AL CAPONE BURIED
NEW YORK, Feb. 4. In contrast with tlie flamboyant funerals lie used to arrauge for the victims of his gang, A1 Capone was buried quietly in Cliicago under a tent ereeted to protect the mourners from the zero weather. A Catholic priest who read the burial serviee while Capone 's former henehmen and fifty of Cliicago 's "hoodhtms" gathered round, said the brief ceremonies were ' ' to recogrrise Capone 's penitence and the faet that he died fortiiied b> the saeraments oi the church".
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 February 1947, Page 8
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86AL CAPONE BURIED Chronicle (Levin), 6 February 1947, Page 8
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