QUIET BURIAL SERVICE FOR AL CAPONE
NEW YORK, February 5. In contrast with the flamboyant funerals he used to arrange for the vietims of his gang "Scarfaee" A1 Capone was buried quietly in Chicago cnder a tent erected to proteet the mcurners from zero weather. The priest who read the burial serviee while Caponc's former henehmen and 50 of Chicago's "hoodlums" gathered around, said that the brief ceremonies - were "to recognise Capone's penitence."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 6
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73QUIET BURIAL SERVICE FOR AL CAPONE Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 6
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