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Al Capone and His American Boys : Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife
by Helmer, William J.ISBN13:
9780253356062
ISBN10:
0253356067
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Hardcover
Pub. Date:
7/7/2011
Publisher(s):
Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkler -- wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys" -- set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband Gus. Discovered 60 years later in FBI files, the manuscript describes the couple's life on the run, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Gus was one of the shooters), and other headline crimes of that period. Prepared for publication by mob expert William J. Helmer, Al Capone and His American Boys is a compelling contemporary account of the heyday of Chicago crime by a woman who found herself married to the mob.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| About This Book | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
| A Note | p. 1 |
| ôA Voice from the Graveö: The Memoir of Georgette Winkeler | p. 6 |
| The Seventh Child | p. 8 |
| ôFor Better or for Worseö | p. 13 |
| Heist Guy-Egan's Rats and the Cuckoo Gang | p. 25 |
| The Bad Pennies | p. 28 |
| Affairs with the Police | p. 31 |
| Fugitives on the Lam | p. 34 |
| Workhouse Widow | p. 39 |
| Gratitude-and Murder | p. 42 |
| Flight from St. Louis | p. 45 |
| Meet Al Capone | p. 50 |
| The Toledo Killing | p. 62 |
| Frankie Yale | p. 71 |
| Murphy's Tough Skull | p. 77 |
| The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | p. 80 |
| Hiding Out | p. 93 |
| On the Run | p. 98 |
| ôKillerö Burke and the Policeman's Murder | p. 101 |
| New Face and New Fingerprints | p. 110 |
| ôKillerö Burke on the Lam | p. 114 |
| The Car Crash | p. 124 |
| Capone to the Rescue | p. 132 |
| The Greatest Bank Robbery | p. 136 |
| Chicago's ôSecret Sixö | p. 140 |
| Enter Father Dwyer | p. 149 |
| The Shooting of Frank Nitti | p. 153 |
| Nitti's Revenge | p. 159 |
| ôThe Informerö | p. 164 |
| The Boom Days | p. 168 |
| A promise Kept | p. 172 |
| Gus and the Planted Gun | p. 175 |
| Legal Beer at Last | p. 179 |
| Gus Winkeler and the New North Side | p. 184 |
| The Kansas City Massacre | p. 187 |
| Gus and the ôMiller Massacreö | p. 197 |
| Beginning of the End | p. 201 |
| The Syndicate Closes In | p. 206 |
| Tie Police Called It Suicide | p. 211 |
| ôThey've Taken Him to the Morgueö | p. 216 |
| Gus Goes Home | p. 220 |
| Who Killed My Husband? | p. 224 |
| The Widow and Her World | p. 228 |
| ôThe Gas Lisped Its Song of Deathö | p. 233 |
| Rebirth and Revenge | p. 237 |
| End of the Empire | p. 240 |
| ôDo You See This Gun?ö | p. 245 |
| Confronting the Mob | p. 249 |
| On the Spot | p. 252 |
| Resolution | p. 255 |
| Georgette Talks to the FBI | p. 259 |
| Biographies and Historical Notes | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 363 |
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