Source: thejohnfleming.wordpress.com --- Sunday, July 21, 2013
Malcolm Hardee iconic autobiography Towards the start of comedian Malcolm Hardee ?s autobiography I Stole Freddie Mercury?s Birthday Cake , this passage appears: ______________________________ There was a club in Catford called The Witchdoctor. It was a club we all went to although they didn?t sell drink. Downstairs there was ?Mr Smiths? ? a gambling casino?. Eddie Richardson was involved in a big shooting at Mr Smith?s, underneath The Witchdoctor. It was a inter-gang thing. They all met down the gaming club and this bloke got shot and was bleeding all over the place from an artery. ?Mad Frankie? Fraser (the Richardson?s infamous ?enforcer?) hit a bloke who subsequently died and ?Mad Frankie? himself was shot in the thigh. He got outside and the police found him lying in a front garden round the corner in Fordel Road, Catford, where my Aunt Rosemary and Uncle Doug were then living. His mates had just left ?Mad Frankie? there. A bit inconsiderate to the neighbours. No-one outside South East London knew the Richardsons until they were arrested and there was a lot of publicity at their trial about torturing people in a home-made electric chair. But everyone knew The Krays . As comedian Lee Hurst says, the Blind Beggar must be the biggest pub in the world. Every time you meet a London taxi driver he says he was in the Blind Beggar the day Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell. Some people say the Krays wouldn?t have been big if there hadn? ...
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