Sam Poo is remembered as Australia’s only Chinese bushranger and a murderer, but the evidence isn’t clear

On February 3, 1865, Senior Constable John Ward of the Coonabarabran police force was coming home from Mudgee when he heard reports of a Chinese bushranger roaming central-west NSW.

Bushrangers were notorious criminals who lived in the Australian bush robbing travellers and isolated homesteads in…