Stand and Deliver 3 Traditional Cache
becon4046: Increasing urbanisation means this will not stay in place.
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Ben Hall Part 1
At Caloola on Thursday 1st October 1863, Ben Hall and John Vane held up two young men - Richard Machattie and William Battye. Machattie was very indignant at being stopped and ordered to hand over money, weapons and horses. Macahttie called the bushrangers cowards and stated, “You wouldn’t dare come to Bathurst.”
On Friday 2nd October the Hall gang were camped at Evans Plains looking towards the Bald Hills (one was renamed Mount Panorama in 1938). On Saturday evening the gang rode up and over the Bald Hills, through Milltown (now South Bathurst) and entered Bathurst. They held up shops in William Street. The police were alerted and chased the gang to the Sportsmans Arms Hotel in Piper Street. The gang stole some cash and encountered the police in George Street (where the school is now), but although the police chased the gang, Ben Hall had better horses and disappeared into the night. It is likely the gang were hidden in in the Black Bull Inn in Howick Street.
The cache is near where Ben Hall camped the night before his raid on Bathurst.
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