Torrio then proceeded to take over several breweries and, posing as a
type "regular", he persuaded their managers to resume their activities. With comfortable bribes, he succeeded in corrupting the police and the political circles of the city, which allowed him to strengthen the hold of the gangsters on Chicago and to give them a monopoly on the smuggling of alcohol Then Torrio went visit Europe with a wife, and Al Capone followed him like his shadow. Around 1925, Torrio liquidated his business and retired to New York.
Al Capone then became the absolute master of Chicago and it was not long before he carved out a reputation as the greatest criminal in the world Public rumor attributed to him the responsibility for 400 murders in Chicago, the average life of a gangster did not exceed twenty-eight years. However, there was a tendency to exaggerate the record of Al Capone. The latter ended up complaining that he was held responsible for all the deaths, with the exception of the victims of the war »!
Despite everything, he had an annoying tendency to make his adversaries disappear and he carved out a veritable monopoly of smuggling that no one disputed with him.
Of Italian origin, he had initially succeeded, by murder and by trickery, to establish himself as the leader of the Sicilian mafia transplanted to America with all its solid medieval traditions. In fact, Al Capone succeeded in converting it to the modern methods of industrial society and, thanks to it, he was able to liquidate his adversaries or force them to recognize his suzerainty. Gradually, all opposition faded away, though one second-rate mobster declared that he made a point of "pushing that wimp Al Capone down."
For s To impose, Al Capone and his men used powerful, highly effective, very precise weapons, which had been proven during the Great War. Abandoning the revolver or the sawed-off shotgun, they used the submachine gun on a large scale, which allowed them to kill several adversaries at once. Finally, the car added mobility to firepower. Heavy armored vehicles came to be a familiar feature of heavy Chicago traffic.