From Police Gazette, 4th November, 1863.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume I, Issue 26, 21 December 1863, Page 135

From Police Gazette , 4th November, 1863.

Miscellaneous Information. On the evening of the 24th ultimo, the house of Mr. Commissioner Keightly, Dunn’s Plains, near Rockley, v a: attacked by Gilbert OMe ally, Hall, Vane , aid Burke. Five or six . shots were fired , at Mr. Keightley, who armed himself with a double-barrelled gun, only one barrel of which was loaded, and aiming at Burke, wounded him in the abdo - men, from the effects of which he. has . since died. The offenders extorted £SOO for Mr. Keightley’s release, the amount being pail in Bank notes hereunder described :

Extract from New S' oath Wales Police Gazette , 9th December, 1863, page 372 . About 10 a.m. the 2nd instant, James Coffee, Farmer, near Burrowa, was stopped at Coffee’s Creek, near Burrowa, by two armed men, John Gilbert , and Ben Hall , and robbed of £37. These offenders are said to have stopped and searched several other persons about the same time and place. About 3 p.m. on the sth instant, the mail from Burrowato Binalong, was stopped about 2 miles from Smelly’s Creek, and about 6 miles from Burrowa, by tivo armed men, John Gilbert , and Ben Hall , and robbed of the mai bags, which the offenders cut open and rifled of their contents; there was one man on the mail whom the offenders did not attempt to rob. They gave the mailman a laige-sized gold watch to give to Mr. Scott, Burrowa. DESCRIPTION. John Gilbert , about 21 years’ of age, 5 feet 84 inches high, slight active figure, brown hair not very long, no hair nor any particular marks on face, light grey laughing eyes, round nostrils, thick lips, care-worn in appearance. Ben Hall , about 28 years’ of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, stout build, (would weigh about 13 stone 7 lbs.), figure erect, respectable appearance, light brown wavy hair, short light beard, thick, but darker near Ins throat, and verv pleasing expression of countenance so grey eyes, handsome nose inclined to be hooked, and thin compressed lips.

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