Soon after he testified about the beating of plainclothed police officer Daniel J. McDonald in 1933 by members of Steve Wallace's "Gustin Gang," Thomas G. “Red” Curran turned up dead. In May 1933, his bullet-riddled body was found in an old quarry in West Quincy. He had been shot and then placed inside a car that was pushed over a rocky cliff into the water below. He was dressed in a tuxedo and had been shot five times in the head, arms, and chest. He was dressed in a tuxedo and had been shot five times in the head, arms, and chest. Very few people attended his wake at 906 Dorchester Avenue, at the house pictured, or his funeral at Mount Hope Cemetery. Hundreds gathered to watch the car be removed by police from the water. (Crime scene and funeral photography courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection; house photography courtesy of Emily Sweeney.)
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