Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone (46 page)

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At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Capone, surrounded by bodyguards, watches with paternal pride as Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs autographs a baseball for twelve-year-old Sonny Capone.

Capone's winter retreat on Palm Island, Miami.

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Fishing from his motor cruiser, moored off Palm Island.

Brown Brothers.

Sports-loving Capone watches the action at a Miami prizefight training camp.

At heavyweight Jack Sharkey's training camp shortly before the Sharkey-Young Stribling world championship fight in 1929. Left to right: Bill Cunningham, ex-football star, Al Capone and Sharkey.

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The slaughter of seven O'Banionites on St. Valentine's Day, 1929 (the seventh does not appear in this picture, having crawled to the door of the S-M-C Cartage warehouse before collapsing), left the Caponeites masters of the Chicago underworld.

Peter von Frantzius, "the armorer of gangland," whose Chicago sporting goods store the police suspected of having furnished the tommy guns used in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

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Fred "Killer" Burke, the only man of whom it can be said with moral certainty that he pulled a trigger in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Machine Gun Jack McGurn, who helped plan, if he did not take part in, the St. Valentine's Day massacre, was himself machine-gunned in a Chicago bowling alley on St. Valentine's Day seven years later. Here detectives read the comic valentine that the killers left on his body.

John Scalise.

Albert Anselmi.

Joe "Hop Toad" Giunta.

After dinner with Capone.