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that it was serious, and got out of the cart. They were quickly robbed of ÂŁ28 and ÂŁ46 and ordered to take their cart into a nearby wattle thicket. Here a halter was cut in shreds and used to tie them together. They were ordered to sit on the ground while two men stood guard over them with double-barrelled guns.
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Finally, at sunset, the bushrangers withdrew their guard, mounted their horses which had been tethered in the bush, and rode off in the direction of South Yarra. Their victims released themselves and went on their ways. The gang seems to have comprised between four and six men, none of whom wore any
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At one stage the ring leader told the guard to put the victims together so that if he fired and missed one he would kill another. Mention was also made to one man already having been killed that after-noon and his body being put down a waterhole. However, no mention is made of his body in any of the
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Suddenly Keel and
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on 18 April 1853, five being convicted - Higginbotham, Little, Murphy
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disguise. There was much calling and cooeeing about the bush which confused their victims and possibly led them to believe that there were more men than was actually the case. Some days later five bushrangers, thought to be the same gang, spent an afternoon bailing up travellers near
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The other event took place earlier, on 17 March 1853, on the road near Canvas Town, a temporary settlement of tents on the west side of St Kilda Road not far from the city which provided temporary accommodation for the thousands who poured into
Melbourne each week during the
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painted 30 years after the event, that gave rise to the later reputation for hold-ups.
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Adventures of John Vane, the Notorious Australian Bushranger
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Adventures of a Surveyor in New Zealand and the Australian Goldfields
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George Wilson, who was believed to be involved, was later hanged for the
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that a number of robberies by armed bandits, known in
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462:Frank McCallum (Captain Melville)
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23:Bushrangers on the St Kilda Road,
853:Captain Midnight, the Bush King
757:Bushranging in North Queensland
29:, now in the collection of the
1118:True History of the Kelly Gang
1061:True History of the Kelly Gang
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917:The Shadow of Lightning Ridge
829:A Tale of the Australian Bush
1287:Victoria (state) gold rushes
1102:Three Years with Thunderbolt
776:(by Charles MacMahon) (1907)
538:Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang
1247:History of Victoria (state)
765:The Story of the Kelly Gang
214:"THE ST. KILDA BUSHRANGERS"
174:St Kilda Historical Society
109:No one was ever convicted.
62:This event took place over
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1282:1850s crimes in Australia
1272:1850s in Victoria (state)
821:Attack on the Gold Escort
1252:1853 crimes in Australia
933:When the Kellys Were Out
925:The Gentleman Bushranger
784:(by J and N Tait) (1907)
31:Ian Potter Museum of Art
1045:The Outlaw Michael Howe
739:Jim Jones at Botany Bay
472:St Kilda Road robberies
1267:Robberies in Australia
1053:The Legend of Ben Hall
167:"Brighton Bushrangers"
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837:Ben Hall and His Gang
732:The Wild Colonial Boy
675:John Francis Peggotty
563:James Alpin McPherson
256:Angus & Robertson
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965:When the Kellys Rode
390:Dignum and Comerford
989:Captain Thunderbolt
608:Captain Thunderbolt
482:John "Rocky" Whelan
38:Victorian gold rush
25:painted in 1887 by
1196:Ballad for One Gun
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1140:(1834 play)
813:Thunderbolt
622:1870s–1880s
603:Harry Power
553:John Kerney
411:Martin Cash
395:Ribbon Gang
307:John Caesar
293:Bushrangers
42:bushrangers
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1180:Television
1072:Literature
869:Dan Morgan
717:Folk songs
634:Steve Hart
573:Dan Morgan
558:Fred Lowry
528:John Foley
153:References
1220:Wild Boys
1188:Ned Kelly
1169:Ned Kelly
1161:Ned Kelly
1094:Stingaree
1029:Ned Kelly
1005:Ned Kelly
957:Stingaree
644:Ned Kelly
639:Dan Kelly
629:Joe Byrne
613:John Vane
523:John Dunn
219:The Argus
98:Dandenong
1204:Ben Hall
893:Moondyne
805:Moonlite
548:Ben Hall
354:Musquito
198:7 August
50:St Kilda
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226:23 July
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