Al Capones hideout for sale in Wisconsin
Published 5:00 am Sunday, September 20, 2009
WAUSAU, Wis. The buyer of a scenic property in northern Wisconsin will get more than just its bar and restaurant: Theyll have a former hideout of Chicago mobster Al Capone.
The 407-acre wooded site, complete with guard towers and a stone house with 18-inch-thick walls, will soon go on the auction block at a starting bid of $2.6 million.
The bank that foreclosed on the land near Couderay, about 140 miles northeast of Minneapolis, said Capone owned it in the late 1920s and early 1930s during Prohibition. Local legend claims that shipments of bootlegged alcohol were flown in on planes that landed on the propertys 37-acre lake, then loaded onto trucks bound for Chicago.