(1837 - 1865)
Ben Hall was born in 1837 and became a stockman, leasing a run of land, Sandy Creek, near the settlement of Wheogo in New South Wales. In 1862 Hall was arrested for armed robbery, but was acquitted before being apprehended again as an accessory to the Eugowra gold escort robbery. Again he was not committed for trial, and upon his return to his farm he found that his animals had been killed and his lands ruined.
Embittered, he joined John Gilbert and became the leader of a gang of bushrangers, organising and successfully completing a series of audacious raids, concentrating on the Sydney - Melbourne area in 1864. Following the shooting of two police constables by the gang, a reward of 1,000 pounds was offered for Ben Hall, and in 1865 Hall was betrayed and shot by a police constable in an organised ambush.
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