JOSEPH WALKER & DANIEL HICKEY 1834    

Joseph Walker and Daniel Hickey were captured by Mounted Police on the Bathurst Road. From there they were taken to Newcastle gaol where Walker's description was given as 5'7 1/2" ; stout; fair complexion with brown hair and blue eyes. He had 'tattooes on both arms and breast after the manner of the aboriginal natives' and had escaped from Thomas Icley's farm 18months previously. He had arrived on the Burrell in 1830

Daniel Hickey arrived on the Eliza in 1828 and at 45years of age was older than most of the men who took to the bush. He was 5’5” stout with a sallow complexion and brown hair and had absconded from Edward Cox at Mulgoa.

They had with them when captured two muskets and a fowling piece as well as a pocket compass and were starving when apprehended.