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While Al Capone was making his bloody, meteoric ascent to the top of the crime syndicates, his older brother Vincent was arresting bootleggers and busting up liquor stills.

Escaping the Italian Ghetto

Vincenzo Capone, seven years Al’s senior, was born in Naples, Italy, and was 2 when his parents, Gabriele and Teresina Capone, immigrated to America in 1894. Gabriele earned a modest living as a barber, but Brooklyn held little promise for many young Italians, other than a life of crime. At 16, Vincenzo fled to the Midwest and got a job as a circus roustabout.

He developed into an athletic young man through his labors combined with a circus sidelight occupation, wrestling. He also learned to shoot pistols and rifles—quite well. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Vincenzo enlisted as a foot soldier. By the end of the conflict, he had become a lieutenant and earned a medal for marksmanship.


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