'Mount Typo' station (Messrs. Warren and Oke) where he "obtained shelter for the night". In the morning after the men had departed to round up stray cattle Morgan helped himself to as much provisions and blankets he could carry. The squatters Evan Evans and Edmund Bond and a group of men set out in pursuit and “at last discovered the gentleman camped at the base of a steep range”. Morgan managed to escape up the slope “where the pursuers were unable to follow with their horses”, but not before Bond “succeeded in getting a shot at him”, wounding him in his upper left arm. During the next few years the outlaw kept a relatively low profile, supposedly engaged in horse and cattle stealing and occasionally engaged as a horse-breaker in the eastern Riverina and western slopes of New South Wales and also north-eastern Victoria. Bushranging activities On 17 June 1863 Robert Morton, a squatter from Wagga Wagga, and Maurice Brach, a hawker from Beechworth, were camped at Walla Walla (about thirty miles from Albury). Two men rode up to the camp, one of them armed with a double-barrelled gun and a revolver, and told them to bail up. The robbers took £30 worth of goods and money from Brach and four £1-notes and some nuggets from Morton. When Morton was asked whether he had any connection with the hawker Brach and he answered “no”, the money and nuggets were returned to him. While this was going on John Manson of Beechworth drove up and the robbers stuck him up as well. One of the robbers was “supposed to be a man named Morgan, alias Beardie” and it was reported that both men “were splendidly mounted”. The following day, on 18 June 1863, four young men were held up and robbed at Post’s 'Cookendina' station, east of Henty. The robbers fitted the description of Morgan and his accomplice. The young men had been “proceeding from Ten-mile Creek to attend some bye-races at Merritt’s Cookendina Inn”. They were robbed of three race-horses, together with saddles and bridles, and 15 shillings in cash. Morgan's companion in these crimes was variously known as 'Flash Clarke' or 'German Bill'. On 29 July 1863 “Jack Morgan” and his companion arrived at ‘Wallandool’ station (west of Henty) and stuck up two overseers and tied them to trees. They then proceeded to the homestead and accosted the squatter