Obituary from the Sydney Morning Herald, 7 August 1939:
Calletti, Guido (1904–1939) (GRAVER'S NOTE: Police records show Guido was born in 1902 - see photograph) Guido Calletti (Caletti), about 35, who was a figure in the underworld, was fatally shot through the abdomen in a House in Brougham Street, King's Cross, last night.
The police believe that the killing of Calletti was the outcome of an underworld feud.
They have learned that he went to the house and an argument ensued. Shots were fired and Calletti fell wounded.
A taxi-driver first told the Darlinghurst police of the shooting. He had been summoned to the house in Brougham Street, and on arrival there was asked to take a wounded man to hospital.
The taxi-driver refused the request, drove to a police call box and telephoned the police. Detectives Dimmock and Jack rushed to the house, where they found Calletti in a dying condition. They called the ambulance and had Calletti taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Calletti died in the hospital shortly before 10 o'clock. He was unconscious when the police first saw him, and did not regain his senses before he died. The detectives were thus unable to learn anything of the shooting from him.
Led by Detective-sergeants James and McCarthy, a large body of detectives went to the Brougham Street house and interrogated a number of men and women. They were unable to obtain any information.
They could not find any firearm on the premises.
The detectives searched underworld haunts, and brought a number of persons to Darlinghurst police station for questioning.
The dead man has been known to the police for many years as an associate of criminals. He had been concerned in several shooting affrays in Sydney, and in cities in other States.
About five years ago he opened a green-grocery in Paddington, but the venture did not prosper.
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UNDERWORLD PAYS
FOR FUNERAL
SOBBING CROWD LAMENTS
GUNMAN'S DEATH
SYDNEY, Tuesday
Before Guido Calletti, criminal and underworld habitue, was buried in the Rookwood cemetery today, 5000 people filed past his body in a funeral parlour in Darlinghurst. A collection from his friends in the underworld paid for the funeral and for the highly polished maple casket with silver trimmings. The crowd in the street was so dense that additional police had to be sent for to prevent traffic being held up.
After two bullets which killed Calletti in a revolver duel in Darlinghurst on Sunday night were taken from his abdomen, his body was removed to the funeral parlour. The dead man's head, with rosary beads bound round the forehead, was visible in the coffin, and during the day a continuous stream of men and women passed, many sobbing, while crowds outside struggled to gain admittance to the room where the body lay. One man, bending over Calletti's head, sobbed so bitterly that he had to be restrained. "He was my mate, and they shot him," he shouted. The father, mother and three brothers of the dead man were there two hours before the body was taken to the cemetery. His mother, a pathetic figure, told her friends that her son Guido attended his grandmother's funeral just four hours before he was murdered in a gun duel staged, according to the police, to avenge the shooting of another member of the underworld. The coffin was covered and the funeral parlour littered with 240 wreaths. One floral tribute from Calletti's wife in Queensland was in the shape of a cross four feet in height. Before the floral car, the hearse and 14 following cars moved off, extra police had to be sent to move the crowds. Detectives hope to make an early arrest in connection with the murder.
- Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania), Wednesday, 9 August 1939
Calletti, Guido (1904–1939) (GRAVER'S NOTE: Police records show Guido was born in 1902 - see photograph) Guido Calletti (Caletti), about 35, who was a figure in the underworld, was fatally shot through the abdomen in a House in Brougham Street, King's Cross, last night.
The police believe that the killing of Calletti was the outcome of an underworld feud.
They have learned that he went to the house and an argument ensued. Shots were fired and Calletti fell wounded.
A taxi-driver first told the Darlinghurst police of the shooting. He had been summoned to the house in Brougham Street, and on arrival there was asked to take a wounded man to hospital.
The taxi-driver refused the request, drove to a police call box and telephoned the police. Detectives Dimmock and Jack rushed to the house, where they found Calletti in a dying condition. They called the ambulance and had Calletti taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Calletti died in the hospital shortly before 10 o'clock. He was unconscious when the police first saw him, and did not regain his senses before he died. The detectives were thus unable to learn anything of the shooting from him.
