The scene in which Al Capone pulls out a baseball bat at a dinner party and suddenly beats one of his men to death is based on a true incident which happened on May 7, 1929. Two of Capone's most feared hitmen, Albert Anselmi and John Scalise, hatched a plot to kill Capone and take over his gang. Capone got wind of it and invited all of his associates to a dinner party, including Anselmi and Scalise. In the middle of the party, Capone pulled out a baseball bat, beat both men to death, then shot them both in the head. A conflicting version of the story has Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo, another Capone's hitman, as the man who bludgeoned the traitors to death.

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