The Truth About Al Capone's Brother James

That athleticism and sense of adventure would help him achieve his most impressive exploits. He made a name for himself enforcing the liquor laws passed during Prohibition. He was said to have "cleaned up the booze problems" on the Indian Reservations in northeast Nebraska, where he took the time to learn the tribal languages and became a friend and hero to the people there. 

In another moment ripped right off the silver screen, James met his wife by saving her and her family from drowning in a flash flood in 1919. According to History Net, 19-year-old Kathleen "was so smitten with her savior that she married him that fall."

James would reunite with his family in the 1940s. His little brother, Al, was now one of the country's most notorious criminals, but James still tried to maintain a few degrees of separation between them in the public eye. He was forced to admit the truth, however, when another brother, Ralph, outed him in a federal income tax trial. James gave his testimony underneath that big, 10-gallon hat he loved so much. Despite the public knowing who his lawbreaking little brother was, James hung onto his chosen name until his death, and his tombstone in Homer, Nebraska, reads Richard J. Hart, not Vincenzo "Jimmy" Capone.

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