Bill GreenABE SAFFRON'S ABATTOIR MURDERS
July 29th 2008 07:16
Abe Saffron a man of many parts, murderer, patron of poetry and the arts, pimp and wildlife smuggler, was a true bastard.
Nevertheless he looked after those who were prepared to hang out with him (if they were recognised as up and coming talents).
Investigating wildlife smuggling in the nineties he became, for me, the quintessential evil smuggler. A Senate inquiry into that industry accused him of killing five competitors in the game, and one game warden. Their bodies were never found but were believed to have been put through the dog food machine in a Queensland abattoir.
My brother was drinking in a Sydney pub with a man’s boutique fashion shop when the fashion marketeer was approached by his landlord. “How’s business?” the landlord asked.
“Not too good was the reply.”
“Burn it,” was the order from Saffron.
I’m so tempted to name the poet and the film critic and screenwriter who lived in an apartment (free) belonging to Abe. But they were naive then and it would unfair. However I remember naming them in a fictionalised true account of my investigation into Abe’s abattoir murders ( Dying for Paradise - Hodder 96).
Nevertheless he looked after those who were prepared to hang out with him (if they were recognised as up and coming talents).
Investigating wildlife smuggling in the nineties he became, for me, the quintessential evil smuggler. A Senate inquiry into that industry accused him of killing five competitors in the game, and one game warden. Their bodies were never found but were believed to have been put through the dog food machine in a Queensland abattoir.
“Not too good was the reply.”
“Burn it,” was the order from Saffron.
I’m so tempted to name the poet and the film critic and screenwriter who lived in an apartment (free) belonging to Abe. But they were naive then and it would unfair. However I remember naming them in a fictionalised true account of my investigation into Abe’s abattoir murders ( Dying for Paradise - Hodder 96).
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