A week after the Euroa robbery, Joe was reported to have been seen playing billiards at the hotel by a young man who was ‘well acquainted’ with him. It was stated by the man that Joe was ‘in close conversation with one of the Lloyd family’ and that ‘when he saw he was noticed, he … Continue reading Billiards at the Royal Mail
For the past three weeks we have been camped up in the Warby Ranges, with a moss eaten cave becoming our home. The weather up here is nothing like it is down among the plains. The winds that flog the mountain side are unrelenting in their torment and not a day goes by when a … Continue reading Sardines and Salted Beef
According to a report from December 1878, Joe was seen playing billiards in Wangaratta by a man who knew him. 'I saw a resident of Wangaratta today who is quite positive, from what he heard at the time, that Joseph Byrne, one of the gang, was in a public billiard-room in that township one evening … Continue reading The Billiard Playing Bushranger
An Outlaw’s Journal 