Led by Detective-sergeants James and McCarthy, a large body of detectives went to the Brougham Street house and interrogated a number of men and women. They were unable to obtain any information.
They could not find any firearm on the premises.
The detectives searched underworld haunts, and brought a number of persons to Darlinghurst police station for questioning.
The dead man has been known to the police for many years as an associate of criminals. He had been concerned in several shooting affrays in Sydney, and in cities in other States.
About five years ago he opened a green-grocery in Paddington, but the venture did not prosper.
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UNDERWORLD PAYS
FOR FUNERAL
SOBBING CROWD LAMENTS
GUNMAN'S DEATH
SYDNEY, Tuesday
Before Guido Calletti, criminal and underworld habitue, was buried in the Rookwood cemetery today, 5000 people filed past his body in a funeral parlour in Darlinghurst. A collection from his friends in the underworld paid for the funeral and for the highly polished maple casket with silver trimmings. The crowd in the street was so dense that additional police had to be sent for to prevent traffic being held up.
After two bullets which killed Calletti in a revolver duel in Darlinghurst on Sunday night were taken from his abdomen, his body was removed to the funeral parlour. The dead man's head, with rosary beads bound round the forehead, was visible in the coffin, and during the day a continuous stream of men and women passed, many sobbing, while crowds outside struggled to gain admittance to the room where the body lay. One man, bending over Calletti's head, sobbed so bitterly that he had to be restrained. "He was my mate, and they shot him," he shouted. The father, mother and three brothers of the dead man were there two hours before the body was taken to the cemetery. His mother, a pathetic figure, told her friends that her son Guido attended his grandmother's funeral just four hours before he was murdered in a gun duel staged, according to the police, to avenge the shooting of another member of the underworld. The coffin was covered and the funeral parlour littered with 240 wreaths. One floral tribute from Calletti's wife in Queensland was in the shape of a cross four feet in height. Before the floral car, the hearse and 14 following cars moved off, extra police had to be sent to move the crowds. Detectives hope to make an early arrest in connection with the murder.
- Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania), Wednesday, 9 August 1939
Obituary from the Sydney Morning Herald, 7 August 1939:
Calletti, Guido (1904–1939) (GRAVER'S NOTE: Police records show Guido was born in 1902 - see photograph) Guido Calletti (Caletti), about 35, who was a figure in the underworld, was fatally shot through the abdomen in a House in Brougham Street, King's Cross, last night.
The police believe that the killing of Calletti was the outcome of an underworld feud.
They have learned that he went to the house and an argument ensued. Shots were fired and Calletti fell wounded.
A taxi-driver first told the Darlinghurst police of the shooting. He had been summoned to the house in Brougham Street, and on arrival there was asked to take a wounded man to hospital.
The taxi-driver refused the request, drove to a police call box and telephoned the police. Detectives Dimmock and Jack rushed to the house, where they found Calletti in a dying condition. They called the ambulance and had Calletti taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Calletti died in the hospital shortly before 10 o'clock. He was unconscious when the police first saw him, and did not regain his senses before he died. The detectives were thus unable to learn anything of the shooting from him.
Led by Detective-sergeants James and McCarthy, a large body of detectives went to the Brougham Street house and interrogated a number of men and women. They were unable to obtain any information.
They could not find any firearm on the premises.
The detectives searched underworld haunts, and brought a number of persons to Darlinghurst police station for questioning.
The dead man has been known to the police for many years as an associate of criminals. He had been concerned in several shooting affrays in Sydney, and in cities in other States.
About five years ago he opened a green-grocery in Paddington, but the venture did not prosper.
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UNDERWORLD PAYS
FOR FUNERAL
SOBBING CROWD LAMENTS
GUNMAN'S DEATH
SYDNEY, Tuesday
Before Guido Calletti, criminal and underworld habitue, was buried in the Rookwood cemetery today, 5000 people filed past his body in a funeral parlour in Darlinghurst. A collection from his friends in the underworld paid for the funeral and for the highly polished maple casket with silver trimmings. The crowd in the street was so dense that additional police had to be sent for to prevent traffic being held up.
