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Al Capone wore the Straw Optimo Panama hat during the summer months. The Panama hat is light-colored, light in weight, and breathable. A wide-brimmed shape also characterizes this famous summer hat. Other prisoners began to think that Capone was receiving preferential treatment and for his own safety, Capone was transferred to the soon-to-be infamous and newly opened Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway. Wayne State University Press. 1995. p.146. ISBN 0814325831. Archived from the original on June 7, 2020 . Retrieved October 15, 2020.

He particularly favored Borsalinos like his famous white cream one, which he wore tapered at the top to produce a straight creased profile with a deep crease at the center. On February 28, 1931, Capone was found guilty in federal court on the contempt of court charge and was sentenced to six months in Cook County Jail. His appeal on that charge was subsequently dismissed.

Using legal loopholes that entitled Capone to forgo claiming profits from criminal activity on his tax return, a Supreme Court ruled that the income had to be declared and that the loophole used by Capone stretched the Fifth Amendment too far. The IRS assigned a task force to investigate Capone led by Frank J. Wilson. Since Capone didn’t own any assets in his name and didn’t have a bank account, Wilson instead focused his attention on Capone’s lavish spending practices. Knowing that Capone could never afford the clothing, accessories, cars, jewelry and cigars on his declared income, Wilson used the spending as a way to prove Capone had falsified his income. In addition, the IRS targeted Capone’s key employees including his brother Ralph who was convicted of tax evasion in 1930 and spent three years in prison. A 1929 report by The New York Times connected Capone to the 1926 murder of Assistant State Attorney William H. McSwiggin, the 1928 murders of chief investigator Ben Newmark and former mentor Frankie Yale. [62] Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Capone is Accused of Many Murders; But Chicago Policy Decide Statement by Wife of His 'Executioner' Is Myth. Yale Named as One Victim; Receipt of Letters Threatening Exposure of 'Scarface Al' as the Slayer of McSwiggin Denied". The New York Times. October 16, 1929. Archived from the original on January 23, 2021 . Retrieved January 23, 2021. Bryson, Bill (2013). One Summer, America, 1927. New York: Random House. pp.116–117. ISBN 978-0375434327.

Michaels, Will (2016). "Al Capone in St. Petersburg, Florida" in Hidden History of St. Petersburg. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1625858207. Al Capone's tax trial and downfall". Myalcaponemuseum.com. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014 . Retrieved August 16, 2014. The hat’s contrasting 4-inch (10.1 cm) band wrapped all around the base, with its distinctive front pinch and wide brim setting you miles apart from regular “gentlemen.” Hoffman Dennis E. (1993). Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders: Chicago's Private War Against Capone. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0809319251. In a tactical ploy, Capone was ambushed leaving him unhurt but unable to work as he needed time to rest. A little over one week later, in January of 1925, Torrio was shot several times by a hitman on his return home from a shopping plaza. Despite surviving the assassination attempt, Torrio was shaken and resigned as the leader leaving the reigns to Capone, who at just 26 years of age became the new boss of Chicago’s largest crime syndicate.The Sydney is a soft fedora with a snap brim. This hat is a classic Fedora, with an open crown for you to personalize with your own crease. Al Capone Trial (1931): An Account by Douglas O. Linder (2011)". Law2.umkc.edu. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014 . Retrieved August 16, 2014.

While most of these hat styles were popular in the 1920s, you can still spot men wearing some today, such as the Panama straw hat and the Godfather hat. Al Capone typically wore dark-colored three-piece suits. His fedora hats thus tended to lean towards light contrasting colors. Eghigian, Mars Jr. (2005). After Capone: The Life and World of Chicago Mob Boss Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti. Naperville, Ill.: Cumberland House Publishing. ISBN 1581824548. Visitors to the Court-Historic Trials". US District Court-Northern District of Illinois. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011 . Retrieved February 10, 2011.These fedoras were almost always made of wool felt (see all of our felt fedoras). However, some gangsters like Bugsy Siegel wore straw hats. He sometimes wore the popular Panama Hat as part of his ensemble. Others could be seen wearing the Trilby hat which is very similar to the fedora but with a narrower brim. In the end, Capone was having delusional chats with friends long dead, which his family often went along with. Though he was one of the first people to receive penicillin treatments, it was too late at that point. His organs, including his brain, had begun to rot. A stroke in January 1947 allowed pneumonia to take hold, and before long his heart was failing. Webley, Kayla (April 28, 2010). "Top 10 Parolees". Time.com. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014 . Retrieved July 23, 2014. Pasley, Fred D. (2004). Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co. ISBN 1417908785. Al Capone was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York, New York, on January 17, 1899. [3] His parents were Italian immigrants Gabriele Capone (1865–1920) and Teresa Capone ( née Raiola; 1867–1952). [4] His father was a barber and his mother was a seamstress, both born in Angri, a small comune outside of Naples in the Province of Salerno. [5] [6] Capone's family had immigrated to the United States in 1893 by ship, first going through Fiume (modern-day Rijeka, Croatia), a port city in what was then Austria-Hungary. [3] [7] The family settled at 95 Navy Street, in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. When Al was aged 11, he and his family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn. [3]

Elmer Irey undertook a cunning plan to use undercover agents posing as hoods to infiltrate Capone's organization. The operation took nerves of steel. Despite an informer ending up with a bullet in his head before he could testify, Elmer managed to amass enough evidence through his detectives, posing as gangsters, to try Capone in front of a jury. With two vital bookkeepers, Leslie Shumway and Fred Reis, who had once been in Capone's employment, now safely under police protection, it was only a matter of time before Capone's days as Public Enemy No. 1 were over. a b Lyle, John H. (November 12, 1960). "Chicago in the Capone Era: a City in Chains". Chicago Tribune. Chicago. p.11. Archived from the original on December 16, 2014 . Retrieved January 23, 2021.Myers, William S.; Newton, Walter H. (1936). The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative. New York: Charles H. Scribner. p.376.