Hi All, Found this below and thought it may interest someone with BAIRD research. I don't know if he was apprehended later or not. Cheers Jacqui Cunningham Central Victoria http://www.oldnewscopy.com "It's Old News!" >From Victoria Police Gazette, March 23, 1855. "Escaped Lunatic. Escaped from the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum yesterday between the hours of 8 and 10 o'clock a.m., Richard BAIRD, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, 26 or 28 years of age, brown complexion inclined to sallow, dark and circular eyes, dressed in white jumper and trousers, LA broad arrow. Information to Dr. BOWIE, surgeon superintendent of the Asylum. - 17th March, 1855."