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	DEA Briefs & Background, Law Enforcement, Major Operations, Charlestown "Code of Silence"
		The community was being overrun by the “Irish Mob,” a group of violent career criminals who ran a major PCP and cocaine distribution center.
		As a result of three years of extensive investigations in Charlestown, by July 1994, 40 defendants were indicted on charges that included racketeering, murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and armed robbery.
		One reason for the success of the Charlestown investigation is that it was a collaborative effort that used the resources and talents of many law enforcement agencies.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea/major/charlestown.htm (447 words)

	Schools
		Charlestown’s 1636 action preceded by 11 years the passage of a law by the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s legislature requiring all towns to maintain free public schools.
		This was a symptom of the town’s growth due to the migrations of job seekers to urban industrial plants and the waves of foreign immigration, especially during the period of the Irish potato famine in the 1840’s.
		Charlestown’s willingness to adopt innovations in education blossomed again in the l820s and 1830s with the founding of two of the earliest boarding schools in the country for the intellectual training of young ladies.
	www.charlestownonline.net /schools.htm (1997 words)

	Churches
		The First Congregational Society of Charlestown was founded on November 2, 1632 with the arrival and installation of Rev. Thomas James as Pastor.
		The third Charlestown meetinghouse was built within the market square itself in 1716 and served until its burning in 1775, along with the rest of the town, during the Battle of Bunker Hill.
		Growing religious tolerance and diversity in Charlestown was signaled by the construction, in 1801, of the First Baptist Church at the head of Salem Street on land given by Oliver Holden.
	www.charlestownonline.net /churches.htm (1819 words)

	burning down the house...
		Charlestown, Cambridge, Boston, the river and the harbour with its islands might all be viewed from the windows of the convent.
		Wild rumors had been circulating in Charlestown that the convent harbored a terrifying secret: inside, it was whispered, young women were being held captive and forced to undergo conversion to Roman Catholicism.
		On Thursday, the mob tried, again unsuccessfully, to destroy the cathedral; they were prevented from returning to Charlestown only when the drawbridge was raised.
	www.salemstate.edu /sextant/v4n2/schultz.html (3354 words)

	Gilder Lehrman Center: Sources: The Convent
		We repeat it, that it is the duty of every man who has strength enough to bear a musket, to gird himself for the fight, and in protecting property and life, protect the honor of New England, the honor of Massachusetts, the honor of Boston.
		The Charlestown Phalanx were on duty at the Catholic Church in that town.
		Resolved, That we, the inhabitants of Cambridge, view with abhorrence the flagrant violation of private rights in the destruction of the Ursuline Convent, and that we earnestly desire that the perpetrators may be discovered and brought to justice.
	www.yale.edu /glc/archive/952.htm (619 words)

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		The Nunnery As Menace: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 Jeanne Hamilton, O.S.U. The painful story of the burning of the Ursuline Convent and school of Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1834 took place in the New England of Andrew Jackson's second administration.
		In his, a collective composition by several of his children one reads: It was during this visit that the Catholic nunnery at Charlestown was destroyed by a mob, and the city of Boston thrown into a state of great excitement.
		Mob action, resentment toward the privileged of society, anti-Catholicism--these were part of the 1830s.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HUMANITY/BURNING.TXT (8768 words)

	DEA - Publications - Briefing Book - Charlestown, MA
		Charlestown was a main distribution center for PCP and cocaine, with several career criminals, known as the "Irish Mob," in charge of the drug trade.
		Because drugs were a large part of Charlestown's crime problem, DEA got involved, joining forces with the Massachusetts State Police, Boston Police Department, and Boston Housing Police Department.
		As a result, 40 defendants were indicted on charges that included racketeering, murder, attempted murder, murder for hire, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, armed robberies, and carrying firearms during the commission of crime of violence.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/dea/pubs/briefing/4_4.htm (332 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Knownothingism
		The mob marched to the convent, but, finding it guarded by a number of Catholic Irishmen, with Bishop O'Reilly present and declaring that the sisters and their convent should be protected at whatever cost, the Knownothing leaders decided not to molest the convent, and the mob dispersed.
		At Cincinnati, in December, 1853, a mob of 600 men armed with weapons of various sorts, and carrying lighted torches and ropes, marched to the cathedral intending to set it on fire and, as was believed, to hang the Nuncio.
		At Bath, Me., the mob broke into the church and, after wrecking the altar and the pulpit, set fire to the building which was reduced to a heap of ashes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08677a.htm (3121 words)

	Gilder Lehrman Center: Sources: Burning of the Charlestown Convent
		We shall confine ourselves principally to a statement of facts, ascertained from witnesses of the scene, and from personal observation, and application to all the authorities in whom most confidence may be placed.
		Great numbers of people were attracted to the scene of destruction in the course of the night, most of whom probably arrived too late to prevent much of the harm which was done, had they been disposed and able to interfere to advantage.
		Our firemen were of course under the control of the Charlestown Engineers, and by these were requested, as we are told, not to play upon the buildings, no water was thrown by any of the engines.
	www.yale.edu /glc/archive/949.htm (1093 words)

