Up the Country: A Saga of Pioneering Days

Logan and Burn were tried at Goulburn. The case aroused tremendous interest throughout New South Wales and Victoria, and anyone of any importance in the Maneroo and Bool Bool districts was there. The hotels were packed and the town as lively as a beehive.

In summing up at the end of the trial, the judge referred to the specially high character of the witnesses that had appeared. There was Simon Labosseer and his lovely little wife, the latter of whom all eves sought out. The cultivated accents of Dr James, carefully kept sober, were most impressive, and Mrs Millburn, in rustling black silk, was convincingly respectable and refined. The native-born maids of Eueurunda were as pretty and perky as you please, and the English cook presented a solid character. Tom Stapleton was there too, or, more correctly, he was in heaven, being yarded among the witnesses and in constant contact with Miss Emily, who wrung him by the hand in her excitement and delight. Tom was wearing his striped suit, still with the talismans of the hairpin and pressed rose in his vest pocket. The most important witness was Bert, or, as he had become in the press, Herbert Poole, Esq., son of James Poole, Esq. of Curradoobidgee, one of the earliest and most highly respected settlers in the Maneroo district. In fact, had Bert desired two "ees" to conclude his surname, they would have been readily accorded him.