Lucky Clover Cartage Co. - 200 W Main Street
Lucky Clover will truck your freight where you need it or lease you a truck for $7.50 a day so you can do it yourself. Lucky Clover is also a front for the criminal operations centered in New Jerusalem, which O'Bannion grabbed from Joe Potrello. The front part of the warehouse is offices, leaving the rear for storage, a truck lot, and maintenance. Illegal goods are loaded from boats at the river and stored here.
Potrello trucked in booze from Boston. O'Bannion's increased volume of sale has called for a new approach. Now booze, drugs, and stolen goods are loaded onto small motor launches from a ship anchored off Blaine's Port, beyond the 12-mile limit. In the dead of night the motor boats return to the Missituk estuary north of Blaine's Port and in the dark, running lights off, make their way upriver to New Jerusalem.
Outside town the boats kill their motors and wait at anchor for the next scheduled freight train to pass through New Jerusalem. When a train approaches New Jerusalem the boats head up-river, the passing freight dimming their noise. If timed right, the boats reach the wharfs while the noisy freight still rumbles through. The crafts tie up and are quickly unloaded by a waiting crew which stashes it in the rear of the Lucky Clover Cartage Co. warehouse.
From here the goods are disbursed to volume retailers, buyers, fences, and users, who in turn may supply smaller dealers.
Helped by pay-offs to a few police officers, the routine works admirably; New Jerusalem has become the distribution point for nearby communities, including Aylesbury, Rowley, Ipswich, Newburyport, and (in inordinate amounts) Sethwich.
O'Bannion employs ethnic numbers runners among the various immigrant populations and occasionally recruits a new hoodlum from among the local Irish thugs. O'Bannion also loan-sharks for good profit.
O'Bannion wants to put Joe Potrello out of the picture permanently. New Jerusalem is too small a town for an outright hit, but O'Bannion feels sure that if he is patient enough his chance will come.
Danny O'Bannion: the boss is 33, six feet tall, and heavily built; he remembers and tells jokes well, and he can talk about anything for hours. Compared to Joe Potrello, O'Bannion is well-educated; he can move in circles Potrello could not penetrate.
Born and raised in Boston, he is fourth-generation Irish. He wears tailored suits, owns his own automobile (the traditional gangster black Cadillac), and maintains a suite atop the Timbleton Arms. O'Bannion's charming facade conceals a cold and brutal personality which relishes humiliating or destroying those who cross him.
He is often out of town, usually on business in Boston negotiating with and delivering money to the mob bosses who financed the move into the Missituk Valley. They trust him enough to use his boats to dump unseemly corpses at sea.
O'Bannion keeps his hands clean. He directly manages only the trucking company. He implicates himself only when delicate crimes (such as bribing important officials) need his skills. Henchmen and hirelings handle the actual racketeering.
Bobby Sills: O'Bannion's second-in-command, Sills keeps track of all illegal shipments through New Jerusalem. Good-looking and canny, Sills is somewhat flashier than O'Bannion in dress and mannerism, and he drives an expensive Lincoln sedan.
He also handles the day-to-day problems concerning liquor, numbers, prostitutes, and collections. Sills, with a thug or two, visits overdue debtors to talk sense into them. Slapping a victim around contributes to understanding.
Sills sees to rub-outs that require a subtle touch. He murdered one of Potrello's henchman a few years ago.
Eddie Leary: a Lucky Clover Cartage officer, this huge, violent man keeps drivers and hirelings in line, breaking fingers, arms, and legs as the boss tells him to. He also oversees nighttime deliveries from beyond the 12-mile limit.
Meyer Golditz: an accountant, keeps the books for the liquor, drug, loan, and other rackets run by O'Bannion, as well as for the legal commercial entity of Lucky Clover Cartage. He's a nervous man and fussy with details. He has an office at the trucking company and rooms at Miss Clark's boarding house.
Since he tracks all the money, Golditz knows how much these criminals steal from each other as well as from their victims; their dealings show him that whatever he can get away with, he should, and that any loyalty he showed to them would be misplaced. He currently dreams of stealing $150,000 from O'Bannion and starting a new life in California as an accountant at MGM or Universal—some place with lots of starlets.
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