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  • ...t the '''KellyGang''' show you the places where they found safety from the law in the bush.
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  • '''Teen age years''' '''First run ins with the law''' '''Fitzpatrick Incident 15/04/1878''' '''Gold mining'''
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  • ...’, the police felt that it would be futile to hope for a full measure of law and order in the district. The [[KellyGang|Kellys]] themselves were well kn
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  • ...able reputation as being a vicious, cunning little sneak, in addition to a law breaker. James Kelly, Ned’s other brother, who took no part in their more ...ht never have been committed, for Flood was feared as well as hated by the law breakers, and during his term at Greta he had some of the Kelly family near
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  • ...ed them, found [[William Skillion|Skillion]], one of Mrs Kelly’s sons in law, with his own horse, leading the other from which the saddle and bridle had
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  • ...justice of the peace to be further dealt with and disposed of according to law. Crown Law Offices, Melbourne , November 15, 1878.
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  • ...y was to obtain proof of any act committed by them in contravention of the law. It was quite certain, for instance, that Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion,
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  • ...le relatives, while injustice was winning over others from the side of the law to theirs.
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  • ...d have been glad to see the Kellys caught, but an abstract respect for the law was not sufficient to make them run risks of having their lives taken, or t
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  • ...ace of them. Other trouble with the agents arose through the zeal of a few law abiding persons and some of the police, unaware of their vocation. [[Aaron
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  • ...o the house. [[Mrs Ellen Barry|Mrs Barry]], the murdered man’s mother in law, knelt upon the floor beside him and saw that he was dying, while her daugh
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  • ...and he suggested that it would be wise to take his (Curnow’s) brother in law, Dave Mortimer, to the barracks to call Bracken out, since the constable wo
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  • ...innocent civilians was hard to explain away or forgive, and to friends of law and order the story of Glenrowan was scarcely more a source of satisfaction
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  • ...e few spectators, some of whom doubtless had their own grudges against the law, while others merely felt involuntary compassion for a man helpless and fal
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  • ...e regard for him, as her courageous assistance to the gang, in defiance of law, had often witnessed; but, stronger than love or grief, was a desire for th
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  • ...ns they have most fully expiated. In their case the supreme majesty of the law has been vindicated. The dignity of the authority that they defied has been
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  • ...y, the chieftain of that gang of desperadoes that for a long time held all Law and Administration at bold defiance and laughed so long and successfully at
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  • ...ut excuse at all. If they had been trying to provoke the boys to break the law and retaliate they could not have done more than they did, and I firmly bel
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  • ...ckoned who even in these days of sublime conformity with the principles of law and order, takes a good horse into that country - and takes it out again.
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  • ...rs and excellent citizens had the police not goaded them into breaking the law. Much of which may be quite true, of course. The subsequent inquiry into th
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  • ...ere was trouble over a saddle, and as a result Aaron rode to his father-in-law's place, four miles away, to see Jack about it. Jack, it appears, saw him c
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  • " 'Because they were breaking the law' I answered.
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  • ...ing to bush young Kelly grew more and more irritable under the curb of the law - as en forced in those days - it was not, on the whole surprising. ...hat had not been lent, and to collect the reward, was not permitted by the law, and was discouraged by the police. But he had been taught from birth to ho
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  • ...presented by these four desperate young men calmly setting at defiance all law and authority, and their administration.
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  • ...g and clever as to compel admiration even amongst the warmest believers in law and order. But the matter presented other and more disquieting features. Th
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  • ...last act of the drama emerged from the gaol, and it became known that the law had been vindicated, and Ned Kelly was no more. ...of his experiences in France, where the guillotine is the finisher of the law. He described in graphic detail the decapitation of three men he had witnes
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  • ...pitched into him, and we had a "rough and tumble." A limb of the law, having seen the affair, summoned us, and we were both fined for a breach o
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  • ...his return with the liquor, but I did not wish to take life, although the law would have justified me in doing so. Byrne and his confederates being outla
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  • ...try and blame me for causing the trouble that led to the gang defying the law.
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  • "One night, when Praetorians, under martial law regulations, had long retired to rest, I was aroused by a knock at the door
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  • ...source for the capture of four men, who for the previous two years had set law, order, the government, and police at absolute defiance.
