My Bloody Cell
Al Capone’s cell at Eastern State Penitentiary. My title for this picture comes from how Capone ended up here in the first place. On the morning of February 14, 1929 (Valentine’s Day), member’s of Chicago’s North Side Irish gang were lined up and shot by two men dressed as police officers and suspected to be members of Capone’s South Side Italian gang. 7 people were killed and the event became known as the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Later that year Capone is arrested in Philadelphia for carrying a concealed weapon. The story is that this a planned arrest so that Capone could lay low for a while in relative safety behind bars. His cell was on the Park Avenue Block of the prison and was very finely furnished as you see here in the picture.
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My Bloody Cell
Al Capone’s cell at Eastern State Penitentiary. My title for this picture comes from how Capone ended up here in the first place. On the morning of February 14, 1929 (Valentine’s Day), member’s of Chicago’s North Side Irish gang were lined up and shot by two men dressed as police officers and suspected to be members of Capone’s South Side Italian gang. 7 people were killed and the event became known as the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Later that year Capone is arrested in Philadelphia for carrying a concealed weapon. The story is that this a planned arrest so that Capone could lay low for a while in relative safety behind bars. His cell was on the Park Avenue Block of the prison and was very finely furnished as you see here in the picture.
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