Al Capone's plea letter set to fetch £10,000 at auction
A LETTER from Al Capone in which he pleads to be moved from Alcatraz to another prison is expected to fetch £10,000 at auction.
The prohibition era gangster complains that his cell is “damp and a lack of air sometimes keeps me up during the nights.”
The letter was sent to the US Federal Prisons Director in July 1936, four years after Capone was jailed for tax evasion.
He wrote: “My life is in constant danger, I have in fact received over six threats in the last three months.”
Capone remained in the island prison in San Francisco Bay for a further three years before being moved prior to his release in 1939. He died in 1947 from a heart attack.
The letter is being sold next month in Los Angeles alongside one of his gold rings.