John Turner
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first heard Jun 2026
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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories · The Boscombe Valley Mystery - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 21 Jun 2026
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"'Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up.
You said that you wished to see me here to avoid scandal.'
"'And why did you wish to see me?'
I give you my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at the assizes.'
"'I am a dying man,' said old Turner.
"'I have had diabetes for years.
You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy.
He was a devil incarnate, I tell you that.
God keep you out of the clutches of such a man as he.
I'll tell you first how I came to be in his power.
It was in the early sixties, at the diggings.
I was a young chap then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at anything.
I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you would call over here a highway robber.
There were six of us, and we had a wild free life of it, sticking up a station from time to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings.
Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang.
One day, a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and we lay in wait for it and attacked it.
There were six troopers and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of their saddles at the first volley.
Three of our boys were killed, however, before we got the swag.
I put my pistol to the head of the wagon driver, who was this very man McCarthy.
I wished to the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his wicked little eyes fixed on my face as though to remember every feature.
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