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Martin Cash is a 1955 Australian biography by Frank Clune about the bushranger Martin Cash. [1] It was also published as Martin Cash: The Lucky Bushranger and Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers. [2]
Michael Howe was executed in 1818. That year saw publication of the book Michael Howe : the last and worst of the bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land.However the play was based on another book, Statistical, historical, and political description of the colony of New South Wales, and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land by William Wentworth.
The Bushranger, or the Last Crime is a 1854 Australian stage play. It debuted in Sydney in April 1854. [1] The play was about a fictitious bushranger, Charles Graves, and included "a grand series of equestrian feats, bare backed riding." [2]
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. Kelly was born and raised in rural Victoria, the third of eight children to Irish parents.
Frank and Philip Pitt had a volume returned that Howe had stolen and the book cover was secured with kangaroo skin and very neatly sewed with sinews. [15] The Campbell Town museum once displayed a photograph of the original letter, written by Michael Howe, to Governor Thomas Davey in 1816, and signed by all the members of the gang.
Among the last bushrangers was the Kelly gang in Victoria, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger. After murdering three policemen in a shootout in 1878, the gang was outlawed, and after raiding towns and robbing banks into 1879, earned the distinction of having the largest reward ever placed on the heads of bushrangers.
Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808 – 26 August 1877) was a notorious Irish-Australian convict bushranger, known for escaping twice from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land. His 1870 autobiography, The Adventures of Martin Cash , ghostwritten by James Lester Burke, also a former convict, became a best seller in Australia .
Patrick Kenniff (28 September 1865 – 13 January 1903) was an Australian bushranger who roamed western Queensland, Australia, with his brother James Kenniff (1869–1940). ). They were primarily cattle thieves, but the brothers were found guilty of murder and Patrick was hanged in Boggo Road Gaol in 1