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Alphonse Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York and was fourth in nine children. His father, Gabriele Capone was a barber and an immigrant from Angri, Italy along with Teresa Capone, his mother.
Alphonse dropped out of school in the sixth grade and joined a street gang known as the Five Points Gang in Manhattan, while working as a bouncer and bartender at the Harvard Inn, a Coney Island bar owned by Frankie Yale, the mobster.
In 1917, during a fight at the Harvard Inn, Capone’s face was slashed by a brother of a female patron he insulted and he was left with three indelible scars.
In his later years, he tried to hide his scarred face in photographs and claimed them to be war wounds even though he never served in the army. After gaining grounds as a gangster, he was nicknamed “Scarface” by the press but he greatly abhorred it.
He went by other names like Big Fellow and Snorky, a slang term for spiffy. He got married in 1918 to Mae Coughlin and they had one child, Sonny. He moved to Chicago in 1920, where he worked for Torrio, a man who was part of a criminal organisation led by a man named Big Jim Colosimo.
After Cosimo was killed, possibly a hit by Torrio and carried out by Capone’s former boss, Frankie Yale, Torrio became boss and made Capone one of his headmen.
Torrio was shot outside his house in 1925. He survived the attack but left Chicago a year later and made Capone, who was twenty-six at that time his replacement.
He expanded the underworld organisation and his crime syndicate racked in about hundred million dollars a year. He dealt in bootlegging, gambling, racketeering, and many other illegal activities. Even though Capone ordered many hits on his enemies, he was never prosecuted but was named Public Enemy number one in April 1930.
In June 1931, he was arrested and charged for income-tax fraud. He was fined fifty thousand dollars and sentenced to eleven years in prison. He was released in 1939 and underwent several months of treatment for syphilis. In January 1947, Capone, now forty-eight years old, suffered a stroke and died at his home in Florida on January 25, 1947.
He was buried near the graves of his father and one of his brothers at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Their remains of them were moved to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois in 1950.
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