The Kenniffs took up a nomadic life, riding armed through the district, they continued to steal cattle and horses and held up a general store at Yuleba.

A police posse set out consisting of Constable George Doyle, Albert Dahlke (the manager of Carnarvon Station), and Sam Johnson (an Aboriginal tracker).

On the morning of Sunday 30 March 1902, the police party surprised the Kenniffs, who were camping at Lethbridge's Pocket, and took James into custody but Patrick managed to escape.

[4] The Kenniff brothers were committed for trial to the Supreme Court in Brisbane, for the wilful murder of Constable George Doyle and Albert Dahlke.

Doyle's Aboriginal tracker, Sam Johnson, did not see the actual murders, but he testified that he heard shooting and, when he neared the arrest scene, the Kenniffs pursued him, but he escaped.

Joe Lesina, a Labour Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Clermont, spoke at the concert saying the evidence was not strong enough to hang the two men.

[10] Despite a number of public meetings and deputations to the Queensland Governor to postpone Patrick Kenniff's execution,[11][12][13] he was hanged on 12 January 1903 at the Boggo Road Gaol.

[18] A 1981 play, The Execution of Steele Rudd by Australian playwright Harry Reade was premiered at the National Theatre at the Playhouse, Perth, directed by Stephen Barry.

[19] One of the one-hour specials included Munro's great uncles, Paddy and Jimmy Kenniff, one of whom was hanged in Brisbane jail in 1903 after being convicted of murdering a police constable and a station manager in the Carnarvon Ranges in Queensland.