“firing continued on both sides”. The others “made a skirmish” into the thick scrub but “without being able to come up to their cowardly assailants”. On returning to the tent the men “found poor Smyth insensible and bleeding profusely” with a bullet wound to his left shoulder. Smyth was taken to the station homestead and next morning driven in a dog-cart towards Ten-mile Creek for medical assistance. After a dreadful trip during which the dog-cart driver lost his way in the bush Smyth arrived at Ten-mile Creek, after which he was transferred to Albury “by easy stages”. In Albury the wounded Senior-sergeant Smyth gave evidence that he believed “Morgan had ascertained that he was on his track, and that he and some of his gang… [had] crawled through the scrub up to the tent, and, having made a survey, fired into it simultaneously”. Smyth thought there were at least three assailants. He said “all the firing occupied only a few moments” and “gives his companions credit for great courage and coolness”. Despite Smyth’s initial clarity of mind in the end his wound proved to be fatal. On three occasions “the wound had commenced bleeding afresh” and despite two doctors being “in constant attendance on him”, Thomas Smyth died on 29 September. A memorial stone honouring Senior-sergeant Thomas Smyth, with an attached plaque provided by the NSW Police Service, is located two kilometres west of Henty (on the Pleasant Hills Road). Five days after the attack on the policemen camped at ‘Doodle Coma’ Morgan had another narrow escape from the authorities. A group of four policemen sighted Morgan in the distance on “King’s Run”, adjoining Edgehill's station. Sub-Inspector Zouch, who had the freshest horse, chased Morgan towards the ‘Doodle Coma’ swamp during which the bushranger, being “hard pressed”, threw his rifle into the scrub (which proved to be the rifle he had taken from Maginnity). Once again, however, Morgan eventually managed to escape. Morgan's 'business' In late October 1864 Morgan, in company with “two or three mates”, stuck-up the ‘Yarrabee’ station (about 35 miles from Jerilderie). The occupants of the station were held hostage until the early hours of the following morning. At about 3 o’clock in the morning on 23 November 1864 the Deniliquin mail coach was stopped at the Turangelina Scrub (about 43 miles from Wagga Wagga) by “Daniel Morgan and another offender”, and robbed of the mail bags.