For a short time after this Al had changed his ways and enagaged in a legitimate career. He had to get out of crime because he met a beautiful young girl by the name of Mae Coughlin, a pretty, young Irish girl from a normal middle class family that didn’t approve of Al’s activities. He really liked Mae and knew that she was right for him, they had a son Albert Francis on December 4, 1918, and married soon after. At the time Capone knew that he must get away from a life of crime so he moved his family to Baltimore where he worked as a bookkeeper for Peter Aiello’s construction firm. Just as the Capone family was settling down into their new life Al’s father, at the age of forty-five passed away suddenly of heart disease. This event marked a turning point in his life, he left the bookkeeping job and renewed his relationship with Torrio, who by now had moved to Chicago to assist his uncle and current head man Jim Collisimo. Torrio urged Capone to come out west with him because he had big plans for the future in the relatively unheralded streets of this city.

It’s here where Capone first became acquainted with Johnny Torrio, a person who would alter Al’s life forever. At the time Torrio was running The James Street Gang, a group of tough teens who acted as somewhat of a feeder program for the larger Five Points Gang. It was easy for Torrio to recruit teens into his gang because very few schools in the area had the funding or attractions to keep kids off the streets after school, or during the school day for that matter. The kid’s in the gang all looked up to Torrio as a leader and someone they wanted to model themselves after. Capone earned most of his money by running errands for Torrio and eventually Al earned his trust. Torrio took young Al under his wing and taught him the in’s and out’s of being the head of such an organization. Torrio was one of the first gangsters to view his work in a corporate fashion, using organizational skills and administrational work to out-duel your normal (and more primitive) brawling, killing type of gangs. Still under Torrio’s careful eye, Capone stayed clear of any real trouble. It wasn’t until one of Torrio’s associates (Frankie Yale) opened a bar nearby that Capone started to push the limits of the law.

Throughout most of these events Johnny Torrio had let Capone do his own thing and go about his business without much objection. Torrio was the type of guy that enjoyed being liked by everyone, and by doing so he tried to trust most people. In the case on Dion O’Bannion trust was his downfall. O’Bannion, who had been somewhat of a menace to the Torrio-Capone gang ever since it began, offered to sell out his business to Torrio and move out to Colorado. Dion knew that the brewery was going to be raided the day he scheduled his closing meeting with Torrio, so upon Johnny’s arrival he was greeted by a group of cops who arrested him for violation of prohibition laws. After Torrio was thrown in jail O’Bannion was going around town bragging to people how he had tricked the witty Italian boss. In proper gang etiquette it is alright to trick opposing gangs into trouble, but talking about it afterwards t

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