Citizen or Bushranger?

Can you tell the difference between a decent early settler of

Darebin and a notorious bushranger criminal?

Citizen or Bushranger?

• Top photograph – Northcote carpenter Charles Verso became a local councillor in 1883 and Northcote Mayor in 1887.

• Bottom photograph – James Kenniff and his brother Patrick were the last Australian bushrangers. They stole horses and cattle in Queensland from 1895-1902.

Citizen or Bushranger?

• Top photograph – John Fuller aka Dan ‘Mad Dog’ Morgan was a notorious bushranger of NSW and Victoria in the 1860s.

• Bottom photograph – Richard Tobin was the first Northcote Headmaster and a founder of the Northcote community.

Citizen or Bushranger?• Top photograph – Meet ‘Bold

Ben Hall’ the gentleman bushranger of NSW. Ben was not a violent man and refused to kill to escape the police.

• Bottom photograph – This is Northcote citizen and committee member of the Northcote Library, George William Swift.

Citizen or Bushranger?

• Top photograph - Northcote brothers Carl Frederick and Carl August Schwaebsch gardeners from Prussia in Germany.

• Bottom photograph – murderous brothers John and Thomas Clarke known in NSW’s as ‘The Bloodiest Bushrangers’ of the 1860s.

Citizen or Bushranger?

• Top photograph - This is Merri Creek citizen William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines for the colony of Victoria from 1849.

• Bottom photograph - This is Shire President of Preston from 1892-1893 Councillor Frank Arthur Harris.

Citizen or Bushranger?

• Top photograph – This is the Honorable Francis Beaver, local politician and owner of a large estate in Gladstone Avenue, Northcote.

• Bottom photograph – this is the most famous Victorian bushranger of all…Ned Kelly who was tried and hanged for his crimes in Melbourne Gaol in 1880.