Welcome back to Quirious Fact. This is part two of our episode on Captain Moonlight,

the Australian Bush Ranger. If you haven't listened to Part 1, you should go and do that first.

It'll make much more sense. When part 1 finished, George Scott and his gang had just left

Victoria, and they were heading to a station called Wanta Badgerie, which had a reputation for

being kind to Swagman.

So the So they arrive on Thursday the 13th of November.

The previous owner would always give traveller's work if he had it and at least something to eat, but he passed away and the station was now being managed by a man named William Baines who left them waiting

at the gate for two and a half hours before he went to see them and then told them to bugger

off basically and refuse them work. So they sleep in the hills that night and the next day they

return and ask if there's no work can we just sleep in an out building and it goes no leave.

So they go away and they sleep in the

hills again. Scott would later say of the decisions they made the next day that misery and hunger

produced despair and in one wild hour we proved how much the wretched dare. Wanta Badger was the

place where the voice of hunger drowned the voice of reason and we became criminals. So in the afternoon of the 15th,

they went back and held the station up at gunpoint, taking all of the station's guns and

eating their fill of its food. The station was a busy sort of central hub for the area, and

so people kept arriving at the homestead and they kept having to take them hostage as well.

That seems so awkward.

Probably it would have been, yeah.

The next day Scott went out in a buggy to collect more people from surrounding homes and hotels, though,

and they ended up having over 40 prisons.

I just feel very satisfied that they've had enough to eat now.

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