'''Search party to the Warby Ranges'''
Police responded to the murders by sending out many search parties ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 6 page 1|CHC]])
Insp [[Brooke Smith|Brook Smith]] was criticied strongly by the Royal Commission for not following up on reports that the [[../K_kellys/K_KellyGang.html|'''KellyGang''']]had passed under the One Mile Bridge at Wangaratta at about 4am on the morning of [[ev78-10--4Mansfield Murders|3/11/1878]] and headed into the [[Warby Ranges|Warby Ranges]].
Sup [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] got together a party of police and struck across from [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] by Glenrowan, under the Warby ranges to near [[Lake Rowan|Lake Rowan]]. He had one or two trackers with him, and he expected to get any tracks the '''KellyGang''' might have made on the way from Euroa to some of their old haunts. The police did find a track which was quite fresh during the previous night or very early that morning, but the trackers just led them perhaps twenty or thirty yards, and would not or could not follow it any further. Sadleir went in with some of the constables into the scrub ahead of where the tracks were stopped, in case there was any ambush there, but there was no use trying to work the tracker; they could get him to go no further. The police wanted to get to a farm house near Lake Rowan, to a friend of the Kellys. ([[Royal Commission report day 11 page 3|RC2011]])
On [[ev78-12--2Euroa Robbery|12/12/1878]] a police search party was sent into the Strathbogie ranges. Nicolson was too sick to go out with them.([[Royal Commission report day 2 page 17|RC553]])([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 1|CHC]])see also ([[The Argus at KellyGang 14/12/1878|Argus14/12/78]]) ([[The Argus at KellyGang 14/12/1878 (3)|Argus14/12/78]]) ([[The Argus at KellyGang 18/12/1878 (2)|Argus18/12/78]]) ([[The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 21/12/1878|Alexandra21/12/1878]])([[The Argus at KellyGang 2712/1878 (2)|Argus27/12/78]])
A party of police were put on [[Ryan's Creek|Ryan]]'s Creek, at [[Samaria|Samaria]] and on the boundary between [[Tatonga|Tatong]] and [[Kilfera|Kilfera]] in [[ev78-12--2Euroa Robbery|January 1879]] after the [[../../things/K_kellys/K_KellyGang.html|'''KellyGang''']] had been cited at [[Greta|Greta]]. They were to watch at night. ([[Royal Commission report day 11 page 4|RC2030]])
== Autum 1879 ==
Sup [[Hare|Hare]] formed a search party, about eight or nine mounted police with two or three pack-horses. They carried hammocks, some provisions and cooking utensils. He described how they used to work in the thick bushy country. They put a man who knew the country in the centre, and they would, from that centre, extend a line as far as they could according to the nature of the country, in the thick country leaving a distance of about ten yards from the first man, the next man ten yards from him, and so through all the men from right to left. As the country became open, they would leave a longer distance between, say 50 or 100 yards, and so search the whole country for miles and miles without being heard or making a noise, which was an important thing to observe. In going up steep mountains and gullies (and the ranges were very steep) they used to ride with the leading man about twenty yards ahead of the second man, which was generally Hare or the other leader. The police kept in a line, so that if an attack was made only one man would be killed, and the others could come up immediately. ([[Royal Commission report day 6 page 6|RC1285]]) See also ([[The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 1|FH]]) ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 14 page 2|CHC]])
Sup [[Hare|Hare]] took a search party to [[Cleary|Clearys]] around [[events 1879-05/ 1879-07at KellyGang|25/5/1879]] (RC1285)