Al Capone was sick with syphilis as early as 19 years, which is why his son was born deaf because of neonatal syphilis, Capone if he really wanted to take up the reins of powerwould come back to Chicago, instead of hanging out in florida, but now the tertiary syphilis had devoured his brain, so it is dead so he wanted giovane.Se after Nitti committed suicide in 1942, might well have once again become the boss of Chicago, where he had so many loyal men.