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Al Capone — Part 36
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re to join the mutixk,
owing that men’ wi
bare hands could not
» break through twenty feet
of solid stone and then
* swim across San Francisco
” Bay _
"Now other and “tough-
er” convicts in Alcatraz,
“denounce Capone as a
- “vat” because he did not
- Join the mutiny; his life
* _ may be in danger.
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, .. The mutneers cannot
: break out, but they can
: murder,
* It may comfort Capone
to know that in his refusal
to join the mutiny he had
good company—including
George, alias “Machine |
Gun” Kelly, also Uaryey
‘Bailey and Albert “Bales,
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KT Capone, + however, |
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_ of himself, outside of Fed-
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Lae Accotding ‘t6- legend ;
' long ago, before the wor
.“vacketeer had zome
‘into everyday use, Al Ca-.
and dark
‘Brooklyn waterfront | ball :
. Organized by hard-fisted,
Trish longshoremen. Ca-
pone and his companion |
each escorted a fair?
haired girl. One long-
ipeipate remarked, un-_
rtunately for him, “Whit
é e them greaseballs dé
ing with white giris 7” i
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‘Nobody knows just
| what happened, or how,
but lights went out, and-
when they were turned on
again, the gentleman who
made the “greaseball” re-
mark wag dead,
——o_
| There has never been
any suspicion that Al Ca-
pone had anything to do
with it, but some of those
Alcatraz “insiders,” usin
the unpleasant word
[irat, " might learn th
icking on Capone is not
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