Heres one interesting article from May 1928....

Both Chicago and Detroit had a lot of murders in Prohibition era from 1920 to 1933.

"Brooklyn map showing Al Capone's world as a youngster. The yellow square shows the original St. Michael's Archangel church where Al was baptized when the Capones lived on Navy street. That original church burned down in 1914.

The red square shows where the later St. Michael's church was built in 1915, and where the Capone baseball team was organized. The green square is Park Avenue where the Capones lived for a time in the early 1900's. The nearby park (City Park) is where Al Capone once played baseball and it's still standing today!

The blue square is where the Capones moved to. Garfield place and Al's neighborhood. This is the area where Al and his friends hung around. The Fischetti family lived near Carroll and Capone's slasher Frank Galluccio lived on Union street. Capone's slashing would occur on December 8,1918, at a restaurant near 5th Avenue and Union Street."
(courtesy of the myalcaponemuseum.com)

The red arrow by Nevins St. indicates Douglas St, where I lived for many years. The streets run Nevins, Bond, Hoyt and Smith. I lived on Douglas between Smith and Hoyt and would shop at the Pantry Pride by Butler St and 5th Ave, very close to where Al would receive the scars he would carry the rest of his life.

St Mary Shining Star of the Sea on Court St in Brooklyn, where Al and Mae Coughlin were married December 30, 1918. Just a few blocks down, and decades later, was Gambino Soldier and John Gotti's bodyguard, Bobby Boriello's, One Over Golf Club, which was still there when I moved to the neighborhood.
image courtesy of my fucking self.

Take a walk down mobbed up Court St in Brooklyn, at the :01 mark you'll observe a statue of the Virgin in front of St Mary's Shining Star of the Sea church on where Al and Mae Coughlin were married in 1918. As the the camera pans around you'll observe one of the last openly displayed Italian Social Club in NYC under the red awning, top right. If you were to continue up Court you would soon pass Scotto Wines and Scotto funeral home. The last vestiges of Gambino Capo Michael and Anthony Scotto. Farther down stood the Anthony Anastasio International Longshoreman Workers Union building, brother of the Mad Hatter Albert Anastasia. Frankie Ioele often frequented the area and had more than one person murdered on Court St where Two Knife Willie Altieri once sliced a man's throat open and left two knives in his gut at Para's theater which still stands today.

1913 arrest of Joe Masseria for burglary. Masseria and Lagattuta were convicted of burglary. Sentencing occurred on May 23. Lagattuta was sentenced to serve between two and a half and five years in prison. Because Masseria had a previous criminal record, he was sentenced to four to six years in prison
Source info:
?Hunt, Thomas, "Masseria’s 1913 burglary conviction," The American Mafia, mafiahistory.us,
Images newspaper article on Masseria conviction
Masseria Sing Sing intake form.

The only known photos of Salvatore Maranzano are the ones from his murder. One is a coroner's diagram of wounds sustained and their cause. The other is an actual photo of Maranzano lying dead on the floor of his office.

He was a pretty big guy, maybe with AI they can restruct his face.

Good point Dutch. I wonder if it's something someone can do on Chat GPT for the forum. I've attempted some artwork but I'm still lagging behind.

Paul Kelly/Paolo Vaccarelli
Mentor to Johnny Torrio and Al Capone

Little Naples Cafe and New Brighton Athletic Club, 57-59 Great Jones St. between Lafayette St. and the Bowery.
Still standing, these two buildings were home to Kelly's Five Points Gang until 1905.

Paul Kelly article in the N.Y. Tribune in 1901 arrested for prize fighting at a blacksmiths shop at 24 Hester St.

Heres another interesting newspaper clip but from 1922, around 3 years after Capone's arrival in Chicago....

Al being questioned in 1924 regarding the murder of his brother Frank Capone...

How do you attach those newspaper clips?

Im using snipping tool to cut clips from newspaper articles and then i use the following site (https://imgbb.com/) which gives me a link so I can post them here.

The two cops who were responsibe for the murder of Frank Capone...

Brooklyn Daily Times newspaper article describing the attack that left the permanent scars on the left side of Al Capone's face on December 9, 1918 in Brooklyn, N.Y. The article incorrectly describes them as being on the right side of his face, when in fact, they were on the left side of his face.
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/556041223/

Thanks,but better if I just try to explain what I'm unable to attach
In 1955 the Washington Post ran an editorial by Jack Anderson about the mafia which quoted some Senate Files.
The article stated that when Msaranzano arrived in the US,Capone told him that his control would not be recognized here.And that Capone stated that out of respect they'd give im $2000 a week,but he is to mind his own business and not interfere in their affairs

Marazano remained in a sort of semi retirement for quite awhile until in 1931 he again thirsted for power

Maranzano arranged a feast around 3 Catholic Holidays and ordered all know mafia to attend and to pay tribute to Maranzano.The feast lasted a week and a short time after ,he was murdered.

The Capone boys were not hoods all their lives. They went to school, worked legitimate jobs and kept their noses clean. This was probably at their parents urging to try and stay on the straight and narrow path, and not to fall into temptation, as had happened to past Italian comrades. This was especially true coming from Gabriele the patriarch who wanted his boys not to sully the Capone name in their new country. They socialized, participated in community events, joined various clubs.

