THE WANTABADGERY BUSHRANGERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 233, 7 February 1880, Page 3

THE WANTABADGERY BUSHRANGERS.

Writing of the batshran crs wh<> wore executed on Jan. 13, the Sydney correspondent x>f a southern paper says :—The decision'as to.their fate was co:mr»unicated to Scott' and Rogan on Christmas Eve.. What a mockery the seasonable phrase, " A Merry Christmas" must Aave seemed jto those unhappv cultures miring the following day. Scott received the tidings - with He said he had anticipated.*.that- such would be their nature. Since?-theft" lie" has evidently been feeling the -terrible narrowness of his time—Jhe;end coming momentarily nearer-—and has been passing his hours in Twriting voluminously, H,e evidently means to speak to the public affcer ho is dead: But, presumably ?I t*hefe will, be an official censorship exercised'over these posthumous works. Rogan, on the other hand, appeared smitteirwith.stupefaction when he learned that he was cast for death. This man's ofgariis-m. would apj ear to have been of a low ordf r, and his • imagination deficients* -He'Hag' noty apparently} realisedi his : position. Hanging, until the sentence became" an absolute brie; appeared to* have only an abstract meaning for.him;, But when the sentence was confirmed}.and the" day" (January 26th) definitely'-fixed, he broke down. A coward in cbmbatj he showed rio.mbre hioral than he had displayed physical "touiagpi v ,