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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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TONEW DEVS = POLAND CELL | HOUSTON, ‘Tex. Aug. 20— | i | DIN wiINnGW. : The occupant of winarey Ne. 8; looked just: Mke the ex-gang lord.’ He grigned when the reporter! tallad to-him und ducked hurrlediy’ —as Capone did in days pone by J whan a photographer almed 9 cam- ara in ble dtréctlon. t An unidentified official waa [aeked if Capone had apeclal draw- Ing foom Accomodations. He replied | heatedly: - Con, “OF course he hasn't ~~ | ‘Then he checked Dimwalf ‘pnd added hurrtediy: . “That is, lt he -was.on here he'd . be fronted fist Uke the reat of \ them,” oe : Filer and paraphernalia for a. isil break found in the <célis of some of the forty-three ‘prisoners epeeded plans to. send them ta Alca- CAPONE. EXEMY ABOARD. The only other known prisoners reported in the group were “Prisco” Eddie O'Brien, Eddie Colson. and Alvin Crip. © O’Brien and Colson were train robbers and Grip wag a Chlcage gunman, once an shemy of Capone a Warden. A. €. Aderholt of Atlanta accompanied the prisoners. Extreme measures were take to Prevent. news of the transfer from becoming known, Nothing was done Le antl) midnight. Saturday, Then, im the darkened cell blocks, guards: : awakened each man separately and. eacarted him. ailentiy to the prison - fgor, There four guards took him : to the railroad care, where he was a sastgned quarters for the trans-_ 4 tontinental Journey... -- re Capone ig. serving sleven Years, for income tax evasion.’ He was lodged in the Atlante penitentiary” Ora g 193200” (By International News Serve | ica.)—The train bearing forty~ 5. two: federal prisomers from At. ae lanta to Alcatraz prisot i San. sy Francisco Bay slipped qulethy - £ through Houston early today: a it was not known that the | train had passed through Houa~ ton until several. hours sfter- ward, Fiat ol NEW ORLEANS, Aug, 0--UPi- Al Capone, Amerieg’s. publig enemy No. ft Jong before the world ayer heard of John Dillinger, ts on- his | way. to a new prison homie, He ia being transferred, ‘with. great secrecy, from. Atlanta. pent- tentlary to the new Alcatraz prison in San Franciaco Bay—which the federa) prison authorities call “im fPregnable:" With forty-two other prisoners Capone was whisked wut of tha penitentiary in Atlants in the early hours Sunday. Guarded by federal} Agents carrylng automatic shet- guns, the prisoners were placed in two specially bullt screened and barred railroad cars and started on thelr way to Alcétraz—the Island. pricon fortress designed far con- viets considered toa dangerous. te: Se kept Inlardinary prlaons, | Although _ federal. authorities malitiingd = tUghtlipped. stlenes, about reports. the former Chicago gang leader was being sent to the Pacifie coast prison, hia Presence, | 4 In the group was cetablished by ;Hewspapermen when the convict cars errived here. When the two: cars-wers stopped for a change of trains w prisoner who strongly tesembled Capone just grinned when some one called: “Is that you, AIT While. the care waited to be fars ried. cross the Mississlpp! River the guards: kept the curious at 2 [ distance, bit newspaper-men. got | within hadling diatancé. One called out: “Te Al Capone in theres” ‘One prisoner bedded ‘hls head an, \Yelled back: = > . i ' “in this car, by the sizth a ba-A FIR. A E20 - Be &
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