From the Maitland Mercury report:
A three-quarter sized violin has passed through four generations of David Harwood’s family, along with the story of how his great-grandfather found it among a stash of bushrangers’ treasures in a cave in the New England region about 140 years ago.
There is the possibility it was stolen by none other than Captain Thunderbolt.
But the violin’s story begins well before that.....
Full article by Briony Snedden available at Maitland Mercury, 20 Oct, 2011.