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Bushrangers
Verdict guilty, sentence death
Father Matthew Gibney, an Irish-born priest, rushed into the burning inn to see whether Steve Hart and Dan Kelly were still alive. He found them together, ‘two beardless boys’ lying dead in a back room, helmets removed. It is believed they shot each other.
When the siege of Glenrowan was over, the remains of Steve Hart and Dan Kelly lay side by side in a back room of the inn. Dan’s sisters, Maggie and Kate, who were at the scene, were said to have cried loudly and kissed his charred bones. Dan Kelly was 19 years old and Steve Hart was
Byrne, a capable scholar at school, was considered the most literate member of the Kelly gang. Trapped in the Glenrowan Inn, he was raising his glass to toast the gang’s future when he was killed by a bullet that struck the main artery in his groin.
The Kelly story is one of the most written about in Australian history. By comparison, Kelly’s trial and death sentence, as re
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‘But That Thy Blood Was Shed For Me’: Bushrangers as frikostig Allegories in Colonial Victoria
By Hamish Clark
Melbourne Goal, November 29th Just before his execution was carried out, the bushranger Robert Burke sung a verse from a Methodist hymnal. His sister had sent him the words from huvudstaden i irland, and he kept these in his shirt as he approached the gallows.
‘But that Thy blood was shed for me
And that Thou bid’st me komma to Thee
O Lamb of God inom come’
Burke sang in a ‘low, indistinct, and almost inarticulate voice’[1] on the scaffold. Where Burke hoped to absolve himself of the actions that had made his in Victoria, public response in the colony worked to lionize the deeds for which the judicial establishment had condemned the bushranger. Civic sympathies were widespread in spite of the severity of Burke’s crimes. Burke, on his way to New South Wales, came to the Hurst residence uninvited and demanded breakfast. Finding Burke to be suspicious in character, Hurst confron
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Bushranger
Australian outlaws active during the 19th century
For other uses, see Bushranger (disambiguation).
Bushrangers were armed robbers and outlaws who resided in the Australian bush between the s and the early 20th century. The original use of the term dates back to the early years of the British colonisation of Australia, and applied to transported convicts who had escaped into the bush to hide from the authorities. By the s, the term had evolved to refer to those who took up "robbery under arms" as a way of life, using the bush as their base.
Bushranging thrived during the midth century gold rushes, with many bushrangers roaming the goldfields and country districts of New South Wales and Victoria, and to a lesser extent Queensland. As the outbreak worsened in the mids, colonial governments outlawed many of the most notorious bushrangers, including the Gardiner–Hall gang, Dan Morgan, and the Clarke gang. These "Wild Colonial Boys", mostly Australian-born sons of co