In the 1930s, Al “Scarface” Capone was running virtually everything in Chicago. He was a violent and evil man. However, the police were unable to touch him. Scarface was quoted as saying, “I can get a lot of cooperation with a smile; I get a lot more cooperation with a smile and a gun.” Al was protected legally by a highly efficient lawyer whose nickname was “Easy” Eddie.
Easy Eddie was well compensated for his efforts at keeping Scarface out of jail. Scarface made sure Easy Eddie had everything he wanted: money, property, powereverything. Easy Eddie also had a son, whom he loved more than money or property, more than power. Like all dads, he wanted to give his son everything he needed. Eddie’s son went to the best schools and had every luxury, but the one thing Easy Eddie most wanted to give his son he couldn’t. Eddie wanted to pass on to his son an honorable and respected name, so he turned on Scarface and gave state’s evidence against him.
A few months after he testified, Easy Eddie was gunned down. In his pockets, he had a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion, and a poem that read: “The clock of life is wound once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still.” At the funeral, Easy Eddie’s son said he was proud of what his dad had done.
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