Harry Power
HARRY POWER - GENTEMAN BUSHRANGER
1820 Born in Ireland as Henry Johnstone or Johnson.
1840 Transporated to Australia 7yrs for stealing a pair of shoes
1841 May arrived in Tasmania
1847 Received a Ticket-of-leave went to Victoria.
1852 Received 13 years for stealing a horse served some of it in the Hulk “SUCCESS” in Hobson’s Bay.
1862 Released, but ignored the conditions of release and headed to the North East.
1864 7yrs for horse stealing under the name of Harry Power at Beechworth.
1869 Escaped from Pentridge by hiding in a rubbish cart. Is thought to be responsible for a spate of robberies of coaches & travellers & horses. Known as “The Gentleman Bushranger”.
1870 Captured and sentenced at Beechworth Court to 15yrs hard labour at Pentridge for 3 armed hold ups.
1885 Released an old & sick man, acted as a tour guide on the ‘Success’.
1891 Drowned in the Murray River at Swan Hill.
Harry is known to have tutored Ned Kelly in a life of crime & probably committed 80 more robberies than Ned Kelly.
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