Biography of Al Capone - Mafia boss United


Alphonse Gabriel Capone (born January 17, 1899 - died January 25, 1947 at age 48 years), popularly known as Al Capone or Scarface, was an United States gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and selling illegal liquor and illegal activity other during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and the 1930s. Mafia itself comes from the ancient Sicilian, Mafiusu, which allegedly took mahyusu Arabic word which means a sanctuary or hermitage.


After the revolution in 1848, state of the island of Sicily messy so they need to form a sacred bond that protects them from attacks of other nations in this regard the Spaniards. Mafia name became famous after the farce played in 1863 with the title I mafiusi in la Vicaria (Beautiful people Vicaria), which tells of life in prison gang criminals in Palermo.

Although not clear who built it, but the founding of this organization originally based on the bond of brotherhood among fellow citizens descendants of the island of Sicily. In the course of history, which was originally a small group becomes larger and require more financial support so that the mission of the organization began to shift to seeking maximum profit with no heed to grammar rules of society to another. Surprisingly its members feel committed a crime because in their eyes, what it does is simply provide protection or protection of other groups being subjected to pressure or blackmail. So that the actors feel proud and honored to "help" someone from trouble. Since that is the word change its meaning Mafiusu person or organization to be "respectable." Another name for the Mafia Cosa Nostra, members always write these words with great respect that is written with initial capital letters. Cosa Nostra own sense is "our thing" or equally one nation, one thought or "our people." But in the translation of the book Mafia Manager by Bern Hidayat called Cosa Nostra that the translation is "none of our business.

Own Al Capone was born on January 17 with the original name of Alphonse Gabriel Capone, which is the fourth child of the couple Gabriele and Teresina Capone, Southern Italian immigrants who immigrated to the United States in 1893. In America the first Capone family lived at 95 Navy Street. When Al was 11 years old, Capone family moved to 21 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Al Capone dropped out of public schools in Brooklyn, he then worked odd jobs in Brooklyn, including disebuah candy shop and bowling. During that Al Capone was influenced by Giovanni Torrio Alias ​​John "Papa Johnny" Torrio or also known as "The Fox" who would become his mentor. After pekejaannya as a petty thief, Al Capone joined the notorious gang of Five Points Gang. then he dpekerjakan sbagai bouncer at Coney Island Dance Hall and Saloon by Frankie Yale Junior The feverish. This is where Al Capone received the scars that make him get the call "Scarface".

On December 30, 1918, Al Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin an Irish woman and dkaruniai a child named Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone. Then around the year 1921, Al Capone and his little family moved to Chicago mmutuskan and occupy the house at 7244 South Ave prairie, the southern city of Chicago. Capone came at the invitation of Torrio who are looking for business opportunities to trade goods dark ². Period Torrio obtain property from the proceeds of crime James "Big Jim" Colosimo murdered (allegedly murdered by Frankie Yale, although the charge was proved for lack of evidence) after refusing to enter new business areas and Al Capone at that time also has been charged with murder.


After the 1923 mayoral election, the Chicago mayor William Emmett Dever Selected reform, Chicago's city government began to put pressure on the gangsters and criminals in the city of Chicago. This makes the gangsters and criminals sultry. To put its headquarters outside the city jurisdiction, organization Capone (Chicago Outfit) entered by force into the Cicero, Illinois. They fight with criminals Cicero Myles O'Donnell and William "Klondike" O'Donnell to memperbutkan power in Cicero Town Center. Victory is in the hands of Capone, and it was a victory of Capone's most incredible city government takeover of Cicero in 1924. The war resulted in more than 200 people were killed.


Capone (by followers Murray The Hump), masterminded the killing of the most famous in the world of 19th century alley, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre 1929. In chicago, on February 14, 1929, occurred the shooting of seven members of Bugs Moran Mafia gangsters are ruthless. Although the details of the murder victims are mentioned only seven dtemukan disebuah 2212 North Clark Street garage but actually means the death toll expected to more than that. Of the incident directly linked to Capone and his followers, especially Murray The Hump and Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn but no one has ever been charged over the incident.

The end of the football exploits of Al Capone himself was not for murder, assault, robbery, theft or bribery, but due to smuggling cases. Al Capone was arrested while smuggling liquor by the FBI agent named Eliot Ness, Al Capone who was eyeing a long time. Cases that ultimately became the door for law enforcement in the U.S. to try him in layers on the green table.

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