history channel Tommy despised posse pioneer George McLaughlin of Charlestown who had endeavored to blackmail cash from one of Tommy's dear companions. For the record, the well known Boston Irish Gang War began in 1961 and endured until 1967. It was battled between the McLaughlin Gang of Charlestown and the Winter Hill Gang of Somerville drove by James "Mate" McLean, however that is another long and fierce story for one more day.
Sullivan made the vital blunder of getting into a horrible tavern fight with Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin and continued to give McLaughlin, likewise an ex-boxer, a horrendous beating that couldn't in any way, shape or form have been copied in Hollywood. Starting in a bar and after that moving outside into the road, the two went at each other on sensibly even terms until McLaughlin at last could take no more discipline and moved under a stopped auto to get away. However, Sullivan, the angered Southie local, needed progressively and he lifted up one end of the auto and propped one of the wheels up on the check permitting him to get at McLaughlin with the goal that he could proceed with the beatdown. The throng of spectators, including Barboza, was astonished at this deed of adrenalized quality that would have made a Hollywood double squint.
Dangerous payback was quick in coming. After two weeks, Tommy was called to the side of an auto that was sitting out of gear in the road close to his East Fifth Street home and he was speedily shot five times. After seven years in1965, Sullivan's fighting adversary, McLaughlin, was shot nine times at a West Roxbury transport stop. Some suspected Barboza as the triggerman for this execution.
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