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AL CAPONE NOWON HIS WAY TOPRISON IN BAYNEW ORLEANSAl Capone. America’s public enemy. No. 1 long before the worldhad ever heard of John Dillinger.new prison homeHe is being transferred, with great secrecy, from Atlanta penitentiary to the new Alatraz prison in San Francisco Bay—the prison FVderal authorities call ••Impregnable/With 42 other prisoners. Capone was whisked out of the penitentiary in Atlanta in the early hours of Sunday. Guarded by a pickedsquad of Federal agents carrying automatic shotguns, the prisoners were placed in two specially-built screened and barred railroad cars and started on their way to Alcatraz—the island prison fortress designed for convicts considered too dangerous to be kept in ordinaryprisons.Although Federal authoritiesmaintained a tight-lipped silenceabout reports the former gang lead-| er was being sent to the PacificCoast prison his presence n the (rrnim u as #sthliahed hv new spa -per men when the convict cars arrived here.SAN FRANCISCO. Aug 30 —Everything is ready for Al Capone —on a rock in San Francisco Bay.Alcatraz Island, the new Federal penitentiary for incorrigible*, to which Capone and 42 other convicts are being brought, has been ready for several days. It was formally declared so Saturday by WardenJames A Johnston on the occasion of an inspection by United States Attorney General Homer S. Cum-j mings.The con vkrtland—a 12-acre rock a mile and a half from the San Francisco shore —was announced at 47 just prior to the Attorney Generals visit. It isequipped to hold several hundred.or.rp a sn»nish fortress, the island served for many wars as aUnited States Army disciplinary barracks until its transformation into a regular prison. Equipped with the latest devices of steel and weapons against attempted escape, it was described by Attorney Gen-1 eral Cummings as a vital part of | our work of segregating the more desperate criminals/ jThe swirling current from the Golden Gate form natural barrier ; against escape and also isolate the island against unauthorized communications from the outside.
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The Berkshire Evening Eagle
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US
Mon, Aug 20, 1934
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