	The Significance of the Battle of Bunker Hill - Andrew Green
		The geography of the Charlestown peninsula prompted the shift to Breed’s Hill.
		Charlestown is connected to the mainland by a narrow neck of land 130 yards wide that is often under water at high tide and British warships could bring their guns to bear on this passage.
		The village of Charlestown lay to the south of Breed’s Hill and in plain sight of Boston.
	www.marshall.edu /pat/Journal/CurrentIssue/Green_Andrew.htm (5890 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		The mob was a gruff bunch of working class Protestants who labored in the local brickyard or on the docks, or held no job at all.
		They were Charlestown's poorest and least educated, and on this summer evening, their fury was directed at the elegant brick structure they helped build just a few years earlier.
		Class resentment among Charlestown's struggling laborers, many of whom had only recently come to the city in search of work, was stoked when the community of seemingly privileged nuns arrived.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/49/story_4938_1.html (377 words)

	Image Icon Entertaiment - New England's Entertainment & Media Network
		The media likes to think the code of silence is dead in Charlestown because of few informants that testified against the big crime leaders there.
		The Irish mob would terrorize their families until they were to scared to show up to court.
		I don't think growing up in Charlestown makes it any more likely that you would become a gangster or a bank robber, but you sure will know them.
	www.imageiconent.com /interviews5.html (1536 words)

	UPNE - Fire and Roses: Nancy Lusignan Schultz
		In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of an Ursuline convent on Mount Benedict in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection.
		When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, vicious gossip began swirling through the Yankee community and in the press that she was being held at the convent against her will, and had even been murdered.
		The rumored fate of the "Mysterious Lady," as she became popularly known, ultimately led to the burning of the convent by an angry, drunken mob of Protestant men.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/1-55553-514-3.html (455 words)

	The Old Exchange - History
		Charleston was the namesake of one of the most hedonistic of English monarchs, and its unspoken mission was to build a miniature aristocratic London in the midst of a recreated English countryside inhabited by a landed gentry.
		Since Charlestown was secured and offered "a very defensible fortress as an asylum for the friends of government to resort to and they were sure of finding most perfect security, " Clinton called for a return to British allegiance.
		After a large mob was turned away from the post office by a city guard, a second group, organized and silent, was able to break into the post office at night and seize these pamphlets which they then burned in front of The Citadel (present day Marion Square on Calhoun Street).
	www.oldexchange.com /html/history.html (5107 words)

	Irish Mob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Wallace of the Gustin Gang dominated Boston's underworld until his death in 1931, when he was ambushed by Italian gangsters in the North End (the death of Jewish bootlegger Charles "King" Solomon in 1933 would ensure control of Boston's underworld by North End mobster Philip Bruccola until 1954).
		The group is known to have links to the Italian Mafia, the Irish Republican Army, Biker gangs, the Roofers Union, the Polish Mob, The Jewish Mob and various independent drug and hijacking gangs of various European ethnicities.
		The successors of Michael Cassius McDonald's criminal empire of the previous century, the Irish-American criminal organizations in Chicago were at their peak during Prohibition, specializing in bootlegging and highjacking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Mob (2385 words)

	Nancy Schultz: Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The book offers a rare lens on a time when independent, educated women were feared as much as immigrants and Catholics, and anti-Papist diatribes were the stuff of bestsellers and standing-room-only lectures.
		She provides a glimpse into nineteenth-century Boston and into an elite boarding school for young women, mostly the daughters of wealthy Protestants, vividly dissecting the period's roiling tensions over class, gender, religion, ethnicity, and education.
		Although the roots of these conflicts were in the Puritan migration to America, it was ultimately the mob's perverse fantasies about cloistered women - in an independent community - that erupted in a combustible night of violence.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/research/rapl/events/schultz_abstract.html (187 words)

	Bunker Hill Boston -- A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 20
		Bunker Hill was a larger, more dominant hill in Charlestown, but the Americans decided to fortify Breed’s Hill instead.
		On June 15th, the Americans learned that the British planned to occupy Charlestown and gain more control of the hills overlooking Boston.
		Howe, after some delay, landed his troops at Charlestown’s point near the mouth of the Mystic River.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute20/bunkerhill/default.htm (1591 words)

	School Integration in Boston
		Get the niggers at Southie." An angry mob quickly formed outside the high school, screaming "Niggers eat shit." The principal ordered the fl students to go into the office and stay there, because the situation was so volatile that any fl student found in the halls would be attacked.
		It was up to the fl parents of Roxbury to get their children out safely, which they managed to do by sending three decoy buses as well as the two that would actually carry the children.
		It is easy to paint the Townies who resisted integration as racists, but in reality they were simply people who were very proud of their town and of their children.
	www.4littlegirls.com /boston.htm (2094 words)

