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Al Capone (January 17, 1899–January 25, 1947) was a notorious gangster who ran an organized crime syndicate in Chicago during the 1920s, taking advantage of the era of Prohibition. Capone, who was both charming and charitable as well as powerful and vicious, became an iconic figure of the successful American gangster.

Fast Facts: Al Capone

• Known For: Notorious gangster in Chicago during Prohibition
• Born: January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York
• Parents: Gabriele and Teresina (Teresa) Capone
• Died: January 25, 1947 in Miami, Florida
• Education: Left grade school at 14
• Spouse: Mary 'Mae' Coughlin
• Children: Albert Francis Capone

Early Life

Al Capone (Alphonse Capone, and known as Scarface) was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian immigrants Gabriele and Teresina (Teresa) Capone and was the fourth of their nine children. From all known accounts, Capone's childhood was a normal one. His father was a barber and his mother stayed home with the children. They were a tight-knit Italian family trying to succeed in their new country.

Like many immigrant families at the time, the Capone children often dropped out of school early to help earn money for the family. Al Capone stayed in school until he was 14 and then left to take a number of odd jobs.

Around the same time, Capone joined a street gang called the South Brooklyn Rippers and then later the Five Points Juniors. These were groups of teenagers who roamed the streets, protected their turf from rival gangs, and sometimes carried out petty crimes like stealing cigarettes.

Scarface

It was through the Five Points gang that Al Capone came to the attention of brutal New York mobster Frankie Yale. In 1917, 18-year-old Capone went to work for Yale at the Harvard Inn as a bartender and as a waiter and bouncer when needed. Capone watched and learned as Yale used violence to maintain control over his empire.

One day while working at the Harvard Inn, Capone saw a man and woman sitting at a table. After his initial advances were ignored, Capone went up to the good-looking woman and whispered in her ear, 'Honey, you have a nice ass and I mean that as a compliment.' The man with her was her brother, Frank Gallucio.

Defending his sister's honor, Gallucio punched Capone. However, Capone didn't let it end there; he decided to fight back. Gallucio then took out a knife and slashed at Capone's face, managing to cut Capone's left cheek three times (one of which cut Capone from ear to mouth). The scars left from this attack led to Capone's nickname of 'Scarface,' a name he personally hated.

Family Life

Not long after this attack, Al Capone met Mary ('Mae') Coughlin, who was pretty, blonde, middle-class, and came from a respectable Irish family. A few months after they started dating, Mae became pregnant. Al Capone and Mae got married on December 30, 1918, three weeks after their son (Albert Francis Capone, a.k.a. 'Sonny') was born. Sonny was to remain Capone's only child.

Throughout the rest of his life, Al Capone kept his family and his business interests completely separate. Capone was a doting father and husband, taking great care in keeping his family safe, cared for, and out of the spotlight.

However, despite his love for his family, Capone did have a number of mistresses over the years. Plus, unknown to him at the time, Capone contracted syphilis from a prostitute before he met Mae. Since the symptoms of syphilis can disappear quickly, Capone had no idea that he still had the sexually transmitted disease or that it would so greatly affect his health in later years.

Chicago

About 1920, Capone left the East Coast and headed to Chicago. He was looking for a fresh start working for Chicago crime boss Johnny Torrio. Unlike Yale who used violence to run his racket, Torrio was a sophisticated gentleman who preferred cooperation and negotiation to rule his crime organization. Capone was to learn a lot from Torrio.

Capone started out in Chicago as a manager for the Four Deuces, a place where clients could drink and gamble downstairs or visit prostitutes upstairs. Capone did well in this position and worked hard to earn Torrio's respect. Soon Torrio had increasingly important jobs for Capone and by 1922, Capone had risen up the ranks in Torrio's organization.

