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Harold Hannon
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This is Punchy’s triggerman. DOB 1910. A cold-blooded
killer, he shot down longshoresman/ex-prizefighter Tommy Sullivan in
Southie on December 23, 1957. Sullivan had committed the ultimate crime
– he had bested the paunchy Punchy in a barroom brawl. Both Punchy and
Hannon came to bad ends. Punchy
was shot to death at a bus stop in West Roxbury in October 1965. But it
didn’t do much good for Tommy’s widowed mother Mary. Too grief-stricken
to attend her son’s funeral out of Gate of Heaven, the American
newspaper quoted neighbors as saying the murder would “kill her.” On
Jan. 3, 1958, 11 days after Harold Hannon and Punchy McLaughlin gunned
Tommy down, Mrs. Sullivan died of a broken heart at the age of 83.
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Hannon didn’t survive the Irish Gang War, being garroted and thrown into
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