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Michael
(Mickey) Dwyer
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This is Mickey Dwyer, DOB 7/29/34, the one-time brother-in-law
of former Boston Police Commissioner Francis “Mickey” Roache. Dwyer is
best known in local lore for an evening outside the Transit Café in the
Lower End in the late 60’s. Dwyer and the crew he ran with had somehow
irritated the ruling lords of Southie organized crime, the Killeen
brothers, at one of their after-hours joints called the IA Club. One of
the Killeens spotted Dwyer walking by outside the bar on West Broadway,
and ran outside with a gun and started shooting. All but one of the
shots went astray, but then Killeen jumped poor Mickey, and bit off his
nose, adding insult to injury (a flesh wound to the shoulder). As the
rest of his crew arrived to take the wounded, bleeding Dwyer down to
Boston City Hospital, a passerby noticed the nose on the sidewalk and
brought it inside the Transit. Donald Killeen, the gang boss,
thoughtfully wrapped it up in some cocktail napkins with some ice and
then sent it down to BCH in a cab to be reattached. A few years later,
in 1972, Donald Killeen was machine-gunned by his top muscle-man, Whitey
Bulger, who then had one of his underlings take over the Transit Café
and rename it Triple O’s. Mickey Dwyer is still around.
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