The sound of traditional Scottish bagpipes resonated through the Colonnade and down the Hill Tuesday afternoon when members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity held their annual Paddy Murphy Procession.

SAEs in black suits carried a coffin covered with their fraternity’s colors during the solemn ceremony. According to SAE legend, Paddy Murphy was a 1920’s bootlegger and employee of Al Capone. Murphy was shot and killed by famed lawman Eliot Ness during a raid. Before Murphy died, he reached to Ness and gave him the secret SAE grip, only known to brothers. Upon finding out that Murphy was a brother, Ness ordered that Murphy have a honorary SAE burial.

The ceremony is held by SAE chapters internationally as a reminder of the brotherhood shared by the fraternity’s members. “The story of Paddy Murphy and Eliot Ness shows the band of brotherhood,” said Western’s SAE President Daniel Casagrande. “We may not know our brothers that are out there, but it is good to know they are there.”