by Warren Nunn
Tied to a sapling and robbed 1868 Queensland Police Gazette page 68On 30th July last, Henry Aldridge, and others, were stopped on the Yabber road, by two armed offenders, who tied them to a sapling and robbed them of 20 pounds cash, 1 pair of water-tight boots, 1...
by Warren Nunn
Hertfordshire publican William Aldridge came to Australia in July 1859 on the Glentanner, arriving in Brisbane, Queensland. The Aldridge family of Hertfordshire were mainly involved in running pubs or as carriers mostly in Welwyn and Stevenage. There is book about the...
by Warren Nunn
IT was a scandal at the time that involved a number of men including several gold miners and two rather inept thugs who ended up in jail. The drama unfolded on Thursday, July 30, 1868, when William Troden and Joseph Blake first held up a lone rider three miles from...
by Warren Nunn
William Troden was one of the bushrangers jailed in 1868 for the attack on Henry Aldridge and others near Gympie in Queensland. In the record of William Troden’s imprisonment on Queensland’s St Helena Island held by the Queensland State Archives, there is...
