Articles pertaining to bushrangers that predominantly operated in New South Wales, and what is now the Australian Capital Territory.
A “MUSIC-DRAMA” about the relationship between a singing bushranger and his opera-fancying girlfriend opens in Queanbeyan tonight. It is Captain Thunderbolt by local composer Vivien Arnold, who is also the director of the show.
Continue reading Spotlight: Captain Thunderbolt Rides Again (1988)
At the top of a street in the ancient gold diggings town of Nerrigundah, N.S.W., stands this monument on a small plot of grass-covered ground, that has been reserved from the pick and shovel of the gold-seeker, although rich claims were worked just a few vards from the monument. It stands opposite the site of the old police barracks, erected after the death of the brave fellow. It is of substantial construction, and is of sandstone, enclosed with iron railings.
Continue reading Spotlight: The Story of Constable Miles O’Grady
Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW : 1876 – 1951), Thursday 13 October 1927, page 5 THUNDERBOLT’S WIFE. In the early seventies of last century (writes ‘Hawkeye’ in the ‘Northern Champion,’ Taree) a young Manning River man had to drive a spring cart from Raymond Terrace to Manning River. Some distance on his way towards Stroud he saw a woman on foot ahead carrying a child. When he caught up and offered her a lift, he found it was the wife of Frederick Ward, who had been down to see him in gaol. With a brave heart she had … Continue reading Spotlight: Thunderbolt’s Wife
Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 – 1842), Thursday 7 October 1830, page 1 GOVERNMENT NOTICE COLONIAL SECRETARY’S OFFICE, SYDNEY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1830. FORTY POUNDS REWARD. NOTICE is hereby given, that a Reward of TWENTY POUNDS will be paid to any Person or Persons who may apprehend and lodge in any of His Majesty’s Gaols, either JOHN WALMSLEY, or WILLIAM WEBBER, alias BALEY, who it appears were for some Months past the Companions of Donahoe in his Depredations ; and all Constables are hereby ordered and directed to use their utmost Endeavours for this Purpose. JOHN … Continue reading Spotlight: Reward for Walmsley and Webber
Extracts from the Launceston Advertiser about Jack Donohoe’s death and inquest. Continue reading Spotlight: Extracts from the Launceston Advertiser regarding Donohoe, 04/10/1830
Aidan Phelan reviews the first three Tommy Bell Bushranger Boy books and In the Company of Madness by R. B. R. Verhagen. Continue reading Bushranger Book Club, September 2021
On Monday an Inquest was convened by MAJOR SMEATHMAN, Coroner, at the Fox and Hounds, kept by Henry Ball, Castlereagh Street, on the body of John Donohoe.
Continue reading Spotlight: DONOHOE. CORONER’S INQUEST ON HIS BODY
A short report conveying the death of Jack Donohoe. Continue reading Spotlight: Death of Donohoe
The following is the evidence which was taken at the magisterial enquiry touching the death of Connell, at the Braidwood police-office by J. H. Griffin, Esq. Continue reading Spotlight: Pat Connell Enquiry
INFORMATION was brought into town on Wednesday morning last of the police having, the day previous, pursued the bushrangers whose depredations at Mudmelong on Monday last were recorded in our last issue, and of the death of one of their number, Pat Connell, during the encounter which ensued. The news was brought into town at an early hour in the morning, between one and two o’clock the same day the body of the dead outlaw was brought in by Sergeant Creagh and his party from Ballalaba, where it had been conveyed and detained the previous night. Continue reading Spotlight: Shooting of Pat Connell
A Guide to Australian Bushranging 