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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Salvatore Capone


Birth: 1895
Brooklyn
Kings County
New York, USA
Death: Apr. 2, 1924
Cicero
Cook County
Illinois, USA

Organized Crime Figure. Known familiarly as "Frank," he was like his younger brother a member of the Torrio-Capone organization. On April 2, 1924, election day in Cicero, Illinois, he was killed by police officers Phillip J. McGlynn and Lyle Grogan near a polling place where he had been intimidating voters opposed to the ticket backed by the Torrio-Capone mob.

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