Al Capone's West Michigan ties: Fact or fun-fiction?

[martin]

puragory does exist, its in constatine, there are tunnels out there and its near and old abadnond church a few miles from it, he did have a house out there but it was knocked down years ago, people party out tehre all the time.

[explorerer guy]

is there an exact location i could get for a tunnel entrance??? anybody know where to go exactly

[Dita]

Bonita wrote:

I recently moved to the small village of Quadeville Ontario. There is a log house a few miles from the village that was supposedly built for Capone and rumour has it he lived there with his family, under an assumed name, for at least one summer. I have been looking for verification of this local story. Does anyone know if this could be true?

The cabin in Quadeville was built by my great grandfather August Kauffeldt (and others) and seems to be Quadeville's claim to fame. My grandmother has pictures of some of my relatives with Hatch's children at school. There was a big writeup in the Toronto Star about it several years ago. You could see if you can find it in the archives if you are interested.

[valleygirl]

hi...i am not sure the excat street name of Capones house, however I use to live a block away on Encino Drive. If you can find that street youu'll be close

Lillian wrote:

Hi I am interested in looking at the home where Al Capone lived in Fontana Cal. do you know the name of the cross streets or the address to the home?
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[SouthHavenCapone -o-phile]

The Sleepy Hollow Resort, which used to be part of the original estate, even mentions the Al Capone connection on its website:
http://shresort.tripod.com/id12.html
I understand this got them in a bit of hot water with the owners of the house in question, since they prefer to remain low-key and discourage uninvited visitors, but the condo association stubbornly refuses to remove this information from their website.
The owner and caretakers of the Sleepy Hollow house that oldtimers in South Haven swear was one of Capone's Southwest Michigan homes (many provided services to the estate and personally saw him there) are very tight-lipped about the connection and won't confirm or deny it to curiosity-seekers. The house is set pretty far back, by the way, and is partially visible from the public road only in winter. I wouldn't advise entering the property via the private road since caretakers live there full-time and will chase you out. Besides, it isn't polite to trespass anyway.:-)
I would love to hear more anecdotes and details about Big Al's time in South Haven!

[kenr]

Just wondering wrote:

Where were some of his other residences in Oceana County?<quoted text>

I have always heard and seen this house,I grew
up in Hart Mi. The story also says that there
are tunnels thru out the gronds some up to
miles away but I have never seen them

[kenr]

Anyone who gets the chance to be in stony lake
mi has got to see the house on the hill by
the oval on lake michigan there is also a
place close by called the black forest,which
knowing of this house give eerie feeling to
the black forest.Any truth to the house I really
wish I knew but it is great eerie feeling
when you drive by it !!!

[dan the man]

any tunnels in purgatory???

[Elmer Polk]

I lived in a town in Pullman, MI, in Allegan county in the mid 196o's and I visited a house that was said to have been Al Capone's house that he came to on different occasions. If anyone knows about this I would like information about where it is located there.

[Frank]

I heard Al Capone used to love printing and he left a message that said you should all love printing too.

Im the Frank guy you heard about, but see, I used to tell Al = "hey, go get some printed materials eh!" ..

but he thought I was being cryptic and that I meant alreayd printed materials like money.. he kept calling and asking = "whatta ya want Frank? I can get you anything you need!" .. and i kept tellin him = "get me some printed materials already!"

and he would say = "Im tryin.. Im gonna get that for you Frank, just be patient!"

anyhow.. he never got me any printed materials but now these days, you can all get your own printed materials on that thing called the Internet.
especially since its free shipping to Michigan.
http://www.ezprintsolutions.com

[EscanabaGirl]

What ever happened to Richard Lampinen?
After the 2004 article Escanaba Chamber of commerce took the info off their website. Escanaba claims to be a quite town - well not in my youth.
Anyone know valid source adept at identifying some of Al's colleagues? Post the source. Thanks!

[Matt Ferguson]

Shelly V wrote:

I am very interested in finding out if Capone owned a home on Lake Michigan (by Stoney Lake near New Era & Shelby).

I understand that the Purple Gang were on Stony Lake.
Do you think Capone was around there too?

