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Mounted policeman. Shot bushranger Wilson
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Sent with party of 13 to apprehend two blacks charged with rape
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Assisted Sergeant Edward Giles to apprehend Jerry's Plains mail robber Robert Crunden
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To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury. SIR - Having seen this day a paragraph in your paper of the 17th instant, from a correspondent at Muswell Brook, setting forth that Chief Constable Fox was the person who found out the actual perpetrator of the Jerrys Plains mail robbery, I beg to inform you that statement is incorrect; and as every horse ought to carry his own saddle, so let every man have the praise due to him. On the morning of the 13th inst., I, Sergeant Giles, accompanied by Corporal Worsley and two troopers, apprehended Robert Crunden, a deserter from the 11th Regt., and lodged him in Muswell Brook lockup. I was told that a woman named Howell had just exchanged a twenty-pound note for Crunden, when I had a suspicion that it was he who had robbed the mail; Corporal Worsley then went and demanded the money from Mrs. Howell, which she refused to give up until afterwards ordered by the magistrates. Chief Constable Fox then went with her to Mrs. Nowland, from whom she got the change; the change was given again to Mrs. Nowland, and the twenty-pound note handed over to Mr. Fox, which was all he had to do with it. The one-pound note was obtained by Corporal Worsley from Mrs. Hegarty. - I remain, sir, your most obedient servant, EDWARD GILES, Sergeant Mounted Police. Jerrys Plains, Jan. 19, 1849.
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Corporal Robert
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Mounted policeman. Tracked bushrangers Delaney and Sutcliffe near Mr. Ogilvie's station
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Corporal Robert
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Corporal in Mounted Police. Witness in trial of McKoy and Ford
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Corporal Robert
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Captured John Heeley, a deserter from the 99th Regiment who had been based at Lamb's Valley
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Corporal Robert
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Witness in the trial of Robert Crunden
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Corporal Robert
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Adapted from Downies Australian Coin Auctions and Apprehension of Bushrangers Medals and Reward by Les Carlisle
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The Bushranger Capture Medal (one of the earliest and most important ever to have been produced in this country); Colony of New South Wales – Granted to Corporal Robert Worsley - For Faithful and Distinguished Services - medal 38mm in silver by J.C.Thornthwaite Sydney, edge engraved in serifed block capitals - Sergt, R.Worsley MD Police 1851- one of only four such named medals recorded. Robert Worsley arrived in the colony 29th July 1830 as a member of the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot, transferring to the 11th and joining the Mounted Police 14th October of the same year. Leaving the Mounted Police in November 1836 he appears to have rejoined 28th April 1839 being promoted to Corporal in June 1846. On 1st May 1848 Corporal Worsley was moved to Maitland gaining a reward of 20 pounds for the capture of Robert Crunden in 1849. Worsley was appointed Chief Constable 1850 Cooma. Robert Worsley died December 1858