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		<title>The Last Will and Testament of Rory Sheehan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Miles Link]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Heights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While clearing a block of turn-of-the-century townhouses for a drive-through fondue restaurant, workers in 1973 discovered an artifact from the city’s former days as a gangland paradise. Wedged in between a basement wall was a metal strong box containing the last will and testament of Rory Sheehan, the fearsome Roxboro neighborhood mob boss. The box contained the will, a photographic portrait of Sheehan with his characteristic scowl, and an Irish tricolor flag. The discovery of the will not only shed some light on the enigmatic boss but also set off a three year hunt for a store of buried treasure that captured the attention of anyone within reach of a pickaxe. Rory Sheehan was born in 1879 in Dublin and settled in the city in 1894 with his father. The young Rory first found work as a grocery delivery boy. On his route was Wallace &#8220;Towers&#8221; Kinsky, the notorious state senator, who was working at the time in the DA&#8217;s office. Years later, &#8220;Towers&#8221; Kinsky would settle a sweetheart deal in the construction of the Wyndham Hydroelectric Dam with a company within Sheehan&#8217;s crime syndicate. In celebration of the deal, Sheehan treated Kinsky to a night on Issacs Street, in [...]]]></description>
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