Quick Facts
Biography
John (Snowy) Cutmore (1895–1927), 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.
His life and times were portrayed in the television series on the Nine television network in Australia, Underbelly: Razor.
Life and death
Cutmore fled from Melbourne to Sydney in 1923 after a fallout with Squizzy Taylor over the Fitzpatrick’s Jewellery store robbery. 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.
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 October 27, 1927. He is buried in the Coburg Cemetery in Melbourne.