Joseph Walker and Daniel Hickey had been in the bush for about eighteen months when they were captured by Mounted Police on the Bathurst Road. They were starving and Walker was suffering badly from a ball or slug which was lodged in his neck after a previous affray with the Mounted Police.

After capture, they were taken to Newcastle gaol where Walker's description was given - he was 5' 7½", stout; with a fair complexion with brown hair and blue eyes. He had 'tattooes on both arms and breast in the manner of the aboriginal natives' and had escaped from Thomas Icley's farm eighteen months previously.

 Joseph Walker arrived on the Burrell in December 1830. He was tried at Aberdeen on 19th April 1830 and sentenced to 14 years transportation for stealing clothes. He was employed as a flax dresser in Aberdeen and on arrival in the colony was assigned to work on the roads .

Daniel Hickey arrived on the Eliza in 1829 and at 45 years 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. He was tried in Tipperary in 1828 and sentenced to transportation for Life. His occupation in Tipperary had been ploughman and shearer. In Australia, he was assigned to Edward Cox at Mulgoa. He absconded from there around 1832.

Hickey and Walker had with them when captured, two muskets and a fowling piece as well as a pocket compass.

Daniel Hickey died at Norfolk Island in 1837.