Al Capone

===Feud with Aiello ends===
Capone was primarily known for ordering other men to do his dirty work for him. In May 1929, one of Capone's [[bodyguard]]s, [[Frank Rio]], uncovered a plot by three of his men, Albert Anselmi, [[John Scalise]] and [[Joseph Giunta (mobster)|Joseph Giunta]], who had been persuaded by Aiello to depose Capone and take over the Chicago Outfit.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/alcapone00luci |url-access=registration |quote=al capone baseball bat. |title=Al Capone: A Biography |last=Iorizzo |first=Luciano J. |publisher=Greenwood |year=2003 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/alcapone00luci/page/49 49]}}</ref> Capone later beat the men with a [[baseball bat]] and then [[gangland killing|ordered]] his bodyguards to shoot them, a scene that was included in the 1987 film ''[[The Untouchables (film)|The Untouchables]]''.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WXJ_CwAAQBAJ&q=al+capone+baseball+bat&pg=PT184 |title=Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend |last=Bair |first=Deirdre |date=2016 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0385537162 |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=January 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104162043/https://books.google.com/books?id=WXJ_CwAAQBAJ&q=al+capone+baseball+bat&pg=PT184 |url-status=live }}</ref> Deirdre Bair, along with writers and historians such as William Elliot Hazelgrove, have questioned the veracity of the claim.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWMqDwAAQBAJ&q=al+capone+baseball+bat&pg=PA46 |title=Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago |last=Hazelgrove |first=William Elliott |date=2017 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1442272279 |pages=46–47 |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=January 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104162045/https://books.google.com/books?id=PWMqDwAAQBAJ&q=al+capone+baseball+bat&pg=PA46 |url-status=live }}</ref> Bair questioned why "three trained killers could sit quietly and let this happen", while Hazelgrove stated that Capone would have been "hard pressed to beat three men to death with a baseball bat" and that he would have instead let an enforcer perform the murders.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> However, despite claims that the story was first reported by author [[Walter Noble Burns]] in his 1931 book ''The One-way Ride: The red trail of Chicago gangland from prohibition to Jake Lingle'',<ref name=":0" /> Capone biographers [[Max Allan Collins]] and A. Brad Schwartz have found versions of the story in press coverage shortly after the crime. Collins and Schwartz suggest that similarities among reported versions of the story indicate a basis in truth and that the Outfit deliberately spread the tale to enhance Capone's fearsome reputation.<ref name="Collins & Schwartz">{{cite book|last1=Collins|first1=Max Allan|last2=Schwartz|first2=A. Brad|title=Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago|date=2018|publisher=William Morrow|location=New York|isbn=978-0062441942|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n38zDwAAQBAJ&q=scarface+and+the+untouchable|access-date=January 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126061325/https://books.google.com/books?id=n38zDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=scarface%20and%20the%20untouchable|archive-date=January 26, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Rp|xvi, 209–213, 565}} George Meyer, an associate of Capone's, also claimed to have witnessed both the planning of the murders and the event itself.<ref name="CAPONE"/>

In 1930, upon learning of Aiello's continued plotting against him, Capone resolved to finally eliminate him.<ref name="Sifakis5" /> In the weeks before Aiello's death, Capone's men tracked him to [[Rochester, New York]], where he had connections through [[Buffalo crime family]] boss [[Stefano Magaddino]], and plotted to kill him there, but Aiello returned to Chicago before the plot could be executed.<ref name="Critchley295">{{cite book |last=Critchley |first=David |date=September 15, 2008 |title=The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931 |location=New York City |publisher=[[Routledge]] |asin=B001OFIDHC |page=295}}</ref> Aiello, angst-ridden from the constant need to hide out and the killings of several of his men,{{sfn|Eghigian|2005|p=174}} set up residence in the Chicago apartment of Unione Siciliana treasurer Pasquale "Patsy Presto" Prestogiacomo at 205 N. Kolmar Ave.<ref name="Sifakis5" /><ref name="CT10291930">{{Cite news |title=3d [sic] Machine Gun Nest is Found in Aiello Killing |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=October 29, 1930 |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1930/10/29/page/8/article/3d-machine-gun-nest-is-found-in-aiello-killing |location=Chicago|page=8 |access-date=January 23, 2021 |archive-date=December 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216060953/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1930/10/29/page/8/article/3d-machine-gun-nest-is-found-in-aiello-killing/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On October 23, upon exiting Prestogiacomo's building to enter a taxicab, a gunman in a second-floor window across the street started firing at Aiello with a submachine gun.<ref name="Sifakis5" /><ref name="CT10291930" /> Aiello was said to have been shot at least 13 times before he toppled off the building steps and moved around the corner,<ref>{{cite book |last=Parr |first=Amanda J. |date=2005 |title=The True and Complete Story of Machine Gun Jack McGurn |location=[[Leicester]] |publisher=Matador |isbn=1905237138 |page=258}}</ref> attempting to move out of the line of fire. Instead, he moved directly into the range of a second submachine gun positioned on the third floor of another apartment block, and was subsequently gunned down.<ref name="Sifakis5" /><ref name="CT10291930" />