Al "Scarface" Capone: The Luckiest Gangster

According to BBC, in London, a .38 caliber revolver that was owned and used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre by Al Capone, who was also known as "Scarface," was sold in an auction for 67,250 pounds, which roughly converts to $108,539.83. For those who do not know, Al "Scarface" Capone was a mobster during the Prohibition Era of the early 1930s. It had been rumored that Capone had been committing crimes long before he had even fully grown. He eventually climbed his way up the crime ladder and became a famous face in the public eye. He was very large in the bootlegging industry, as many Prohibition gangsters were. Mr. "Scarface's" empire was worth $62,000,000 by 1929. His luck eventually ran out, however, as he had gone and left many penitentiaries, he eventually got into an argument with another inmate at Alcatraz while in line to get a hair cut and was stabbed with a pair of shears. He had been reported for minor injuries, but later was found to have syphilis. Capone passed away on January 25, 1947. He is now buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Cook County, Illinois. Due to his work as a bootlegger, Al Capone obviously enjoyed his fair share of drinking. Al Capone's favorite drink was Templeton Rye, which is still distilled to this day. Al "Scarface" Capone was a legend and will go down in history as one of the richest and most notorious mobsters of the Prohibition Era.

One of Al Capone's Jail Cells