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Massachusetts author highlights life and death of Boston's 'Al Capone'

This notorious Boston mobster was murdered in a nightclub 91 years ago

Massachusetts author highlights life and death of Boston's 'Al Capone'

This notorious Boston mobster was murdered in a nightclub 91 years ago

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Massachusetts author highlights life and death of Boston's 'Al Capone'

This notorious Boston mobster was murdered in a nightclub 91 years ago

A man whose name was well known in Boston's speakeasies met his demise in the bathroom of one of the City's famed nightclubs ninety-one years ago. Described as Boston's "Al Capone," Charles "King" Solomon reigned supreme until his Jan. 24, 1933, murder.While images of him today are only available in black and white, Boston writer Stephanie Schorow says his life was a colorful one. "He was quite the character. He was the Capone of Boston!" she said, nursing a whiskey inside a downtown pub. "I'm fascinated by him."Schorow wrote "Drinking Boston: A History of the City and its Spirits." "People asked me, 'Was it fun doing the research?'" she said. "And I said... there's a lot of library research and not enough drinking!" In profiling Boston's era of prohibition, Schorow also dove into the life of the mobster whose reputation, she argues, was as great as Capone's in Chicago but whose name doesn't linger quite like his midwestern counterpart.

A man whose name was well known in Boston's speakeasies met his demise in the bathroom of one of the City's famed nightclubs ninety-one years ago.

Described as Boston's "Al Capone," Charles "King" Solomon reigned supreme until his Jan. 24, 1933, murder.

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While images of him today are only available in black and white, Boston writer Stephanie Schorow says his life was a colorful one.

"He was quite the character. He was the Capone of Boston!" she said, nursing a whiskey inside a downtown pub. "I'm fascinated by him."

Schorow wrote "Drinking Boston: A History of the City and its Spirits."

"People asked me, 'Was it fun doing the research?'" she said. "And I said... there's a lot of library research and not enough drinking!"

In profiling Boston's era of prohibition, Schorow also dove into the life of the mobster whose reputation, she argues, was as great as Capone's in Chicago but whose name doesn't linger quite like his midwestern counterpart.