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1864 - THE STICKING UP AT COOYALThe Mudgee police captured two men at Gulgong Creek yesterday afternoon, who there is no doubt are the parties who stuck up Mrs. Garbutt's house on Tuesday last. The stolen saddle was found in their posession. These are the men, it is supposed, who murdered poor Musson, at Lower Pyramul, They correspond to the description given of the robbers.—Western Post.
The Western Post of 25th instant says:-
Information was received in Mudgee, on Wednesday, that a robbery had been committed at Mrs. Garbutt's place, Cooyal, at about eight o'clock on the previous evening. The party consisted of four men, disguised. They were well mounted and masked and armed with revolvers. The scoundrels obtained possession of a saddle, and cash and cheques to the amount of about £40. The sub-inspector, who was out near Cooyal on the evening of the robbery, had information the same night, and started in pursuit then and there. A man has been captured at Gulgong Creek on suspicion, and also two others who were seen with a number of cheques in their possession, and have been lodged in Mudgee lock-up. There is no doubt that they are the parties who stuck up Mrs. Garbutt's house, on Tuesday last—indeed the stolen saddle was found in their possession. It is supposed that they are the men who murdered poor Musson, at the Lower Pyramul. Certain it is that they correspond to the description given of the robbers.
About 10 A.M. on the 16th instant, John Powell, storekeeper, was stopped at Tallewang Road, near Gulgong, by two armed men, and robbed of one £1 Bank of New South Wales note.
The offenders were of middle stature: one was dressed in a dirty twill cotton shirt, moleskin trousers, and brown American felt hat, and had his face covered with an antimacassar; the other was dressed in a dirty twill cotton shirt and moleskin trousers, and had his face covered with a white handkerchief with eye-holes in it. Both were armed with small Colt revolvers.
Source: New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930) Wed 25 Jan 1871 [Issue No.4] Page 22
