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Al Capone — Part 6
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Al Capone Bound
for Grim Island
Prison at Alcatraz
Sped by Train With 42 Others
From Atlanta: Faces Eight
Mere Years.
nee sme mth
From ihe comparative ease Bhé
quiet of the federal penitentiary at
Attanta, :
Chicago's
owo Al Ca. %
pone was] Yt
ye xtenday
headed for ei
the grim
and deso-
late island
prigon, Al
eatraz in
San Fraa-
eisen Bay. Nan Khai Menton sf
The coun Alsatran Istp rd. .
try’s #ratvhite No. 1 bad main waz
one of focly-thtee government: pris-
oners to: be-removed from their At-
Janta ceélis af daylight yesterday, F
according to the Atlante. Coretitu-
tion, ns
IN SPECIAL COACHES,
At 6:10 a. om. they were herded
aboard a. couple of special coaches
and jeft Atlanta for San: Francisco
via the. Southern Pacific Raliroad,
The only prisoners whose names
wete learned betidvee Capore were
“Frisco Eddie” O'Brien, Eddie Gol-
ison and Alvin Crip, O'Brien and
Cotson were identified as notorious
train robbers and Crip was sald to
bea former Chicago gunman and
& bitter exemy of Capone before
they were sent to the penientlary.
“MOVE DISCLOSED. © :
Covirnment officials made every
7 ektort to keep Capone’s transfer &
pgeret. ‘
i Jt was wnderetood that the rea-
eat for Secrecy was bo avert any
‘ possiblity of an stteropt by an
pares ai eriminals to storm the
i
vare big traveling companions.
; Ad the federal proson at Atlanta
na confirmatlon was forthcoming
“as to whether there had been @
moversent of prisoners,
Capone has deen.doing a term in,
the prison shoe shop, to which he
was assigned upon entering the
prison. three years ago: to serve
eleven years foc Income tax evasion,
z
4 : aie
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