Snowy cutmore biography documentary

Richmond Library Vic. The family moved to Richmond and Leslie tried to make a career as a jockey on the inner city pony circuit where he came to the notice of the police.

After hearing news of the return of a once-friend and fellow thug, and now enemy, Squizzy went hunting for Snowy Cutmore.

At 18 he was convicted of assault. Other convictions followed, mainly on minor charges of theft. Between and Taylor was linked to several more violent crimes including the murder and robbery of Arthur Trotter, a commercial traveller, the burglary of the Melbourne Trades Hall, in which a police constable was killed, and the murder of William Patrick Haines, a driver who refused to participate in the hold-up of a bank manager at Bulleen.

Taylor was tried for the murder of Haines and found not guilty. Although rarely convicted after , Taylor remained a key figure in an increasingly violent and wealthy underworld.

Once one of Australia’s most feared gangsters, Snowy Cutmore is most famous for a shoot-out with Squizzy Taylor in in which both died.

His income came from armed robbery, prostitution, the sale of illegal liquor and drugs, as well as from race-fixing and protection rackets. With Paddy Boardman, he conducted an efficient and lucrative business in rigging juries, a service of which he made regular use. Disputes between rival racketeers resulted in the 'Fitzroy vendetta' of in which several men were shot.

Taylor was among the principal figures in these gangland shootings. Charged under warrant in with theft from a city bond store, he eluded the police for twelve months but gave himself up in He was acquitted. In the bank-manager Thomas Berriman was robbed and murdered at Glenferrie railway station. Angus Murray and Richard Buckley were charged with the murder.