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Hall led a raid on
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The bushrangers drew straws to see who should blow the lock of the door open. The loser was Mick Bourke who was accidentally shot by a comrade. In his pain he asked to be put out of his misery and Ben Hall did so.
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Keightley in revenge for Bourke but Hall refuses to do so. Hall and his men spend the night at the homestead.
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to collect the money from her father at the bank. She manages to accomplish this just before the bushrangers are about to shoot
Keightley, and Hall leaves the homestead with the Keightleys alive.
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in 1911, their first motion picture production in
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and Rick Burke hide out at their camp at the Black Stump, close to
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called the film "a .capital representation of the play, which portrays a striking and thrilling episode in the career of Ben Hall."
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