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Bushrangers

Subject
Caesar, John
Curran, Patrick 'Paddy'
Dunn, John
Gardiner, Frank
Knight, William
McNamara, John
Scott, Andrew George
Ward, Frederick Wordsworth
Andrew George Scott, alias Captain Moonlite, c1879
Captain Moonlite, Darlinghurst Gaol, 26 November 1879
Capture and death of bushranger Ben Hall 1865
Martin Cash autobiography poster 1870
Steve Hart, 1945
Trial of Frank Gardiner, the bushranger, at the Supreme Court, June 1864
Frank Gardiner Is Caught At Last

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Bushrangers

Caesar, John

West Indian who fled to England to escape plantation slavery only to be transported. As a convict his hunger drove him to regularly escape from custody and he was to become Australia's first bushranger.

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Curran, Patrick 'Paddy'

Notorious bushranger hanged at Berrima gaol for convictions of murder and rape.

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Dunn, John

Eldest of nine children of convicts Michael and Margaret Dunn who joined Ben Halls gang in 1864. In January 1865, he shot dead Constable Samuel Nelson in the bungled robbery of Kimberleys Inn at Collector, near Goulburn. He was hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol aged 19.

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Gardiner, Frank

Bushranger who regularly escaped custody and was eventually sentenced to 32 years hard labour. An appeal for mercy and his subsequent exile led to the fall of Parkes's government in 1875.

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Knight, William

Convict who escaped very soon after his arrival and became a bushranger.

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McNamara, John

Irish convict turned bushranger shot by police near Windsor in 1830.

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Scott, Andrew George

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Con man and bushranger who was tried and hanged in Sydney in 1880. His alias as a bushranger was Captain Moonlite, or Moonlight.

Ward, Frederick Wordsworth

Bushranger who is reputed to have been involved in over 80 major hold-ups and robberies, and famously escaped by swimming from Cockatoo Island in 1863.

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Andrew George Scott, alias Captain Moonlite, c1879

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Image courtesy of the
State Library of Victoria
[IAN28/11/79/180]

Captain Moonlite, Darlinghurst Gaol, 26 November 1879

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Contributed By
State Archives & Records New South Wales
[NRS2138 [3/6043]]

Capture and death of bushranger Ben Hall 1865

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Image courtesy of the
State Library of Victoria
[IAN25/05/65/1]

Martin Cash autobiography poster 1870

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1635001 / D 356/7, Item 11]

Steve Hart, 1945

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By
Sidney Nolan
Contributed By
Nolan Gallery
[008d]
(enamel on board. Gift of the artist 1975.)

Trial of Frank Gardiner, the bushranger, at the Supreme Court, June 1864

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Image courtesy of the
State Library of Victoria
[IMP25/06/64/8]

Frank Gardiner Is Caught At Last

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By
Warren Fahey
Contributed By
Warren Fahey
(recorded in 2007)

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