He was then led to the gallows without speaking a word or raising his head.[17] A different story of his execution is given in Great Bushrangers and Outlaws, a book about the history of bushranging published in 1974, which portrays Poo in a positive manner. In this version, Poo has last words, those being a request to a hospital warder that "he [does] not wish to see or speak to any of his countrymen".[20]