AL CAPONE
SHIFTED TO NEW ISLAND PENITENTIARY. IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY. PROVISION FOR DANGEROUS FELONS. (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 19. An Atlanta message states that Al Capone was one of forty-three Federal prisoners transferred from the penitentiary there to the new penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, in San Bay, which is specially designed to house the nation’s most dangerous felons. The former gangster and racketeer is serving a long sentence for tax evasion. The prisoners were removed secretly on Saturday night in two heavily-guarded railway carriages for the trans-con-tinental journey.
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Wairarapa Age, 21 August 1934, Page 5
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