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  • Essay / Who is Alphonse Capone, a mafia boss? - 1436

    It was described as "three jagged marks remaining pale and hairless - on his left cheek" ("Al Capone", Outlaws). Although he didn't like the nickname he was given after that fight, "Scarface", people thought it made him even more ruthless. He didn't care who got in his way, he put an end to it. “Capone’s refusal to tolerate betrayal, especially from his own men, was legendary” (“Al Capone,” Outlaws). Capone had discovered that three of his men were plotting against them and so he organized a banquet meant to honor them as his best gunmen. Later that night, near the end of the banquet, he beat his men to death in front of all the guests. It was legendary because it was a ruthless action and it shocked everyone. Al Capone was capable of eliminating anything that got in his way. “Leader of the cruelest assassins in American history, he inspired gang wars in which more than 300 men died with knives, shotguns, machine guns and pineapples” (“How the prohibition"). Pineapple is another word for a grenade used in the First World War. Since he was so powerful and ruthless, many people, younger than him perhaps, wanted to be like him and gain more power, wealth and respect, so they created gangs of their orders. possess with some of the same actions as