Thunderbolt bushranger biography template
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Below are some accounts of "Captain Thunderbolt" that I have collected.
Captain Thunderbolt- letter written by James Neariah Roper
Thunderbolt Again-(The Armidale Express, Saturday, May 18th, 1867)
Tenterfield (The Armidale Express, Saturday May 25th, 1867)
Bonshaw -A chance to brag - 8 May 1867
BY-GONE DAYS -Tales of Thunderbolt "POLITE" OUTLAW
Reminiscences -Tenterfield District Historical Society -James Hargrave RoperDoings of Thunderbolt
Links to other pages
Frederick Wordsworth Ward ( aka Captain Thunderbolt)
CAPTAIN THUNDERBOLT
Bonshaw,
8th May 1867,
Sovereign River
On the 3rd May I sent the Hosteler to Tenterfield on business, but he could not find the horse he intended to ride, which at once excited my suspicion that he was stolen, inconsequence of a boy the previous evening, purchasing 20 lb of flour with other goods, to go on a journey to Grafton.
I wrote a note to Constable Langworthy. He arrived the same evening and has been in and about the neighbourhood till now.
On the 8th (this morning) I sent the mail off to Tenterfield and Constable Langworthy kept it in sight as far as Maidenhead, they had been gone about half an hour (half past 10 o'clock a.m.) when Thunderbolt and boy rode up, both well mounted. I was making up
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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 1780s 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 1820s, 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 mid-19th 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 mid-1860s, 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 convicts, were roughly analogous to British highwaymen and outlaws of the American Old West, and their crimes included robbing small-town banks, bailing up coach services and raiding stations (pastoral estates). They also engaged in many shootouts with the police.
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