Captain Moonlite
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Andrew George Scott (1842-1880), known as Captain Moonlight or Captain Moonlite, was an Australian bushranger.
He killed a policeman, Senior Constable Webb-Bowen, in November 1879 in a hostage incident at McGlede's farm, near Gundagai, New South Wales.
Scott was hanged in Sydney on January 20, 1880. Scott had been asked to buried at Gundagai near his friends James Nesbitt and Augustus Wernicke . Both had been killed in the shoot-out at McGlede's Hut. His request was not granted by the authorities of the time, but his remains were exhumed from Rookwood Cemetery and reinterred at Gundagai next to Nesbitt's grave in January 1995.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Gundagai. Walkabout: Australian Travel Guide. Fairfax Digital. Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
- Scott, Andrew George [Captain Moonlite (1842 - 1880)]. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University and Melbourne University Press (1976). Retrieved on 2006-10-27.
- Andrew George Scott (alias "Captain Moonlite"). Australian Bushrangers. Ned Kelly's World (1999). Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
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