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Alphonsus Gabriel "Al" Capone, probably the most known gangster of in history, was born to Gabriel and Teresina Capone in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1899. Al Capone's parents immigrated from Italy in 1894. Capone was the forth oldest of nine brothers and sisters. Capone started his gang life early when he joined the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors, two local gangs comprised of teenage troublemakers from around the neighborhood. He was then expelled from school for punching a teacher, and then quit school in the sixth grade. Capone joined the Manhattan based, Five Points Gang, headed by Frank Yale who owned the Harvard Inn. Al worked many odd jobs such as a candy store clerk, a pin setter in a bowling alley, and later worked for his gang's leader as a bartender at the Harvard Inn. In 1918, Capone met an Irish girl named Mary "Mae" Coughlin at a dance in New York. On December 4, 1918, Mae gave birth to Capone's first son, Albert Francis "Sonney" Capone.......

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