On Oct. 17, 1931, Al Capone was sentenced ... the Alcatraz hospital on March 1, 1926. Capone was suffering from a mental illness brought on by tertiary syphilis. After he was released early ...
File Photo by Library of Congress ... In 1947, gangster Al "Scarface" Capone died at age 48 after suffering from syphilis. In 1959, the first scheduled transcontinental passenger jet flight ...