Stick up at Imbil

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...

William Troden and the background to a crime

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...