THE BUSHRANGER POWER.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 200, 30 August 1870, Page 2

THE BUSHRANGER POWER.

The Melbourne Argus, relates that immediately after the man Smith, had been hanged on that .morning in the Melbourne gaol, a criminal of a different stamp was admitted, namely, the bushranger Power, who was driven there in a spring-cart, sitting between a policeman and Superintendent Hare. When the cart was in the gaol-yard, and the gates had been shut, Mr. Castieau, the governor went up to it, on which Power recognised him by giving him quite a patronising nod, and saying, "How do you do, Mr. Castieau." Mr. Castieau acknowledged the honcr done him, and said, " Well Power, you have had a long run this time." " I would have had," replied Power, laughing, "if they had only let me alone," Air. Hare then got out of the cart, and Power, attempting all the time to keep up his bounce, essayed to do the same in a lively manner, but as he jumped on the stap of the cart, the heavy irons gave him such a crush round the ankles that he winced again, saying/' 4 Oh, Lord." He evidently, however, reelected the part he, meant to keep up while in public, and turned round just afterwards to one of the turnkeys, whom he addressed in the same patronising manner that he had used to Mr Castieau, saying, " Why, Mr: Rowley, you are determined to have my company; it is sixteen years since I saw you before." It was not very difficult for spectators to see that the bravado of the scoundrel was nothing but assumption ; and there is no doubt he knew when he was displaying it that the time for that, kind of thing was nearly over, the gaol being but the last place of call before his final incarceration in Pentridge, where, if he continues such conduct, it will meet with its deserts. Ah Cow, the Chinaman who was sentenced to death at Beechworth, but whose sentence was commuted to twenty ybats' imprisonment, was also laken into the gaol with Power. During the afternoon Power was taken to Pentridge, escorted by Mr. Secretan and detectives Daley, Hartney, and Mackay, and was duly installed in this somewhat close country retreat. He was very jovial, and in presence of the whole party, on arrival at Pentridge, he presented detective Daley with a handsome gold-mounted meerschaum pipe, telling the officer to remember him as long as he smoked it. Probably some one will turn up and claim the pipe as having been " looted" by Power, f. /