Items for sale include photographs, firearms, jewelry and furniture belonging to gangster and his family

It was Christmas Day in 1946 when the notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone took his wife and four granddaughters out for a walk on to the dock of their sprawling mansion on Palm Island, Florida.

A picture shows “Papa”, as he was known to them, relishing his freedom after being released from Alcatraz where he served over seven years for tax evasion.

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