After some extensive research into the relationship which reputedly existed between John Dunn and Margaret (Peggy) Monks, where it is has been alleged that the two were romantically involved, is one of pure conjecture and not bound in fact. Margaret Monks attended the 26th December, 1864, Binda, NSW, party held at the Flag Hotel and consequently was already in attendance at the time of Ben Hall, Gilbert and John Dunn’s arrival and rounded up the town and hotel patrons as hostages for the evenings well publicize ball and was not as has been espoused, at the unfortunate Morris' store where her sister Ellen and Christina McKinnon were looking at various cloths when the bushrangers bailed up Morris. It was reported that Margaret had worked for
