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Louis Capone

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Louis Capone Famous memorial

Birth
Naples, Città Metropolitana di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Death
4 Mar 1944 (aged 47)
Ossining, Westchester County, New York, USA
Burial
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.6492833, Longitude: -73.9396667
Plot
Section, St. Charles , Range 14, Grave 5
Memorial ID
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Organized Crime Figure. He was a member of a murder-for-hire gang made up of street-level Jewish and Italian gangsters working out of Brooklyn New York. during the 1930s. This gang, who came to be known in the news media as "Murder Inc.", carried out gangland murders in the New York City area under the direction of Lepke Buchalter and Albert Anastasia. Louis Capone died in the electric chair in Sing-Sing Prison on the night of March 4,1944, the same night that Emanuel (Mendy) Weiss and their boss Buchalter were executed.
Organized Crime Figure. He was a member of a murder-for-hire gang made up of street-level Jewish and Italian gangsters working out of Brooklyn New York. during the 1930s. This gang, who came to be known in the news media as "Murder Inc.", carried out gangland murders in the New York City area under the direction of Lepke Buchalter and Albert Anastasia. Louis Capone died in the electric chair in Sing-Sing Prison on the night of March 4,1944, the same night that Emanuel (Mendy) Weiss and their boss Buchalter were executed.

Inscription

IN MEMORY OF
MY BELOVED WIFE
CARMELA MARTORELLO
DIED JULY 22, 1922
AGED 48 YRS.
SALVATORE MARTORELLO
1872 - 1945
LOUIS CAPONE
1836 - 1944
VINCENT CARPONE
1937 - 1972
FLORENCE MARTORELLO
1901 - 1972
ANGELO MARTORELLO
1901 - 1977
MARTORELLO


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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Added: Sep 2, 2000
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12219/louis-capone: accessed ), memorial page for Louis Capone (5 Sep 1896–4 Mar 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 12219, citing Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.