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  • ...we were allowed to go free. I could give many instances of the iniquitous law of arresting diggers because they had not taken out a licence; but I have g
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  • ...purchase, eyeing the gun, nevertheless, as if it were a doubtful point of law, of whose possible consequences he was exceedingly dubious. Another member
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  • ...;My good woman, are there any snakes, about here?" She replied, "Law, sir, the place is stiff with them. They have been carting in a supply of w
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  • ...are you ? and who are those?' pointing to my wife, sister, and brother-in-law. I told him. He then said, 'Where are you going?' I answered, 'Out for a dr ...r them, and declared that he could and would find them out. He said that a law was made rendering it a crime for any one to help them (the outlaws), and t
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  • ...I thought it would be better for him to take Dave Mortimer, my brother in law, to call Bracken out, because Bracken knew his voice well, and by hearing i ...d, I found that we were accompanied by Ned Kelly, Byrne, and my brother in law, each on horseback, and by a Mr E Reynolds and R Gibbins on foot, both of w
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  • ...ot off his horse, and fastened him to a fence near, ordering my brother-in-law to do the same, and he did so. Kelly then ordered him to advance to the bar ...by, and my sister would be murdered. I wanted to take them to my mother in law’s farm, about one-third of a mile from our place, for safety, while I was
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  • ...deceased's mother in law, and identify the body as that of my late son in law. I was at Aaron Sherritt's house on Saturday last, and was present at his d
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  • ...of time, energy, or even life will be allowed to stand in the way when the law has to be upheld by the Executive. To the wisdom of such a policy let this
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  • ...f the police force originated from similar stock, and, as upholders of the law, their display of authority in the circumstances was sometimes a very regre
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  • ...ited resentment of oppression, the Kellys developed a bitter hatred of the law as it was then administered, and herein lay the origin of their subsequent
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  • ...of the gang appears to have had the least provocation for defiance of the law. While still in his 'teens he was intimately associated with [[Aaron Sherri
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  • ...[William Williamson, Brickey|Williamson]] and Skillion, Mrs Kelly's son-in-law, were present at the time and were armed with revolvers. No time was lost i
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  • ...o be innocent until he has been fairly tried and justly convicted, but the law and the axiom was not only violated, but also strangled by those charged wi ...a miner on the Stringybark and Kelly's Creeks, and live in defiance of the law. The perjured evidence of Fitzpatrick, the terrible sentence passed upon hi
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  • ...trick, which was false, and my mother, with an infant baby, and brother-in-law and another neighbour, were taken for aiding and abetting and attempting to
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  • ...n of a fine for wilfully destroying property, a sentence which there is no law to uphold, and yet they had to do their sentence, and their prosecutor, Mr
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  • ...etting more and more pronounced at the illegal and unlawful treatment that law-abiding citizens had been subjected to by the police, on April 22, 1879, al
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  • ...and legal, from January 4 to April 22, during which period he deprived 20 law-abiding citizens of their liberty, and destroyed the confidence of at least
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  • ...hile he accepted service with the police to betray his intended brother-in-law for “blood-money.”
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  • He met there the sister-in-law of Supt [[Nicolson|Nicolson]].  It was a case of love at first sight; but Mr Nicolson was the son-in-law of the late Hon JT Smith.
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  • ...avourite, Supt Hare, on the one side, and Supt Nicolson and his brother in law, Mr O’Connor, on the other, would materially assist the friends and sympa
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  • ...the one side, against Inspector [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and his brother in law, Supt CH Nicolson, on the other side, it was decided to get rid of the Quee ...[Felons Apprehension Act|Outlawry Act]]” the two Kellys stood before the law just the same as any other men for whose arrest warrants had been issued. 
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  • ...justice of the peace to be further dealt with and disposed of according to law.
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  • Aaron Sherritt’s mother in law — Mrs Ellen Barry — giving evidence before the Royal Commission on July
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  • ...rne, Thomas [[Thomas Curnow|Curnow]], the schoolmaster, and his brother in law, Dave Mortimer, E [[Reynolds|Reynolds]], and R Gribbons, went down to the p
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  • ...It is very evident that among those who functioned in the interests of '''Law and Order''' was a percentage of dishonest and untruthful officials. ...he was arrested, and afterwards tried, convicted and hanged by process of law, there was no legal justification for confiscating his effects, and these s
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  • ...e burning of the hotel, by Mr [[Thomas Curnow|David Mortimer]], brother in law of Mr Thomas Curnow, State school teacher, who stopped the police train:
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  • ...st the wishes of the bushrangers. Even after the shooting of the horses of law-abiding citizens, the fifty police did not consider themselves competent to
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  • ...ie and Glenrowan affairs, referred to in the depositions, and to study the law to see how far the Crown can get into them. An adjournment to next sittings
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  • ...a very responsible and dangerous duty; they were executive officers of the law, in addition to being ordinary constables, and no person had a right to sto
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  • ...against society, organised as it was for mutual protection and regard for law.
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  • ...Council met and dealt with the Ned Kelly’s case. It was decided that the law should take its course, and the date for Ned Kelly’s execution was fixed ...only to every member of the Legislative Assembly, but an affront to every law-abiding elector in the Colony. Whatever may have been the motives that prom
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  • There was evidently one law for the police and another for high-spirited civilians.
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  • One night, when Praetorians, under martial law regulations, had long retired to rest, I was aroused by a knock at the door
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  • 1. By the absence of any statute law defining the conditions under which water might be diverted from rivers, cr ...r Majesty may lawfully divert and use; while it has been laid down as good law, that Her Majesty; may not lawfully divert and use water for mining purpose
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  • ...informed him that I should settle it in accordance with the Beechworth bye-law, he declined my interference.
