Fight Between the Police and the Bushrangers at Glenrowan; The
Railway Torn Up; Attempt to Wreck the Police Train; The Glenrowan Inn
Besieged; Ned Kelly in Armour; His Capture; The Burning of the Inn;
Deaths of Dan Kelly, Steve Hart, and Joe Byrnes; Trial and Conviction
of Ned Kelly; His Death; The Kelly Show; Decrease of Crime in the
Colonies.
As soon as the news of this fresh outrage was telegraphed to Melbourne,
Sub-inspector O'Connor of Queensland, with his six black trackers, with
Superintendent Hare, Inspector Pewtress, and several other officials
of the Victorian police, a number of newspaper correspondents, and a
few other favoured persons, started by special train for the scene of
disorder. Eight troopers were picked up at Benalla, and at twenty-five
minutes past three p.m. the train was stopped near the Glenrowan
platform by Mr. Curnow, the local schoolmaster, who stood on the line
waving a red scarf. He informed those on the train that the robbers had
torn up the rails a short distance ahead, with a view to wrecking the
train, and that they were waiting near to shoot the police or any one
else who might be sent to capture them. A consultation was immediately
held to decide as to the next step, and while this was going on,
Constable Bracken, the local representative of the police force,
arrived and reported that the bushrangers had taken possession of the
Glenrowan Inn, not much more than a hundred yards distant, and that he
had just made his escape from them.
The Glenrowan Inn was built on the Sydney Road, about half-way between
Winton and Wangaratta, shortly after the discovery of gold at the Ovens
River, in 1853. The glen was then a camping-place for teams travelling
between Melbourne and the diggings. A second hotel was constructed
later, and a small village, or what the Australians call a township,
grew up on the little flat at the gap in the hills, locally known as
the Futter's Range, a spur jutting out from the larger Strathbogie
Range. For some years Glenrowan was quite a flourishing little town,
the traffic to the diggings being large. But when the Great Northern
Railway was opened in 1873 the village began to dwindle away. The
railway carried the trade past it to the more conveniently situated
and larger towns on either side, and consequently the population left
for these towns. The two hotels remained, and there was also a store,
a blacksmith's shop, and a few other houses, and these depended for
their support on the fruit growers, market gardeners, and farmers who
cultivated the rich alluvial flats with which the lower spurs of the
mountains are interspersed. The railway platform had been constructed
by the Government to accommodate the trade in fruit, vegetables, and
other produce which formed the staple industry of the district in 1880.
The Glenrowan Inn was a long, low, weather-board building, with a wide
verandah along the front. It stood some distance back from the road,
with a large trough hewn from the stem of a tree in front for horses
and bullocks to drink from. Near this was a sign-board with the names
of the hotel and the proprietor on it thus:--
[Illustration:
THE GLENROWAN INN
ANN JONES
BEST ACCOMMODATION.
]
The robbers, it appears, did not go very far when they left Sherritt's
hut. They were aware that, when the news of the murder reached
Melbourne and other centres, an attempt would be made to follow them,
and they seem to have made up their minds to a final effort to conquer
the police force of the colony. They went to the camp of the line
repairers and roused them up. James Reardon, on coming out of his hut,
was ordered to get his tools, as the robbers were determined to rip up
the line and wreck the train which they expected to arrive. Reardon
at first refused, but on being threatened with death he gave in. He
said that the tools were locked up and that he could not get them
till morning, but he was told that the chest would soon be broken.