When William E. Dever, an honest man, took over as Chicago's mayor in 1923, Torrio decided to avoid the mayor's attempts to curb crime by moving his headquarters to the Chicago suburb of Cicero. It was Capone who made this happen. Capone established speakeasies, brothels, and gambling joints. Capone also worked diligently to get all the important city officials on his payroll. It didn't take long for Capone to 'own' Cicero.

Capone had more than proven his worth to Torrio and it wasn't long before Torrio handed over the entire organization to Capone.

Crime Boss

Following the November 1924 murder of Dion O'Banion (an associate of Torrio and Capone's who had become untrustworthy), Torrio and Capone were seriously hunted by one of O'Banion's vengeful friends.

Fearing for his life, Capone drastically upgraded everything about his personal safety, including surrounding himself with bodyguards and ordering a bulletproof Cadillac sedan.

Torrio, on the other hand, did not greatly change his routine and on January 12, 1925, he was savagely attacked just outside his home. Nearly killed, Torrio decided to retire and hand his entire organization over to Capone in March 1925.

Capone had learned well from Torrio and soon proved himself to be an extremely successful crime boss.

Capone as a Celebrity Gangster

Al Capone, only 26 years old, was now in charge of a very large crime organization that included brothels, nightclubs, dance halls, race tracks, gambling establishments, restaurants, speakeasies, breweries, and distilleries. As a major crime boss in Chicago, Capone put himself in the public's eye.

In Chicago, Capone became an outlandish character. He dressed in colorful suits, wore a white fedora hat, proudly displayed his 11.5-carat diamond pinky ring, and would often pull out his huge roll of bills while out in public places. It was hard not to notice Al Capone.

Capone was also known for his generosity. He would frequently tip a waiter $100, had standing orders in Cicero to hand out coal and clothes to the needy during the cold winters, and opened some of the first soup kitchens during the Great Depression.

There were also numerous stories of how Capone would personally help out when he heard a hard-luck story, such as a woman considering turning to prostitution to help her family or a young kid who couldn't go to college because of the high cost of tuition. Capone was so generous to the average citizen that some even considered him a modern-day Robin Hood.

Cold-Blooded Killer

As much as the average citizen considered Capone to be a generous benefactor and local celebrity, Capone was also a cold-blooded killer. Although the exact numbers will never be known, it is believed that Capone personally murdered dozens of people and ordered the killing of hundreds of others.

One such example of Capone handling things personally occurred in the spring of 1929. Capone had learned that three of his associates planned to betray him, so he invited all three to a huge banquet. After the three unsuspecting men had eaten heartily and drank their fill, Capone's bodyguards quickly tied them to their chairs. Capone then picked up a baseball bat and began hitting them, breaking bone after bone. When Capone was done with them, the three men were shot in the head and their bodies dumped out of town.

The most famous example of a hit believed to be ordered by Capone was the February 14, 1929 assassination now called the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On that day, Capone's Henchman 'Machine Gun' Jack McGurn attempted to lure rival crime leader George 'Bugs' Moran into a garage and kill him. The ruse was actually quite elaborate and would have been completely successful if Moran hadn't been running a few minutes late. Still, seven of Moran's top men were gunned down in that garage.

Tax Evasion

Despite committing murder and other crimes for years, it was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre that brought Capone to the attention of the federal government. When President Herbert Hoover learned about Capone, Hoover personally pushed for Capone's arrest.

The federal government had a two-pronged attack plan. One part of the plan included collecting evidence of Prohibition violations as well as shutting down Capone's illegal businesses. Treasury agent Eliot Ness and his group of 'Untouchables' were to enact this part of the plan by frequently raiding Capone's breweries and speakeasies. The forced shut down, plus the confiscation of all that was found, severely hurt Capone's business—and his pride.

The second part of the government's plan was to find evidence of Capone not paying taxes on his massive income. Capone had been careful over the years to run his businesses with cash only or through third parties. However, the IRS found an incriminating ledger and some witnesses who were able to testify against Capone.

