Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Bushrangers/Frank Gardiner

In the early days of Australias history bushrangers roamed the country side. They made a living by stealing horses and robbing banks and stores. Many were escaped convicts others were just young men looking for adventure and freedom.



The person that i chose to do is Frank Gardiner (Francis Christie) Frank Gardiner was one of the few bushrangers who didnt end up dying in prison or being shot or hanged. He was born in 1830 he began his life of crime by stealing horses when he was twenty,this made him get a five year jail sentence. After that he got caught again and got sent to jail for seven years but he was realeased after three.He then became a butcher and it became to know that the meat that he was selling came from stock that had been stolen.

Gardiner went to Queensland were he lived under another name and brought a shop.He was tracked down and arressted two years later. In 1864 he was sentenced to thirty-two years in jail.He spen the rest of his life in Sanfrancisco in America.

Some of his nicknames were:
Jones,Prince of the tobymen and King of the road

By Abbey

5 comments:

grade56f said...

It was awesome it was also very informing and smart. You enlarged your vocabulary and it was great.
casey

grade56f said...

Great work abbs :)





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grade56f said...

Great work Abbz' :)
You had great inforrmation. You did good reserch.
One mor question, how famouse was he???

PENNY :):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

grade56f said...

that woz cool!!!!!



DEE :)

grade56f said...

so he acually went to prison for 32 years then came out and stopped being a bushranger. nice work really good info u did good resaerch.












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