gone Yaad: proach.” ; ;
Capone, serving ten ‘year? for tax
er, and forty-iwé other eonvicke
were frprisoned. with the ‘gtmost
evasion, has & year
> serve before be
i secrecy today fm the ney Federal sor ‘parole.
prison on Aleatres Jeland. jn San
Francisco Bay.
The anncuncement that Capone
was in the group came from Gan-
ford Bates, director of the Federal
Prison Bureau 2t Washington,
P oghortiy after tha special train bear
ing the prisoners from Atlanta
penitentiary gerived here.
Tha tren Was ahunted several
then as it neared ita destination
to prevent any possible attenpt to,
escape and to ayoid crowds: which
gathered af towns slong the route,
Warden James &. Johnston, who
several days ago jaformed Attorney |
Genersi Cummings that “Alcatraz;
is ready," pereonally wupériniended’
the transfer of ‘Tha degperadoes$
from the mainland ta: the fortreme~
like jsland prison.
A STOUR of baavily armed Fed-
eral men and gierds from the new
prison hastened ts Tiburon, o. Lore
north of the jaland, as the train
arrived.
The cars then. ware wwitched bo/
‘a large barge and « launch towed!
fi-to the iaisnd dock. Bpectaters, |
who ware warned by the gdards not
to approsch toc giosely, sald they:
sbserved gray-clad men bebind the.
screen. windows. » .
‘Atter the ‘barge docked at the
jaland, prison aytomobdies took the
convicts up the steep: roads. of the.
jana to the newly relnforesd calla. \
The prisonere ‘Were brought here
in the government's plan to segre-
gata the more desperate characters §
among the convicts. Atlante prison
atiiciala also Bed reported an &-
capa plot was brewing in the prison
Yners. and the eonvicte werk re
moved Stnday night, four days
ghead of schedule,
—
Gapons Protesied Transier.
By The Aeocialed Preae,
ATLANTA, Aug. 22,.—Shaken from
a sound sleep and havled cutee? bia
coll in the Federal prisost here at
midnight Sunday ta be taken to AL
catraz, AY Capone protested vigor
ae cualy. against auch treatment being
Saccorded. “a, model prisoner,” hia
Mattorney zald today.
Frank A, Boughnian, the attor-
ney, said: guards entered. Capone's
ceil. ae the hundreds of Inmates
B slept and gave bim only « few maine
utes {6 prepare for the trip.
Capone protested ell during the
Birausfer tq the guarded coaches,
apeccording to the lawyer, asserting
ee he had obeyed all the rules apd gete
thong garde to adosit he bed «x per
feet record. :
Mr. Doughmen declared prisot
nificiaies were “ickied to death”
te get rid of Capone, not that he
caitsed trouble but because he wes
the prisons “most noted prisoner’
Centinned op Page Eight.
bern
an
a
will
drabtinent.” he
charged, would ‘taint the record’;
mer gangater, & record
“ghove: ree
a half mora
be sligible
iptate Attorney's office in &
“ona fiat ehove a tavern da
we, Al © d
ie ether men, several of whom
are barieyea to De former members
lof the oid. Capone eng, were Bee
rested today by police from the
a weatern poburk.
Phe State Adtorney:s
that Ralph. Gepone and bia
i :
: were forcing saloonicéer-
associated :
era in the
ronedl ;
and his newly organized
gang aro glieged to b-ve itera tad
fo Soree pajoon keepers into ing.
fansennenes :
the baer ie reminiscent, sccording
to the Bate Attorney of the
gnethods used by Al Capone ix the
dave of bis. power, when he Wee
forcing speskeasy ewnerd to handle
jhis Wegal beer. .
‘When the tsvern jeoapera der
mur Ralph Capone's “gales
Zornes” would leave & parral.or feo,
telling the proprictar to use ft and
pay for Jt later, puthorities =>
jegad. + -
In Clwero and noighboring sub-
uvbs the Capone med, through what -.
fe Eileged to be a teanp with, tue
thorities, could forte those. eeloons
“not taking their beer to. obey the
ob As M. closing 18, while compet-
ing asioans, hich took the betr,
could atay open jeter, it ia charged.
: Ralph Capone paturned to. Chichgo
after Kin releans Fab. 27 from the
WMoNeil Island Federal penitentiary
at Seattle, where be gerved & s6i-
tence for income tex evasion, and
ried to Have begun. ime
hy reorganization af the
ty of his brother's old gang. |
ae
pres
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