On October 6, 1931, Capone was brought to trial. He was charged with 22 counts of tax evasion and 5,000 violations of the Volstead Act (the main Prohibition law). The first trial focused only on the tax evasion charges. On October 17, Capone was found guilty of only five of the 22 tax evasion charges. The judge, not wanting Capone to get off easily, sentenced Capone to 11 years in prison, $50,000 in fines, and court costs totaling $30,000.

Capone was completely shocked. He had thought he could bribe the jury and get away with these charges just like he had dozens of others. He had no idea that this was to be the end of his reign as a crime boss. He was only 32 years old.

Alcatraz

When most high-ranking gangsters went to prison, they usually bribed the warden and prison guards in order to make their stay behind bars plush with amenities. Capone was not that lucky. The government wanted to make an example of him.

After his appeal was denied, Capone was taken to the Atlanta Penitentiary in Georgia on May 4, 1932. When rumors leaked out that Capone had been receiving special treatment there, he was chosen to be one of the first inmates at the new maximum security prison at Alcatraz in San Francisco.

When Capone arrived at Alcatraz in August 1934, he became prisoner number 85. There were no bribes and no amenities at Alcatraz. Capone was in a new prison with the most violent of criminals, many of whom wanted to challenge the tough gangster from Chicago. However, just as daily life became more brutal for him, his body began to suffer from the long-term effects of syphilis.

Over the next several years, Capone began to grow increasingly disoriented, experienced convulsions, slurred speech, and a shuffling walk. His mind quickly deteriorated.

After spending four-and-a-half years at Alcatraz, Capone was transferred on January 6, 1939, to a hospital at the Federal Correctional Institution in Los Angeles. A few months after that Capone was transferred to a penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

On November 16, 1939, Capone was paroled.

Retirement and Death

Capone had tertiary syphilis, which could not be healed. However, Capone's wife Mae took him to a number of different doctors. Despite many novel attempts at a cure, Capone's mind continued to degenerate.

Capone spent his remaining years in quiet retirement at his estate in Miami, Florida while his health slowly got worse.

On January 19, 1947, Capone suffered a stroke. After developing pneumonia, Capone died on January 25, 1947, of cardiac arrest at age 48.

Sources

• Capeci, Dominic J. 'Al Capone: Symbol of a Ballyhoo Society.' The Journal of Ethnic Studies 2.33–50 (1975).
• Haller, Mark H. 'Organized Crime in Urban Society: Chicago in the Twentieth Century.' Journal of Social History 5.2 (1971): 210–34.
• Iorizzo, Luciano J. 'Al Capone: A Biography.' Greenwood Biographies. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003.

Games Like Gangsters Organized Crime

Gangsters: Organized Crime is a strategy game by Eidos Interactive for Windows, first released in 1998. and re-released in 2012 on GOG.com. It is set in the fictional Chicago suburb of New Temperance in the Prohibition era. A sequel, Gangsters 2: Vendetta, was released by Eidos in 2001.

Gameplay[edit]

Gangsters is played by alternating between turn-based and real time gameplay. At the beginning you give orders to the gangsters (or 'hoods') under your control, which are then played out in front of you during the real-time aspect of the game (the working week).

To have any chance of winning the game, you must begin expanding your territory by giving your hoods the order to extort businesses into paying protection money to you every week (which must be collected). You will also have to begin recruiting more hoods for your gang as soon as possible by giving your hoods the recruit order. Additional hoods can be recruited from gyms, pool halls, cafés, the docks and the unemployment office.

The hoods have many different attributes such as intelligence, fists, knives, etc. which make them suitable for different missions. A hood with high knife skill and low fists skill may inadvertently kill someone he was merely sent to beat up, for instance. Hoods can be promoted to lieutenant, which gives them the ability to lead teams of hoods. It is also possible to hire a lawyer and an accountant. There are different automobiles and weapons that can be purchased to aid in carrying out missions.

