Interviews: 1912 - 1960 Al Capone • Chicagoan, 1931 • Wishing not to be found face-down in the Chicago River, this journalist wrote a very middle-of-the-road sort of article about Al Capone following the thug’s 1931 conviction on tax evasion. Pictured below is his cell at Alcatraz. Al Capone newspaper articleAl Capone tax evasion articleAl Capone tax fraud article