Letters to the Editor

An Additional Observation of Al Capone in Benld

My father, Louis Sanvi, was born in 1909 on a farm north of Mt. Olive, Illinois. As many young men did at the time, he quit school at 14 years of age. Most of these young men went to work in one of the area coal mines. Fortunately, my father got a job driving a team of horses and wagon for a local freighter.

It was around 1926 when three boxcars of sugar were delivered to the Wabash Railroad siding in Mt. Olive. In 1970 a couple of years before his death, my father told me that he and two other teams hauled that sugar to Capone’s still east of Be...