Bushranger Wild Scotchman retains ‘heroic aura’ after almost 160 years

You may never have heard of the bushranger dubbed the Wild Scotchman, but he is Queensland’s own Ned Kelly with a record of brazen robberies and even an infamous prison break.

James Alpin McPherson is the man behind the reputation.

He is widely touted as the state’s only bushranger, known to the…