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The story of Paddy Murphy Paddy Murphy was a gun runner for Capone. He would sell Capones guns to buyers, return the money to Capone, and be rewarded with a % of the profits. As gangsters tend to do, Paddy decided he would break his contract and that would screw Capone. After selling a particularly large shipment of guns, rather than return the money to Capone he skipped town. Paddy was on the lamb, with Capone's gang in tail. Capone caught up to Paddy near a university and attacked. Paddy was shot, but managed to escape. Paddy Murphy hobbled his way to a local chapter of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and identified himself as an alum sig alph. The people in the fraternity helped him, they kept him safe inside their house. The next day, in order to fool Capone, the Sig Alphs put on a fake funeral for Paddy. They hired a crooked preacher, and had a large procession. Capone, satisfied that he had done away with his nemesis, never retrieved the money. After all the only person who knew where the money was is "dead," so Capone left. The next day, Paddy skipped town and lived out the rest of his days in both secret, and style.
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