The outlaw of many names

Outlaw Henry Rouse, Henry Beresford Garrett, Conrington Revingston or William Green.  And apparently so many other names that the stories attributed to them seem like movie plots.
But they are, in fact, supposed to be one man whose exploits are legend now.
He was born Henry Rouse, to Thomas and Catherine Rouse on March 18, 1818, in Bottesford, Leicester in England.  Catherine died three years after his birth and they lived with Henry’s grandmother until his father remarried.
He received little education but did train as a cooper.
In 1842, he received his first prison sentence of three months in Leicester for assaulting a gamekeeper who caught him poaching, and in 1845 was sentenced to be transported for 10 years for shop breaking.  He left England on board the Mayda with nearly 200 other convicts.
Initially he was jailed on Norfolk Island before being transferred to Tasmania.  He got into minor trouble and tried to escape at least twice.  By 1850, he was living in Victoria and calling himself Henry Garrett before moving to the Ballarat goldfields.
On October 16, 1854, Garrett and three others robbed the Bank of Victoria on Bakery Hill.  getting away with over £14,000, a fortune of several lifetimes.  Within three months Garrett and the woman he called his wife left for London where he changed gold dust into cash.  He was arrested virtually immediately - one of his accomplices had turned Queen’s evidence.  By now he was using the name Henry Beresford Garrett.
He was returned to Melbourne, tried and sentenced to 10 years hard labour.
On his release in 1861, he came to New Zealand heading to the Otago goldfields but it wasn’t long before he and some companions carried out a highway robbery, pocketing £400 after overhearing some men boasting about how much gold they were carrying.  Garrett immediately fled to Sydney.   He was again arrested and returned to Dunedin where he was jailed for eight years.  He tried escaping but his plan was foiled.
On his release he was returned to Australia who didn’t want him and promptly returned him to New Zealand.  He worked as a cooper honestly for a while but was caught burgling a seed merchant in 1868.
He received another 10 years, served it and was released only to caught thieving ending up in the Wellington Mount Cook gaol where he was a trusted worker - laying the rail for the jail tram.
He fell ill however and was moved to The Terrace jail where he died aged 72 of chronic bronchitis at midnight on September 3, 1885.
However not all the stories attributed to him can have been him.  Despite the name Codrington Revingston being said to be Garrett that seems unlikely.  Garrett was in prison during at least one of the robberies Revingston is supposed to have done.  Nevertheless the myth has stuck.
During his many years in prison, Garrett wrote about the conditions, and about one of the administrators John Gillies Price who he called the Demon for his violence towards prisoners, and a recollection of convict life in Norfolk Island and Victoria.  Garrett witnessed the murder of Price who was beaten to death by the prisoners he treated so cruelly.
Garrett is buried at the Bolton St Cemetery.