Jack Twist
Name: Jack Twist
Hometown: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height: 185cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Trainer: Ambrose Palmer
In December of 1949, Jack Twist, 23, was wounded when he was shot in the shoulder during an altercation. The shot was alleged to have been fired by the proprietor of the guest-house in which Twist was living. The police were told the proprietor acted in self defense. Twist, who was related to the alleged shooter, was employed there as an assistant chef. Police were told that a family quarrel occurred at the breakfast table. It developed into a clash, in which a knife was alleged to have been used and a single barrel shotgun fired. The charge tore a piece of flesh from Twist's shoulder.
On May 23rd, 1951, The Argus reported Twist and fellow boxer Norman Robinson had been charged with robbing $2,300 from a Standard Motors Company payroll truck. Two weeks prior, two men posing as the crew of an armored car called the office of the Standard Motors and picked up pay boxes which were supposed to be delivered to the company's factory. The theft was discovered when the actual armored car arrived to pick up the money.
Multiple stories indicate "John Eric (Jack) Twist" was involved in organized crime in the early 1950s with Freddie "The Frog" Harrison in Australia.