Denise, I found the same with inquests. Do you think they may be hidden away in some archive ?? Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise McMahon" <helendmc@powerup.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, 17 May 2002 9:45 Subject: [AVNE] Highway Robbery in the early days > 13.1.1854 > > On the 3rd instant information was received at the Post Office Beechworth that the Sydney Mail which had left Beechworth on the 31st ultimo, had been stopped at Mullingandre by bushrangers and robbed. 18 registered letters had been sent frm Beechworth by the mail. The following notes have been stolen - 7 £50 P.O. notes drawn by John Taylor Manager of the Commercial Bank Sydney in favor of T.R. Hutchinson Agent for the bank at Beechworth; the numbers ran consecutively from 53 /74 to 53/83, and the whole of them have written legibly across the face "to the credit of the Honorable Colonial Treasurer, Sydney: also two ditto, ditto and marked in same manner, and numbered 53/87 and53/88. > > > Its amazing how LITTLE is on the Gazette for the Beechworth/Ovens district. A couple regarding Albury, one for Kilmore but nothing in a 2 month span except the above for north east. Perhaps the police were having a hard time keeping up with it, to find time to report anything. > > > >

Anne. Maybe I should have added "within the years I was reading the gazette last night". Whilst I know B/worth was in its very early days in 1853 and 1854, it still amazes me that there wasn't more reported in the gazette. Ovens must have been as busy and must have had some the badies or the accidents or the murders, as Ballarat and Bendigo for which there are heaps of reports. Perhaps the reports were stolen ont he way to Melbourne!. A lot of 53 and 54 is taken up with absconders, names of people leaving police force or absonding/deserting. Ship deserters, escaped convicts, captured convicts, T/Leave escapees etc etc and also a lot of Qld and NSW and some Tassie reports. In fact if you have an absconder this is the place to look - they are really there by the thousands. You could be right, if Bob the Bushranger didn't taken 'em, where are they? There were police in B/worth by then. I'm nearly up to the time frame of Robert O Burke so perhaps things will improve. Denise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Hollingshead" <hollies@melbpc.org.au> To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [AVNE] Highway Robbery in the early days > Denise, > > I found the same with inquests. > Do you think they may be hidden away in some archive ?? > > Anne > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Denise McMahon" <helendmc@powerup.com.au> > To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, 17 May 2002 9:45 > Subject: [AVNE] Highway Robbery in the early days > > > > 13.1.1854 > > > > On the 3rd instant information was received at the Post Office Beechworth > that the Sydney Mail which had left Beechworth on the 31st ultimo, had been > stopped at Mullingandre by bushrangers and robbed. 18 registered letters > had been sent frm Beechworth by the mail. The following notes have been > stolen - 7 £50 P.O. notes drawn by John Taylor Manager of the Commercial > Bank Sydney in favor of T.R. Hutchinson Agent for the bank at Beechworth; > the numbers ran consecutively from 53 /74 to 53/83, and the whole of them > have written legibly across the face "to the credit of the Honorable > Colonial Treasurer, Sydney: also two ditto, ditto and marked in same manner, > and numbered 53/87 and53/88. > > > > > > Its amazing how LITTLE is on the Gazette for the Beechworth/Ovens > district. A couple regarding Albury, one for Kilmore but nothing in a 2 > month span except the above for north east. Perhaps the police were having > a hard time keeping up with it, to find time to report anything. > > > > > > > > > >