Richfield Reaper | 1931-06-11 | Page 9 | Days of '49

days of 49 the term sydney ducks was applied to bands of criminals who operated in san francisco in the early nineteenth century they consisted mostly of undesirable elements especially from the penal colonies of new south wales australia aralia of which sydney Is the ca capital p they were an idle dissipated set and in the spring of 1849 formed an organization known as the regulators supposedly to protect the weak from the strong thay developed into a band of robbers their headquarters being a large tent in the plaza from which they issued every night on their tarpons eventually the citizens banded bande Thin abo 1101 selves deiv ea to gother and expelled them theat