a darkly troubled man with manners which white brothers found impossible to put up with

– The Bulletin’s obituary for Jack Marsh


hewitt & jones

            were charged

& found not guilty
            an eyewitness claimed

they jumped jack marsh

            outside  the pool room 
of the royal hotel

            (though the eyewitness

refused to come forward 
            during the trial)

marsh was dragged across

            the road 
& left against a tree

            in robinson park

his last words
            “how many more are coming”

called for chucking

            after bowling victor trumper 
for one marsh continued

            to bowl with his elbow

plastered to prove it didn’t
extend during delivery

            the english refused to face

him – too fast
            or too black

equalled the world record

            for 100 yards 
but no records

                   were kept of a bundjalung man

who no one could beat


DEATH OF JACK MARSH.

ORANGE, Sunday.

At the inquest into the cause of the death of Jack Marsh, a one time champion runner and fast bowler,

who died on Friday evening May 26, the coroner found that Marsh was killed, and committed John Henry

Hewitt,bookmaker, and Walter Stone, bookmaker’s clerk, who had been charged with feloniously killing

Marsh, to stand their trial at the next Orange Quarter Sessions. SMH Monday June 5th 1916.