One of Alcatraz's most infamous prisoners left the Rock on this day in 1939

One of Alcatraz's most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 ...
Southeast Missourian

Al Capone may have had 1 last hit - a musical one

CHICAGO -- He never sang to the feds, but it turns out Al Capone had a song in his heart. All it took was a stint in Alcatraz to bring it out. Now, more than 70 years later, the tender love song that ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Al Capone's 'sweetheart pistol' now on display in Las Vegas museum

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Yahoo

Al Capone called it his sweetheart. The pistol that saved his life is coming to Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) — It was on a school playground where she learned her last name carries weight, when another girl pointed a finger at her and ordered the other kids to follow her. “Let’s go,” the girl ...
AOL

Review: A grotesque, inglorious look at Capone's last year

Al Capone lived out his final years on a grand estate in Palm Island, Florida, with his wife, Mae, by his side and grandchildren running around the property. It sounds like a pretty nice end for the ...
PBS

Catching Capone

A tax evasion charge brings down Al Capone. After the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, federal authorities were set on sending Al Capone to prison. It would be a tax evasion charge that would bring down ...
Miami Herald

Al Capone’s ‘historic’ home is gone. A new state law made it easier to knock down | Opinion

Al Capone’s two-story main house and guest house had nine bedrooms, six full bathrooms, two half bathrooms and a fortified design. Chuck Fadely Miami Herald Miami-Dade’s long-standing connection to Al ...
Barron's

Al Capone’s Florida Address—Now an Empty Lot—Is Selling for $23.9 Million

The Florida address where gangster Al Capone died in 1947 is back up for sale as an empty 30,000-square-foot lot asking $23.9 million. The storied property on Palm Island, a man-made isle in the ...
Chicago Tribune

At the dawn of the Al Capone era, prosecutor William McSwiggin was killed in a hail of machine gun bullets outside a Cicero tavern

The McSwiggin murder was the kind of story that editors once thought sold newspapers. The Tribune laid out the initial facts in a front-page story on April 28, 1926: “William H. McSwiggin, youthful ...
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Gangster's ironic last words after being shot in 'Al Capone's' Valentine's Day Massacre

The 1920s saw prohibition create a lucrative underground market for illegal booze, fuelling the rise of notorious gangsters in the US. During this era, America was a playground for criminal gangs ...
inforum

In the 1920s, a lawman in North Dakota had a dark secret - He was Al Capone’s brother

Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part special report on “The Capones in North Dakota.” Can you imagine the stress on poor old Vincenzo Capone as he tried to hide his real identity? What ...