In a youthful scrape in a brothel-saloon, a young hoodlum slashed Capone with a knife or razor across his left cheek, prompting the later nickname "Scarface." Capone and Johnny TorrioĪt age 14, Capone met the gangster Johnny Torrio, which would prove the greatest influence on the would-be gangland boss. Despite having been a promising student, he was expelled at the age of 14 for hitting a female teacher, and he never went back. Certainly, the family's move to a more ethnically mixed area of the city exposed the young Capone to wider cultural influences, no doubt equipping him with the means to run a notorious criminal empire.īut it was Capone's schooling, both inadequate and brutal at a Catholic institution beset with violence that marred the impressionable young man. The family was a regular, law-abiding, albeit noisy Italian-American clan, and there were few indications that the young Capone would venture into a world of crime and become public enemy number one. It was a tough place given over to the vices sought by sailor characters that frequented the surrounding bars. The Capone family lived near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. His wife Teresa was pregnant and already bringing up two sons: two-year-old son Vincenzo and infant son Raffaele. He was 30 years old, educated and from Naples, where he had earned a living as a barber. His father, Gabriele, was one of the thousands of Italians who arrived in New York in 1894.
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Capone was from a respectable, professional family. Many New York gangsters in the early 20th Century came from impoverished backgrounds, but this was not the case for the Capone. Early Life and EducationĬapone was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1899. Before being sent to Alcatraz Prison in 1934 for a tax evasion conviction, he had amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million as the head of the infamous crime syndicate. Jack McGurn was never prosecuted for the Massacre but he was murdered in 1936 – seven years and one day after the Massacre.Al Capone was one of the most famous American gangsters who rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era. Two weeks later, McGurn’s brother, Anthony, was shot to death by three men in a Chicago pool hall after he said he knew who had killed his brother. “You lost your dough and handsome houses, but things could be worse, you know, at least you haven’t lost your trousers.” However, a note left at the front desk stated: Popular legend says a Valentine’s Day card was left on McGurn’s body but there is no evidence to support this. The two men who had come into the building with McGurn and the third man pulled guns and shot him several times. As they prepared to bowl, another man entered the building and ordered everyone to stand still. On February 15, 1936, McGurn entered a bowling alley at 805 Milwaukee Avenue with two other men. Undoubtedly, McGurn had a lot of enemies, but circumstances surrounding his murder seem to suggest it was payback for the Massacre. McGurn jumped out of the car and ran for cover. McGurn survived another hit attempt on April 27, 1928, when a car carrying four men opened fire with Tommy guns on McGurn’s Lincoln. His assailants allegedly were the Gusenberg brothers, Peter and Frank, who less than a year later were two of the seven men killed in the St.
On March 7, 1928, he was hit in the chest and arm by machine gun fire in the McCormick Hotel. Valentine’s Day Massacre, the theory endures that he was its mastermind.įor one thing, if Capone was behind the Massacre, it seems likely he would have had McGurn handle the details.Īlso, McGurn would have had good reason to go after members of Bugs Moran’s gang.
Although Capone bodyguard Jack McGurn was never prosecuted in the St.
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