Mudgee History | The Dilly mountain mysterious murders

By Roy Cameron, Oam
Updated August 19 2019 - 9:20am, first published 9:00am
Although the mystery of their deaths were never definitely cleared up, it was generally accepted that on the morning that the couple left Bearbong they reached a point half way between Bearbong and Bidden and were murdered at separate locations.
Although the mystery of their deaths were never definitely cleared up, it was generally accepted that on the morning that the couple left Bearbong they reached a point half way between Bearbong and Bidden and were murdered at separate locations.

The report of these murders filled many columns of the Daily Press in the year 1878, including those circulating in the Mudgee district. The murders occurred in the Bearbong area, west of the Castlereagh River, north of Mendooran and on a pastoral lease, of 16,000 acres previously held by George Rouse of Mudgee.

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