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Kings of Sailor Town and the Sherman Brothers
The article details Irvington waterfront crime by the Sherman brothers who ran a brutal sailor town racket shipping crews, coercing men with advance notes and debt, shanghaiing captains, and skimming blood money, until public outcry and law pressure forced them to quit. It follows ships, witnesses, consuls, and the finally waning power of boarding masters and bully captains in maritime crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tone
Goling
Sailortown
Koa
Landaman
Jack Tar
John
Peter Sherman
Irvington
Reots
Upper Irvington
Jack
Pete Sherman
Allor
New Northwest
Europe
India
Horn
Sallortown
Brown
Carmarthenshie
England
Carmarthaenahire
Jack Sherman
Captain Brown
Sailor Town
Vickings
Par Cw
Trylogton
Sone
Sherman
Kings
Greenhorn
Sallartown
Peto
Jimmy Hunter
Yale
Black
Pete
Kktage
Hunter
Shipping Commissioner
Loaca
The
Good Hope
Sherman Boys
Sen In the Good Hope
Captain Black
Dunkirk
France
United States
Captain Blank
Jameg Munter
Bir
Binck
Puter
Berman
Uncle Sam
Greenbacks
Lonedon Town
Snilortown
Sherman Hoya
Seven Seas
United States District Attorney
Charlie Marsden
Atea
Conetls
Wallhoard
Guten
Upper
Sherman Bays
Bucko
Railroads
Uio
Citixens