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Ben Hall's Theories

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Ben Hall at the close of 1864, had returned to the district that he knew so well and caught up with old friends and news of the goings-on in his old stomping ground and visited Thomas Higgins proprietor of the 'Dog and Duck' hotel on the outskirts of Forbes and who years before when Hall was a boy attended to Hall's severely broken leg and a man respected by Hall, after Hall's visit the three bushrangers arrive at The Newell's hotel at Bandon and without fear of police capture relax and stay the night. The Newell's were close friends of Ben Hall as Agnes Newell was the sister of Ben Hall's great chum Daniel Charters, here Hall may have appraised news of his good friend who by this time was believed to be under police protection at Sydney. Below

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