His mate, Sullivan, was also secured, and at length they agreed to do
as they were told. They went to a bend in the road, a short distance
north of the platform, being under the impression that the train would
arrive from Wangaratta or Beechworth. They ripped up a number of the
rails and piled them across the track. Then they marched Reardon
and his wife and child and Sullivan to the Glenrowan Inn, and took
possession. They collected sixty-two people in the township, including
Mr. John Stanistreet, the station-master, and escorted them to the
hotel. Among the prisoners also was Constable Bracken. Ned Kelly walked
about telling the people that the train would "soon be here" from
Rushworth with the black trackers and "a lot of other---- and we're
going to kill the lot." There was some confusion owing to the fears
of the women and children, and while the bushrangers were engaged in
restoring order, Constable Bracken contrived to get hold of the key
of the front door. He watched for an opportunity, opened the door and
ran out. He reported that three of the troopers who had been hidden
in Sherritt's hut had followed the bushrangers, and had watched all
their proceedings, but they had not ventured to attack them, as their
ammunition was short, and they were not strong enough. Presently a
man came out on to the verandah, and the police, recognising him as
Ned Kelly, fired a volley. Ned laughed, and shouted "Shoot away, you
----, you can't hurt us." At this juncture Mr. Stanistreet came out of
the house, and walked from the hotel to where the police were, at the
imminent risk of being shot, as he was between the two firing parties.
He escaped, however, and reported that Miss Jones, aged fourteen, and
several other of the prisoners in the hotel had been wounded by the
police fire, but none of the bushrangers had been hurt. Superintendent
Hare had also been severely wounded by the bushrangers, the bullet
having shattered the bones of his wrist. He was taken to the railway
station-master's house and attended to. At about five p.m. Mrs. Jones,
the landlady of the hotel, appeared on the verandah, wringing her
hands and weeping. She called the police murderers, and said that
her son had been killed and her daughter wounded. The police ceased
firing, and the boy was brought out. He was still alive, and was sent
off at once to the Wangaratta Hospital, where he died next day. An
old man named Martin Cherry was also said to have been killed. Mrs.
Jones and her children and servants, and the men and women who had
been made prisoners by the bushrangers, left the hotel after dark
during a truce, and firing was then kept up during the night. About
daybreak another party of troopers arrived from Benalla, Wangaratta,
and Beechworth, making the attacking party about thirty strong. There
was a lull in the firing for a time, while the newly-arrived men were
being placed in positions, when suddenly a revolving rifle and a cap
known to have belonged to Ned Kelly were found a hundred yards from
the hotel at the rear of the attacking party. The rifle was stained
with blood. The police were still discussing this find and speculating
how the articles could have got there when they were fired at from
behind a tree. The next moment an extraordinary figure marched across
the space between two trees. The figure looked like a tall, stout
man, with a nail can over his head. Sergeant Steel, Constable Kelly,
and Railway-guard Dowsett fired at it simultaneously, but the bullets
appeared to rebound from the body of the figure. Steel then fired
at the legs, and at the second shot Ned Kelly, for he it was, fell,
crying out "I'm done for." The police rushed forward, but Kelly raised
himself on his elbow and fired, howling like a wild beast and declaring
that they should never take him alive. He continued shooting, but the
bullets "went wild," owing, perhaps, to his weakening through loss of
blood, and he was soon grappled with and handcuffed. The armour worn
by Ned is said to have been made from stolen plough-shares by a local
blacksmith. It consisted of a helmet shaped like a nail can and coming
down to the shoulders, with a slit in it to enable the wearer to see;
and a breastplate, very long, with shoulder plates and back guard.
