John "Snowy" Cutmore

John Daniel 'Snowy' Cutmore (29 August 1895 – 27 October 1927), was a notorious and violent Australian criminal best known as leader of the Fitzroy Gang, a member of the Tilly Devine's Sydney razor gang, and for his part in the death of Norman Bruhn and Squizzy Taylor.

John Cutmore
Born
John Daniel Cutmore

29 August 1895
Coburg, Victoria, Australia
DiedOctober 27, 1927(1927-10-27) (aged 32)
Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Cause of deathgunshot wound to chest
Other namesSnowy
Occupationcriminal

His life and times were portrayed in the television series on the Nine television network in Australia, Underbelly: Razor and Underbelly: Squizzy. He also appears in the 1982 biopic Squizzy Taylor, where is played by Steve Bisley.

Life and death

Cutmore fled from Melbourne to Sydney in 1923 after a fallout with Squizzy Taylor over the Fitzpatrick’s Jewellery store robbery.[1][2] Cutmore and Taylor's animosity went all the way back to the 1919 Fitzroy Vendetta - a battle over the sly grog trade between the Fitzroy Gang and Squizzy Taylor's gang.[3][4][5][6]

Shortly after returning to Melbourne to avoid a likely conviction in New South Wales, Cutmore and Taylor both died in a shootout at the home of Cutmore's mother on 27 October 1927.[7][4][8] He is buried in the Coburg Cemetery in Melbourne.[2]

References
  1. "Squizzy Taylor Identities". 21 March 1895.
  2. http://www.friendsofcoburgcemetery.com/Documents/22-Cutmore.pdf
  3. "THE FITZROY VENDETTA - A POLICE RAID. SEVEN MEN ARRESTED. Melbourne, May 8. - The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) - 9 May 1919".
  4. "Waterfront : graft, corruption and violence, Australia's crime frontier from 1788 to now / Duncan McNab. - Version details".
  5. "John Daniel "Snowy" Cutmore (1895 - 1927) - Find A Grave Memorial".
  6. "Razorhurst - Tour Gangland Sydney - Kings Lane".
  7. "Meet the real Squizzy Taylor".
  8. developer@themonthly.com.au (3 June 2013). "Squizzy Taylor & Snowy Cutmore".


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