	4 SLAIN IN CHARLESTOWN RESTAURANT SHOTS FOLLOW ARGUMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In one of the most brazen multiple killings in the city's history, four men were shot to death and a fifth was wounded yesterday as they sat having lunch at the 99 Restaurant and Pub in Charlestown.
		Witnesses said the gunmen walked in at about 1:20 p.m., went to a booth and, after a brief argument, opened fire, peppering the victims with at least 13 shots.
		Indeed, law enforcement authorities said the circumstances of the shooting -- in the middle of the day, in front of dozens of witnesses, without disguises, and with the gunman's personal vehicle parked outside -- make it highly unlikely it was a shooting sanctioned by the local Mafia.
	www.thelaborers.net /newspapers/4_slain_in_charlestown_restauran.htm (1296 words)

	The Mob Tour - Boston.com
		Near the shadows of 93 North, the 99 diner sits in a strip mall Charlestown.
		What occurred at the 99 in Charlestown on Nov. 6, 1995 must have looked like a scene from a movie: As the crowd of lunchtime diners watched in horror, a father and son opened fire, killing four North End men in the restaurant in broad daylight, and wounding a fifth.
		The elder Clemente, who turns 54 on Sept. 14, is in custody at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, while his son is doing time at the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater.
	boston.com /travel/boston/mob/the_tour?pg=7 (180 words)

	All about Jesse Pomeroy by Mark Gribben
		Ruth Pomeroy lost a son as well, but once a month she was permitted to visit him in the Charlestown prison where he had been walled up.
		Governors came and went, wardens were assigned to Charlestown prison, met their most infamous prisoner and moved on.
		In 1929, 71-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was removed from the general population at Charlestown and taken by automobile to Bridgewater prison farm, where he could receive better medical care.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/history/pomeroy/17.html (1022 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 110
		Some Chicago mob watchers say Hanhardt may have been able to climb to the highest ranks of the department due to influence with politicians in Chicago's scandal-drenched 1st Ward Democratic Organization.
		Weiner, who has deep contacts to the mob, was one of the last people Jack Ruby spoke to by phone before he murdered Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
		Natale, the former head of the Philadelphia-South Jersey mob who has pleaded guilty to murder, extortion, gambling and drug trafficking, is cooperating with federal authorities.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_110.html (1984 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 by Nancy Lusignan Schultz
		In the twilight of a sweltering August evening in 1834, groups of men are gathering on the Winter Hill Road in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, near the main gate of a Roman Catholic convent.
		They are brickmakers, sailors, firemen, apprentices, and hooligans, Charlestown's poorest and least educated, and tonight they have a job to do.
		Cloistered inside are about a dozen Ursuline nuns who, in the last eight years, have built an elegant brick boarding school for wealthy girls high on a hill encircled by the brickyards of Charlestown, where most of those in the crowd at the gate eke out a meager living.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/ebook5878.htm (895 words)

	Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Chapter 8
		Who is not aware that a great portion of that stuff which composes a mob, ripe for riot or excess of any kind, and of which we have every week or two, a fresh example in some part of the country, is a Catholic population; Footnote: Priests control the Mob.
		If farther proof were wanting of the fact of the supreme influence of the Catholic priests over the mob, it is opportunely furnished in the testimony on the trial of the rioters at Charlestown, (Mass.).
		We have had mobs again and again, which neither the civil nor military power have availed any thing to quell, until the magic 'peace, be still' of the Catholic priest has hushed the winds, and calmed the waves of popular tumult.
	jmgainor.homestead.com /files/PU/Lks/FCALUS/FCALUS08.htm (2569 words)

	Digital History
		Three months later, a New York mob stormed the house of a prominent abolitionist, carried the furniture into the street, and set it on fire, and then proceeded to gut New York's Episcopal African Church and attack the homes of many of the city's free fls.
		Altogether there were at least 115 incidents of mob violence during the 1830s, compared to just seven incidents in the 1810s and 21 incidents in the 1820s.
		The explosive eruption of crime and mob violence during the mid-1830s revealed the total inadequacy of traditional methods of preserving public order.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/policing.cfm (1426 words)

	Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 eBooks
		In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection.
		When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirling through the Yankee community and in the press that she was being held at the convent against her will, and had even been murdered.
		The imagined fate of the "Mysterious Lady," as she became popularly known, ultimately led to the destruction of the Ursuline convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts on the night of August 11, 1834 by a mob of Protestant men.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/fire-26-roses-the-burning-of-the-charlestown-convent-1834-schultz-ebooks.htm (468 words)

	Local News Updates - Police arrest two in Charlestown High School shooting -The Boston Globe
		Police arrested two high school students today in connection with an incident Thursday in Charlestown in which shots were fired at students walking to school.
		Boston police took a 15-year-old male from Charlestown and a 16-year-old male from Dorchester into custody this morning on an array of charges including assault with intent to murder.
		The teens have also been charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a school, carrying a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful possession of ammunition.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2006/10/police_arrest_t.html?p1=MEWell_Pos5 (271 words)

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