Razor (Underbelly) by Writer Larry

Author:Writer, Larry [Writer, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Australia
Published: 2011-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

One person keenly following the progress of the police dragnet for the absconder Frank Green was Jim Devine. He had an excellent reason to want to see Green in custody, for before he disappeared, Green had broadcast throughout Razorhurst his intention to shoot Jim the first chance he got, then cut the ears off his damnable corpse and pin them to a wall in Stanley Street.

While Green was on the loose, Jim refused to venture from his Maroubra home without his bodyguard. So, for him, there was cause to celebrate when police finally arrested Green at a flat in Park Road, Moore Park, near the Captain Cook Hotel. As before, it was Nellie Cameron who inadvertently led the law to her lover. Police had tailed her from the moment she had been released from Long Bay, and one day an officer saw her buy two large pieces of porterhouse steak at a butcher's shop and deduced that it was unlikely that she would be eating both steaks herself. He followed her to the Park Road flat.

On 2 August, Cameron was cooking sausages for Green at the flat, where he had indeed been holed up, when police banged on the front door. High farce ensued. Green flung himself under a bed as the officers forced the door and tumbled in. ‘Where's Green?’ demanded Detective Sergeant Reg Kennedy of Cameron.

‘Not here,’ she said.

‘Then whose feet are they sticking out from beneath that bed?’

‘Oh,’ said Cameron with unconvincing nonchalance, ‘just my lover's.’

Police dragged a squirming figure out from under the bed, but, at a glance, this person looked nothing like their quarry Green. Green's hair was usually heavily oiled and elaborately quiffed, while this fellow had a bristle-cut. Green's complexion was pale, this chap's was an odd pumpkin-yellow. Green's features were mean, and somewhat battered but regular, while the man under the bed's face was contorted into a clownish grin and one of his eyes was closed tight. But the officers were not fooled for long by Green's ludicrous attempt to disguise himself. The giveaway, police said, was the trademark razor scar on the fugitive's right cheek. He had shaved his head, rubbed henna onto his face and screwed up his visage so he resembled Quasimodo. A huge wad of gum distended Green's cheek.

Kennedy chuckled, ‘Well, you're certainly smart, Green. And a pretty cool customer, too. Fancy screwing up your face like that when you meet a pal. And I've been looking for you everywhere.’

An embarrassed Green spat out his gum and went quietly. ‘Aw, ease it,’ he told Kennedy. ‘Break it down.’

‘Hard luck, Frankie,’ said Cameron as her man was led away.

One newspaper's headline read ‘Sudden End of Gangster's Liberty’, under which the article informed:

Green is a gunman, a gangster, a night prowler, a vulture who preys on unfortunate women, a razor hand, an underworld terrorist. And the scar on his face, which an operation has failed to obliterate, makes him a marked man even when he cunningly changes his complexion with henna hair dye and screws up his face.

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