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In 1924 Capone was responsible for the murder of Joe Howard in retribution for Howard’s earlier assault of one of Capone’s friends. William McSwiggin, an aggressive prosecutor, attempted but failed to indict Capone when the eyewitnesses to the killing, fearing harm, lost their nerve and denied remembering the incident.
- Louis Buchalter
Louis Buchalter (born February 12, 1897, New York City, New...
- Frankie Yale
Yale was born in Italy, and his family moved to the United...
- Paul Muni
Paul Muni (born September 22, 1895, Lemberg, Austria [now...
- Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks (born May 30, 1896, Goshen, Indiana, U.S.—died...
- Dion O’Bannion
From a life of petty crime O’Bannion rose during Prohibition...
- Big Jim Colosimo
James Colosimo was a crime czar in Chicago from about 1902...
- Alcatraz
From 1934 to 1963 it served as a federal prison for some of...
- Louis Buchalter
Capone en 1930. Alphonse Gabriel Capone ( Brooklyn, 17 de enero de 1899- Miami Beach, Florida, 25 de enero de 1947), conocido como Al Capone, Al Scarface Capone (traducido al español como Al Cara cortada Capone; apodo que recibió debido a las cicatrices que tenía en el lado izquierdo del rostro, provocadas por navajazos), o simplemente ...
Aiello plotted to eliminate both Lombardo and Capone, and starting in the spring of 1927 made several attempts to assassinate Capone. On one occasion, Aiello offered money to the chef of Joseph "Diamond Joe" Esposito 's Bella Napoli Café, Capone's favorite restaurant, to put prussic acid in Capone's and Lombardo's soup; reports indicated he offered between $10,000 and $35,000.
After years of failing health due to syphilis, Al Capone died of cardiac arrest caused by apoplexy at his home in Miami Beach on January 25, 1947. Unlike other mobsters, Al Capone didn't go out in a blaze of glory.
Capone and McGurn decided to kill Moran. On February 14, 1929, posing as police, McGurn’s gunmen assassinated seven of Moran’s men in cold blood in a North Side garage.
On May 17, 1929, Al Capone and his bodyguard were arrested in Philadelphia for carrying concealed deadly weapons. Within 16 hours they had been sentenced to terms of one year each.
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. Gang warfare ruled the streets of Chicago during the late 1920s, as...
