| Sentence Comment | Mendham, Roy, Dictionary of Australian Bushrangers : Jimmy and Joe Governor, half castes, Jimmy married white woman who was spoken disparagingly, that he murdered her detractors; acompanied by aboriginal Jacky Underwood, attacked women in household of his employer Joh Mawbey, tomahawking to death Grace and hilda Mawbey, Helen kerz; Undwerood beating to death Sarah Mawbey and son Percy an wounding Elise Clarke then all three ran from camp at Breelong; Underwood captured; rewards �1,000 each for capture; near Merriwa murdered Mrs. O'Brien and her baby son & wounding Mrs. Bennett; near Wollar murdered elderly Ftzpatrick; shot and wounded Constable Harris; later the fiance of Helen Kerz shot Jimmy Governor wounding him, later caught and hanged at Darlinghurst in January 1901, Joe Governor shot dead by a civilian |
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| Source Note | Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January, 1901, p. 9a (execution) (copied) Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Nov, 1900, p. 4 (trial) (copied) Mendham, Roy, Dictionary of Australian Bushrangers, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1975, p. 63-4 TM's bushranger paper |
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