The Reporting of Ben Hall the Brave Bushranger by Trudy Toohill

Author:Trudy Toohill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: bushranger
Publisher: Trudy Toohill

Forbes

Sydney Mail, 28 November 1863

FORBES, Monday, 4 p.m.

At three o’clock this morning, two men representing themselves as Ben Hall and Johnny Gilbert, visited the house of Mr H.P. Williamson, editor of The Miner, who was alone and after some parley admitted them. He believes them to be Hall and Gilbert, but under the circumstances he had no alternative but to allow the police to do their own work.

The Late O’Meally, the Bushranger

Empire, 1 December 1863

The relatives of the notorious bushranger have applied to the authorities for his body, in order that they may give it a Christian burial and the request has been complied with. The body was buried, coffinless, at Goimbla, where he was shot, it being even then in an advanced state of decomposition. The brother of the deceased left Forbes for that place this morning with a conveyance, in order to bring it to this town and the reburial of the body will take place tomorrow evening, in the burial place near the Red Streak. The spot chosen is close to the grave of young Walsh (‘Gardiner’s page’), who was buried some few months since, with whom O’Meally was well acquainted. Young Walsh, it will be remembered, was

‘captured’ by Sir Frederick Pottinger and eight troopers at Mrs Brown’s, Wheogo, at the time of the futile attempt by the party to arrest Gardiner. The boy was imprisoned so long within the confined walls of the noisome lock-up at Forbes that at last he fainted from mere weakness when brought into court to be remanded for the hundredth time and then followed the gaol fever, various surgical operations and three days subsequently, death. The death of the poor boy was the only practical result attending all the military operations of Sir Frederick Pottinger and the men under his immediate charge against the bushrangers up to that period. Since then, Sir Frederick Pottinger has sworn to the identity of O’Meally, after death, at Goimbla. His next feat of arms is anxiously looked for. The following items with regard to the O’Meallys may not be without interest. The pater familias was the licensee of the famous ‘Weddin Mountain Inn,’ which, in consequence of its being the resort of the most desperate characters, including Gardiner, Gilbert and the gang of which they were chief officers, it was burnt to the ground by the police some two months since and the family, thus expelled, were obliged to seek another home. This they found at a place about three miles on this side of Lambing Flat, where they established themselves on a farm, and here they still remain. The family consisted of eight children, (six boys and two girls), of whom John, the bushranger, was the eldest, being 23 years of age. One of the boys was lost in the bush about ten years since, sad although every exertion was made to find him, he was never afterwards heard of nor any trace of him found, the probabilities being that after being starved to death his remains were devoured by the native dogs.

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