Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), Thursday 5 May 1870, page 4

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1870.

“The bushranger Power,” the Ovens Spectator says, “seems to be generating bush rangers all over the eastern part of the colony. A most singular case of highway robbery, after the approved Power fashion, occurred, as we are informed, on Sunday morning, in Bowman’s Forest. About a mile and a half from Messrs. Taylor’s (eleven and a half miles from Beechworth, on the road to Hunt’s, in the forest) a tall young man sprang out upon a gentleman who was driving a buggy towards Myrtleford, and, levelling a revolver at his head, demanded his money. As the amount of cash in his possession at the time was only half-a-crown, the traveller promptly handed it over, and, though only a “small contribution,” it was “received thankfully” perhaps, as the charitable subscription-lists have it. Both the traveller and the bushranger parted from one another well pleased with the result of the encounter — the traveller at having experienced all the romance and excitement of being stuck-up for half a crown, and the bushranger at getting off scot-free, as the latter was evidently rather frightened at the time, and his hand shook so much whilst levelling the revolver that he would probably have missed his aim if he had fired. So “All’s well that ends well” and every one is satisfied, except the police, who have not caught the new highwayman. The gentleman who was stuck up was, we understand, Mr. Wm. Moore, of the Buffalo River.”