The Colonial Record Records of Colonial Australia

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Reward & conditional pardon1836 Confidence: High

A reward of £200 and a conditional pardon offered after Thomas Evernden, Police Magistrate of Bathurst, was attacked and twice fired upon at the Bay of Biscay on the Government Road while returning home in his carriage with his family

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NSW Government Gazette, No. 204, 13 Jan 1836.

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