Francis McNeiss McNeil McCallum (Captain Melville) (c. 1823 – 10 August 1857) was a Scottish-born Australian notorious bushranger during the early part of the Victorian Gold Rush in Australia.
During 1852 as Captain Melville he was alleged to have led a large band of bushrangers on the roads in the Black Forest between Melbourne and Bendigo, and gained a folkloric reputation through the boldness of his outrages and the chivalry he showed to many, especially women.
On Christmas Eve 1852, when under the alias of Thomas Smith, he and fellow bushranger William Robert Roberts were arrested at a brothel in Corio Street, Geelong, and eventually faced Judge Redmond Barry at the Geelong Circuit Court on 3 February 1853 on three counts of robbery.
Sentenced to death but overturned because all prisoners involved all claimed that Stephens stuck the killer blow thus creating doubt.
[4] There was a handkerchief about two yards in length twisted very tightly around his neck, the first turn being made as a slip knot.