"Spaghetti" was little Alphonse's nickname as a boy.

Al Capone; The Early Years
https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id242.htm

Mr Gomes and his excellent website are great resources for Al Capone history, he responds to your emails and I have been corresponding with him for a while. Wasn't Al nicknamed Spaghetti because of a sinus infection that caused to stream mucus from his nose, like spaghetti? The period between 1909 and 1919 are murky for details on the exploits of Torrio, Capone, Yale and Luciano. If Torrio moved to Chicago in 1909, that means Al Capone was only ten when Torrio left NY, how much of an early influence could he have been? I believe that Yale took Capone under his wing sometime after this and it was through Yale that Capone was introduced to Paul Kelly and then Masseria and later Luciano, this was probably between 1915 and 1919 while Capone was working at the Harvard Inn. According to Mr Gomes, Al didn't actually move to Chicago until after his father died in 1921(I believe, off the top of my head). When Kelly's Little Naples and New Brighton Athletic Club were shutdown in 1905, after the attack by former partner Biff Ellison. Paul Kelly eventually moved over to the Brooklyn waterfront and became involved in organized labor, probably after 1926. Yale didn't gain control of the Brooklyn waterfront until after Adonis Club massacre in 1926.

Morello's spaghetti restaurant at no.8 Prince St., near the intersection of Prince and Elizabeth streets. Across the street at no.9 Prince St., was Lupo the Wolf's Import Market. It was at the back of no.9, that Lupo allowed Joe Masseria to open a saloon. After The Clutch Hand Morello and Lupo went up the river in 1909, the Terranovas moved up to E.107th St. and left Salvatore D'Aquila in Little Italy. Masseria took over Lupo's operation and controlled Elizabeth St where he was involved in numerous crimes including burglary. He operated an open liquor market along Elizabeth St from Grand St. to Kenmare St. in Little Italy, named Whiskey Curb or Bootleggers Curb. D'Aquila began encroaching on Whiskey Curb, often with gunfights in the open street. By 1920, war for the control of Little Italy, between D'Aquila and Masseria, had erupted and it was at this time that, Masseria brought in Luciano.

Arrest of Al Capone & Some of His Men at a Boxing Match (May 1930)

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-arrest-of-al-capone-som/14896796/

Portrait of Criminal Nick Circella
(Original Caption) Nick Circella, alias Nick Dean, now serving an eight year prison term for his role in the conspiracy by which four of the country's largest movie picture companies were mulcted of huge sums of money on threats of suffering labor trouble. Nick's girl, Estelle Carey, was found slain.

https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/n...rving-an-eight-year-news-photo/517818268

Newspaper articles from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle documenting early arrests of Frankie Yale for gun possession in Brooklyn before 1920.

Image No.1 is from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated, Thursday July 31, 1913.
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53150681/?terms=Brooklyn%20Daily%20Eagle%20

Image No.2 is from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated Friday February 02, 1917
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/54438652/

Image No.3 is from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated Monday May 21, 1917.
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/55293731

List of pallbearers at Colosimo's funeral in 1920...its a list of whos who in Chicagos OC, high society and politics at the time, although some of the names are misspelled, especially the Italian ones...

Thanks TD I see a Sol van Praag, that's a Dutch-Jewish name.

Yup, and he also played a major role in Colosimos pimp racket.

Thx

https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id126.htm

Thank you too bud. In previous article regarding Johnny Patton, I also mentioned Praag for owning joints around Burnham and in fact, one of his main operators Joseph Grabiner known as the “Jew Kid” was killed in one of those same establishments. It was the time when Praag decided to give his loyalty to the Colosimo/Patton/Guzik syndicate.

Btw @H, you ever heard of Chicago's underworld figures Maurice aka Morris and Julius van Bever aka Beaver?

This is from 1909...

Nope TD.

One thing stands out to me with Capone with al the violence going on he was a master spin doctor.
He was a master of 'spinning', long before that concept existed, a clever manipulator who could think off the cuff and usually knew exactly what he wanted to say and what not.

The first time he attempted to directly influence public opinion was in January 1927, shortly after the body of Theodore "Tony the Greek" Anton was found. Anton had been tortured, frozen and dumped to such an extent that it was supposed to serve as a warning that the murderers could go about their business with impunity if they wanted. Several days later and without referring to Anton, Al Capone held a special press conference. The special thing about it was that he did not let the journalists come to his headquarters in the hotel, but invited them to his house on Prairie Avenue. There he received them in slippers and dressed in a pink apron(!), waving the large wooden spoon with which he had been stirring his mother's spaghetti sauce (not homemade because he liked to eat but hated cooking). He treated them to a meal in the dining room, consisting of all kinds of dishes prepared by Teresa, and accompanied by a good red wine (which of course they did not mention in their articles about the good, kind and happy family man that he was). The press conference temporarily had the calming effect it intended: in their articles about the gang wars, the journalists casually noted how much Al Capone regretted the violence.