After two bullets which killed Calletti in a revolver duel in Darlinghurst on Sunday night were taken from his abdomen, his body was removed to the funeral parlour. The dead man's head, with rosary beads bound round the forehead, was visible in the coffin, and during the day a continuous stream of men and women passed, many sobbing, while crowds outside struggled to gain admittance to the room where the body lay. One man, bending over Calletti's head, sobbed so bitterly that he had to be restrained. "He was my mate, and they shot him," he shouted. The father, mother and three brothers of the dead man were there two hours before the body was taken to the cemetery. His mother, a pathetic figure, told her friends that her son Guido attended his grandmother's funeral just four hours before he was murdered in a gun duel staged, according to the police, to avenge the shooting of another member of the underworld. The coffin was covered and the funeral parlour littered with 240 wreaths. One floral tribute from Calletti's wife in Queensland was in the shape of a cross four feet in height. Before the floral car, the hearse and 14 following cars moved off, extra police had to be sent to move the crowds. Detectives hope to make an early arrest in connection with the murder.
- Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania), Wednesday, 9 August 1939
Calletti, Guido (1904–1939) (GRAVER'S NOTE: Police records show Guido was born in 1902 - see photograph) Guido Calletti (Caletti), about 35, who was a figure in the underworld, was fatally shot through the abdomen in a House in Brougham Street, King's Cross, last night.
The police believe that the killing of Calletti was the outcome of an underworld feud.
They have learned that he went to the house and an argument ensued. Shots were fired and Calletti fell wounded.
A taxi-driver first told the Darlinghurst police of the shooting. He had been summoned to the house in Brougham Street, and on arrival there was asked to take a wounded man to hospital.
The taxi-driver refused the request, drove to a police call box and telephoned the police. Detectives Dimmock and Jack rushed to the house, where they found Calletti in a dying condition. They called the ambulance and had Calletti taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Calletti died in the hospital shortly before 10 o'clock. He was unconscious when the police first saw him, and did not regain his senses before he died. The detectives were thus unable to learn anything of the shooting from him.
Led by Detective-sergeants James and McCarthy, a large body of detectives went to the Brougham Street house and interrogated a number of men and women. They were unable to obtain any information.
They could not find any firearm on the premises.
The detectives searched underworld haunts, and brought a number of persons to Darlinghurst police station for questioning.
The dead man has been known to the police for many years as an associate of criminals. He had been concerned in several shooting affrays in Sydney, and in cities in other States.
About five years ago he opened a green-grocery in Paddington, but the venture did not prosper.
------
UNDERWORLD PAYS
FOR FUNERAL
SOBBING CROWD LAMENTS
GUNMAN'S DEATH
SYDNEY, Tuesday
Before Guido Calletti, criminal and underworld habitue, was buried in the Rookwood cemetery today, 5000 people filed past his body in a funeral parlour in Darlinghurst. A collection from his friends in the underworld paid for the funeral and for the highly polished maple casket with silver trimmings. The crowd in the street was so dense that additional police had to be sent for to prevent traffic being held up.
After two bullets which killed Calletti in a revolver duel in Darlinghurst on Sunday night were taken from his abdomen, his body was removed to the funeral parlour. The dead man's head, with rosary beads bound round the forehead, was visible in the coffin, and during the day a continuous stream of men and women passed, many sobbing, while crowds outside struggled to gain admittance to the room where the body lay. One man, bending over Calletti's head, sobbed so bitterly that he had to be restrained. "He was my mate, and they shot him," he shouted. The father, mother and three brothers of the dead man were there two hours before the body was taken to the cemetery. His mother, a pathetic figure, told her friends that her son Guido attended his grandmother's funeral just four hours before he was murdered in a gun duel staged, according to the police, to avenge the shooting of another member of the underworld. The coffin was covered and the funeral parlour littered with 240 wreaths. One floral tribute from Calletti's wife in Queensland was in the shape of a cross four feet in height. Before the floral car, the hearse and 14 following cars moved off, extra police had to be sent to move the crowds. Detectives hope to make an early arrest in connection with the murder.
- Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania), Wednesday, 9 August 1939
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