Frederick Cranley
Bushranger whose short career ended in a fatal shootout at Bendemeer.
Frederick William Cranley was a bushranger in the Colony of New South Wales, Australia. He was said to have been born in the East Indies and worked near Tamworth as a fencer. In 1877 he and Stephen Ware Wonnocott began bushranging, but their career ended when they robbed W. C. Avery's Telegraph Hotel in Bendemeer. Cranley was fatally shot by Constable Edward Mostyn Webb-Bowen.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Frederick William Cranley
- Born
- c. 1847
- Died
- 14 July 1877
- Place of death
- Bendemeer, Colony of New South Wales
- Occupation
- Fencer
- Companion
- Stephen Ware Wonnocott
- Killed by
- Constable Edward Mostyn Webb-Bowen
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