Captain Moonlite Traditional Cache
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The North Gundagai cemetery has a lone position for one of Australia's most notorious bushrangers .The grave of Captain Moonlite reveals much detail and history from his Riverina adventures.
In 1879, Andrew George Scott,better known as Captain Moonlite, held up a farmhouse at Wantabadgery ,half way between Wagga Wagga and Gundagai.Over 3 days, Moonlite and his gang took 35 people hostage and thus begin a seige that would go down in Riverina history.
One of the hostages managed to escape and return with 9 policemen.A battle followed and one policeman and 2 of Captain Moonlite's gang were shot dead.
Two of the gang were jailed for life.Moonlite and one of his gang were tried and hanged.
On January 20,1880 ,just before he faced the hangman's noose at Sydney's Darlinghurst Goal.Captain Moonlite wrote " I want to rest in the grave of my friend.Gratify my last wish if you can.Do it in the cheapest possible manner.I have 1 hour to live".
In January 1995,Moonlite got his wish.115 years after his death,his remains were moved from Sydney's Rookwood cemetery and laid to rest metres from the unmarked graves of his friends James Nesbitt and Augustus Wernicke at Gundagai.
A 1.5 litre container is located in the region of the grave of Bushranger Captain Moonlite.It contains a log book and pencil with a zip-lock bag together with a swag of swaps.Please rehide it exactly as you found it.
FTF HONORS TO:maccamob
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