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Candice Cruz

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Monday 14th October 2019​

I've worked previously in the escorting side of this industry but never had a last name..
Langtrees VIP Canberra gave me the last name
Cameron
It's grown on me, I like my initials :shame: but I want to know who came up with it and how?

I also met the lovely @Dakota Cameron today on twitter and she chose the last name after Nellie Cameron

also seen in Underbelly:Razor


This is what wikipedia has to say about her

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"The kiss of Death Girl" - that's intriguing to say the least

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"Prostitute famously nicknamed 'The Kiss of Death Girl' who was associated with the razor gang wars of the 1920s and 1930s. She was described as 'a redhead with a ripe figure and provocative china blue eyes'. She committed suicide in her flat in Darlinghurst in 1953."

Milestones:

  • Born - Waterloo, Sydney - 1910
  • Died - Darlinghurst, Sydney - 8 NOV 1953
  • Buried - Botany Cemetery - 10 NOV 1953
Name
  • Colloquial - The Kiss of Death Girl
  • Birth - Kelly, Ellen Katherine - 1910 to 1934
  • Alternate - Caletti, Ellen Catherine - 1934 to 1939
  • Alternate - Bourke, Ellen Katherine - 1940 to 1953
Occupation
  • Criminal
Position
  • Resident - State Reformatory for Women
    (First purpose built women's prison in New South Wales, it was at the Little Bay end of he Long Bay Correctional complex and consisters of four halls with kitchen, workrooms and hospital facilities.

Her first two relationships (spouse) have no known dates attached to their names, and the third one from 1934 - 1939
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"Nellie Cameron (age 21) was one of Sydney’s best-known prostitutes, and worked for Tilly Devine.
This mugshot was taken around 1930. Lillian Armfield, Australia’s first policewoman, said Cameron had an 'assured poise' that set her apart from all the other women of the Australian underworld’. Listen to historian Leigh Straw in conversation with Sarah Kanowski on the life of Lillian Armfield, Australia's first female police detective, here: http://bit.ly/LilArmfield"

Source: ABC Conversations
Not sure I like the over-dramatising when they start that conversation with "TEEEENAGGGE RUNNAWAAAYSSS....DODGY FORTUNE TELLERS......COCAINE DEALEERRRRRS... BROTHEL OWNERSSSSSS" Other than that, I'm glad the rest of it isn't monotone.

Guido Calletti NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Justice and Police Museum, Sydney Living Museums
Join writer Larry Writer, author of Razor:
Tilly Devine and the razor gangs
in his latest instalment of walking the mean 1920s streets as featured Razorhurst walking tours.

William Street

William Street was where Tilly Devine first worked as a prostitute when she arrived in Sydney in 1920. Brougham Street, which runs off William, is where the notorious razor gangster Guido Calletti was shot dead by a member of the Brougham Street Gang, after Calletti blithely gatecrashed a party and announced he was taking over their turf.

Calletti was briefly married to the beautiful prostitute Nellie Cameron who fled her respectable upper north shore family to become an in-demand prostitute and the lover of, among others, Calletti, Frank ‘the Little Gunman’ Green and Norman Bruhn. Nellie Cameron eventually found love with an Irish seaman, but, convinced she had contracted cancer from bullet wounds sustained in her wild days, she gassed herself on 8 November 1953, aged 41.


Newsarticle of her death: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18406356

She had two obituaries:

Cameron, Ellen Katherine (Nellie) (1910–1953)
from Mercury (Hobart)​
Cameron, Ellen Katherine (Nellie) (1910–1953)
from Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW)​
Nellie Burke, or Cameron, one of the Sydney underworld's "fabulous characters," is dead, aged 41.

The body was found in her flat in Denham St, Darlinghurst, last night.

The body was in the kitchen, near a gas oven with all taps turned on. Nellie had been a figure in the underworld for more than 25 years.

She was a blue-eyed blonde, only 15 years old, when she first appeared—girl friend of notorious gangster Frank Green.

Soon she had the distinction of becoming the first woman in Australia to be convicted of consorting with criminals.

She came from a good family, and was educated at an exclusive girls' school on the North Shore.

But while still in her teens, she became the mistress of one of Sydney's worst gunmen and razor slashers, Guido Calletti.

Her family and police tried to win her from the under-world, but she stayed with Calletti.

She was the despair of welfare workers, but she continued to dress daintily and maintained her well modulated speech.

In 1929, Nellie and Calletti were living in Darlinghurst when another criminal, Erick Connolly, "fell" for her.

Connolly was found soon afterwards lying wounded in Woomerah Ave., Darlinghurst.

While Calletti was serving a two-year sentence, Green won Nellie back.

One night he found her with another man. Green was shot.

Green once spirited Nellie away from Newcastle Hospital by putting an overcoat over her head while police waited to arrest her.

In June, 1934, Green was admitted to Sydney Hospital with a terrible wound, which had almost severed the right wrist.

While he lay in agony, Calletti, the man he hated most, married Nellie.

Green was killed in a brawl in 1939. Nellie's later friends included violent character Alan Pulley and a gunman-slasher who now "works" the East Sydney hotels as an S.P. bookie.

Mrs. Matilda Parsons ("Tilly Devine") commenting on Nellie's death today, said she could "hardly breathe" from the shock of hearing of it.
Underworld figure Nellie Cameron, who committed suicide on Sunday, had "died for love", one of her friends said.

"There were two men in Nellie's life, and she didn't know which one she wanted, the friend said.

Cameron aged 41, was found dead in the kitchen of her Darlinghurst flat lying near a gas stove.

She had been a notorious figure in the Sydney underworld since the razor-gang days of 1927. Several of her early lovers were involved in gang gun-fights in the late 20s and early 30s.

Cameron's first husband, gangster Guido Calletti, was killed in a Darlinghurst gang shooting in 1940.

Later she married a man called Charles Bourke, but separated from him and continued to be known as Nellie Cameron.

About seven years ago Cameron adopted a baby girl from a Sydney hospital. For several years the child has been attending a convent.

Mrs. Eric Parsons, the former Tilly Devine, who had known Nellie Cameron for 26 years, said last night:

"I loved Nellie like a sister.

"She was a girl who loved life.

"I can't understand why she killed herself.

"I am too overcome with grief to say more."

I'll ease out that heavy feeling, with this dark-humorous, yet catchy music -video -

Have to admit that was an intriguing one to research and put into a post.
Think I might have to just start writing an auto-biography soon,
haha... don't think I want my lives summed up by other peoples' accounts and encounters with me....
Oops, oh well. I get along with most at first go,
bit slow and need constant reminders if you really need me for you...
otherwise... I act accordingly ;):cool:




Rise and Shine GY-shift-workers!!!!!!!

Moody Monday? Manic Monday?

Oh go on... be a rebel and have a good day anyway ;):bumdance:





;) :happy:Still smiley ~

Candice Cameron
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