Moondyne Joe

Biography

Joseph Bolitho Johns (c. February 1826 – 13 August 1900), better known as Moondyne Joe, was a Cornish-Welsh convict and Western Australia's best-known bushranger. Born into poor and relatively difficult circumstances, he became something of a petty criminal robber with a strong sense of self-determination. He is remembered as a person who had escaped multiple times from prison.