NARRAGANSETT BEVERAGE CORPORATION

In the meantime things at Narragansett Beverage Corporation came to a head. While Odie’s parents were on a trip to Portugal, Pires made an attempt to take over the business, but when he went to the brewery he was turned down. As far as the brewery was concerned Pires was a “nobody” that had never been heard from before. (This I learned from a man who had been my father’s salesman for years who later became an officer of the Brewery Corporation.) Lawyer George Triedman, a friend of Serafim Cardanha, showed me a letter he had prepared while Cardanha was in Portugal appointing me as manager with instructions to fire Pires, Sam and Pat, but Cardanha didn’t want to start a big family fight. After is return from Portugal the brewery took over the business and the two never spoke to each other again. Only after Serafim Cardanha did Zulmira Cardanha visit her brother who was very sick and later died.

By Pires’ will Sam got a life estate in the [Bristol] Narrows property, then to Eddie [Pires’] children [Marsha and Eddie], to keep the property from going to Pat’s family. (Pat’s father had borrowed money from Pires, who had a tough time collecting. Sam rented the property but never paid the real estate taxes. The town [of Bristol] was going to sell the property, Mickey saw the ad in the Bristol Phoenix. He called me and I called Eddie, he paid the taxes, and bought out Sam’s life estate. Eddie later told me that he suspected that Anthony Nunes was part of a plot to buy the property at the tax sale to get it away from Eddie’s children! They might have gotten away with it, except that Mickey saw the ad, which only appeared in the Bristol paper and called me!