enforcer of Prohibition laws. He, in turn, was completely unaware of the rapidly increasing infamy of his brothers, led by Al, in the breaking of those laws. Only when “Scarface Al’s” bloody exploits in Chicago spread his name and face across the front pages of every newspaper in the country did Two-Gun Hart in Homer, Neb., learn the direction Al and his brothers had taken. He followed news accounts of their misadventures, including the police shooting of brother Salvatore (“Frank”) and the trials and convictions of brothers Alphonse (“Scarface Al”) and Raffaele (“Ralph” or “Bottles”) for income tax evasion.

In 1937 Al Capone was still imprisoned at the notorious Alcatraz Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay when Hart, poverty-stricken and suffering from the loss of his eyesight, finally broke downand sought financial help from brother Ralph, who had served his time in prison and been released. Ralph later invited him to his summer retreat in Mercer, Wis., bought him new clothes, gave him cash and thereafter sent him a monthly check. After Al’s release from Alcatraz is 1939, Hart also had a reunion with his infamous brother at Ralph’s northern Wisconsin retreat.

In the fall of 1951 the federal government brought new tax evasion charges against Ralph Capone. When defense attorneys subpoenaed Richard Hart to testify on behalf of their client, newspaper reporters for the first time learned the sibling relationship between legendary Prohibition agent Two-Gun Hart and the notorious Capone brothers of the bootlegging and speakeasy days of the Roaring Twenties. The papers ran a rash of