Frank Salvatore Capone (1896 - 1924)

Born Jan 1896 in New York, United States

Ancestors

Died 1 Apr 1924 at age 28 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Frank Capone was the first son born in US. He went out to Chicago to work with his brother, Al Capone.

Frank was very violent. His saying; "You never get no back talk from a corpse."

The Capones set up operations outside of Chicago in Cicero in 1923. Frank and others used guns to always get what they wanted, even to make sure people voted as the ‘Chicago Outfit’ (Al Capone's gang) wanted.

In a shootout with the police, Frank was killed on April 1,1924. The jury returned a verdict that Frank had been killed while resisting arrest.

Sources

• United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSFK-MBC : accessed 23 December 2018 SJ Baty), Salvetore Capone in household of Gabriele Capone, Borough of Brooklyn, Election District 7 New York City Ward 11, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 159, sheet 5A, family 96, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,050.