Al Capone

===New York City===
Capone initially became involved with small-time gangs that included the Junior Forty Thieves and the Bowery Boys. He then joined the Brooklyn Rippers, and then the powerful [[Five Points Gang]] based in [[Lower Manhattan]]. During this time he was employed and mentored by fellow racketeer [[Frankie Yale]], a bartender in a [[Coney Island]] dance hall and saloon called the Harvard Inn. Capone inadvertently insulted a woman while [[bouncer (doorman)|working the door]], and he was slashed with a knife three times on the left side of his face by her brother, Frank Galluccio; the wounds led to the nickname "Scarface", which Capone loathed.<ref name=fivefamilies>{{cite book| title = The Five Families| date = 2014| publisher = MacMillan| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5nAt6N8iQnYC| page = 42| isbn = 978-1429907989| access-date = November 19, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160430222535/https://books.google.com/books?id=5nAt6N8iQnYC| archive-date = April 30, 2016| url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="kobler36">Kobler, 36.</ref><ref name="LScarface">{{cite web |first= Marilyn |last= Bardsley|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/scarface_4.html|title= Scarface|access-date=March 29, 2008 |publisher= Crime Library|work= Al Capone|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104161021/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/scarface_4.html |archive-date=November 4, 2013}}</ref> The date when this occurred has been reported with inconsistencies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/03/28/archives/slasher-of-capone-seized-by-odwyer-galluccio-who-carved-scar-on.html|title=Slasher of Capone Seized by O'Dwyer; Galluccio, Who Carved Scar on Racketeer's Face, Asked About Gang Murders|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 28, 1940|access-date=May 30, 2020|archive-date=January 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104162040/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/03/28/archives/slasher-of-capone-seized-by-odwyer-galluccio-who-carved-scar-on.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqvZBQAAQBAJ&q=capone+galluccio+1918&pg=PT24|year=2012|title=Top Cases of The FBI|author=RJ Parker}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id108.htm|title=Origins of the Scars|access-date=May 30, 2020|archive-date=January 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104162059/http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id108.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> When Capone was photographed, he hid the scarred left side of his face, saying that the injuries were war wounds.<ref name="kobler36"/><ref>Kobler, 15.</ref> He was called "Snorky" by his closest friends, a term for a sharp dresser.<ref>"Mobsters and Gangsters from Al Capone to Tony Soprano", ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' (2002).</ref>