by dbeach » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:50 pm
"1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre at 10:30 am on Feb. 14;Al Capone's gang kills 5 of Moran's gang, firing 200 bullets in 8 minutes; the Chicago police are blamed because 2 Capone men were dressed in police uniforms; Capone fled to Florida, staying at his Palm Isle estate near the Belle Isle estate of J.C. Penney where J. Edgar Hoover visited (but myth that Hoover was disturbed by the sounds of loud Capone parties); E.Q. Johnston used federal grand jury and federal marshals to force Capone back to Chicago where he was arrested, tried, convicted, jailed for 1 year; however, Capone became a popular hero in Chicago, setting up soup kitchen to feed victims of the Depression, using the press to create an image of a modern Robin Hood, with 7 books written about him by 1931, including the classic by Fred Pasley, "Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man""<br><br>its a toddlin town<br> <p></p><i></i>