HENRY HERBERT

'Armidale - The only news in this district at present is that on Tuesday, the 5th instant, Mr. Dennis, who was proceeding to Aberfoil, the station of E.E. Day, was stopped by two bushrangers and robbed of his horse, and everything he had with him,; they also took a horse belonging to a man employed at the station, which was ridden by Mr. Day's groom, in company with Mr. Dennis. The chief constable, with constable Campbell, went in pursuit of the men, but without success, and they have since been heard of as committing a robbery on the Moonboy Ranges. It is to be hoped that the authorities will exert themselves to have these men speedily apprehended.

Tamworth - Capture of a Bushranger: -

On the 9th instant two men arrived on horseback at Mr. Dangar's Moonboy station, and, having obtained permission to make some tea, stopped about the place until dark, when, leaving the hut under the pretence of finding their horses, but in reality to get their arms (which they must have planted), they suddenly presented themselves at the overseer's hut, and one man at the door covering him with a gun, the other walked in and, daring him to move, robbed the place of what they most wanted - a gun, ammunition, pair of spurs, and a sum of money; they then took one of Mr. Dangar's horses off the tether rope, left one of those they arrived on (which is supposed to have been stolen from New England, and is branded Day under) and thus remounted, rode on their way. The next morning Henry Whiting, of Goonoo Goonoo, was riding a horse into the Peel, when a man stepped out of the bush and, holding a pistol to his face, ordered him to dismount; the fellow then got on the horse and rode off in the direction of Currububbla. Whiting returned to Goonoo Goonoo, and having obtained the assistance of constable Hardy, they started on fresh horses, and, after a hot pursuit of 127 miles came up with him near Doughboy Hollow, on the horse which he had taken from Whiting. Knowing him to be armed, a  a little maneuvering was necessary, and Hardy, after making a small circle, suddenly presented himself before him, having covered him with his rifle, and ordered him to dismount. The fellow thought well to comply, and was secured and searched. Two loaded pistols were taken from him, percussion caps, seven rounds of cartridges, and a pair of spurs. He was then brought back to Tamworth, where he gave his name as Henry Herbert, free by servitude; and having been fully committed on the charge of robbing Whiting of his horse, saddle and bridge was again put up and identified by Mr. Kelly, Mr. Dangar's superintendent, as the man who had robbed him on the 9th. The cartridges, spurs, found on him by Hardy, were recognised by Kelly as being part of the property which he had seen him take out of the hut.

Maitland Mercury 21 June 1848