But it didn't take long for Lynch to forget about his "honest new start" and lapse back into crime. "At Razorback Mountain," Lynch said, "I met a cove named Ireland and fell in with him."

Ireland was traveling with a black (aboriginal) boy, and together they were driving a full bullock team and its load of wheat, bacon and other produce to Sydney to deliver it for its owner, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, who was a stranger to Lynch.

"It seemed to me," said Lynch in his confession, "that it