Jack Crib and His Family Crew single work   poetry   "HIS father, what was he? a thief,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1849... 1849 Jack Crib and His Family Crew
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Notes

  • Published under a column titled 'Poetical Crumbs', with the epigraph: 'YES, There are rogues in New South Wales, / And knaves in royal livery./ Who can he be the bright eyed youth, / Who gives his gambling dinners, / And cash exhorts, if some say sooth, / From publicans and sinners?
  • 'Jack Crib and His Family Crew' was the cause of a successful libel case brought against Benjamin Isaacs the publisher of The Bathurst Advocate by Mr Davies the chief constable of Bathurst, which subsequently led to the demise of the The Bathurst Advocate and the formation of The Bathurst Free Press.

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