To aid the needs of the mob, the player will need to administrate their mob's activities to bring in money. This can be done through the purchase of businesses (Both Legal and Illegal), a protection racket, raiding businesses and bribing/employing the appropriate people to ensure they do not get in trouble. A lawyer can keep the player's hoods out of jail while an accountant can cover all the illegal money the player makes, evading tax and auditing the player's businesses incase the hoods running them are stealing earnings from the player's business. The FBI can become involved with investigating illegal businesses, if they aren't run well enough to conceal them, resulting in costly shutdowns and heat toward the player.

The game has 3 victory conditions with varying degrees of difficulty, from easiest to hardest.

Go Straight: This requires the player to get a good lawyer and pull in a good sum of purely legal money from businesses owned, no hoods wanted by police and no 'heat'. Eventually the player can choose to drop the life of crime that paved their way and be legit with their new business empire. Rival gangs are the main threat to this goal as their movement on the player's territory can draw the player back to crime to retaliate or defend.

Gangsters 2

Get elected Mayor: This requires the player to secure mayor of the city, requiring a good lawyer, lots of money, territory and a winning vote. The player needs to keep their potential voters happy through low protection costs and high security with charitable causes from the player setup like soup kitchens. Owning a teamsters illegal business can give a substantial boost to votes too.

Domination: This is the hardest yet least complex way to win, destroy all rival gangs through force. The difficulty comes from the potentially huge amount of heat from the police as the player's hoods war with the enemy with huge bodycounts being brought up each week in addition to buildings being attacked, torched or blown up. Sometimes killing the enemy leaders isn't enough as, unlike the player, another hood from their gang can step up to take over for them, leading the player to need to seek out and destroy their offices.

Development[edit]

Reception[edit]

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Gangsters: Organized Crime was commercially successful.^[7][8] In the German market, it debuted in ninth place on Media Control's computer game sales rankings for the latter half of December 1998.^[9] The game proceeded to secure positions 8 and 11 for the first and second halves of January, respectively.^[10] Worldwide, Gangsters sold 350,000 units by June 1999. This performance led Hothouse to begin production of a sequel, Gangsters 2.^[7] Sales of the game rose to 500,000 units by November. Hothouse attributed the majority of its sales to Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.^[8]

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that 'While there are some interface problems, a few design holes, and a sketchy manual, once players master the complex game interactions, Gangsters becomes exactly what fans of this genre look for – something that keeps them up late at night.'^[3]

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References[edit]

1. ^Smith, Peter (January 12, 1999). 'Gangsters'. Computer Games Strategy Plus. Archived from the original on February 8, 2005.
2. ^Ardai, Charles (April 1, 1999). 'Gangsters'. Computer Gaming World. Archived from the original on August 16, 2000.
3. ^ ^ab'Finals'. Next Generation. No. 51. Imagine Media. March 1999. p. 92.
4. ^Durham Jr., Joel (April 1999). 'Gangsters: Organized Crime'. PC Gamer US. Archived from the original on December 21, 1999.
5. ^Donald, Mark. 'Heavy'. PC Gamer UK (65). Archived from the original on May 25, 2002.
6. ^Bacon, Elvis (December 8, 1998). 'Gangsters: Organized Crime Review'. PC Gaming World. Archived from the original on October 22, 2000.
7. ^ ^abAsher, Mark (June 4, 1999). 'Game Spin: Flykatana'. CNET Gamecenter. Archived from the original on December 10, 2000.
8. ^ ^ab'Pump 'Em Full of Lead! Gangsters is Set for a Return' (Press release). Hothouse Creations. November 9, 1999. Archived from the original on June 9, 2002.
9. ^Staff (March 1999). 'Spiele-Charts'. PC Player (in German): 50.
10. ^'CD-ROM Spiele über DM 55,--; Stand 2. Hälfte Januar 1999' (in German). Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland. Archived from the original on February 9, 1999.

External links[edit]

• Gangsters at MobyGames