Scarface Al" Capone Released by Government". Wausau Daily Herald. November 16, 1939. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020 . Retrieved April 3, 2020. If the United States government thinks it can clean up Chicago by sending me to jail, well, it's all right with me. I guess maybe I owe the government this stretch in jail, anyway. The Capone family lived near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was a tough place given over to the vices sought by sailor characters that frequented the surrounding bars. The family was a regular, law-abiding, albeit noisy Italian-American clan, and there were few indications that the young Capone would venture into a world of crime and become public enemy number one. Certainly, the family's move to a more ethnically mixed area of the city exposed the young Capone to wider cultural influences, no doubt equipping him with the means to run a notorious criminal empire.

I thought that you folks liked tourists. I have a lot of money to spend that I made in Chicago. Whoever heard of anybody being run out of Los Angeles that had money? The Hampton is our narrowest brim Akubra, just 1-3/4 inches, with a center crease, ideal for city wear. a b "Hymie Weiss". Myalcaponemuseum.com. Archived from the original on September 14, 2018 . Retrieved October 2, 2018. Sure, and some of our best judges use my stuff."[His response after being asked whether he was a bootlegger.] Capone was sent to Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary in May 1932, aged 33. Upon his arrival at Atlanta, Capone was officially diagnosed with syphilis and gonorrhoea. He was also experiencing withdrawal symptoms from cocaine addiction, the use of which had perforated his nasal septum. Capone was competent at his prison job of stitching soles on shoes for eight hours a day, but his letters were barely coherent. He was seen as a weak personality, and so out of his depth dealing with bullying at the hands of fellow inmates that his cellmate, seasoned convict Red Rudensky, feared that Capone would have a breakdown. Rudensky was formerly a small-time criminal associated with the Capone gang and found himself becoming a protector for Capone. The conspicuous protection by Rudensky and other prisoners, drew accusations from less friendly inmates and fueled suspicion that Capone was receiving special treatment. No solid evidence ever emerged, but it formed part of the rationale for moving Capone to the recently opened Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary off the coast of San Francisco, in August 1934. [112] On June 23, 1936, Capone was stabbed and superficially wounded by fellow Alcatraz inmate James C. Lucas. [113]Nevertheless, Capone’s legacy lives on today, not due to his criminal activities but due to his style, panache and the fact that he worked himself up from nothing. He was a very violent and ruthless crime boss, but there have been many more that achieved greater success as criminals in comparison to Capone. However, despite that, there are none that lived their lives so lavishly and as publicly as Al Capone. Heroes like Elliot Ness live forever in the history books, but legends like Al Capone seemingly never die.” Capeci, Dominic J. "Al Capone: Symbol of a Ballyhoo Society." Journal of Ethnic Studies 2.4 (1975): 33–46.

Brennan, Ray (October 25, 1931). "Capone kept until Monday for appeal". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p.1. Archived from the original on January 4, 2021 . Retrieved September 19, 2020. Eventually, Capone's activities, including the Valentine’s Day Massacre, attracted the attention of President Herbert Hoover. In March 1929, Hoover asked Andrew Mellon, his secretary of the Treasury, "Have you got this fellow Capone yet? I want that man in jail."Luisa Yanez, The Miami Herald (September 27, 2010). "Gangster Al Capone's 1930 trial to return to Miami court – Sun Sentinel". Articles.sun-sentinel.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 . Retrieved August 16, 2014. Despite ceasing to be boss immediately on his imprisonment, many argue that it wasn’t Capone’s criminal activities that resulted in his takedown, but that it was actually his larger-than-lifelifestyle. After all, Capone was never convicted of any violent crimes, but of tax evasion which was proven using his spending habits as evidence. Regardless of the truth of Sonny’s parentage, Al Capone loved him like a son. “I don’t want to die shot in the street,” the gangster once said. “I’ve got a boy. I love that kid.”