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Al Capone — Part 15

73 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 73 pages OCR'd
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183, Capone, 4+ omnnot be dented, has carte blanche within the prison wells) He has, a8 do have others, the privilege of sending to letters esch week. But, in addition, he has “eonnections" which permit him to nail as many as twenty letters each week! Or, as many as his prison secretary oan esite for himt whe A) mum. He has been interviewed innumerable times. His biography bean soucht by severe] leadicg magutines. One national weekly offered the story of hie life. Ancther offered 250,000,001 tim 55 “1 has bim $25,000.00 fo Capone wilk accept nothing less than $200,000.00! And then, he contends, the story mitt be as FE wants it s the public would expect it! oF es written. » « Rot the editor's idea, In other words, it would be SAINT ALPHONSE VESUS' GAPCLE! w fie wants the public to believe he As being crucified! It would not, of sourse, imelude his shady operations jn the Atlante insti reflection on Ur. Aderhold would be too oovious. For after all, any article written within the prison would have to be censored} Yet, he or any other intate can “rite for pubdlicatio: providin: the article doss not criticise the prison, its inmates, officials or anj;thing perteining to the institution. It wan a matter of record that Bishop rus posting letters constantly for Capone before the urticle under diccussion was written. To infer that authentic sources of information indicate Capone doss not, nor did not enjoy this privilege, forces ons to the ultinete conclusion that Cepone -- as preposterous as it aay seom to the reader -~ actually ; supgocted that the article bear witness for him acainst the very infrac- tions he camitted) One ie lost in a maze of uncertainty whon he tries to analyze why Gapons, who ‘picks his frionds’, made a confidant of Doo, the moat deceitful, avuricious and disliked innate in the inetitution ~~ regardless of the fact thet Doc could form fevorable sonnections for him erilier with the details of Capone's prison han the author of the "Georgian" article. « « gent) monsy to anyones pay roll -- more fanilier + whe weiter knows that Capone has never sent {nor had “+ 4 the wefaramse to the tro men
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