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In January 1899, Gabriel and Theresa Capone were awaiting the birth of their new son, unaware that he would eventually become one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. On the seventeenth of that month, their child Alphonse, later known as Al, was born. “He grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs," the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors” (www.chicagohistory.org/history/capone.html). He enlisted, “…

…was transferred to a new federal prison on Alcatraz. His prison term at Alcatraz was also ended early because of his parole. He was released in 1939 after an eight year long prison term with mental problems that were caused by untreated syphilis. He finally died on January 25, 1947,eight days after his forty-eighth birthday, at his palace-like estate in Palm Island, Florida( ,9), “from an unrelated heart attack” (www.mobsters.tv/famous_mobsters/fm_al_capone.htm)