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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Capone's possessions still command hefty sums

The story below appeared earlier today in the British newspaper 

Daily Express Reporter:


AL CAPONE'S PLEA LETTER SET TO 

FETCH £10,000 AT AUCTION

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Wednesday
October 20,2010

By Daily Express Reporter















The prohibition era gangster complains that his cell is “damp and a lack of air sometimes keeps me up during the nights.” 
The letter was sent to the US Federal Prisons Director in July 1936, four years after Capone was jailed for tax evasion. 
He wrote: “My life is in constant danger, I have in fact received over six threats in the last three months.” 
Capone remained in the island prison in San Francisco Bay for a further three years before being moved prior to his release in 1939. He died in 1947 from a heart attack. The letter is being sold next month in Los Angeles alongside one of his gold rings.

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