The steel averaged nearly a quarter of an inch in thickness, and the
weight of the suit worn by Ned Kelly was ninety-seven pounds. The
breastplate showed several dints where it had been struck by bullets,
but it had not been pierced. Ned had, however, received two wounds in
the groin, and one each in the left foot, right leg, right hand, and
right arm. He was immediately removed to a safe distance, and placed
under medical care. Notwithstanding the loss of one of their small
number, the bushrangers kept up a brisk fire from the hotel. At one
time a report was circulated that Joe Byrnes had been shot dead while
drinking a glass of brandy in the bar, but as there was no apparent
slackening in the fire this was discredited. At three p.m. Constable
Charles Johnson, under cover of a volley from the besiegers, rushed
up to the side of the hotel with a huge bundle of straw, which he
placed in position and set fire to. The straw blazed up famously, but
soon died out, and the spectators, of whom there was a goodly number,
pronounced the attempt to fire the building a failure. It was at this
time that Mrs. Skillian, a sister of the Kellys, rode up, dressed
in a well-made black cloth riding habit and a Gainsborough hat. She
advanced boldly towards the hotel, but was stopped by the police, and
warned of the danger she was courting. She replied that she was not
afraid, but she desired to persuade her brother Dan to surrender. A
consultation was held as to whether she should be permitted to try,
but before a decision was arrived at the flames burst out of the roof
of the building. It may be as well to explain here that the wood of
the district is principally stringy bark, and that the timber of these
trees will not burn. It seems probable, therefore, that when the straw
was ignited against the wall of the building, the calico sheeting, with
which the rooms were lined and ceiled, caught fire and burned, while
the stringy bark weather boards resisted the flames and only charred
through slowly. However this may be, the furniture and other fittings
burned fiercely, and the whole building was in a blaze. At this time
the Rev. Father M. Gibney, a Roman Catholic priest from Perth, Western
Australia, who was on a visit to the Benalla district at the time,
walked up to the front door holding his crucifix in his hand. He was
followed by a number of the police. When they entered the front door
they saw the body of Joe Byrnes lying in the bar, in such a position
as to make it probable that the report which had been spread as to his
death had been true. The body was dragged out slightly scorched. Dan
Kelly and Steve Hart were found dead in a small parlour off the bar.
From the position in which they were lying it was conjectured that
they had either committed suicide or that they had simultaneously shot
each other. But there was no time to decide whether either or which
of these conjectures were true. As Father Gibney was about to stoop
down to examine the bodies, a gust of wind swept the flames towards
him and compelled him to retire. The building was thoroughly alight at
last, and the priest and the police and others who had entered were
forced out by the fierce heat. In a very short time afterwards the
house collapsed, and nothing was left but a heap of ashes, the sign
post and trough in front, and the detached kitchen at the rear. In this
kitchen was found old Martin Cherry, severely wounded. He was carried
out and placed under the doctor's care, but died before night. Close
beside the kitchen was the body of a dog, which had been wounded by the
attacking party and had crawled between the two buildings to die. Some
time before the attempt to fire the building had been made, a telegram
had been sent to Melbourne to ask for a small cannon to blow the house
down with. Now a telegram was sent to say that it was not required.
Consequently the 12-pounder Armstrong gun with the requisite number of
men of the Garrison Artillery which had been sent off by special train
were stopped at Seymour and sent back. When the fire had burned down
sufficiently for an examination to be made, the two mounds of ashes
which were all that remained of Dan Kelly and Steve Hart were given to
Mrs. Skillian for burial, while the body of Joe Byrnes was reserved for
an inquest to be held. Two other suits of armour, similar to that worn
by Ned Kelly, were found, the lightest being ninety-two pounds. During
the fight "Wild" Wright, Tom Wright, Frank Hart, Kate Kelly, several
of the Lloyds and the Byrneses, and other relations and friends of the
bushrangers, had been stationed on a ridge a short distance away to
see the fun. There was also a large number of other and perhaps more
disinterested spectators, some of them from Melbourne or Beechworth, or
other even more distant localities. After the inquest the body of Joe
Byrnes was given to his friends for burial. Ned Kelly soon recovered
from his wounds and was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death
for the murder of Sergeant Kennedy. In conversations with Inspector
Sadlier and other police officials before his trial, he said that
the bushrangers had known of every movement of the police. They were
aware that the police had been hiding in Sherritt's hut for more than
a week, hoping to catch Joe if he visited his mother. The police had
no right to stop a man from going to see his mother. When the special
train arrived the intention of the bushrangers had been to rake it with
shots as soon as it reached the place where the rails had been removed.
"But," exclaimed Sadlier, "you would have killed all the people in the
train." "Yes, of course, God help them," replied Ned, "they'd have got
shot, but wouldn't they have shot me if they could?" He said that Steve
Hart had visited his mother at Wangaratta, and "didn't we laugh when we
saw it in the _Wangaratta News_ afterwards. It was true, too, though
the police didn't believe it." He also said that he had been told
that after the sticking up of the banks at Euroa and Jerilderie, all
the branch banks in Victoria sent their receipts to Melbourne almost
daily. They were not going to stick up any more banks. It wasn't worth
it. What they had intended to do was to stick up a railway train, and
they'd have done it, "only those little black devils were always about."
