criminals will become indeed hopeless”. Murder On 2 June 1864 D. F. Johnston and two other men, while droving stock to Melbourne, were camped on ‘Round Hill’ station when they were bailed up by Daniel Morgan. He robbed Johnston of money and a gold watch, and afterwards “selected a fine black mare, saddle and bridle” before making his departure. On 19 June 1864 Morgan arrived at ‘Round Hill’ station, east of Culcairn. Those present at the homestead were the superintendent Samuel Watson and his wife, the overseer McNeil, the cattle overseer John McLean and the son of a neighbouring squatter, John Heriot. With “a revolver in each hand, cocked and capped” Morgan demanded that the liquor supplies, consisting of six bottles of gin, be produced. He insisted that his captives join him in drinking gin (to an extent that all involved were probably inebriated). After ordering a meal be served to him he rounded up the station personnel into a cattle shed. After inspecting the station horses the bushranger mounted his horse to leave. At that point the superintendent Watson “rather rashly” made a comment that Morgan’s stirrup irons had been stolen. Morgan “coolly turned round in his saddle, took deliberate aim at Mr. Watson’s head, and fired”. Watson put up his hand “through which the ball passed” and then grazed his scalp. Watson ran behind the shed and Morgan fired two more shots, one of which hit John Heriot’s lower leg “shattering the bone in pieces”. Suddenly taking pity on Heriot, the bushranger “who seemed to act with the inconsistency of drunkenness, or of a murderer gone mad… swore a fearful oath that he would blow the brains out of every man on the station if they did not come to Heriot’s assistance”. At this time two men made their appearance (“evidently ‘Morgan’s men’”), one of them described as “a half-caste aboriginal”. Morgan supervised Heriot being made as comfortable as possible, at which point John McLean, “seeing Morgan apparently relenting, as if satiated with bloodshed”, asked him “if he might go for a doctor”. The bushranger answered “yes”, but soon afterwards had second thoughts. He set out to follow McLean along the road, “overtook him five or six miles from the station, and without ‘yea’ or ‘nay’ coming close behind him” shot him in the back above the hip. Morgan dismounted and lifted the mortally wounded man onto his