Gangster Memorabilia Offered at Auction
Going for a song: Gangster memorabilia from Capone, Bonnie & Clyde, & John Gotti offered at auction A treasure trove of items connected to some of America’s most notorious gangsters have been sold at auction. Among them a diamond pocket watch and song written by legendary Chicago mobster Al Capone . The artefacts went under the Boston-based RR Auction hammer at the “Gangsters, Outlaws and Lawmen” auction over a 10-day period from June 15 to June 24. The Capone watch sold and song, penned by the mobster while he was serving a prison term in Alcatraz in the 1930s, went for a combined $103,000, according to RR Auction Executive Vice President Bobby Livingston. “Humoresque” shows a softer side to the public enemy No. 1, who ruled Chicago during the Prohibition era before eventually being jailed for tax evasion. “You thrill and fill this heart of mine, with gladness like a soothing symphony, over the air, you gen...