both suspensions were only temporary. A later report states the skin and beard from Morgan’s face was made into a tobacco pouch. On April 14 Morgan’s head was put in a box and sent to Melbourne by coach where it was handed over to Professor Halford of the Melbourne University for scientific study.Morgan the Bushranger’s Head, Kilmore Free Press and Counties of Bourke and Dalhousie Advertiser, 20 April 1865, page 2. After receiving the head Halford stated that “he had expressed no wish that the remains of the wretched man should be so recklessly mangled, and that decomposition had set in to so great an extent that for any scientific purposes the head is quite useless”. The newspaper report added that “the decapitation appears to have been a most unwarranted piece of officiousness and excess of authority on the part of the local Coroner, and is very much akin to the prurient and brutal feeling which resulted in the hair, beard, and clothes of the deceased marauder being hawked about for the delectation of the curious”. Daniel Morgan’s headless body was placed in a pine coffin and buried in the Wangaratta cemetery. Morgan was denied a Christian burial; his remains were interred in the Chinese section of the cemetery. A description of his grave published in 1878 noted that a rose-bush and geranium were growing at the head of the grave, planted by Morgan’s mother who, up until 1876, had travelled from New South Wales once every year to visit the grave.The Bushranging Outrage in Victoria, Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney), 23 November 1878, page 32. Aftermath In early May 1865 a man named Thomas Maslen was brought before the Wahgunyah Police Court on a charge of using threatening language towards John Wendlan, widely known by then as the man who shot Morgan. Maslen, who had been drinking in the Union Hotel at Wahgunyah, was reported to be threatening to shoot Wendlan. A police constable proceeded to the hotel and searched Maslen’s swag, finding a double-barrelled gun, as well as powder and caps. In one of Maslen’s pockets a small bottle of strychnine was also found. Maslen was from the Corowa district in New South Wales and it was reported he was “a mate of Morgan’s”. However the police failed to produce evidence of an association with the bushranger and the case was eventually dismissed. After his dismissal a