The Life and Death of Al Capone

Al Cap mavin was an American criminal who started engaging himself in criminal activities quite early in life and was very favorite in the 1920s in Illinois. Al Capone was born in seventeenth January, 1899 in Brooklyn to Teresa Capone and Gabriel and was named as Alphonse Gabriel Capone. He died in 1947.He was popularly cognize by many as Scarface due to the knife cut mark that was on his left cheek. The name Al Capone is frankincense synonymous with umbrage curiously in Chicago and thus one cannot talk of crime and relegate to talk of this man. This research paper is specifically going o pore on the life and death of Al Capone. It will in curiously focus on his role as far as crime in the United States is concerned.Al Capone rose to fame in the 1920s during the period known as the Prohibition era. His activities led Chicago to look as if it was a lawless state due to his success in criminal activities. that like other students, Al Capone went to a public school exactly unf ortunately the teachers in these schools were a bit harsh to immigrant students and would use corporeal force to discipline them and Al Capone being one of them as his family had migrated to regular army from the Old Country, was thus no exception1.Specifically, Al Capone did not have a good relationship with his schools administration and thus they were endlessly crossing paths roughthing that drastically affected his grades. After some quantify, his relationship with teachers deteriorated to a come across aim such that he was dispelled from school and that marked the end of his life in school2.Though indirect, his career received a major boost when his father resettled his family to 21 Garfield Place. This relocation gave Al Capone an opportunity to join local thoroughfare mobs such as the Forty Thieves Juniors and the Brooklyn Rippers where he met other gangsters such as Johny Torrio and Lucky Luciano3.Having worked for James Street gang and Five sets gang, Al Capone gain ed some skills in street smarts making him to be qualified as a bar tender and a bouncer in a bordello in Brooklyn owned by Torrio and cadie Yale.As a bouncer, he would mistreat great deal for example he broke the legs, arms and even skulls of those who were deemed to be chaotic. It was metre working as a bouncer in this brothel that Al Capone earned his name the scarface after being attacked and slashed by Frank Gallucio after he insulted her sister although he would later lie that he was injured in the Great War in France4.It is in 1919 that he was arrested for the first time firstly for disorderly conduct and secondly for a murder case where he killed a man in 1918 exactly fortunately for Al Capone, as per ganglands principles or etiquettes, nobody testified for or against him and thus he was not tried for this murder. To ease down the tension that had built up, Yale who had been invited by his uncle Jim Colosimo in Chicago invited Al Capone to stay with him for a while. T his time coincided with when the Prohibition Act was in force.Torrio was in disagreement with his uncle because he valued his uncle to embark on bootlegging something that he was totally opposed. By this time his uncle whoring business had already amassed enough profit and thus he did not see the need to diversify. Torrio started seeing his uncle as a stumbling block and thus thought of how he would eliminate him. With the help of Al Capone, the mission was penalize and they took over the business5.While working for this gang, Al Capone helped his gang to prosper and extended its relations to another gang organization known as Colosimo mob. These organizations in one way or the other helped Al Capone to become the man he was.The reason for this is that after five years of his service, Torrio accidentally got wounded and could no longer be able to lead the gang at that placeby transferring its leading to Al Capone. Under his leadership, the gang became the most feared and success ful and anyone who challenged its leadership was eliminated. ascribable to their ruthlessness, they were able to conquer over mobs that succumbed to their threats or entreaties. Those that would not dance to their tunes were hold in by use of force and a case in point is the Dion OBannons killing attempt, the Irish Northern Side gang in 1924.According to Oregon Coast cartridge, contrary to the expectations of Torrio and Al Capone, the failure to take over this gang opened a can of worms as from there on the two gangs never saw each other to affection and this culminated to the shootings that left Torrio badly injured. In 1926, he was at it again and was arrested in connection to murdering of three individuals where he spent only one dark in jail only to be released for lack of enough evidence6.1 Pasley, Fred D. Al Capone The Biography of a self-Made Man. Kessinger Publishing, 2004 45 2 Oregon Coast Magazine online. Al Capone Social Issues, 1899-1947. Available at http//www.u-s- history.com/pages/h1616.html 3 Lorrizo, Luciano J. Al Capone a Biography. leafy vegetable wood Publishing Company, 2003 15 4 Ibid 165 Carpenoctem. Alphonse Scarface Al Capone (1899-1947) Chicago Crime Leader. 2000. Accessed from http//www.carpenoctem.tv/maffia/acapone.html 6 Oregon Coast Magazine online. Al Capone Social Issues, 1899-1947. Available at http//www.u-s- history.com/pages/h1616.html