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    1. [AVNE] 1856 Gazette
    2. Denise McMahon
    3. Wine and Spirits - MOrris and Ickerson Beechworth P310 Robertson and Kufford Beechworth 310 Henry Clemenger Wangaratta P310 Septimus West, BeechwrothP310 Moore and Dunn, Beechworth P310 James Chalmers, Beechworth P 310 Missing Friends William Alexander Turner from Liverpool P312 Escapee George Gee - Wangaratta (Ticket of Leave man) P329 Henry Connor / Henry McConnell - Wangaratta - T/L man P329 William Timbrey - Wangaratta T/L man P329 Henry Olding - Wangaratta - T/L man P329 Joseph Fisher - Wnagaratta - T/L man P329 above names were T/Leave men who failed to appear at their assigned destinations Wangaratta Highway Robbery Billy the Puntman rises again!!!! On the morning of the 14th September 1856, the mailman while proceeding from Wang to Benalla was feloniously stopped and robbed of the mail bags as also two horses carrying them, when nearGreen's Mail Station, between Greta (15 Mile Creek) and the 7 mIle Creek Wang. A man known as "Billy the puntman" is charged with committing the offence. He is abut 5'7" high, 35 or 40 years of age, black whiskers and moustache, walks lame. He was armed with a double barrelled gun and a revolver pistol. One of the animals stolen was a dark brown mare, WP near shoulder, but no description of the other has been received. P332 Billy probably still had a chip on his shoulder about the bridge being opened over the river, and the punt he worked, sank the same day! Insurance job, or vengenance? Letters from the following people were amongst those stolen - Henry Blume Edward Saul J. F. Giles J. Kowlan J. Giles Jos Davis R. Kanna Mr. Mayhew A Bagnall W.E. Murtagh L. Marcus John O'Neal Mary Brown Thos. Stebling Thos Slee Thos Jordan Mr. Penfraw S. Abbott A. Bagnall if you want to kow where the letters were supposed to go and to whom, quote the page # - Denise

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