![]() Uncle at one point can be overheard telling a story of how he once saw Mac single-handed beat up fifteen sailors in a brawl.Ī comment by Bill Williamson in a conversation with Uncle indicates that Mac, while he may have seemed at the surface to be a brutal ruffian, in reality was a much more layered and complex person: Williamson tries to express that complexity by describing Mac with the seemingly contradictory formula that Mac was "a heartless son of a bitch, but he had a heart". ![]() Similarly Hosea Matthews at one point mentions, that once, when the gang got into some minor trouble in a town named Deer Creek, "Mac went crazy, threatened to kill the whole town". Mac and his brother Davey were two criminals who joined Dutch van der Linde's gang at some point prior to 1898.Īccording to Charles Smith, both Callander brothers were rather wild and violent men.
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