Frank Gardiner

Frank Gardiner and his gang, which included Ben Hall and John Gilbert, held up a coach at Eugowra as it was traveling from Forbes to Orange. The bushrangers escaped with £14,000 in gold and banknotes, an enormous sum. Gardiner was arrested two years later and…

…sister he met the bushranger Frank Gardiner. In 1862 he was arrested twice for allegedly having participated in robberies led by Gardiner and was released both times for lack of evidence. By then his wife had left him, taking their infant son, Henry, with her. Hall’s purportedly unjust first arrest…