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- Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, aged 43, one of Australia's most notorious criminals, was gunned down in a house in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton yesterday evening. A gun battle occurred between Taylor and another known criminal, 'Snowy' Cutmore, who was also killed. Police alledging each shot the other over a long standing fued.
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It is unknown what happened to either of Taylor's two surviving children, a son or daughter named Leslie by Lorna and a daughter by Ida variously known as Patsy or Gloria.
Apr 12, 2018 · It was the scene of a vicious shootout in 1927 that would lead to the death of notorious gangster Squizzy Taylor. Curious Melbourne investigates if the house in the quiet backstreets of Carlton is ...
- Tim Callanan
Oct 12, 2021 · The death of Squizzy Taylor was every bit as spectacular as one might imagine, considering the life he’d led. After hearing news of the return of a once-friend and fellow thug, and now enemy, Squizzy went hunting for Snowy Cutmore.
Jul 2, 2013 · It is 86 years since he was shot dead in a duel in Carlton on October 27, 1927, ending a notorious reign on par with today's Carl Williams or Tony Mokbel. Ruling Melbourne’s underworld in the 1920s, Squizzy has been described as a mix of psychopath and Australia’s Robin Hood.
- Squirrel Main
In 1927, the enmity between two rival underworld factions culminated in a pistol duel between gangsters Leslie 'Squizzy' Taylor and John 'Snowy' Cutmore at a house in Barkly Street, Carlton.
Jun 1, 2015 · At age 20 in 1908, Squizzy was caught pick-pocketing at the Burrumbeet races and charged, and by 1910 Taylor was an entrenched part of the Melbourne underworld. Before long he was linked to blackmail, theft, extortion, then later, jury rigging, race-fixing, sly grog, and prostitution.
Dec 7, 2012 · CHRIS Grierson's imagining of the life of 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor is a kind of scrapbook: verse, short bursts of prose, trial transcripts in which various witnesses find they can no longer identify the defendants, and photographs of long-vanished Melbourne hang-outs (the Orient Hotel, the Palais de Danse) and of the bedroom where...
