[4] The Lowry family eventually settled in the Young district inland of the Great Dividing Range, which had seen increasingly dense settlement since the early 1830s.

Fred Lowry, using aliases such as Frederick McGregor and Samuel Barber, was described as the gang's "travelling agent or man of business", who had established an overland trade in horses between the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee districts.

[9] In early July 1858, after information was received of the gang's whereabouts in the Weddin mountains, a party of police from Cowra and several volunteers set out in pursuit.

[12] On their journey from the Weddin mountains to Bathurst the police patrol stopped for the night at King's Plains (near Blayney) and their two prisoners were placed in separate cells in the local lock-up.

In the middle of the night the lock-up keeper, Constable Leonard, entered Sarah's cell and "made improper overtures to her, which she indignantly repulsed".

On Sunday, 14 September 1862, the mail contractor, William Weston, was stuck-up by two armed men at a location called the Black Swamp, two miles from Wilson's inn between Cassilis and Mudgee.

[17][18][19] On 20 September 1862 Fred Lowry (alias Boyd) and two others stuck up Mr. Lawrence and his men at 'Wilpingong' station near Reedy Creek (north of Rylstone) and robbed them of £29 in notes, a cheque and "two silver hunting watches".

[20] On 2 October 1862 William Todd's store on the Fish River was held up by armed men and robbed of cash totalling about £50 (the number of offenders was initially reported as two).

[25] A race meeting was held on New Year's Day 1863 at a race-course on Daniel McGuirk's land in the Brisbane Valley, south-west of Oberon near the Native Dog Creek diggings.

A newspaper report of Lowry's capture made the following comments: "There are several charges of robbery against him, and his apprehension will be a source of gratification to the inhabitants of the district, to whom he has long been a terror and a pest".

He was initially taken before Foran, lying wounded in a precarious state at McDonald's public-house, where depositions were taken, after which he was removed to the Court House before the bench of magistrates where other witnesses were examined.

[33] Mid-morning on Tuesday, 24 February 1863, Fred Lowry "forcibly entered" the public-house of Cornelius Hewett, a publican at Grabben Gullen (south-west of Crookwell) armed with a butcher's knife.

[34] Just before dawn on Wednesday, 6 May 1863, four horsemen later identified as members of the Gardiner-Hall gang passed through the township of Bowning, north-west of Yass, riding at a leisurely pace.

The men were mounted on "fine upstanding horses" and each man had a brace of Colt revolvers in his belt and a double-barrelled gun slung from the saddle.

[39][40] A day or two after the shooting John Gilbert was reportedly "carousing" at a public-house a few miles from Young and was proudly showing a "handsome revolver" he had taken "from a ----- trap in fair fight".

[41] On the early afternoon of 3 July 1863 Cobb and Co.'s coach was bailed up by two armed men within a quarter of an hour of its departure from Goulburn, still within sight of the township and less than a mile from the police barracks.

[50] On 3 August 1863 seventeen residents of the Fish River district signed a letter sent to their local parliamentary representative, William Cummings, the member for East Macquarie in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

The letter also claimed that John Foley and Fred Lowry (described as "a most notorious nest of Highway Robbers") were "living publicly on this road having recently built stabling, house, etc.

[51] Early on Saturday morning, 29 August 1863, four policemen arrived at the Limerick Races Inn, Thomas Vardy's public-house on Cook's Vale Creek about 20 miles north of Crookwell.

[47][52] Leaving Sanderson in charge of the prisoner Stephenson and Detective Camphin proceeded to the room in which Lowry had stayed, where they found Larry Cummins, who was brought to the yard and handcuffed.

Senior-sergeant Stephenson also arrested the publican, Thomas Vardy, his two step-sons and three others who were on the premises, all of them later charged with "harbouring bushrangers and with being accessory to robberies after the fact".

The jury added the following statement to their verdict: "That it is our opinion that great praise is due to senior-sergeant Stephenson, for his active, judicious, and courageous conduct on the occasion".

[56] In October the Board of Directors of the Australian Joint Stock Bank voted to grant an amount of £400 (in addition to £100 already paid) for "the capture of Lowry and Foley, the robbers of the Mudgee mail... for distribution among the men, whose excellent conduct entitles them to reward".

[58] In December 1863 a testimonial was held at Goulburn honouring Sub-inspector Stephenson, where he was presented with an inscribed silver salver and purse of sovereigns raised by public subscription.

Several respected tradesmen were summoned to answer for having the notes in their possession, but the "high-handed action of the police and bank authorities" led to ill-feelings in the community.

[61] In November 1863 a man named William Slattery was drinking at Robert Dunsmore's public-house at Dirty Swamp (now Locksley), on the Fish River south-east of Bathurst.

", was in no doubt about the intent of the bushranger's words: "by showing that he died 'game', and in a manner consistent with the lawless life which provoked such a death, [Lowry] thought he should obtain praise and fame of those whose associate he was, and be talked of more as a hero than as a ruffian".

[65] The characterisation of "Tell 'em I died game" as Fred Lowry's last words was fashioned by George E. Boxall in his history of the Australian bushrangers, first published in 1899.

[70] The lyrics were remembered by Kevin Hotham, who had grown up in the village of Black Springs, the locality where Lowry's partner in crime, John Foley, had lived for his remaining years after his release from gaol in the mid-1870s.

[70] In the ensuing gunfight Lowry keeps the troopers at bay for an hour and a half; at length he is wounded "near the heart" from a "coward's aim" (significantly different from the historical version of events).