During the night Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire set his bullock team free. "My team appears to have strayed," Lynch told the Frazers in the morning. "I'll have to go home and fetch another one. Meanwhile I'd better hide the dray. Could you give me a hand."

The unsuspecting Frazers were only too happy to assist John Lynch in his scheme to murder and rob them. After the three men had hidden the dray, Lynch said, "I helped them hitch their horses to their cart and we drove out of Bargo Brush.