Vincenzo, ran away to the west in 1908 at the age of sixteen. The Capones got one letter from him the following year, from Kansas, and then heard nothing more from him ever again. In fact, Vincenzo had become a Prohibition agent known as Richard “Two Gun” Hart. He had named himself after the cowboy star William S. Hart, and dressed like him, too, in an outsized Stetson, with a tin star on his breast and a pair of loaded holsters around his waist. In the summer of 1927, extraordinarily enough, he was in South Dakota and working as a personal bodyguard to President Coolidge.
