Just a month later, in January 1865, while holding up the Gundagai-Yass mail at Collector, Dunn killed Constable Nelson.
We caught the horses, and fixed the body of deceased on the saddle, and in this manner brought him to Forbes …This description is interesting because when the object above was donated to the Museum in 1958 the owner Mr W Davis thought it was the very same holster Forbes describes falling from the body of Ben Hall.Geoff – very interesting website here and a lot of work.
He was captured, tried for murder and hanged in Sydney on 19 March 1866.
Hall then cried out, ‘I am wounded; shoot me dead.’ I then went up to the body, and noticed that life was extinct.
The mail coach was under the escort of sub-inspector O’Neill and sergeant Parry, who saw the bushrangers on the top of a hill near Black Springs, between Jugiong and Gundagai. ‘The Legend of Ben Hall’ reveals him as a romantic figure - a man torn between his desire to be good and his criminal tendencies. Amazingly, and in spite of all the research I’ve done on Ben Hall over the years I was unaware of that reward poster (P237/30) Is it possible to obtain a high-res scan image of the poster? Hall, still remembered. After running about 100 yards, I got within 40yards of Hall, and fired at him. He was a good man sadly the British empire brought out the worst in many people.I am writing to ascertain who owns the copyright for the reward poster by William Foster for the capture of John Gilbert, John O’Meally, Benjamin Hall and John Vane posted 26 October 1863.
Sub-inspector O’Neill, after firing all his ammunition, struck Hall with his empty weapon.A constable named Roche, who was armed, and in the coach, bolted; it is said, in a most cowardly manner.
Parry said he would die first, when Gilbert shot him dead, the ball entering his right and passing out of his left side. (Signed by the director, naturally) as well as 'The Judas Covenant-The Betrayal and Death of Ben Hall' 133-page hardcover by Peter Bradley. One of the best books I ever read. It was also around this time his wife left him, taking with her their infant son.By 1863 he and John Gilbert were running their own group of outlaws, which included John O’Malley and John Vane.
Here he and his gang drank with the locals at the hotel and with the assistance of two women, Ellen Monks and Christina Mackinnon, set fire to the property of a local policeman Edward Morris.
From that time he ran more slowly towards a few saplings. There wore about a hundred persons in the, house – men, women, and children.
Hall came from the two prisoners, and asked what was the matter, and in the confusion I made my escape by jumping through the window …Just a month later, in January 1865, while holding up the Gundagai-Yass mail at Collector, Dunn killed Constable Nelson.
THE BUSHRANGER PACK - You get ALL the above, plus a 68-page A4 full colour book 'Ben Hall - The Screenplay and Storyboards' featuring the director's hand-drawn storyboard panels, production photos, design and costume sketches, the screenplay and more. On 29 April James Henry Davidson the sub-inspector of police, stationed at Forbes left the police camp with five men and two trackers in pursuit of Hall and his gang. Several other shots were fired afterwards.
On the 5th May 1865, betrayed by a friend the police surrounded him while he was asleep at Billabong Creek and when he awoke they ordered him to surrender.
In the years following the 1850s gold rush a new breed of entrepreneur, the Australian bush ranger, took center stage.