On the morning of 14 September 1861 Mr. O’Sullivan, on his way from Marengo to Cowra, was bailed up by armed men, one of whom was “supposed to have been the notorious Peisley”. O’Sullivan was taken into the bush and robbed.Burrangong, New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney), 19 September 1861 (Issue No. 74), page 2.
