BUSHRANGER
MARTIN CASH, thé last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, by Frank Clune, illustrated by Virgil Reilly; Angus and Robertson, Australian pticé 25/-. HERE was a considerable element of good in Martin Cash, one of the best known of buSshrangers. Transported at eighteen from Ireland for house-break-ing, he rehabilitated himself in New South Wales; got into trouble, not entirely throtigh his own fault, and went to Tasmania; was unjustly convicted there; broke gaol more than once, and took to robbety under atms; was saved from the gallows by a legal point; was moved to Norfolk Island; behaved well there; and died a farmer in Tasmania. His tombstone’ desctibes him as a brave but unfortunate Irishman. Cash was emotional and hot-headed, atid much of his wfong-doing sptang from his devotion to the educated Englishwoman who sharéd his lot. He was ingenious and dating in his escapes from custody, and he and his associates led an exciting ife_on-the run. Operatir> in Tasmania -was a good deal more difficult than on | the mainland. _ From the published account of Cash’s career, based on interviews with him, Marcus Clarke drew what Frank Clune describes as "some of his best material" for that classic, For the Term of His Natural Life. Mr. Clune charges Clarke with adversely distorting the character of John Price, Chief Police Magistrate at Hobart. As in his book on the Kelly Gang, Mr. Clune shows himself an incustrious and methodical researcher, but he writes with the same repetitive moralising. Though the recotd is interesting for its excitements and pictures of convict and social life, it is questionable whether Martin Cash is worth 330 pages,
and the resultant price.
A.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 16
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