Picture: Wantabadgery Station Wool Shed. The eeriness of a place that holds a piece of Australian history.
Captain Moonlite is an Australian folk figure.
A brazen Bushranger, Moonlite wrote the ending to his days here at Wantabadgery Station.
Here is just a quick read of how it all went down.
Captain Moonlite, an engineer, trainee priest and later a bank robber, was not so much like Ned Kelly. His group was compiled of men that had society had rejected.
A series of events had lead to Moonlite's misfortune and his gang relied on being shameless.
Captain Moonlite and his gang held up Wantabadgery Station after being refused work, shelter and food.
The gang stayed there for three days and held up all the people travelling along the road. They held about 30 people prisoner. One person was able to escape and tell the police.
It's on Wantabadgery Station where police troops arrived and the battle against Moonlite's gang blew up. Two gang members were killed and unfortunately, one police officer, Senior Constable Edward Webb-Bowen, was shot trying to resolve the conflict.
A statue stands in the village of Wantabadgery in honour of Constable Edward Webb-Bowen today.
Captain Moonlite and two of his men were found guilty, hanged the following year on Moonlite's birthday in 1879.
On the road to Gundagai, my friend Megan tells me of how her Great Grandmother who lived in The Little Green House at Nangus, gave Moonlite a drink of water as he travelled through as a prisoner.
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