NAMES IN THE NEWS : Capone Autograph Auctioned

The admission sheet checking Al Capone into a Pennsylvania prison sold for $6,875 at an auction of memorabilia of the famous and infamous.

The admission sheet, signed “Alphonse Capone,” was bought Thursday by a Pennsylvania collector, said Herman Darvick, owner of the Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions. On it, the gangster is listed as “Alphonsus Capone alias Al Brown alias Scarface,” Darvick said.

Capone was jailed at Eastern State Penitentiary in 1929 after arranging his own arrest on gun possession charges to protect himself from George (Bugs) Moran, whose gang was largely wiped out that year in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

Capone’s occupation is listed as “Paper & Leather Cutter (Bootlegger)” and the entry for last employment reads simply “in business for himself.”