[Matt Ferguson]

Bud -Buddy Fingers wrote:

Al was close to my uncle who was in the Purple Gang. I have Photo's of my uncle and Al standing on a small lake in mid Michigan, the house is still there but empty.

Can you tell me where that house is? I may have info.

[Matt Ferguson]

Bud -Buddy Fingers wrote:

Al was close to my uncle who was in the Purple Gang. I have Photo's of my uncle and Al standing on a small lake in mid Michigan, the house is still there but empty.

Can you email the photo to me?
[e-mail]

[chastity steele]

Judy Phillippi wrote:

Try reading the history of Three Oaks and surrounding areas about him. Maybe you can all will know the truth. I remember I was there.

heyy J. Phillippi.......i went walking with my aunt in the tree oaks semetary today and i saw i tomb stone that said phillippi on it......and then she took on ride in the car and showed me a house right around indian trails its kool that you say that:)but yess al capone does have a hide out and it is friggen SUH-WEET!

[chastity steele]

did you know that al capone died because of cardiac arrest?yeah i kn0ow weird but yess i looked it up&#9829;

[r corbit]

I live right by the house on Dewey Lake in Sister Lakes. It does have ties to Capone and as a cool double basement for a quick exit.

toni wrote:

Sorry I didnt give spacifics to where the house is at. It is located in both Cass County and St Joe County. The property lies in both it is not in one or the other.
Adam from sturgis is rite it is a short way from contsantine. It is about 10 min. from Mottville Mi. and 15,20 min. from white pigeon.
If I remember rite you take M-103 to the camel bridge. Turn left, then turn right on the first road . You take this untill you come to a dirt road on the left follow this to the second stop sign. This will be a dead end turn right. This should still be a dirt road. You will come to a church on the left side. "this is not Brick Chapel Church". Just keep following this road its a long road but youll come across it.
There is a old youth camp across from Al Capones house. This camp has a story all in its self. Any way at the camp it is very abandoned and I heard this was also set fire at a different time. At the side of the road is a single basketball hoop this place is very creepy but if tou find it your in the rite spot. GOOD LUCK

[r corbit]

The house on Dewey is elegant and old, in great shape. The family that owns the
'cubby bear' in Chicago own it now. Its used quite a bit and is beautifully kept up. its neat to see off of the shore and I could see how easy it would be to make a quick exit.

[r corbit]

I live in Sister Lakes and the Bronte WInery wa where we took people that were visiting us from out of town. They did claim to have a Capone connection. I live on Dewey Lake in Sister Lakes and we have a home on the lake that was said to have been built by a "capone bobyguard" It has a cool doublebasement and a few ways out of the place that comeout of the hillside and lead to the lake and or the road to get out. It was built in the right time period and they used local rock for the project-its a fortress and would be tough to get into or out of unless you knew where to go. THis house is built into the hill that comes up to the back of Dewey Lake-its great to check it out from a boat. This area was a hotspot in the early part of the century-Sandy Beach atttracted people from all over and it was easily accessed by train, car, or boat. We have pictured of hundreds of cars of people that stayed around here, all coming to the beaches and lakes to relax.
But anyway-the house is interesting and was built for a specific purpose-we don't even have a police department here.

mona wrote:

I used to live in Keeler, Mi. in the 70's and they had a winery by the name of , " BRONTE'". We used to go there to take tours through the winery. They told us Al had owned it for years and showed us all the secret tunnels and told us Al used to smuggle in liquer and hide out there alot. It was creepy and dark.

[Ryan]

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Craperton Layman wrote:
My Grandfather purchaced a boat with gun mounts from the Capone dynisty. We have picturers of it.. with guns on it. it was a fast gobetween Chi-town and the Joe.
Any chance of seeing those? [e-mail]
I'm from the LaPorte County area and have stayed in Michigan City and LaPorte. The house you reffered to shaped as a gun is in Long Beach Michigan City, Indiana. If you know how to get there drive down Lake Shore Drive to "Stop 30 or 31" make a right and it'll be up the hill. It's unmistakenly shaped as a gun. It's rumored to have underground tunels to Lake Michigan. He traveled by boat to Chicago and other cities around the great lake to avoid authorities and enemies.