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Sandler, Gilbert (August 30, 1994). "Al Capone's hide-out". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on December 8, 2014 . Retrieved July 23, 2014. Judge James Herbert Wilkerson who also presided over Ralph Capone’s case was familiar with Capone and his antics. When US Attorney George E. Q. Johnson agreed to a plea bargain that only gave Capone a couple of years in prison, Judge Wilkerson overruled it, refusing to allow Capone to plead guilty in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence. The Judge ruled that while he wouldn’t accept the guilty plea due to Capone’s lawyer admitting the guilt instead of Capone himself, he would admit the confession into evidence on the grounds that anyone making a statement to the government did so at their own risk, including an authorized legal representative of Capone. Al Capone's secret song". The Straits Times. Associated Press. April 17, 2009. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009 . Retrieved April 17, 2009. Okrent, Daniel (2010). Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner. pp. 136, 345. ISBN 978-0743277044.
Critchley, David (September 15, 2008). The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931. New York City: Routledge. p.295. ASIN B001OFIDHC.Al Capone Knifed in Prison Tussle". The Free Lance-Star. June 24, 1936. Archived from the original on January 4, 2021 . Retrieved June 28, 2018.
Chicago History Museum/Getty Images The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre fatalities of February 1929, for which Al Capone was likely responsible. He particularly favored Borsalinos like his famous white cream one, which he wore tapered at the top to produce a straight creased profile with a deep crease at the center. The Capones ultimately had nine children — with Frank Capone most closely following in his brother's blood-soaked footsteps. From an early age, Al Capone had no patience for school, and was expelled from the institution after hitting a teacher when he was 14. Schoenberg, Robert J. (1992). Mr. Capone. New York: William Morrow & Co. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-0688089412.
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Helmer, William J. (2011). Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0253356062.
The 17 most notorious mobsters from Chicago". Time Out Chicago. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018 . Retrieved June 1, 2018. Capone was born in New York City in 1899 to Italian immigrants. He joined the Five Points Gang as a teenager and became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels. In his early twenties, Capone moved to Chicago and became a bodyguard and trusted factotum for Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol—the forerunner of the Outfit—and was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana. A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, handing control to Capone. Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means, but his mutually profitable relationships with Mayor William Hale Thompson and the Chicago Police Department meant he seemed safe from law enforcement. In 1918, Capone married middle-class Irish girl Mae Coughlin and settled down as a bookkeeper, taking a brief hiatus from his gangster role. However, Capone soon returned to working for his old boss, Torrio, following the unexpected death of his father. Capone and Mae had one child together, Sonny, and remained married until Capone’s death. Prohibition and Chicago Gangster Torrio soon succeeded to full leadership of the gang with the violent demise of Big Jim Colosimo, and Capone gained experience and expertise as his strong right arm. Knowing he couldn’t run from the summons for long, he testified to a grand jury on March 27th, 1929. As he left the courtroom, he was arrested by FBI agents waiting outside the courthouse on charges of contempt of court for feigning illness to avoid his earlier appearance.Michaels, Will (2016). "Al Capone in St. Petersburg, Florida" in Hidden History of St. Petersburg. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1625858207. Fun facts and urban legends". rcmp-grc.gc.ca. December 17, 2014. Archived from the original on January 4, 2021 . Retrieved January 4, 2021. 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?
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. Defending Al Capone". The Marshall Project. Archived from the original on August 27, 2018 . Retrieved June 1, 2018. Al Capone's tax trial and downfall". Myalcaponemuseum.com. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014 . Retrieved August 16, 2014. Public service is my motto. Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble and my offense has been to furnish them with those amusements. My booze has been good and my games on the square. Al Capone dies in Florida villa". Chicago Sunday Tribune. Associated Press. January 26, 1947. p.1. Archived from the original on October 29, 2017 . Retrieved October 28, 2017.Capone kidnapped opponents' election workers and threatened voters with violence. He eventually won office in Cicero, but not before his brother Frank had been killed in a shootout with Chicago's police force. Linder, Douglas O. "Selected Documents: Jury Verdict Form (October 17, 1931)". Al Capone Trial. University of Missouri–Kansas City. Archived from the original on August 27, 2011 . Retrieved October 16, 2011. The hat was also generally considered a bit more esteemed than the fedora. Read more intriguing facts about the homburg here. The Biltmore Hat Mae knew what awaited them next, and asked her parish priest Monsignor Barry Williams to administer her husband's last rites. In the end, Al Capone died of cardiac arrest on Jan. 25, 1947.
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