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Earl Smith
| Meet Earl Smith, DOB 5-15-14. He was a friend of Punchy McLaughlin's, and he set up Punchy back in August 1965. They were to meet in the parking garage at Beth Israel Hospital. (Punchy, having recently had his hand shot off by the Winter Hill Gang, was spending a lot of time in hospitals.) Punchy pulled his car into the garage and then saw two rabbis walking toward him, only they weren't rabbis -- it was Stevie Flemmi and Frank Salemme. They shot up Punchy's car (again) and wounded him (ditto) but he survived. In October 1965 the "rabbis" finally took Punchy off the board, much to Earl Smith's eternal relief. |
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