The mailman attested that “Morgan opened most of the letters and then returned them”. Two of the passengers were robbed of two horses. On 11 December 1864 Morgan made an appearance at a road contractor’s camp at Kyeamba (14 miles south-west of Tarcutta). He bailed up all the men at the camp, and when it was discovered the contractor Adams had no cash on hand, “he set fire to the tents”. He ordered five Chinese men (described as "miners") to strip “with a view to searching their garments”. When they hesitated, perhaps not understanding his command, Morgan shot one of them in the arm just below the shoulder joint. The money he recovered “was trifling” (“one small gold piece, and about thirty shillings in silver – the latter he threw away, from his chagrin”). He remained there until five in the afternoon “having caused tea to be made and a damper prepared for him”. When Morgan left he took several hostages with him, taking them “over the mountains to eight miles north of Kyamba” (at a location known as Kyeamba Gap). There he held up two buggies, one belonging to Mr. Manson and his wife from Beechworth and the other driven by two young men. After robbing the occupants, he then “conversed freely for some hours, detailing his various exploits at great length, and dwelling particularly upon the murder of M’Ginnerty and Smyth, at which he made no attempt at concealment”. He spoke of three men “whom he was determined to shoot before ‘retiring from business’”. The men named were “Mr. M’Kenzie, late of Mundarloo; Mr. M’Laurin, of Yarra Yarra; and Sergeant Carroll”, each of whom “he expressed himself determined to revenge”. After Manson and his wife were allowed to depart the mail coach to Albury arrived, but “being very light” Morgan “allowed it to pass after a merely formal examination”. Shortly afterwards the mail coach coming from Albury arrived. Morgan ordered the driver to stop, but when this was not instantly complied with “he fired a shot at him to bring him to”. He then made the driver “hold the horses heads, while he ransacked the mails”. Morgan’s Outrage at Kyamba, Illustrated Sydney News, 16 January 1865, page 9. Two days later two hawkers named Knight and Shane were stuck up by Morgan near ‘Pulletop’ station (west of Kyeamba) and robbed of £60 worth of liquor and gold nuggets,