A range of archival material and articles that shine a light on aspects of bushranging in Australian history and culture, including events, people and objects.
Spotlight: Gallant Capture of a Bushranger (25/09/1872)
ON Friday morning last, a messenger arrived from Stoney Batter, in great haste, for senior-constable Scott to proceed to that place,…
Read MoreSpotlight: Supreme Court (14/09/1830)
Charles Routley was indicted for the wilful murder of John Buckly, in the month of July, 1825. The first count charged…
Read MoreSpotlight: A Black Bushranger Caught (13/08/1872)
Sergeant Byrnes of Mundooran, brought into Dubbo (says the Dispatch) last Friday a blackfellow named Bungarribee Jack, whom he arrested on…
Read MoreSpotlight: Bushranging on the Lachlan (22/07/1871)
John Thomas and William Reed, who were a short time back captured by Inspector Stephenson and others, after a chase of…
Read MoreSpotlight: The Melbourne Mail Robbery (30/05/1851)
At 12 o’clock yesterday Owen Suffolk alias Mason and Christopher Farrel, committed for robbing the Portland Mail, were placed in the…
Read MoreSpotlight: A Mysterious Bushranger (26/05/1870)
“Mr Thomas Field, landlord of the Whim Holes hotel, has lodged the following singular information with the Smythesdale police —”
Read MoreSpotlight: Captain Thunderbolt and His Gang (06/05/1865)
It would seem that on the night of the day that the Warialla mail was stuck-up, Thunderbolt, alias Ward, and his…
Read MoreSpotlight: Braidwood (09/02/1871)
Yesterday, the coach with the Sydney, and Goulburn mail was stuck-up by a bushranger. All the Goulburn letters were taken. The…
Read MoreSpotlight: Morgan the Bushranger (30/01/1864)
The old friend of the inhabitants of the Billybong, known as the celebrated Morgan, on Tuesday last, the 12th inst., paid…
Read MoreSpotlight: Miscellaneous Bushranging News (21/01/1864)
A collection of bushranging reports from January 1864.
Read MoreSpotlight: Morgan’s Outrage at Kyamba (16/01/1865)
At about noon he made his apearance, at the camp of Mr. Adams, road contractor, and bailed up all his men,…
Read MoreSpotlight: Brady, Jeffries and McCabe reports (07/01/1826)
On Saturday evening Brady and his party, appeared at Mr. Haywood’s, and robbed him of a large quantity of tea, sugar,…
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