Who is Al Capone?
Al Capone is the America's widely known gangster and a unique utmost symbol of the downfall of order and law in the U.S. during the period of 1920s Ban era. Capone conducted a leading responsibility in the unlawful activities that advanced Chicago its status as a lawless metropolitan.
He was born in New York, Brooklyn in the year of 1899 by poor refugee parents. Al Capone departed on to convert into the most disreputable gangster in the history of America. In 1920 when Prohibition height was at the climax, the multi-million dollar of Capone's Chicago activity in bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution dominated the prepared crime scene. Capone was accountable for many brutal deeds of violence, mostly against the rest of the gangsters. One of such deeds and the most well-known was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929, in which he planned to murder his opponents, altogether seven people. Though Capone was not indicted for his racketeering, he was ultimately brought into justice for the income-tax evasion in the year 1931. After serving about six and a half years, Capone was set free. He died in the year 1947 in Miami. Capone's life apprehended the public fancy, and his main gangster persona has been commemorated in the several movies and books inspired by his feats.
Capone's Preliminary Life in New York
Alphonse Capone lived between the years 1899 to 1947. The man was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of the recent Italian refuge Teresina Capone and Gabriele. This was a poor family, which came to the United States of America looking for a good life. The Capones, who had eight children, lived an archetypal life of New York immigrants’ dwelling. Capone's father earned his living as a barber, while his mother practiced as a seamstress. There existed nothing in their family life and Capone's childhood that could have foretold his upsurge to notoriety as America’s most disreputable gangster.
Capone lived as a perfect student in his elementary school in Brooklyn, however later, his grades lowered, and he had to go back to the sixth grade. It was about that time when he started playing aging out and hooky at the docks of Brooklyn. There was an accident at school, when, Capone's teacher hit him for disrespect and Al paid back. The school principal punished him through beating, and Capone decided never to appear in that school again. By this period, the Capones had progressed out of the rent apartment to a good home in the suburbs of the Park Slope in the suburbs of Brooklyn. This was the moment that changed his life completely because at this place Capone first met his future wife, Mary Coughlin and his mob advisor, numbers swindler Johnny Torrio.
Capone Joins Johnny Torrio
Torrio as usual ran numbers and gambling activities near the Capone's home thus, Capone started running small responsibilities for him. Though Torrio had left Brooklyn for Chicago in the year 1909, the two endured being close together. However, Capone managed to get a legal job at an ammunition factory as well as a paper cutter. He spent his time hanging out and ganging on the streets in Brooklyn, though apart from infrequent scrapes, his gang undertakings were mainly not successful.
In the year 1917, Torrio familiarized Capone to his friend, a gangster Frankie Yale, who hired Capone as the bouncer and bartender in the Coney Island at the Harvard Inn. It was at this place where Capone netted his nickname ‘Scarface’. One night, he offensively commented about a woman who was visiting the bar. Her brother hit Capone, and then cut him on the face, leaving three ineffaceable scars that stimulated his lasting nickname.
Capone in the Chicago
After his 19th birthday, Capone married his wife Mae Coughlin just a few weeks after the delivery of Albert Francis, their first child. His previous friend and boss Johnny Torrio became the boy's godfather. Becoming a husband and a father Capone felt the responsibility to do what he thought was right for his family. Therefore, he moved to Baltimore and gained an official job as an accountant at a construction company. However, when Capone's father had a heart attack and died in 1920, Torrio asked him to come back to Chicago, and Capone accepted his offer.
In Chicago, Torrio stood as leading a growing enterprise in prostitution and gambling, though with the acceptation in 1920 of the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the consumption and sale of alcohol, Torrio concentrated on a new and more profitable area: bootlegging. Having an experience as a petty thug and an accountant, Capone incorporated both his expertise with numbers and street smarts to Torrio’s Chicago deeds. Torrio acknowledged Capone's assistances and quickly endorsed him to his companion. However, Capone unlike his partner Torrio, started to establish a provocative reputation of a drinker. Once, he hit a parked taxicab when he was driving drunk and had to taste a jail for his first time. Torrio immediately used his influence among some representatives of the city administration, and Capone was soon released. By the time his family came from Brooklyn, Capone got rid of that act. His son and wife, alongside with his younger brothers, sister and mother all migrated to Chicago, and Capone acquired a modest house in the South Side.
In the year 1923, after the local elections in Chicago, a reformist mayor was chosen, who announced that his first plan was to free the city off corruption, Capone and Torrio transferred their base far beyond the city bounds, namely to Chicago’s western suburbs - Cicero. However, a 1924 mayor election in Cicero also threatened their activities. To avoid this, Capone and Torrio implemented intimidation methods during the electoral day to ensure the ‘right’ candidate would win. They had gone so far as to killing some of the voters.