Jack_Bradshaw1

Jack Bradshaw 1 . Jack Bradshaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1846. .he was a thief and a trickster. .one of his scams involved working with a ‘Professor Bruce ‘who claimed that he could read peoples characters from the shape of their heads. Bradshaw would case out a town several days before the professor arrived and learn much about the local identities and then pass it on to him. Teaming up with two men 'Red Lance' and 'After Dark", they planned to rob a bank at Merriwa. But after mistakenly holding up the storekeeper and not the bank manager on his way to work, they panicked and escaped into the bush but in May 1880 they were finally successful, robbing the Quinindi bank of over 2000 pounds.he did in the olds home 