UNDERWORLD VENDETTA

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1927, Page 3

UNDERWORLD VENDETTA

REVOLVER DUEL. CAUSES TWO DEATHS. (Australian A N.Z. (‘aide Association. (Received this day at S a.m.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 28. Tlie underworld vendetta in existence for years culminated in a vicious revolver duel at a bouse in Carlton to-night and resulted in the notorious ‘'Squizzy” Taylor and another man being slioi dead, and a woman who attempted t < intervene was hospitalled with revolver wounds. The names of the killed are Leslie Taylor and John Cutmore. Wounded - .Mrs Cutmore. Two other men wh , were concerned in the shouting disappeared. It appears that, Taylor and two other men drove Li motor ear to tlie house, occupied by Mrs Cutmore and her son. John Taylor, accompanied by one companion, entered tlie bouse and walked to tlie bedroom where Cutmore w.:s ill in bed. Without speaking one of the intruders fired point blank at Cutmore. The latter returned the fire from the bed and for several minutes a deadly duel was fought in the dimly-lighted room. Hearing tlie shots .Mrs Cutmore rushed to the room, tint as soon as she entered she fell to the floor with a bullet in her shoulder. A few minutes later Taylor staggered from the front door to the ear and was driven to the hospital, hut was dead on arrival. When the police reached tlie scene of the shooting Cutmore was dead and bis mother unconscious, blit not seriously wounded.