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19,504. This is what separates us from the rest of the world: we don’t have law as a net; in the end everything gets physical. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago) Big Jim Colosimo
17,541. By the time the 20s ended he was undisputed king of the heap. What put him there was the St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Chicago was divided into spheres of criminal influence. The north side was controlled by Bugs Moran, Capone’s sworn enemy. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) The Story of Al Capone
17,542. Inside the warehouse there was a scene of carnage. The six members of the north side gang lay sprawled among the blood. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,543. Capone was frequently involved in vicious fighting, and in 1919 decided to get out of New York and join Johnny Torrio in Chicago. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,544. Chicago in the early twentieth century was already one of the most corrupt cities in the United States. One classic example of this was the 1919 World Series Baseball, when a New York gangsta Arnold Rothstein bribed the Chicago White Sox to lose. Police and politicians all took bribes. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago & Baseball & Cheat & Bribery) ibid.
17,545. The Justice Department formed the group known as The Untouchables. This was a squad of agents trusted to be completely incorruptible. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,546. In 1934 he [Capone] was transferred to the dreaded escape-proof Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. This spelled the end of the line for the king of the crooks. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago & Alcatraz) ibid.
17,547. Tests showed that he had syphilis, no doubt passed on to him by one of his past employees. As the years passed, Capone’s syphilis grew worse. He gradually became paralysed and was released in 1939 for treatment. His wife May was unaffected by the disease, which suggests that there had not been marital relations between them for a long time before his incarceration. She looked after him at their Florida home for seven more years when he died of a stroke and pneumonia at least twenty-five years before his time at the age of 47. Capone’s final body count is reckoned to be at least 400 men murdered at his command, and 40 by his own hand. Even today his name is a legend for ruthlessness and corruption. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,548. Al Capone rose to power with a deadly combination of raw brutality and brains. He wanted the public to love him. But those who dared to cross him knew better. Killing was just part of his business plan. A plan to become the boss of organised crime in Chicago. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) Al Capone: Scarface, 1995
17,549. Johnny Torrio became Capone’s mentor. Torrio moved to Chicago to run things for Big Jim Colosimo. Big Jim controlled a string of gambling dens and whore-houses. Colosimo’s nightclub was where the action was. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,550. It took five years to bring all the evidence together. On June 5th 1931 the man known as Alphonse Capone was indicted on twenty-two counts of income-tax evasion. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,551. The story of how frontier lawlessness and prohibition unleashed gang massacre upon America. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) Days that Shook the World s3e2: St Valentine’s Day Massacre, BBC 2005
17,552. St Valentine’s Day 1929: Capone is the mastermind behind a plan to see off his enemies. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,553. More than a hundred bullets fired. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,554. 14th February 1929: A day of cold-blooded murder: the worst hit in Chicago mob history – four gunmen, possibly working for Al Capone, killed seven followers of Bugs Moran. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) Valentine’s Day Massacre, National Geographic
17,555. Where was boss Bugs Moran? Why didn’t the Morans see it coming? Were the killers real police? Was it a crime of passion? (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,556. Moran v Capone meant the Irish v the Italians. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,557. According to Bolton, the massacre plan was hatched at a meeting in Wisconsin headed by Capone himself. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,558. Between 1920 and 1929 the economy was very good in Chicago. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) Al Capone - The Untouchable Legend, 1998
17,559. Torrio is working for the undisputed king of Chicago’s underworld Big Jim Colosimo. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,560. Capone is infamous for his brutality. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,561. Together, Torrio and Capone enter the illegal alcohol trade. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,562. Bugs Moran – Capone decides to get rid of him. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,563. Chicago in the roaring twenties ... Gangsters soon meant to mean Al Capone. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) Great Crimes & Trials: The Story of Al Capone
17,564. What put him [Al Capone] there was the Valentine’s Day Massacre. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,565. This determined Capone to eradicate Moran’s north-side gang once and for all. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,566. After many courses and bottles of wine the three Sicilians were relaxed; suddenly, at a signal from their boss, the Capone Gang jumped on the trio, tied them up, and Al himself walked behind them with a baseball bat. Cursing them as traitors he beat them with a baseball bat. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,567. Chicago was wild, large and corrupt. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,568. Johnny Torrio first used Al as his bodyguard ... Johnny Torrio decided to retire in 1925. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,569. Capone’s rackets were now pulling in at least $60 million a year, but he spent enormously. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,570. Capone ironically took refuge in the safest place of all: he chose to go to jail. In 1929 he arranged to be arrested on the faintly ludicrous charge of carrying a gun, and spent ten months inside. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,571. Capone was charged with twenty-three counts of tax evasion. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,572. He died of a stroke and pneumonia at least twenty-five years before his time, at the age of forty-seven. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,573. Al Capone – the gangland overlord who ruled Chicago in the 1920s. The Untouchables – led by Eliot Ness, a fearless crime fighter. A story carved into American folklore. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) The Untouchables: True Story
17,574. For Capone and his outfit the profits were unimaginable for the times. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases & Chicago) ibid.
17,575. To the American public it was Eliot Ness who had saved the day. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,576. In reality none of the evidence gathered by Ness’s Untouchables was used to convict Capone at trial. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,577. At the start of 1930 the US Government was involved in a secret plan to bring the notorious gangster Al Capone to justice. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases: Capone & Chicago) ibid.
17,578. [Frank] Wilson was following a money trail that led right back to Capone. (Gangs US: Chicago & Mafia US: Chicago & Murder Cases & Chicago) ibid.