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Al Capone Is Removed To Net ) Alcatraz PrisonSan Francisco, Aug. 20—(AP)— Every thing la ready lor, Al Oapone —on a reck in San Francisco Bay.Alcatraz Island, tlie new federal penltenllRry for incorrlgibles, to which Capone and 42 other convicts are being brought, has been ready for several days. It was formally declared so Saturday by Warden James A. Johnston on the occasion of an Inspection by .Unit* ed States Attorney General Homer S, Cummings,The convict population of the island—a 32-acre rock a mile and' a half from the San Francisco shore—was announced, at 41 just prior to the attorney general's visit.It is equipped to hold several hundred.Once a Spanish fortress, the island served for many years as a United 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 General Ctrnimlng6 4,as a vital part of our work of segregating the more desperate criminals-1'The swirling current from the Golden Gate form a natural barrier against escape and also Isolate the Island against unauthorised communications from the outside.
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North Adams Transcript
North Adams, Massachusetts, US
Mon, Aug 20, 1934
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