 An expert at selling fake oil stocks to those even less mentally gifted than himself, Thomas "Soapy" Molloy is a tall, rather handsome fellow in middle age.For the purposes of his business he maintains a fine, indeed majestic appearance, sometimes using the pseudonym "Thomas G. Gunn", a nod to his wife Dora, née Gunn, whom 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.