Thomas "Soapy" Molloy
An expert at selling fake oil stocks to those even less mentally gifted than himself, Molloy is a tall, rather handsome fellow in middle age. for the purposes of his business he maintains a fine, indeed majestic appearance, and sometimes using the pseudonym "Thomas G. Gunn", a nod to his girl Dora, née Gunn, who he married just before we first meet him in Sam the Sudden. He once spent some time in Sing Sing, where he took the role of a senator in a play put on by the inmates. A sometime associate of Alexander "Chimp" Twist
He also appears in Money for Nothing, Money in the Bank, Ice in the Bedroom, and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.
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