On November the 5th, a mass meeting was held in the Hippodrome, in
Stephen's Street, Melbourne, with Mr. Hamilton, President of the
Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, in the chair. The
principal speaker was Mr. David Gaunson, M.L.A., and a resolution was
unanimously carried to the effect that the case of Edward Kelly was
a fit one for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy. The
_Melbourne Argus_ said that "those present belonged to the larrikin
classes," but the attendance was estimated at 4000 persons (including
300 women) inside the building, and about 2000 outside who could not
obtain admittance. Similar meetings were also held in Ballarat,
Bendigo, Geelong, and other towns, but these efforts were of no avail,
and Ned Kelly, "the last of the bushrangers," was hung in the Melbourne
gaol, on November 11th, 1880.
Within a few days afterwards, a show was opened in Melbourne, with Kate
Kelly, one of the sisters of the dead bushrangers, "mounted on Ned
Kelly's celebrated grey mare." A suit of the armour used in the last
great fight at Glenrowan, several guns, pistols, and revolvers alleged
to have been used in the various raids committed by the bushrangers,
some handcuffs and other articles which had belonged to, or were
used by them, were exhibited, and some particulars of their careers
were given in the form of a lecture, but the police authorities soon
interfered and the show was closed. It was re-opened in Sydney, but was
suppressed there as "tending towards immorality" almost immediately,
and the Kellys returned to the obscurity of private life.
Thus ended the last act in the great tragedy which had supplied almost
the only feature of romance to Australian history. Bushranging had been
spoken of as "the national crime of Australia," but, as I have shown,
there was very little bushranging outside the three colonies--New
South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Victoria. It was rather an
excrescence on, than a development of, Australian character. It has
been estimated that the bushrangers in the colonies from the date
of the great outbreak inaugurated by Frank Gardiner in 1861, to the
death of Ned Kelly, with their more active partisans, never exceeded
300 persons, and the story of their exploits shows how even so small
a party can disturb a whole country when the rebels are reckless and
determined. It may be said in conclusion, that crime has steadily
decreased in Australia from the cessation of transportation. At first,
while the gold fever raged, the improvement was very slight, but from
the date when the population settled down to steady work the criminal
statistics, which are very complete in the colonies, show a steady
diminution in crimes against the person or property. There was an
increase in the years during which the Ben Hall and Gilbert gang, and
their imitators in New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand, were most
active, but even this did not materially affect the general result,
and was speedily compensated for after the death of Thunderbolt and the
capture of Power. In this last epoch of bushranging the Moonlite and
Kelly gangs arrested the movement to some degree, but far less sympathy
was exhibited with them than in the earlier epoch, and their deeds did
not inspire so many young men with the desire to go and do likewise, as
those of Hall and Gilbert had done. In fact, bushranging had ceased to
be popular, so that the retrogression was small in comparison. Since
then numbers of gaols have been closed or converted to other uses.
There was a time when every little town in New South Wales had its
gaol. Now many of these gaols have been converted into factories or
stores, or are used for municipal or other purposes. In Victoria the
gaols were fewer but larger, and several of these have been closed,
while others once full are now almost empty. A similar story might
be told of each of the other colonies of the Australasian group, and
Australia as a whole compares favourably with other civilised countries
in criminal matters. What the Irishman calls "the bad drop" in the
blood of the country has been purged away by the most drastic remedies,
and it is extremely improbable that there will ever again be a Frank
Gardiner or a Ned Kelly to incite the young and thoughtless to deeds of
violence.
_THE END._
INDEX.
