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Old 03-14-2006, 11:43 PM
LizzieLizzard03 LizzieLizzard03 is offline
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PiKA2001 this should help to answer who/what paddy murphy is. My boyfriend is a SAE so i know a little about it.

Paddy Murphy, according to SAE legend, was a bootlegger who was doing deals with Al Capone. During one of the arrangements, Elliot Ness and his company of crime fighters stormed in on the affair to apprehend Murphy. However, when Ness signaled for Murphy to surrender, he instead reached for a gun, and Ness shot him down.

As Murphy fell to the ground, dying of a wound inflicted by Ness, he gave Ness the secret handshake that only the brothers of SAE know. Ness, an SAE himself, realized that he had killed a brother of his fraternity. Ness ordered that Paddy Murphy have an honorary burial, in recognition of his fallen brother.

SAEs all have different ways to honor Paddy Murphy, most which include a day/ night or formal devoted to him.
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