The Jewboy Gang
In the summer of 1839 Edward Davis formed a bushranger gang in northern New South Wales. For two years his gang maintained a reign of terror from Maitland to the New England highway, in the Hunter valley and down to Gosford.
During 1840 the gang committed numberless depredations in the Maitland and surrounding districts.
Their attire, behaviour and their gallantry to the ladies indicated that they were not hardened criminals but juvenile delinquents who considered themselves knights of the road. Davis bore curious tattoos and members of the gang wore gaudy clothes and tied pink ribbons to their horses' bridles.
The gang, except the seventh member, who escaped, was captured and taken to Sydney gaol. On 24 February 1841 the bushrangers were committed for trial at the Supreme Court, and found guilty and were sentenced to death.