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A gunfight between police and a gang of men led by the self-styled “Captain Moonlite”, a.k.a. George Scott, occurred on 16th November 1879 at a farmhouse near Wantabadgery Station in the colony of New South Wales. The skirmish resulted in the deaths of two bushrangers and one police officer. As a result, Captain Moonlite and Thomas Rogan were hung in Sydney’s Darlinghurst Gaol on 20 January 1880 for...
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