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Title
Bushranging Bands on the road to the Diggings
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The roads to the diggings were reputedly the haunt of bushrangers and reports such as this one, which appeared in the Argus newspaper in 1852, inspired fear in many a traveller.

Date
19-20 May 1852
Published Source
Quaife, G.R. (ed.), Gold and colonial society, 1851-1870, Cassell Australia, 1975. Details

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    Quaife, G.R. (ed.), Gold and colonial society, 1851-1870, Cassell Australia, 1975. Details

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…we were compelled most reluctantly again to seek shelter of an inn on the road to the diggings. Crowded like the one of last night,…in which the decidly scampish greatly predominated, it promised anything by a pleasant night.

We retired early, but sounds of fighting, cries of robbery etc. kept us awake nearly all night. The first thing we heard in the morning was, that one man had been "stuck up" against the stable door, and…Another had been actually robbed of 40 pounds …While seated at breakfast, word was brought us that the constable and his assistant had just brought the prisoner out to convey him to the watch house where he had been rescued by the rest of the gang, headed by a Negro, a well known character of gigantic proportions, going by the name of Black Douglas.

Created: 17 March 2006, Last modified: 24 August 2006