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  • ...r the marks were caused by the rifle fire at Glenrowan on the night of the capture, or by the bushrangers practicing with their pistols. But the holes were th
    5 KB (909 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...may be quite true, of course. The subsequent inquiry into the pursuit and capture of the gang, by a Royal Commission, resulted in reports very damaging to th
    5 KB (863 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...r who made them burn my place down. They hadn't the courage to rush it and capture the Kellys.
    4 KB (649 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • Of course, the pursuit and capture of the outlaws was the principle task undertaken by Sergeant Steele in all
    5 KB (802 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...a lock-up keeper down there who was very anxious to get the reward for the capture of the Kellys. One night someone told him that a man had been seen climbing
    4 KB (705 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • Most of the people who took prominent part in the hunting and ultimate capture of the Kelly bushrangers have gone to that bourne where the wicked cease fr
    5 KB (930 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • (The failure of the police to follow and capture the Kellys at this stage is strongly commented on in the Royal Commission r
    5 KB (859 words) - 23:51, 20 November 2015
  • The capture of Jerilderie and looting of the bank of New South Wales there (£3000 was
    5 KB (832 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...ir capture. Rewards amounting to four thousand pounds were offered for the capture of the four outlaws. The New South Wales Government offered another thousan
    3 KB (514 words) - 23:51, 20 November 2015
  • Evidence as to the shooting and capture of Ned Kelly was given by [[SConst John Kelly|Senior-constable Kelly]], who
    3 KB (539 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...enjoy a real good time in satirically criticising their futile efforts to capture those notorious outlaws the Kellys. Not once during the three weeks of his
    4 KB (711 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...Beresford [[Mount Battery|Turner]] furnishes the following account of his capture by the Kelly outlaws-
    3 KB (556 words) - 20:58, 20 November 2015
  • ...ble end - burnt to cinders - and all that sort of thing. We heard of Ned's capture, and were for taking to the bush again; but the old shepherd made us promis
    6 KB (1,027 words) - 23:51, 20 November 2015
  • ...ested persons kept adding fuel to the fire. In writing this account of the capture and destruction of the Last of the Victorian Bushrangers, I have endeavoure ...line of railway between Melbourne and Sydney, as the last resource for the capture of four men, who for the previous two years had set law, order, the governm
    7 KB (1,223 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...smith to knock off the irons, and got clear into another colony. After the capture of Meakin, Dr. Mackay presented me with a handsome gold watch, which I have Presented to Lieutenant Francis Hare for his gallant capture of an armed bushranger at Tarrawingee, the 23rd of June, 1856 .
    7 KB (1,336 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...l parts of the colony, and sent into the district he frequented to try and capture him.
    6 KB (1,150 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • The Government had offered a reward of £500 for the capture of Power, and my brother officer offered this tempting bait to L-. The man
    10 KB (1,856 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...and he always rode splendid horses (of course, stolen property). After his capture I was a good deal with him. I drove him to Beechworth in my buggy, and he t ...ever saw again after leaving him at the hollow tree the morning of Power's capture. I had letters from him, and paid the £500 reward promised to him, to a ge
    8 KB (1,463 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...ill fated party of police in the Wombat Ranges, in October 1878, until the capture and death of the bushrangers at Glenrowan, in June 1880, are still too fres
    4 KB (698 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...olice could not lay their hands on them, although every effort was made to capture them.
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