MORE BUSHRANGING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 770, 10 March 1865, Page 1

MORE BUSHRANGING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

ROBBERY AND MURDER BY HALL'S GANG.

Despatches from Goulburn state that on 27th January Hall's gang stuck-up about thirty persons on the roak, taking from them various amounts, from half-a-crown to £11 12a. Twelve drays were stopped. The robbers broke open cases, took a little clothing, and a double-barrel gun. They drank bottled porter, and gave some to the people. Two watches were stolen, one horse, saddle and bridle. Judge Meymot passed along the road just before, escorted by two troopers, Gilbert rode out from the bush, and constable Gray gave chase, but was called back by the Judge. The police on reaching Collector were joined by two others, and accompanied by Mr. Voss and a magistrate, went in search of the bushrangers. After they had gone, Hall, Gilbert, and Dunn, went into Collector and stuck-up Kemberley's Inn. On this reaching the ears of the lock-up keeper, Samuel Nelson, who was the only policeman there, he took his carbine and went up towards Kembei'ley's. Dunn met him on the road, called upon him to stand, firing at the same instant. Nelson cried out " stop," and fell. Dunn fired again. Both shots took effect, one on the head or neck, the other in the heart. Nelson never spoke after receiving the second wound. After he committed this murder, Dunn went to Kemberley's Inn, and the bushrangers left the township. Subsequently the police sighted them on the brow of a hill and charged them, the bushrangers leaped their horses over logs and made off, and were lost sight of the evening being intensely dark. They abandoned a stolen horse.

Nelson had been in the police force for some years, and was much respected. Hu leaves a wife and eight children. Two of his sons saw him shot; one was holding the bushrangers' hoi'ses at the time. The outrages by Hall's gang cause great excitement here.

Eight days afterwards, on 7th February, the mail from Braid wood to Goulburn was robbed by Hall's gang, twelve miles frtm Goulburn. The letters were ransacked, but not taken away.

Three sons of Mr. Faithfull, accompanied by another gentleman in a carriage, were ordered to stand by the bushrangers. Several shots were exchanged. Gilbert shot his own horse, Young Waverley, dead. He took off the saddle while under fire, and carried it to a spare horse. It is supposed that Messrs. Faithfull exhausted their ammunition, as they retreated on foot to their home, the gang following and firing at them. The carriage horses bolted and galloped about until winded. Hall then brought the carriage up, and after ransacking it and taking a quantity of clothing, gave it in charge to a traveller. One carriage horse was wounded. The conduct of the Messrs. Faithfull is highly eulogised.