Gangster Al Capone gave this unusual gift to Baltimore’s Union Memorial Hospital 71 years ago…

In 1939, mobster Al Capone was released from Alcatraz prison after serving time for tax evasion. At that time he needed to be treated for syphilis, but Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore would not take him. Capone ended up at Union Memorial. When his treatment was completed, he donated two weeping cherry trees to the hospital. One is no longer standing due to a new hospital wing, but the other is still standing and listed on the national registry of historic landmarks.

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