BUSHRANGING IN N.S.W.

Dunstan Times, Issue 919, 28 November 1879, Page 3

BUSHRANGING IN N.S.W.

Sydney, Nov. 19.h—Moonlight, who was training the bushrauging gang for their career, says they intended to bail up the Gundagai banks, but the crew commenced drinking at the Wantabadgery hotel, and spoiled the game. At the station they had prepared to hang the overseer for refusing rations. He got a rope and oidered the gang to put Haynes in a buegy, and drive him to the first convenient branch and leave him suspended. The women’s shrieks deterred them. At the hut where the final combat took place, the owner and Lis wife were inside. When the shooting commenced the owner jumped into an under ground dairy, but the bushrangers prevented his wife following, saying the police would cease firing when they discovered her presence. She got up a stone chimney. The gang fought with the utmost determination.

Nov. 20—At the inquest yesterday on the two bushrangers shot in the late affray, witnesses identified the bodies as those of Nesbitt, an old Pentridge prisoner, and Wrenckie, aged 19, son of a hotelkeeper in Melbourne. The prisoners are Bennett, Bogan, Lyon, and Scott alias Moonlight. Moonlight evinces the greatest composure, lie had copious notes of the proceedings in Court, and cross-examined the witnesses with the apparent purpose of clearing his comrades. He declared that only the deceased man Nesbitt fired. Nov. 22—The bushrangers have been committed for trial on a charge of wounding Constable Bower- Other charges are pending. Nov, 23—Constable Bower has died from the wounds received in the encounter.