Allerton, Benjamin, 195, 196
Anderson, James, 155
Anderson, see Beveridge, John
Armytage, 117, 118
Atkins, William, 165
Atterill, James, alias Thomson, 111-113
Baker, John, 306
Baldwin, James, 274
Bankes, Anthony, 111-113
Barry, 163
Baylie, John, 145, 146
Beavors, George, alias Berry, 108-110
Bennett, alias Wyndham, see Gough, Charles Hugh
Bennett, Graham, 349
Bermingham, George, 229
Berry, James, 79, 80
Berryman, Thomas, 278
Bertram, William, 306, 315
Beveridge, John, alias Anderson, 106, 107
Billy from the Den, see Jenkins, Henry
Bird, 44
Birkett, Moses, 186
Black Jack, 24
Black Mary, 19
Blue Cap, see Cotterall, Robert
Bodenham, Thomas, 33-35
Bollard, John, 306, 313
Booth, James, 298
Booth, John, 130
Boulton, John, 167-169
Bourke, Robert, 316
Bowe, Charles, 145, 146
Bow, John, 202-204, 256, 276, 313
Boyd, 57, 58
Boyd, James, alias McGrath, 296, 312
Brace, Emanuel, 56, 57
Brady, Mathew, 44-47, 71, 82, 353
Brannagan, Francis, 155
Brennan, see Smith, Henry
Brennan, Stephen, 123
Britton, Frederick, 207
Brookman, William, 282, 312-314
Broomfield, James, 114
Broughton, 41
Brown, 47
Brown, Harry, 274
Brown, James, 33-35, 39
Brown, William, 155
Brownlow, John, 206
Bryan, William, 166
Bryant, James, 41-47
Bryant, James, 87
Bryant, Richard, 154, 155, 158
Bull, 57, 58
Bullfrog, Jacky, 199
Burgess, Richard H., alias Miller, 327-332
Burke, 221-225, 276
Burns, John, 41
Burrow, Arthur, 166
Byrnes, Joe, 360-382
Campbell, Robert, 286
Captain Melville, see McCallum, Frank, alias Smith
Captain Moonlite, see Scott, George
Captain Thunderbolt, see Ward, Frederick
"Carrots," 29
Cash, Martin, 118-123, 130
Cashan, alias Nowlan, 99-101
Charters, Daniel, 202-204, 333
Cheetham, 37
Chesley, John, 155
Chinese Bushranger, The, 293
Chitty, Robert, 87
Christie, see Gardiner, Frank
Clarke, 294
Clarke, James, 269-270
Clarke, John, 269-276, 317, 355
Clarke, Samuel, 312
Clarke, Thomas, 269-276, 317, 355
Clayton, 239
Clayton, Thomas, 173-176
Clegg, James, 173-176
Connell, Morris, 48
Connell, Patrick, 270, 276
Connell, Tom, 270, 276
Connelly, Patrick, 41
Connors, John, 298
Conway, John, 115-117
Cooper, Patrick, 173-176
Cornelius, Bill, alias Kenelly, 33-35, 39
Cotterall, Robert, alias Blue Cap, 286, 312
Cowan, or Cohen, 45, 46
Cox, Thomas, 37, 38
Coxen's Tom, see Long Tom
Crawford, James, 41, 46
Crookwell, James, 232, 279
Crumsden, George, 123
Cummings, 281
Cunningham, Thomas, alias Smith, 274, 313
Curran, Paddy, 71-73, 78, 79, 80
Dalton, 185
Dalton, Alexander, 33-34, 39
Dalton, James, 121, 122
Daly, Patrick or Patsy, 213, 214
Dargue, Henry, 313
Dargue, Thomas, 313
Davis, 200, 276
Davis, Bill, 37
Davis, George James, alias Huntley, 106, 107
Davis, Joseph, 173-176
Davis, Michael Henry, 195
Davis, Teddy or Edward, The Jewboy, 71, 82-88, 353
Davis, William, 111-113
Dermoodie, 344
Dido, see Driscoll, Timothy or William
Dobson, 307
Donnelly, 294
Donohoe, Johnny, 55
Donovan, Daniel, 155
Donovan, John, 145
Douglass, John, 166
Downes, John, 41
Downey, James, 199
Driscoll, Timothy or William, alias Dido, 182-184
