Al Capone

Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Gabrielle and Teresina Capone, Italian immigrants from the Southwest. His father, Gabriele, was a humble Barber from Italian of Castellammare di Stabia, a town located 24 km from the South of Naples, and his mother, Teresina Raiola, was a seamstress, daughter of Angelo Raiola (from Angri, a town in the province of Salerno, to the southwest of Italy). Both would have nine children.

Al Capone he would abandon studies of fifth-graders at the school at the age of fourteen years, then go to work in different places, like a candy store located in a bowling alley in Brooklyn as a dependent. During that season, Capone would know to the gangster Johnny Torrio, and the young man would be influenced by him to such an extent that Torrio was to become his mentor. Johnny Torrio introduced the young Capone in different youth gangs of robbers as "The Junior Forty Thieves", "Five Points Junior" or the famous "Five Points Gang", the most dangerous youth band at that time. Here begin the criminal career of Capone.

Shortly thereafter, would become the mobster Frankie Yale, who entrusted to Capone's bodyguard tasks such as extortion to different business owners that will yield a part of its profits. At that time it would be born as a waiter and bodyguards in a nightclub of their Chief called "Yale´s". One night, Capone got drunk at this club, and insulted one of the girls who worked there, causing a fight between Capone and the brother of the girl, Frank Gallucio. It took out a knife and with her rajaría you three times the face to Capone. There was his famous nickname of "face cut", since those chuckle in the face would leave him three scars of enough consideration. The next day, Capone went to apologize to Gallucio (on orders from Yale) and then would cease to be the bodyguard of a local, although it would continue working for Yale.

Al Capone still working for Frankie Yale and believed that he had committed at least two murders, when it was sent to Chicago in 1919, along with his mentor Johnny Torrio, city where they began to work under the orders of James "Big Jim" Colosimo, King of Vice in those days.

Shortly thereafter, Torrio went on to manage the band thanks to the murder of his boss in one of his own local, is not known certainly if it was eliminated by Capone or by Frankie Yale.

Before the removal of Torrio in 1925, Capone finally took command. Although probably never was initiated in Cosa Nostra, was quickly associated with the Mafia and took the Chicago underworld after removing all their rivals in a series of wars, whose trigger was the murder of Dean Charles O'Banion. 1926 Capone exercised the control of crime in the city, defeated Myles O'Donnell band and could control all but two bands, the Aiello and Bugs Moran. Faced with this situation, Capone took measures and in less than a

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