THE BUSHRANGERS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 30, 15 January 1864, Page 3

THE BUSHRANGERS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Information was received in town 'recently that "Captain Thunderbolt "-had been 'sticking up travellers between Simjleton and Black Cieek It appears thai lie stopped two persons at separate times near Jump-up. From one he took LI, but he did not fin. l much' on his other victim. The description given of him by 1 the persons he stopped would have proved his identity with the robber who corri- - menced highway operations at the tollbar on Monday last, if he had not acknowledged himself as ilie individual. Sergeant Shannon was very close on th^ fellow's track, and we hope' to hear ago )d ai-.count of him within a few days.-- MaiUand Mercury The Warialda correspondent of the Tamworth Jitiaminer says :— I have now to relate as strange a case of slieking-np as I remember for some time. On the morning of the 16:h instant, a nigsjer who £aye his name as Joe Brown, was let out of the lock-up here, where he had been confined for some time on a charge of using obscene language, tie then left here and went as far as Bogrmalai the same evening, where lie stopped for the night. The Superintendent of Polios and our sergeant were on their way to Moreo, and I learn they stopped there that night also. The darlcie waited till they left on the following morn in jr, and lie then pivpared to siart for the Bis* River, after having made considerable inquiry as to the road. He left, and in about an hour after lie returned, stating that he could not find the track. A shepherd named Barber, it seems, volunteered to put him on the track, but they had not gone far when the nigger sard to Barber, "Old fellow, have yon got any money ?" Birber saiil, " Yes, a Lo cheque." *' Then Jet me have ib-," said the daikie; ''I have a wife and children starving on the 13ig River." Barber, it seems, without a single word, handed over his cheque to this fellow, who then rode away, observing ad he left. " that he would be back again in three days time, and woe to I'arber if he had teported what had occurred." 13urber tokl the overseer, who went in pursuit, and captured the fellow, but not rinding the cheque lot him-go again. The Yass Courier of the 26"th ultimo reports that on Tuesday nijilifc last, while the pul/ce were at J-Jowning, ihe Binalung mail passed tlnongii, and shortly afterwards t tie approach of that from Gun- , dagai was heard. As it came in view of the liuwning Hotel the gallopping of horsemen was hoanJ, as if two tr three parties were in pursuit. Suddenly the tiorseiuen turned anrf gallcpped b.-ick on the same road they ha:! conn;. The police were quickly in saddle and jrave ••bfi^e, i suspecting that ihe men were bushrangers--, but af ; er uroceedini;- for some distanci. 1 tiiev lost their " biids." who turned off into the bns/i. It is supposed tfi.it if the p-sit.rs wen* biishran»er<, their flight was cnu>e'i by s, ying the police who had their horses hung up at the hotel. A rumour ; prevailed in fown on 'J'liursday thn t a party of ei.nlit bu^lirangers, lieaded I>V (Jiihc-rt and Ben Hall. \v«re seen neur liunoiva, »\i the previous <lii.v . We believe that Gillieri, Hull and a third party were seen crossing the bridge at Burrow;t on Monday last, and pioceeding in the direction of Hinalong-. The Marengo corrcspontlent of the same paper thus wtites on the 2Lsl: — " Lasr niglit the bushranger camped al the junction of the Morcnuo Gap and Calabash runs, near the Middle Station, iml early this uioi-i)ing, as an acquaintance of mine was tailing cattle near thcrf, they rciie up lo him, and fii'berf, who knew him, said " How are 3011 V' got oil" his horse and ha 1 a long talk (oiPiuig not tlie slightest vinlenee), anr] asked ni't^v many whom he had formerly known when he was an honest, liprhi-hearted s.onk keeper at the Gap and Mujhofiand's, hut from whom, ihtou^h his present vile career, he is row widely separated. Whenever any of the good folks around here talk of Gilber/, or '" Johnny, 1 ' as they generally term him, the conversation nearly always winds up with ashake of ihc head, and saying, '• U'eil, well, whoever would have dreamt of that quiet, eivilspi)kf*n, respec; able-looking young fellowturning out as h'* has ; oh ! it is all through that villain Gardiner" — the finale to whic.s remark I fully endorse. It is a thousand pities that the arch-tempter and founder of this desperate gang was ever permitted to escape, and that too, with the lion's share of the unreeoverei! portion of the escort robbery ii his possession, valued at L 9.000. The gang is 1101 camping around here without an object ; that oiject is either to intercept the mail between here anu Young, or to pounce upon some of the horsesnowin training f-r ! hs various races." A correspondent uponwhose information we can rely, writes as follows: — " With respect to the iate mail robbery ne.ir Doughboy Hollow, it may be interesting to you and useful to the public to know that I have the strongest reasons to believe that the two bushrangers, who stuck up the mail on Saturday last, are none other than the escaped convicts, 1 Mackie and Tindal, both of whom a Mr Duncan M'Kay, from the Moonie, put in the hands of the police there some time ago, but they (the po.'joe) allowed them both to escape. Mr M'Kay was at my house the day after th" robbery of the mail, and heard a constable from the Murrurundi describe the two men who stuck it up, after which he, in my presence, pronounced them decidedly Mackie and Tindal. You can rely upon the above, and may use it publicly if you see fit." — Maitland Mercury. The Tamworth Examiner of '26th ult., in giving particulars of the sticking-up of the mail and travellers near Murrurundi, says: — " The smallest of the robbers had crape over his face, but the other chaffed him about it, as he wore no disguise ; and some little time after the hat of the former fell off. and he did not take the trouble to re-arrange the veil, so that he would readily be recognised by those he stuck up. As to the tall man, there is not the least duxzbt as to his identity — he is thi; notorious Mackie. who escaped from the railway train, and the suppssed robber of the Tycanaah station, mentioned in our last issue. Amongst his victims on this occasion was a former employer of hi.s, Mr. Patrick Quinn, who at ont-.e recognised him, and M-nckie had a long ch«t with him while waiting for the arrival of the mail, it seems he took from Mr Quinu some LlO or Lll, when Mr Quinn suggested the propriety of he (Mackie) making a donation to the Nanabri Hospital, and thereupon the ruffian banded ever a LI note to Mr Quinn. with a request that he would pass it over to the credit of that useful institution in his (Mackie's) name ! Among his other victims was a man from whom lie had taken L 2, who grumbled considerably at his conduct in thus taking his money, but the ruffian asked him whether he was I aware lhat he (Mackie) ran the risk of j being hung for his L 2. j