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Two of the gang (including Moonlite's "soulmate" and alleged lover, James Nesbitt) and one trooper were killed when the police attacked. Scott was found guilty of murder and hanged along with one of his accomplices on 20 January 1880. [10] Among the last bushrangers was the Kelly gang in Victoria, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous ...
The Clarke gang was a group of bushrangers active in the mid-1860s in the southern goldfields of New South Wales, Australia. The membership of the gang fluctuated over time, the two core members being brothers Thomas and John Clarke, from the Braidwood district.
Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer.One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
Ben Hall (9 May 1837 – 5 May 1865) was an Australian bushranger and leading member of the Gardiner–Hall gang.He and his associates carried out many raids across New South Wales, from Bathurst to Forbes, south to Gundagai and east to Goulburn.
The gang's criminal exploits extended to raids on mail coaches, storekeepers, banks, and entire towns. On 24 October of the same year, Burke participated in an assault on the residence of Gold Commissioner Henry McCrummin Keightley at Dunn's Plains, near Rockley. During the ensuing confrontation, Burke sustained a gunshot wound to the stomach.
The Kelly Gang; or the Career of the Outlaw, Ned Kelly, the Iron-clad Bushranger of Australia is an 1899 Australian play about bushranger Ned Kelly. It is attributed to Arnold Denham but it is likely a number of other writers worked on it. [3]
Patrick Daley (6 July 1844 – 29 April 1914), known informally as 'Patsy' Daley, was a 19th-century Australian bushranger.Daley was the younger cousin of John O’Meally, a member of Frank Gardiner’s gang of bushrangers who robbed the gold escort near Eugowra in June 1862.
The Kelly Gang robbed the Euroa branch of the National Bank of Australia stealing over £2,000 which was the largest heist to that point. Joe Byrne drafted the Euroa letter (now known as the Cameron letter) [ 2 ] in red ink sent by Ned Kelly to Donald Cameron, a local MLC . claiming that justice had not been done in the case of his mother and ...