All About Thunderbolt
I have included this article which appeared in the local paper in June 1910 simply because of the reference to Thunderbolt.
Everyone living during the time of Thunderbolt’s “reign” either knew him, knew of him, or had had a run in with him, and family stories abound from many Tamworthians. Frederick Wordsworth Ward was born in 1835 and was the son of a convict. Ward gave himself the bush ranging name of Captain Thunderbolt during December 1863 and he operated in the New England area of New South Wales until his death in May 1870.
My family also had a link to Thunderbolt. It wasn’t my grand parents Edward and Ines Bailey, that I normally post about, but one of my great grandmothers, who was held up by Thunderbolt and had to hand over a 1 pound note! ( but that’s another story!) The incident about my great grandmother has been documented by a number of local historians and family historians. The McCrossin’s Mill in Uralla, (near Tamworth) New South Wales, has an excellent display relating to Thunderbolt, and the massive Thunderbolts Rock (his hide out) still sits beside the highway between Tamworth and Uralla. I have visited it many times over the years.
Source:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article156583665
The Keeper of Stories 
That’s cool! Like a Wild West story in the US.