Al Capone
Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899. He didn’t grow up in a poor or troubled household, the majority of most of his days growing up he lived the childhood of a regular kid. He never seemed destined to be a worldwide infamous mobster, but as he started to become a young adult his actions showed otherwise. Throughout Al Capone’s life, he was known for committing and getting away with many dangerous crimes. His name will ring bells for several generations to come due to the notoriety of his infamous crimes (History). As a young child in grade school, Al Capone didn’t make the worst of grades. He was a decent student who lost interest in school and started enjoying doing mob like activities such as gambling with dangerous people like mobster Johnny Torrio. One day, Capone got in trouble with his teacher and was struck due to his troubling actions. When he was hit by his teacher, he lost all self control and hit his teacher back; causing him to get kicked out of his school (Nix).
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His parents moved there thinking it would create a better life and give young Capone more opportunities compared to where they previously lived; little did they know, this would be the place where their child would meet all the wrong people. It was said that once he moved outside of Brooklyn “Capone would meet both his future wife, Mary Mae Coughlin, and his mob mentor, numbers racketeer Johnny Torrio” (History). The only positive person Capone met once he moved was his future wife. His wife, Mae Capone, didn’t bring any negative aspects into Capone’s life like everybody else did, however, she never made much of an effort to stop him from hanging with, Johnny Torrio, one of the greatest mobsters at the time. His involvement with Torrio influenced him to become a mobster in his own right, and a good one at
Capone took charge of the illegal brewerie business and transportation. With the law on Capones side he began to use more violence to increase revenue. Capone was apart of the the Saint Valentines Massacre to kill the north side gang to reclaim his peace and keep peace throughout other gangs. Al Capone was one of the smartest, violent, organized criminals of this
The infamous Al Capone who ruled an empire of crime which included: gambling, bootlegging, bribery, murder, robbery, narcotics trafficking, auto theft, kidnapping, and much more. Has finally been arrested. It had seemed he could dodge all law enforcement and was untouchable, but justice has proved him wrong. On May, 17th Capone and his bodyguard were arrested for carrying concealed weapons and shortly after were sentenced to terms of one year each. Many know him as the American gangster or scarface.
Later Torrio left the gang and now Capone was in charge, he was more organized than Torrio in the gang. After, he got involved with the St. Valentine's day massacre killing the Moran’s gang members to destroy the Moran’s gang. Later was in jail from a tax evasion from hundred million dollars was a evaded. These were the reasons why Al Capone was a villain and was a criminal in the U.S. Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York as an immigrant.
Al Capone was seeing more crime and more people getting hurt that did nothing to be harmed. Since Al Capone was the biggest crime lord, he made all the other gangs to “tone it down” on their crimes. There were no crimes for two months. After being captured he went to court and tried to bribe the court after finding out who was going to be there but at the last second, the court changed, and Al Capone could bribe his way out and was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison.
Al Capone was a very popular gangster who had five kids; one boy and four girls. Al Capone was a criminal and went to prison numerous times. He had a normal childhood with rough times here and there. The soon-to-be criminal went to a normal public school like any other kid. Al may have looked and sounded normal, but in the end he became a criminal.
This earned him the nickname “Scarface” (Al Capone). He was usually always in criminal action except for a brief gap of time after his marriage to Mae Coughlin when he was nineteen. This was just a short time after the birth of their son, Albert Francis. Al wanted to be a good example as a father, so he took a job as a bookkeeper in Baltimore. His father’s death in 1920 is what got him back into crime.
(Burdick Harmon, 1) As a child, Al was a kid, he got expelled from school for punching a teacher. (Burdick Harmon, 2) Al never went back to school afterward. When he was older, Capone got in a fight over a girl and ended up getting slashed with a knife in his face. (Lunde, 129) There are many facts about Capone.
Capone was the fourth out of the nine that was born to Italian,working class immigrant parents. Young Al went to public school until he was in seventh grade. He had got into a fight with his teacher and principal so he dropped out (Baughman 1). Al was in some juvenile gangs,which
Besides most other gangsters Al Capone was born into a poor Italy immigrant family. His father was a well respected Italian barber. After getting expelled at the age of 14 for hitting a female teacher he never went back to school (http://www.biography.com/people/al-capone-9237536#early-life). Even though he never finished the sixth grade Al Capone was very intelligent and by the age twenty-six he was running Chicago’s criminal underworld. He began his career under the wing of criminal boss Johnny Torrio
Some people saw Al Capone as a good man, but most thought he was evil the way he worked things. He got away with the murder that happened on Valentine’s Day, which involved four of Moran’s men that were gunned down by Capone’s men. He was in Florida on vacation when this happened, but people still believed that he did it. That showed how much people blamed everything on him. Capone got away with many murders and taxes he had to pay, but eventually it caught up to him.
Heroes and Villains: Al Capone Heroes and Villains: Al Capone written by Diane Yancey was overall a fairly informative and intriguing account of his life. She explained how vice-like Al Capone's grip was on Chicago; together with its law enforcers and was capable of influencing the U.S. to repeal amendments. Not only did Yancey inform the reader Capone's smuggling and importation of liquor and other various items, but also prostitution, extortion, bribery, and violence,, but only after other means failed. She also didn't tell exclusively of his life throughout his fame, however additionally his childhood, education, and his beginning years as a malefactor/criminal. Additionally, she wrote concerning his life incarcerated, the legends and riches
After being kicked out he eventually found Johnny Torrio who would change Al Capone’s life forever. He helped Jonny run drugs to woman to anything illegal. During one of his escapades Capone met another gangster who was from the opposite side of town who cut Capone’s left cheek and left a long scar. Which eventually he got his name Scarface. Torrio Eventually moved to Chicago to run a whorehouse in 1909.
Al Capone was born on January 17th, 1899 in New York City, New York. He was a Italian Immigrant and which lead to much discrimination and he decided to join a gang. His family lived in a poor Brooklyn tenement. It was a tough place to grow up but it's what made him to the man he was.
In the middle of his sixth grade year, Al beat up his mathematics teacher (“Al Capone Biography”). His teacher had given him a C- on a test, and Al thought that he deserved a better grade (“Al Capone Biography”). Instead of talking to school officials, Al took matters into his own hands (“Al Capone Biography”). This ended his formal schooling, and
He started his bootleg business very young, he started to build up his business to become more successful This did cause some of his men to die or get injured very bad. Al Capone and his men did not cooperate with the police. But they did not care Al Capone was the best man there was in there eyes. They also did not want to get on his bad side. If they did they were destined to die.