sentences:  St Kilda Road robberies
  
  In the years following the Victorian gold rush which began in 1851, St Kilda Road, a long track through the southern suburbs to St Kilda and on to Brighton, was the scene of frequent hold-ups by armed bandits, known in Australia as bushrangers (though this was normally applied to bandits in the country side, rather than uncleared areas of scrub along a fairly busy city road).One of the most infamous took place in the afternoon of 16th October 1852, when 19 people were robbed and tied up together at a spot near Glenhuntly Road, later depicted in William Strutt's "Bushrangers on the St Kilda Road", painted more than 30 years later in 1887 (now held by the Ian Potter Museum of Art).