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4 unusual facts about Frank Gardiner


Agnes Gavin

She and her husband were best known for making films about bushrangers such as Captain Thunderbolt, Captain Moonlite, Ben Hall and Frank Gardiner, and convict-era melodramas.

Coward Springs, South Australia

Coward was then sent into Queensland as detective in the manhunt for the bushranger Frank Gardiner.

Frank Gardiner

The total value of the 2,700 ounces of gold and bank-notes taken was estimated at £14,000 (approximately A$12.5 million in 2012 terms).

William Bede Dalley

He supported a petition for the freeing of Frank Gardiner which had been brought by Gardiner's sisters on the grounds of the harshness of his sentence.


James Alpin McPherson

On 17 August 1864, McPherson was almost apprehended by Sir Frederick Pottinger, a New South Wales Police officer, who had earlier pursued Ben Hall and Frank Gardiner, with mixed success.


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