TELFER, DAVIS & TAYLOR

These three convicts - Alexander Telfer per Warrior in 1835; James Davis per Waterloo 1837 and Archibald Taylor received sentences of death for robbing drays belonging to Robert and Helenus Scott of Glendon (Select early settler Map4 for location) and the murder of John Maher an elderly man who was accompanying the drays. They were pursued into the hill and were captured about three weeks later by District Constable Wilson and two young men named Bridge: "they were secreted in the mountains, and were tracked by the blacks; when discovered, ten or twelve shots were fired, by one of which Taylor was wounded, before they surrendered". They were hanged on the 29 November 1839. (Newcastle gaol entrance books; SH 8 November 1839)