BUSHRANGERS AND THE POLICE.

Press, Volume XI, Issue 1408, 14 May 1867, Page 3

BUSHRANGERS AND THE POLICE.

The Sydney papers received by the last mail are full of details of encounters between bushrangers and the police. The outlaw Tommy Clark and his brother John were captured by a body of constables after some sharp fighting, and brought into Braidwood. They are to be sent to Sydney for trial. On the 30th ultimo fifteen prisoners, while being conveyed from Bathurst to Sydney, were placed for the night in the lock-up at Pulpit-hill, ■when, according to Tne report 01 the constable. " ■fclae'y xtxslaecl out and caught tlie "two constables ~- > ~T ttLe f|>H"i)|> ♦•(•] MUM 4 »|lilMli)ijl|M! j)|. i.v Ihroat, and were strangling them. Sergeant Casey, who had been sleeping in the lock-up, instantly sprang up and shot the man who had hold of Constable Madden. Sergeant Casey then shot the prisoner Thomas X.err, and fired at the prisoner Southgate. The pistol hung fire, and when it did go off wounded Constable Madden, who had been pushed towards Sergeant Casey. Sergeant Casey fired again, and drove thirteen out of the fifteen prisoners into the cell. He then found out that Madden had been mortally wounded by his fire. Madden died at ten o'clock this morning, before the arrival of the doctor. Sergeant Casey fired five shots ; one shot struck Kerr in the arm, one shot glanced off Kerr's head, one shot struck James Morgan in the hip, and two struck poor Madden. One of the prisoners (Butherford) has just been arrested, and brought in by senior-constable Macmanamy, and the Hartley and other police are on the track of the other absconder, Holmes. Sergeant Casey is so agitated at the dreadful occurrence that he is unable to make the proper report."