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Andrew George Scott (5 July 1842 – 20 January 1880), also known as Captain Moonlite, though also referred to as Alexander Charles Scott and Captain Moonlight, was an Irish-born New Zealand immigrant to the Colony of Victoria, a bushranger there and in the Colony of New South Wales, and an eventual and current day Australian folk figure.
4 déc. 2020 · Garry Linnell's biography of the bushranger known as Captain Moonlite reveals a complex figure.
Starved and frustrated, on 18 November Moonlite’s gang held up Wantabadgery Station. Two men would die in an inevitable police shootout: Senior Constable Edward Webb-Bowen, of whose murder Andrew and two of his accomplices were found guilty, and James. Andrew’s grief at James’ death was reportedly palpable.
One of the more famous photographs is that of A.G. Scott otherwise known as Captain Moonlight (or sometimes Moonlite) who committed various crimes – bank-robbery, passing false cheques, stealing gold – and led a gang of outlaws until he was eventually caught by police, tried in Sydney in 1879 and subsequently executed in Darlinghurst Gaol ...
1 août 2017 · Captain Moonlite was the pseudonym of Andrew George Scott, a bushranger who led a gang of teenage boys in the late 1870s. He was also one of the most intriguing figures in bushranging history.
Andrew George Scott (1842-1880), bushranger, self-styled 'Captain Moonlite', was born at Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland, and baptized on 5 July 1842, son of Thomas Scott, Anglican clergyman, and his wife Bessie, née Jeffares.
Cultured, charming and dangerous, Andrew George Scott (c1842–1880), known as Captain Moonlite, was an Irish-born bushranger. He committed his first serious offence in 1869, robbing a bank in Egerton, Victoria.
