Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), more popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was a famous American Gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card is reported to have said he was a dealer in used furniture. A Neapolitan born in New York, Capone began his career in Brooklyn before moving to Chicago and becoming that city's most notorious crime figure. By the end of the 1920s Al Capone was on the Bureau of Investigation's "Most Wanted" list. His downfall occurred in 1931 when he was indicted and convicted by the federal government for income tax evasion and sent to the notorious island prison of Alcatraz. He died in 1947 at his estate in Miami, Florida.

Death and Aftermath

Sometime in the mid-1930s, and at Alcatraz, Capone began showing signs of dementia, probably related to a case of untreated syphilis he contracted as a young man. He spent the last year of his sentence in the prison hospital, and was released late in 1939. After spending a year of residential treatment at a hospital in Baltimore, he retired to his estate in Miami, FL.

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Syphilis - Baltimore

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Capone was now a broken man. He no longer controlled any mafia interests. On January 21, 1947, Capone suffered a stroke and then died of cardiac arrest. His death was a quiet affair at his Palm Island home, where he had lived for the past seven years. He was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery then moved to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Chicago's West Side, next to the graves of his father and brother.

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