his loss. Based on his evidence at the magisterial inquiry questions have been raised about Constable Churchley’s role in the affray, leading to accusations of cowardice on his part. Three months after Maginnity’s death Churchley was found to be absent from his post at Ten-mile Creek after he had visited a local hotel while he was supposed to be on guard duty. He was suspended and convicted of neglect of duty and fined £5. The location where the police sergeant was killed is known locally as Maginnity’s Gap. As soon as the details of Sergeant Maginnity’s death became known the New South Wales government offered a reward of one thousand pounds “for such information as will lead to… the apprehension of Daniel Morgan” who had been “charged with the commission of numerous and serious offences, and has hitherto eluded the efforts to apprehend him”. The notification also detailed a reward of one hundred pounds “for such information as will lead to the conviction of any person or persons for harboring, assisting, or maintaining the above named offender”. On July 3 the policemen, Sergeant Carroll and constables Horrigan and Dalziel, were riding through part of Charles Edgehill's station (north-west of Henty) when in the distance they caught sight of a man galloping away from “an old hut” occupied by the Corcoran family. This aroused the suspicions of the police, knowing Morgan was likely to be in the district. The police gave chase and engaged in an extended pursuit through the bush on the adjoining 'Wallandool' station, during which Morgan’s identity was confirmed. At one stage Carroll managed to fire his revolver at Morgan, but the bushranger eventually escaped. The woman at Corcoran’s hut “alleged ignorance of Morgan”, stating the man that the police had seen leaving “was a perfect stranger to them”. On the night of 4 September 1864 four policemen from Albury, Senior-sergeant Thomas Smyth and three constables, were encamped at the swamp on Thomas Keighran’s ‘Doodle Coma’ run near Henty. Their tent had an open front before which a fire had been made and at about nine o’clock the men were “lying and resting on the ground inside the tent”. Suddenly a simultaneous volley of bullets was fired into the tent, “both from the opening and through the back”. The policemen jumped to their feet and rushed outside. Smyth and Constable Connors returned fire into the darkness and the