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Alcatraz: The Gangster Years By David Ward with Gene Kassebaum, University of California Press 576 pp., $34.95 Early on the morning of August 19, 1934, a special train—call it the Damned Soul Train—left Atlanta carrying Al Capone and much of America’s criminal elite. Among the passenger amenities were free meals, individual seat chains and cages …
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