Al Capone Research Paper Outline

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born In Brooklyn New York to Gabriele Fitzgerald (December 12, 1864 – November 14, 1920) and his wife Teresina Raiola (December 28, 1867 – November 29, 1952) in Brooklyn, on January 17, 1899.[2] Gabriele was a barber from Castellammare di Stabia, a town about 15 miles (24 km) south of Naples, Italy. Teresina was a seamstress and the daughter of Angelo Raiola from Angri, a town in the province of Salerno in southwestern Italy.

Gabriele and Teresena had nine children: Vincenzo Capone (1892 – October 1, 1952), Raffaele Capone (January 12, 1894 – November 22, 1974), Salvatore Capone (January 1895 – April 1, 1924) Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), Erminio Capone (born 1901, date of death unknown),
Umberto Capone (1906 – June 1980), Matthew Capone (1908 – January 31, 1967), Rose Capone (born and died 1910) and Mafalda Capone (later Mrs. John J. Maritote, January 28, 1912 – March 25, 1988).

The Capone family emigrated to Canada for some time before returning in 1894 and settling at 95 Navy Street,[3] in the Navy Yard section of downtown Brooklyn, near the Barber Shop that employed Gabriele at 29 Park Avenue.[3] When Al was 14, the Capone family moved to 21 Garfield Place[3] in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Capone left school in the sixth-grade at age 14, after being expelled for punching a teacher at Public School 133. He then worked at odd jobs around Brooklyn, including in a candy store and a bowling alley.[4] During this time, Capone was influenced by gangster Johnny Torrio, whom he came to regard as a mentor figure.[5]

After his initial stint with small-time gangs, including The Junior Forty Thieves, Capone joined the Five Points Juniors, and then the notorious Five Points Gang.
He was mentored by and employed as a bouncer by racketeer Frankie Yale.[6][7] It was in this field that Capone received the scars that gave him the nickname "Scarface";[8] he inadvertently insulted a woman while working the door at a Brooklyn night club, provoking a fight with her brother Frank Gallucio. Capone's face was slashed three times on the left side. Capone apologized to Gallucio at Yale's request and would hire his attacker as a bodyguard in later life.[9][10] When photographed, Capone hid the scarred left side of his face and would misrepresent his injuries as war wounds.[9][11] According to the 2002 magazine from Life called Mobsters and Gangsters: from Al Capone to Tony Soprano, Capone was called "Snorky" by his closest
friends.[12]

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, an Irish woman.[10] Earlier that month she had given birth to their son, Albert Francis ("Sonny") Capone.[10]

The date of Capone's departure from New York, with his family, to Chicago is usually set around the year of 1920.[13] Capone came at the invitation of Torrio, who was seeking business opportunities in bootlegging following the onset of prohibition. Torrio had acquired the crime empire of James "Big Jim" Colosimo after the latter refused to enter this new area of business and was subsequently murdered (presumably by Frankie Yale, although legal proceedings against him had to be dropped due to a lack of evidence.)[14] Capone was also a suspect for two murders at the time, and was seeking a better job to provide for his new family.[15]