Duncan, James, 143
Duncan, William, 129, 130
Dunkley, see Willis, William
Dunleavy, John, 239-241, 276
Dunleavy, see Lynch, John
Dunn, Johnny, 241-256, 276, 304
Dunne, 41, 42, 44, 47
Dunne, William, 228
Edwards, William, 160
Egan, John, 281
Ehrstein, Aaron von, 195
Ellis, John, alias Yanky Jack, 96-99
Ellison, George, 161
Eumarrah, 30
Eureka Gang, The, 145, 146
Everett, John, 87
Farrell, Christopher, 140
Farrer, Abraham, 129, 130
Finegan, John, 145, 146
Fitzgerald, Patrick, alias Paddy Wandong, 282
Fletcher, John, 117
Fletcher, William, 270
Fogarty, Young, 96-99
Foley, Charles, 206
Foley, Francis, 217
Foley, John, 212, 216, 217, 276
Foley, Timothy, 217
Foran, John, 282, 313
Foran, Patrick, 298
Ford, Henry, 180
Ford, John, 278
Fordyce, Alexander, 202-204, 256, 276, 312
Forster, John, 236
Gardiner, Frank, alias Christie, 193-204, 212, 254-257, 269, 271, 276,
304, 311-314, 316, 335, 353, 355, 384, 385
Gardner, John, 129, 130
Garrett, Henry Beresford, 167-169, 327
Garroway, William, 166
German Bill, 259, 274
Gilbert, Johnny, alias Roberts, 205, 212, 217-253, 256-258, 269, 271,
276, 304, 326, 337, 339, 369, 384, 385
"Ginger," 173-176
Glanvill, Richard, 87
Goldman, 141
Goodison, Christopher, 165
Gordon, 276
Gordon, Richard, 181
Gorman, Thomas, 350
Gough, Charles Hugh, alias Wyndham, alias Bennett, 274, 313
Green, 95
Greenhill, Bob, 33-38
Gregory, 47
Griffiths, Dennis, 173-176
Griffiths, George, 115
Griffiths, John, 41
Gunn, John, 115
Gunn, William, 91
Hall, 59
Hall, Ben, 217, 221-253, 256-258, 269, 271, 276, 304, 337, 339, 370,
384, 385
Hammond, James, 160
Hampton, Thomas, 298
Hanslip, George, 170
Harrison, Samuel, 115
Hart, Steve, 360-382
Hath, see Hitchcock Anthony
Healy, John, 207
Heather, 208, 209
Herbert, William, see Jones, Charles
Hickson, 186
Hill, James, 233
Hitchcock, Anthony, alias Hath, 51-53
Hobbs, William, alias Hoppy Bill, 350
Hodgetts, 47
Hogan, 117, 118
Hopkins, 40, 41, 47
Hopkins, Jonas, 114
Horne, Joseph, 306
Houlihan, Michael, 130
Howe, Mike, 19-21, 82, 353
Huntley, see Davis, George James
Hurn, Thomas, 115
Hutchinson, William, 90
Jackey, Bullfrog, see Bullfrog
Jackey, Jackey, the Gentleman Bushranger, see Westwood, William
Jack, Muck, see Stanton Patrick
Jackson, James, 86
Jackson, John, 129, 130
Jack the Lagger, see Jones, John
Jack the Rammer, 57, 58
James, John, alias Johnston, 142, 143
Jamieson, George, 182
Jefferies, 40, 46, 47
Jeffs, Riley, 115-117
Jenkins, Henry, alias Billy from the Deu, 181
Jenkins, John, 56, 57
Jepps, the Vandemonian, 96-99
Jewboy, The, see Davis, Edward or Teddy
Johnson, Charley, 284
Johnson, see Power, Harry
Johnson, William, 274
Johnston, Henry, 145, 146
Johnstone, Robert, 291
Jones, 182
Jones, Charles, 350
Jones, Charles, alias Herbert, William, 233
Jones, David, 51, 53
Jones, James, 233, 312
Jones, John, 184
Jones, John, alias Jack the Lagger, 108-110
Jones, Richard, 155
Jones, see Williams, Thomas
Jones, Thomas, 118-122
Jones, William, 155
Kavanagh, Lawrence, 118-123, 129, 130, 132
