Mr Wilding And The Squatters In 1863

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The above article also highlights the actions of a Mr. Wilding (although not named) who earlier in the month of September 1863, as Ben Hall was raiding at will through the area 's surrounding Bathurst and where by the end of the months of October and November, two of his number would be shot dead, not by the police, but by local squatters, those squatters being Mr. Keightley and Mr. Campbell. As remarked upon those two men were not the only squatters during 1863 to show pluck when it came to defending their property as well as killing the perpetrators as demonstrated by Mr Wilding who was ‘Bailed Up’ at his property near Burrowa named Wildash by two bushrangers who may or may not have been fringe dwellers of Ben Hall and Co named James Murphy

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