The Roaring Twenties were a turbulent time in the United States. World War I had just ended and everyone was in high spirits. Young people wanted to have fun and were not going to let anything stop them--not even prohibition. Speakeasies, nightclubs, gambling houses, and bookie joints were put up to satisfy their craving for fun. Along with all these illegal "fun spots" came the rampant growth of underground crime. Gangsterism was on the rise and was growing out of control. One of the main contributors to this organized crime outburst was Al Capone. His criminal life showed a legacy never seen before in the United States and never to be repeated again.
Crime was Al Capone's life, he ate it, slept it and drank it. He owned and worked .
speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, horse and race tracks, night clubs, distilleries, and breweries from 1925-1930, and had an annual income of one-hundred million dollars (Al 2). He got his nickname, Scarface, for insulting a woman at the bar he worked at. Her brother attacked Capone with a knife, leaving a scar across his left cheek. Capone had been involved in many massacres. One of the most famous massacres in history, the St. Valentines Day Massacre, was planed by one of Capone's closest friends, McGurn. McGurn and his men planned a staged police raid to kill antagonist Bugs Morgan. Seven of Morgan's men were shot and killed. In 1925, a rival gangster (Lonergan) and his men were killed in the Adonis Club massacre in 1925. Lastly, in 1929 two Sicilian colleagues gave Capone problems with his businesses. He invited.
them for dinner, and after the meal was over, beat the two men and their other partner to death (Bardsley 6, 11, 15, 19-23). .
Convicting an international criminal was not easy but the federal government put all their efforts to find evidence on Capone. Many people knew what Capone did but he couldn't be convicted in a court of law because there was a lack of evidence.
