Convict-turned-bushranger Moondyne Joe an unlikely hero celebrated in Toodyay

On the first Sunday of May each year, the streets of a small town in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt are transformed into scenes from the 1860s to celebrate an unlikely hero: an escape artist and bushranger nicknamed Moondyne Joe.

The legend of Moondyne Joe, born Joseph Bolitho Johns, lives on in…