January 12, 1894 - Ralph Capone
Ralph Capone spent decades operating within one of Prohibition-era Chicago's most powerful criminal organizations, managing the financial infrastructure that kept the Capone syndicate running even as his younger brother Al drew the public's attention. Though he maintained a degree of distance from the most violent aspects of the operation, his role in overseeing legitimate business fronts helped sustain an empire built on illegal gambling, bootlegging, and organized violence. His longevity in the organization — surviving federal scrutiny, the fall of Al, and the collapse of the old syndicate structure — speaks to a careful, adaptive style of criminality that left fewer traces than it might have.
From Wikipedia
Ralph James Capone ( kə-POHN; born Raffaele James Capone, Italian: [raffaˈɛːle kaˈpoːne]; January 12, 1894 – November 22, 1974) was an Italian-American mobster and an older brother of Al Capone and Frank Capone. He got the nickname "Bottles" not from involvement in the Capone bootlegging empire, but from his running the legitimate non-alcoholic beverage and bottling operations in Chicago. Further family lore suggests that the nickname was specifically tied to his lobbying the Illinois legislature to put into law that milk bottling companies had to stamp the date that the milk was bottled on the bottle. He was most famous for being named by the Chicago Crime Commission "Public Enemy Number Three" when his brother Al was "Public Enemy Number One".
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