Kaye, William, 350
Keene, Henry, 194, 196
Kelly, 185
Kelly, Bartley, 109
Kelly, Dan, 354-384
Kelly, Edward, 282, 313
Kelly, James, 154, 155
Kelly, James, 298
Kelly, James, 354
Kelly, John, 274, 313
Kelly, Ned, 320, 341, 345, 353-384
Kelly, Ted, 282
Kelly, Thomas, alias Noon, 327-332
Kenelly, see Cornelius, Bill
Kennedy, James, alias Southgate, 298
Keer, John, alias Maher, 280, 299
Keys, 58
Lacey, George, 41
Lambeth, William, 115
Lawler, Michael, 194, 196
Layworth, William, 161
Lee, Henry, 117
Lee, William, 279
Levy, Philip, 327-332
Lewis, Nicholas, 108-110
Liddell, John, 121, 122
Long, Tom, alias Coxen's Tom, 93
Long, Ned, 93
Lowe, see Young, John
Lowry, Frederick, 212, 219, 220, 256, 276, 355
Lynam, George, 232
Lynch, John, alias Dunleavy, 60-70, 77, 333
Lynch, Patrick, 123
Lynch, William, 93
Lyons, see Nesbit, James
McCabe, James, 41, 42, 44, 45
McCallum, Frank, alias Thomas Smith, alias Captain Melville, 148-156, 236
McCallum, James, 114
McCann, John, 93
McCarthy, 184
McDonald, Hector, 22
McDonald, William, see O'Donnell, James
McGrath, see Boyd, James
McGuire, John, 202-204
McGuire, Thomas, 84
McIntyre, 99-102
McKenny, 47
McLean, 109
McMahon, John, alias McManus, 195
Maberley, 186
Mack, William, 158
Mackay, Charles, 207
Mackay, James, 207
Mackie, William, 195, 291, 298
Macpherson, Alpin, alias The Wild Scotchman, 337-340
Maher, see Kerr, John
Maher, Walter, 283
Maloney, Thomas, 155
Manns, Henry, 202-204, 276
Marriott, Henry, 167-169
Marshall, John, 87
Mason, 299
Mathers, John, 33-36
Mathews, Daniel, 232
Maynard, Donald, 59
Mayne, 59
Melville, Edward, 142
Melville, George, 164, 165
Melville, Captain, see McCallum, Frank, alias Smith
Middleton, Richard, alias Ruggy Dick, 277
Miles, John, 280
Miller, see Burgess, Richard H.
Miller, see Slater
Mills, Peter, 21
Mitchell, Robert, 173-176
Moonlite, Captain, see Scott, George
Moran, 298
Moore, 122
Moore, 109
Mordecai, see Woolf, James
Morgan, Daniel, 258-268, 276, 304, 315, 370
Morgan, James, 143
Morgan, John, 91
Mount, James, alias The Old Man, 237-241, 257
Murphy, 42, 45
Murphy, Jeremiah, 164, 165
Murphy, John, 164, 165
Musquito, 23, 24, 29
Naisk, John, 173-176
Nesbit, James, alias Lyons, 348
Noon, see Kelly Thomas
Nowlan, see Cashan
Nugent, James, 167
O'Connor, William, 205, 206
O'Donnell, James, alias McDonald, William, 93
Old Man, The, see Mount, James
O'Meally, 212-216, 221-228, 276, 355
O'Sullivan, Jeremiah, 173-176
Owens, John, 279
Paddy, Wandong, see Fitzgerald, Patrick
Parrott, Samuel, alias Powell, 51
Payne, John, 282, 312
Peisley, John, 196-199, 276
Perry, 47
Perry, John, 52, 53
Perry, Peter, 186
Pickthorne, William, 130, 132
Pierce, Alexander, 33-39, 73, 333
Pilcock, 139
Poole, John, 51-53
Poulston, 186
Power, Harry, alias Johnson, 318-325, 341, 356, 385
Price, John, 117, 130
Quinn, 317
Quinn, Thomas, 167-169
Regan, 196
Regan, James, 111-113
Regent, 316
Rider, Charles, 41
Riley, James, 51-53
Roberts, 167
Roberts, see Gilbert, Johnny
Roberts, Thomas, 117
Roberts, William, 148-152
