Al Capone’s .38 special sells for $109,000

From the Associated Press:
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LONDON — A handgun once owned by gangster Al Capone has sold for almost $110,000 at an auction in London.
Auctioneer Christie’s says the Colt .38 revolver went for $109,080 to an anonymous bidder in the room.
The auction house says the gun was manufactured in 1929, the year of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. That’s when seven people were slain during clashes in Chicago between Capone’s gang and his rival George “Bugs” Moran’s mob.
The massacre ended the reign of the North Side Irish gangsters and ushered in decades of Italian organized crime in the city, run by Capone’s South Side crews.
The gun was sold along with a letter from Madeleine Capone Morichetti, the widow of Al Capone’s brother Ralph. She confirmed the gun “previously belonged to and was only used by Al Capone while he was alive.”
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