60 YEARS IN GAOL

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1930, Page 3

60 YEARS IN GAOL

LAST OF THE BUSHEANGERS :{

■■SYDNt&Y, /Feb. 7

A ; rec«iit release, sfrom the J 'Ne«Sotith ’lilies 'gaols is 'Jack Bradshaw, ijh-6 1 ' laSl"%f - the bld-f iiite- bnshtttngers. ie.' in i)arli|ghurst, an "of 'his - life has been spent prison walls, .’his whole sentflitfe /cohering nearly'."6o years; .Bradshatv was in tWvieVed this week by ’a Sydney newspaper, ' and he tnid a, harrowing tale of the." early prison flwys, when tl\e. and irons were fattiiliat parts of' the prison routine, o i: , "nine fails on his back and the 'of vthe irons on his wrists and afikles.. •

>'Bradshaw Was sentenced to 20. yeaii’,vtim'prisonmeiit for stealing I*soo from a bank at Gienfell. He bailed bpVthe "’teller and tlifeh took to .the htish,’Vhere the. terror of tins roadb" for tnkny ytfars. He '.'as a ebhtenipdrary. of Thunderbolt and Oaptfdn -’Starlight, and operated on tho' New. England roads and round Mftitknd and Singh-ton. After his b#'ttfre-he was sentenced to 20 years’ ifnp'rftonfhent,' With sixty lashes ii.idbd. -HO served that; sentence, but with a'.bitter hatred of the law in his heart; he took to the road again when he was released, and again enjoyed a. few years of bushrangtng, traveUirife; "’all''over Australia, Again he was captured and sentenced to 20 years, and again his back felt the Bting of; the lash. ,He escaped from the . gaol-Aat Maitland when he had served twelve years of his second sentence, arid on bis recapture he;was ordered another 20 years’ imprisonment. His conduct in prison earned him more lashes and solitary With irons. Although due for release several years ago, .he was allowed to. stay on in the gaol because lie had no home or friends to go to if l; c walked out. His savings while, in gaol, augmented by a Government grant at the end of last year, enabled him to leave the prison, and he is now living in a small flat in Darlinghurst.