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Richard James Hart. Richard James " Two-Gun " Hart (born James Vincenzo Capone; Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso kaˈpoːne]; March 28, 1892 – October 1, 1952) was an Italian-American sharpshooter and prohibition agent, who was noted for his cowboy style [1] and for being the elder brother of gangsters Al, Frank, and Ralph Capone .
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Sep 18, 2020 · Born Vincenzo Capone, Al's oldest brother took on the American name James after the family immigrated to New York and settled in Brooklyn. As author Jeff McArthur reveals in his 2015 biography Two Gun Hart: Lawman, Cowboy, and Long-Lost Brother of Al Capone , the Capone brother who took the side of law and order would go on to garner fame for ...
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Sep 17, 2016 · James Vincenzo Capone was the oldest brother of Al Capone or popularly known as Scarface or the king of the gangsters. At age of 16, Vicenzo Capone left the family home in Brooklyn and moved to Nebraska to join a circus. Capone disguised his Italian roots and worked to lose the Brooklyn accent. At the outbreak of First World War, he enlisted in ...
Born: 28 March 1892, Angri, Kingdom of Italy (Present-day Angri, Italy) Died: 1 October 1952, Homer, Nebraska, United States of America. His nickname was Two Gun. James left home at sixteen to head west, hoping to shake his Italian roots and Brooklyn accent. During World War I, he claimed to have seen action in France and achieved the rank of ...
Dec 1, 2011 · The truth was that the man who achieved a modicum of celebrity as Richard J. “Two Gun” Hart, the reincarnation of the Old West lawman, was not a mixed-blood Oklahoma cowboy. His name was actually James Vincenzo Capone, and he was born not in the United States but in Naples, Italy, in 1892.
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Jan 20, 2015 · Author Jeff McArthur's new book detailing a little-known story about the captivating life of Capone's long-lost big brother, Vincenzo "James" Capone, who dressed as a cowboy and became a famous ...
