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Al Capone — Part 6

80 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 80 pages OCR'd
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i 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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