AL CAPONE'S GUN FETCHES OVER $100K AT AUCTION

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NOTORIOUS mob kingpin Al Capone's pistol has fetched more then $100,000 at auction, according to auctioneer's Christie's.
The $107,337 price is more than the $95,600 paid by a California collector for a pistol that once belonged to Depression-era gangster and bank robber John Dillinger and highlights the continued obsession with the onetime king of the Chicago underworld. 
Capone's empire was worth millions of dollars, raked in from illegal booze, gambling and prostitution, until his reign ended in 1931 he pleaded guilty to tax evasion and prohibition charges.
After serving almost eight years behind bars he went into seclusion on an estate near Miami, Florida, where he died of a stroke and pneumonia in January 1947.

AL CAPONE'S GUN COULD FETCH $100K AT AUCTION

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TO the man himself even today's $100,000 price tag would be little more than chump change, but you can bet he didn't pay that sort of money for the Colt .38 when he bought it. 
But the iconic gangster's nickel plated pistol is expected to go for at least that amount when it is auctioned by Christie's later this month. 
It is not known whether it was used in any murders although the one time king of the Chicago rackets was thought to have personally killed several people. A spokesman for the auction house Leonie Ashfield said: "We've had film memorabilia but nothing related to the actual Al Capone in the last 10 years."