Bushranger Hotel|Collector|NSW

Bushranger Hotel, Collector

About 22km from Goulburn on the road to Canberra is the sleepy village of Collector. In 1865 there were five pubs in the town, only one of which survives. It is now called the Bushranger Hotel but in 1865 it was known as Kimberley's Commercial Hotel. On the evening of January 26, 1865, the Hall gang turned up, drove all the drinkers out of the pub and left an 18-year-old jockey, John Dunn, outside to ensure they didn't cause any trouble.

Most of the men in the town were out looking for Hall and the gang. It was left to the local lockup keeper, Constable Samuel Nelson, to confront the bushrangers. He walked up the main street. Dunn yelled out, "Stand! Go back!" Nelson, a 38-year-old father of eight accompanied by his two sons, kept walking. Dunn gunned him down with a shotgun and a pistol - and, just for good measure, took a pot shot at one of the boys.

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Bushranger Hotel, Collector About 22km from Goulburn on the road to Canberra is the sleepy village of Collector. In 1865 there were five pubs in the town, only one of which survives. It is now called the Bushranger Hotel but in 1865 it was known as Kimberley's Commercial Hotel. On the evening of January 26, 1865, the Hall gang turned up, drove all the drinkers out of the pub and left an 18-year-old jockey, John Dunn, outside to ensure they didn't cause any trouble. Most of the men in the town were out looking for Hall and the gang. It was left to the local lockup keeper, Constable Samuel Nelson, to confront the bushrangers. He walked up the main street. Dunn yelled out, "Stand! Go back!" Nelson, a 38-year-old father of eight accompanied by his two sons, kept walking. Dunn gunned him down with a shotgun and a pistol - and, just for good measure, took a pot shot at one of the boys.