Al Capone song, pocketwatch fetch over $103,00 at auction

BOSTON — Artifacts connected to some of the nation’s most notorious gangsters have sold for more than $140,000 at an auction house.

The Boston-based RR Auction says a diamond pocket watch that belonged to Al Capone fetched the most— $84,375 —at the auction Saturday in Cambridge, Mass. A handwritten musical composition by Capone went for $18,750.

The musical piece, “Humoresque,” shows Capone’s softer side. Written when Capone was in Alcatraz in the 1930s, it contains the lines: “You thrill and fill this heart of mine, with gladness like a soothing symphony, over the air, you gently float, and inmy soul, you strike a note.”

An autographed “So Long” letter from Bonnie and Clyde sold for$16,250. Bonnie Parker’s snake ring fetched $25,000.