JOHN LYNCH, AXE MURDERER

On 22 April 1842, an Irish-born axe murderer and serial killer, John Lynch, was hanged at Berrima Gaol.
I wonder if Jimmy Governor knew about him and was trying to outdo him?
Lynch was believed at the time to have murdered nine adults and children, but he confessed to 10.
He also, like Jimmy Governor, raped a young girl.
His alias was 'Dunleavy'.

113 YEARS LATER

On 20 July 2013 it will be 113 years since Jimmy Governor led a murderous attack on members of the NSW Mawbey family on their farm at Breelong.

1908 SYDNEY COAT OF ARMS

 

 

This 1908 Coat of Arms for the City of Sydney is interesting.

It features images of the First Fleet used by the British government in 1788 to transport its first convicts to the penal colony of New South Wales.

An Aboriginal man and a British sailor stand on equal footing, but do the words of the motto, "I take, but I surrender", apply to both, or just the white man?

And what exactly does this mean?