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  • ...a warden at once, a large body of police will be necessary to enforce the law.
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  • ...case where land has been alienated since said returns of 1861, is good in law. In such cases, he submitted, arbitrators could decide according to their c
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  • ...en when she hears what fools, gamblers, and spendthrifts we have become by law. I thought, finally, that if Mr Grant's system had not a most demoralising
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  • ...or the legal proceedings which have engaged the attention of our courts of law for a considerable time past. Lately the place has been subjected to one of
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  • ...eciate the moral effect of the presence of one of those dignitaries of the law; but we very much question whether a fortnightly visit will have sufficient
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  • ...business transacted in it as the people are honest and by no means fond of law. The fact that there is but one lawyer in the place may fully account for t
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  • ...r|place]] has received a temporary check in consequence of the jumping and law proceedings connected with the claims on the deep lead. The Working Miners'
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  • ...at intervals of three weeks at a distance of 16 miles; that therefore the Law Department be petitioned to establish a Warden’s Court and build a suitab ...at intervals of three weeks at a distance of 16 miles; that therefore the Law Department be petitioned to establish a Warden’s Court and build a suitab
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  • ...inion, still his verdicts are admitted to he invariably in accordance with law and evidence. ...result is, that they have obtained more money, established more Courts of Law, and got more J.P.'s appointed than any other district. When a Minister pas
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  • ...e of Victoria. Why should not Mansfield be the place for all our Courts of Law? And finally, why should not our potato and pumpkin-growing neighbors know
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  • ...in on the river, opposite Tumut, and was purchased before selection became law. As a sample of crops this year I may mention that Mr '''M'Gillivray''''s f
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  • "By the law of its existence, the ''Times'' never can be anything but abusive and scurr
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  • ...llowed, but without effect. Pettier has now lost his punt and its value in law expenses; and no punt has been put in its place on the river at Mulwalla si
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  • ...out of it, to what extent no one knows. Thousands of pounds were wasted in law. Sold and resold, legally and illegally, robbed and plundered in every shap
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  • ..., particularly when pronounced, as it appears to have been, in the English Law Courts and as it is spelt, viz: Wagga Wagga iu place of Wagga Wogga, or at
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  • ...y arose, and falling back upon what was perhaps the written though disused law of the church, he and his followers commenced advocating the resumption of ...e and practices of the Church of-England into conformity as far as written law was concerned with what before Dr Perry’s time was the doctrine really pr
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  • ...own bolted and barred the after dark? Stuff and nonsense ! The arm of the law is not so weak but that it can lay hold of men who sink punts or cut punt r
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  • '''Police v Lloyd'''--For cutting out the brand of a beast contrary to law. The case was brought under the 36th section Abattoirs Statute.
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  • The case was brought under the 109th section of the Criminal Law and Practice Statute.
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  • ...n Sandhurst, a strong opinion was elicited concerning the injustice of the law which compels private persons to eradicate thistles, while the Government i
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  • ...on none of the selections were there improvements of the value required by law, and that none of the Frasers had resided on their selections. On the selec
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  • ...e time in investigating this case, and he has recently sent into the Crown Law department a very voluminous report upon the subject.
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  • ...f Lands has professed to look more to the spirit than to the letter of the law. Pity it is that in this special case his judgment should have been ruled m
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  • ...this business, with half a dozen lawyers we ought to be able to get cheap law, which no doubt would be like most other cheap commodities, very dear in th
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  • ...oods and Miller, and conducted by one Thomas but, I believe, strictness of law on the manager's part, and shortness of funds on the part of the firm, prev
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  • ...urthouse''', a large stone structure. There seems 'to be a large amount of law business done here, and it being the principal court for a large district,
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  • ...ed his deserts, should have received a severe sentence at the hands of the law; but he by some means escaped what he so richly deserved for his hinaus con
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  • ...ive his consent. Arbitration was resorted to, but without any result, then law, a and between one thing and another the game was played till both parties
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  • ...out. It is of course, important to have the Appropriation Bill passed into law, but the passing of the Appropriation Bill will not make any future crisis
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  • ...whom he came in ,contact. Mr G I Clayton in the role of "Attorney at Law" did well, as did also Mr W Trenoweth as the Chirophidist's son. But i
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  • ...ts of Mrs O'C--'s shanty, and also that she was deliberately violating the law by selling without a license. Immediately the troopers mounted horse, and p ...profit, was taken from them in order to uphold the justice of an outraged law. There is not much fear of their turning informers for the Police again.--
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  • ...country ratepayers, Sir B O'Loghlen said he calculated that under the new law there would be 10,000 special jurors and 20,000 common jurors The debate on ...one, no matter to which side he belonged. The Trust had access to all the law courts of the colony, and when they found that their entry was disputed the
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  • ...now that the Government is fully alive to the necessity of vindicating the law without delay or hesitation. Large reinforcements of police have been forwa
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  • ...accepted as the revengeful answer of desperate men to the officers of the law for bringing their relations and friends to punishment for their misdeeds.
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