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July 26, 2019


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By Marcy Kennedy Knight

Marcy Kennedy Knight is an award-winning writer who has written for television, theater, publications and the web.

He owns the telephone from Capone’s Miami Beach home – the one that supposedly received the call from Chicago before and after the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929. He owns one of the bricks from the infamous wall.* He owns a couple of the bullets that went through Massacre victims. Those are only a few of the Al Capone items Mario Gomes owns. The most impressive possession is the website he started 12 years ago, MyAlCaponeMuseum.com. This site has hundreds of pages of information not only on Al Capone, but other colorful personalities of that period such as Frank Nitti, Fred ‘Killer’ Burke, Dean O’Banion, Johnny Torrio, Frankie Yale, Hymie Weiss and Vincent ‘The Schemer’ Drucci. (These names may sound familiar – they are highlighted in the HBO program Boardwalk Empire.)

This Capone expert has been featured on numerous television shows, radio programs and documentaries. He has been interviewed in countless magazines and newspapers due to his research, contacts, expertise and knowledge. And it all started when he watched the 1987 Brian De Palma movie, The Untouchables. “In the movie, ” Gomes explains, “Robert De Niro’s parts were few, but when he was on the screen, his presence was so powerful that I wanted to know more about the real Al Capone.” Gomes information about The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre is second to none. (Mr. Gomes also has been willing to share two of his photos with The Mob Museum as part of the blog post.)

What do you think actually happened?

“Al Capone left it up to a band called ‘The American Boys.’ These guys were out-of-town killers from St. Louis who found themselves in Chicago under the employ of Al Capone. ‘Machine Gun’ Jack McGurn and Claude Maddox planned the Massacre right after Pasqualino ‘Pasty’ Lolordo’s killing. He was Al Capone’s man picked for the Sicilian union, but he was murdered by the George ‘Bugs’ Moran gang. That’s what led up to the Massacre. Moran was taking pot shots at the Capone gang, shoot-outs in the street, and I think they were hijacking Capone’s booze. It was suggested to Capone that ‘The American Boys’ could take care of it. And Capone would have an iron-clad alibi by being in Miami, meeting with the District Attorney at the very moment the Massacre was happening.”

What evidence is there that the “The American Boys” carried out the Massacre?

“The most important pieces of evidence are the two Massacre guns at the Berrien County Police Department. They were found in ‘Killer’ Burke’s house when he was arrested. The bullets matched the ones found in the Massacre bodies. Who did Burke hang around with? It was Gus Winkeler, Fred Goetz, and all these guys were killed later on because Frank Nitti was paranoid that they would pull their weight around and extort them by saying they would divulge who did the Massacre. So Nitti had them killed, one after another. Guy Winkeler was murdered. Fred Goetz was murdered. ‘Crane Neck’ Nugent was murdered. It was pretty evident that it was them. I know that once Burke was in prison, one of the Capone henchmen went to visit him. So to me they had a deal going on that Burke wouldn’t speak. Nitto could have gone after people that Burke knew and kill them, like family members, because Burke did have family.”

Source: themobmuseum.org

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