Captain Moonlite

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Another episode down under: Andrew George Scott is best remembered to history as the enigmatic “Captain Moonlite”, and the story of his short but eventful life is a fascinating tale of personal conscience, colonialism, and criminality. Born in Ireland, he was taken by his family to New Zealand, became a military man, attempted to become a priest, robbed a bank, toured as an inspirational speaker, held up a sheep station, and requested to be buried in the arms of his lover.

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SOURCES:

Paul Terry, In Search of Captain Moonlite: Bushranger, Conman, Warrior, Lunatic (Allen & Unwin, 2013)

Stephan Williams, The Wantabadgery Bushrangers: A Partial Study (Popinjay Publications, 1991)

themonthly.com.au/november-2015/essays/queer-b…

queergoldfields.au

Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix (freemusicarchive.org/music/Yan_Terrien/Piano_L…) by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner. (soundcloud.com/oswellm)