William McCarthy - escaped from the Cassilis lockup in January 1841 and in company with two others committed several robberies including bailing up Arthur Blaxland's station.

McCarthy was apprehended by the mounted police in March 1841

It was probably the same William McCarthy who was brought into Cassilis by the mounted police in March 1843. He had been apprehended at Mr. Miller's station in the Liverpool Plains district having absconded from his master Edward Sparkes twelve months previously.