Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone
An American gangster
Al Capone in 1930
Here's a time line of Al Capone's life:
- 1899 - was born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1918 - Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin
- 1919 - Capone left New York for Chicago at the invitation of Johnny Torrio, who was imported by crime boss James "Big Jim" Colosimo as an enforcer
- 1925 - became the new boss of an organization that took in illegal breweries and a transportation network that reached to Canada, with political and law-enforcement protection.
- 1929 - Capone was arrested by FBI agents as he left a Chicago courtroom after testifying to a grand jury that was investigating violations of federal prohibition laws.
- 1939 - He was paroled
- 1947 - dies at the age of 48.