Robinson, 185
Rogan, Thomas, 349
Rogers, William, 161
Ross, Alexander, 205, 206
Ross, Charles, 195
Ross, Charles, 205, 206
Ruggy, Dick, see Middleton, Richard
Russell, 40
Rutherford, Charles, 298
Ryan, 238
Ryan, James, 51-53
Ryan, Jeremiah, 41
Ryan, Patrick, 281
Scotchman, The Wild, see Macpherson, Alpin
Scotchy, 73
Scott, Bill, 271-274, 276
Scott, George, alias Captain Moonlite, 342-350, 385
Scott, William, 140
Scrimshaw, William, 130, 132
Sears, Henry, 108-110
Seary, Michael, 232
Seymour, 278
Shanks, James, 352
Shanks, Robert, 352
Shea, Daniel, 312
Shea, John, 87
Shepherd, John, 280
Simmons, William H., 313
Simpson, William, 161
Slater, alias Miller, 284
Slattery, Michael, 279
Smart, Henry, 180
Smith, 160
Smith, 298
Smith, Henry, 155
Smith, Henry, alias Brennan, 155
Smith, James, 313
Smith, Robert, 195
Smith, Thomas, see McCallum, Frank, alias Captain Melville
Smith, Thomas, see Cunningham
South, John, 91
Southgate, John, 232
Southgate, see Kennedy, James
Stallard, Alfred, 165
Stanley, Frank, alias Wright, 233
Stanmore, Charles, 296
Stanton, Patrick, alias Jack Mack, 320
Steele, Henry, 88
Stevenson or Stephenson, Alexander, alias Telford, 106
Stroud, Thomas, 161
Suffolk, Owen, 140
Sullivan, Daniel, 294
Sullivan, John Joseph, 327-333
Swallow, William, alias Waldon, 104-107
Tattersdale, Thomas, 56, 57
Taverner, William, 313
Taylor, Daniel, 313
Taylor, John, 233
Telford, see Stevenson or Stephenson, Alexander
Thomson, see Atterill, James
Thompson, John, 41
Thompson, John, 295
Thunderbolt, Captain, see Ward, Frederick
Tierney, James, 41
Tilly, 47
Tracey, Thomas, 277
Travers, Mathew, 33-36
Underwood, Will, 55, 56
Vandemonian, see Jepps
Vane, 221-225, 256, 276
Vaut, Charles, 88
Waldon, see Swallow, William
Walker, Isaac, 41
Walmsley, 55, 56
Ward, Frederick, alias Captain Thunderbolt, 289-302, 304, 315, 322, 370,
341, 385
Watson, William, 194
Watts, William, alias Charles or George Williams, 106-107
Webb, Thomas, 233
Webber, 55, 56
Weekes, John, 298
Welsh, Michael, 59
Wernicke, Gus, 349
Westwood, William, alias Jackey Jackey, 71-78, 82, 127-133, 269, 353
Whelan, Thomas, 108
Whitehead, 18, 19
Whiting, Henry, 130, 132
Whitton, 73
Wild Scotchman, The, see Macpherson, Alpin
Williams, 45
Williams, Charles or George, see Watts, William
Williams, George, 22
Williams, George, 207
Williams, Herbert, see Jones, Charles
Williams, Jack, 96-99
Williams, John, 155
Williams, John, 282, 313
Williams, Thomas, 155
Williams, Thomas, alias Jones, 349
Wilkinson, John, alias Wilton, 91
Willis, William, alias Dunkley, 298, 312
Willison, George, 207
Willmore, Thomas, 178-180, 258
Wilson, 93
Wilson, 95
Wilson, George, 164, 165
Wilson, Harry, 288
Wilson, John, 182-184
Wilson, John, 277
Woolf, James, alias Mordecai, 108-110
Wright, John, 80
Wright,---- 336
Wright, see Stanley, Frank
Wyndham, alias Bennett, see Gough, Charles Hugh
Yankee Jack, see Ellis, John
Young Fogarty, see Fogarty
Young, John, alias Lowe, 155
Young, William, 161
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