Treasure lead No9# Razor Gang Gansters hidden fortune

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America had 1920 bootlegging days that stereotyped the image of a vicious Thompson machine gun wielding gangster running the town and fighting turf wars. But it was not the only country to experience this in the 1920's. Australian had their own gangster war. Except it was not driven by illegal alcohol sales alone.

By the 1920,s Sydney was bursting at the seems. the once prosperous inner city suburbs of Darlinghurst, Paddington were turning for once fasionable outer city suburbs in the 1880's to overcrowded slums of the 1920's. Poor sanitation and urban decay with the influx of nationalities from all over the world crammed into small narrow terrace houses in poverty stricken back street suburbs became the breeding ground for criminals.

Strange at this may seem Sydney was not ruled by the Gun but by the razor. So prolific was the use of this tool the gangs that haunted the back alleys of Sydney's seedy districts, the Gangs became known as Razor Gangs because of amount of people who had their throats cut with shaving razors. Even today it has become part of folklore,Razor Gang  is a political term to express the ruthlessness of the razor gangs during budget cuts.

There was two main gangs that ruled Sydney in the 1920's And they fought a bitter turf war between themselves for control of Prostitution, drug dealing, extortion and racketeering. The city streets and dark alleys became littered with the bodies with their throats slit of those who got in their way.

In the early 1920's Cocaine was a drug freely supplied by doctors, by the time it was outlawed as a class A narcotic it was the drug of choice by inner city drug users addicted it. Demand and prices skyrocketed because of this.Violence became the norm in many inner city suburbs.

The two gangs were centered around two brothel madams with a host of would be pimps criminals of all types in bitter dispute over control centered around the Tradesman Arms in Darlinghurst.

One such criminal from the Razor Gang era was Sidney Patrick Kelly. Sidney was a small man who was once a jockey. But under that small frame lurked a cunning money hungry psychopath. By the age of 24 he was known to have been involved as a razor gang member in which he was known to have been involved in murder, Pimping and extortion.

Police tried many times to commit him for murder. But witness would disappear or refuse to testify due to fear. eventually his a few years jail for assault with a razor. As the years went as other Gang member killed each other off. Sydney survived the 1930's depression years and war becoming the Baccarat King. He ran illegal gaming dens in the back street of Sydney for many years.

Eventually the biggest crime boss of all the federal Taxation department became interested and led an investigation into him. However he died suddenly aged 49 in 1948. There are rumors that some of his money anything up 100,000 pounds a fortune by those days standards are buried in a bank deposit box some where in Centennial Park.

Centennial Park was created when Australia gained Independence in 1901. Is there money still buried in a strongbox somewhere in centennial park? Or perhaps at him farm in Seven Hills or at the home where he lived. A vicious a man he was he was also known to be very frugal with his money. He was not known to give away money for nothing. The tax department believed there was considerable money hidden at the time of his death.

Perhaps there is a small fortune still out there somewhere today?

Hardluck.

 

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