Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Baptized “Alphonse Capone” by his father Gabriele and his mother Teresina. Capone was the first of his family to be born and conceived in America (Bardsley). He grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two “kid gangs”, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors (Kobler 11). Capone, at age fourteen, was expelled from school when he physically lost his temper with his teacher. He never went to school again (Bardsley). Between scams he was a clerk in a candy store, a pin boy in a bowling alley, and a cutter in a bookbindery (Halper 102).

Capone later went on to work for Frankie Yale’s old mentor, John Torrio. Torrio noticed Capone’s potential, strength, and intelligence. Soon Capone was helping Torrio manage his bootlegging business. Capone was made Torrio’s right-hand man and together they controlled saloons, gambling houses, and brothels (Kobler 13).

It wasn’t until rival gang members shot Torrio, that Capone inherited the “outfit” and became boss (Bergreen 22). To keep the neighbors suspicions down Capone posed as a dealer in secondhand furniture. In reality Capone controlled speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, and made an income of $100,000,000 a year (Kobler 20).

acre, and the police could not arrest Capone without any evidence (Bardsley).

Capone’s most notorious killing was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, four Capone men entered a garage at 2122 N. Clark Street, in Chicago. The building was the main liquor headquarters of bootlegger George “Bugs” Moran’s North Side Gang (Allsop 51). Capone’s assassination team changed into police uniforms and drove to the garage in a stolen police car. The men raided the garage as though they were the police arresting the gang. The bootleggers did as they were told, and lined up against the wall obediently. The four men in police uniforms took the bootleggers’ guns and opened fire with two machine guns, a sawed-off shot gun, and a .45 (Bardsley). Capone’s men fired more than 150 bullets into the gang members. Six of the seven killed were members of Moran’s gang and the seventh was an unlucky friend (Allsop 53). The target of the shooting, Bugs Moran

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