For almost four months, from 9 September 1940 until his capture near Orbost in Victoria on 20 December 1940, Allan Torney, a 29-year-old sleeper cutter, an escapee from the Kenmore Mental Hospital in Goulburn, NSW, led a campaign 'of petty robbery, gunplay, and terrorisation through some of the ... loneliest forest roads' in southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria. Initially dubbed the 'Butcher's Ridge Food Bandit', he soon became known as the...
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