Charles Town Mob

The Charles Town Mob was an Irish Mob group in Charles Town, which figured prominently in the history of Sint-Anders Parish for much of the 20th Century and which was especially active during the 1950s and 1960s. It had between forty and fifty members. Their criminal activities included racketeering and murder.

The gang was headed by the McCaoinlin brothers, Barney, the founder of the gang, Yorick and Ned McCaoinlin, and their associates, brothers Garland and Bassett Smalls from Charles Town. Some of its notorious members included Arthur Benn, William and Edward Shackelett and John Doeford. The Charles Town Mob was involved in the Irish Gang Wars of the early to mid 1960s. The decade long gang war left both Barney and Ned dead and Yorick in prison. The Smalls brothers later suffered almost identical fates, as they were both shot to death on separate occasions.