Famous Prisoners

There are only three famous prisoners.



1. Pep
In 1924, Pep, known as "The Cat-Murdering Dog", got sent to Eastern State for life sentenced by the Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot. Pep murdered the governor's wife's cat. Pep's inmate number (no. C2559) that is showed in the mug shot.






2. Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was born in January 17, 1899. He was a smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities. He was involved in an Italian American gangster and they called him a Scarface because what happen when he was a teen. He said something to a girl which her brother, Frank Gallucio, didn't like so he slashed Al's face with a knife three times. He fell in love with a beautiful 21-year-old Irish girl named Mary "Mae" Coughlin. They had a son together name Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone which they were never married. He was involved in a St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Between 1929-1930, Al Capone spend eight months in Eastern State Penitentiary for income tax evasion by the federal government. He was released in 1939. On January 21, 1947, Al suffered a stroke which he died of age 48 years old. He never left a will for his family since he never owned a business.



This was Al Capone Cell in ESP.




3. Willie Sutton
William "Willie" Sutton was born June 30, 1901. He was a U.S. bank robber and escapist. He has two nicknames, "Willie the actor" and "Slick Willie". Sutton got married with Louise Leudemann in 1929 and she divorced him while he was in jail. They had a daughter name Jeanie in that following year. Sutton got married to his second wife name Olga Kowalska in 1933. He robbed 100 banks in the late 1920s and got caught in 1952. He was a master mind of breaking out from the prisons which he was the first person to escape from Eastern State Penitentiary. Sutton was asked if the guns that he used in robberies were loaded and his responds was that he never carried a loaded gun because somebody might get hurt. He died in November 2, 1980.


This photo here is the Willie Sutton Escape tunnel from Eastern State Penitentiary- I took this when I was in the tour in prison. Taken-2006