Al Capone’s wife Mae attempts to hide her face as she goes to visit her husband at the Alcatraz hospital on March 1, 1926. Capone was suffering from a mental illness brought on by tertiary syphilis.

“I want to be on Alcatraz like I want poison oak on my private parts,” Moose complains in the opening paragraphs of “Al Capone Does My Shirts.” Only after he falls into well-intentioned cahoots with ...

The family of Gangster Alphonse (“Scarface”) Capone paid to the U ... since 1934 in rock-grim Alcatraz. The former overlord of Chicago booze and prostitution was taken some 400 miles from ...

Al Capone got an ... In 1934 Capone was moved from the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, where he enjoyed privileges denied other prisoners, to Alcatraz. Capone was a good prisoner, but his health ...

Part of a memorandum dated February 5, 1938, that appears to describe Al Capone having a seizure in Alcatraz prison after a period of confusion. Family photographs taken in 1945. Reprinted with ...

The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island ... which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates ...

Al Capone’s Colt 1911 ... A year later he was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in Atlanta and Alcatraz federal prisons.