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  • === Meet the authors and reseachers === of the
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  • '''Royal Commission Report''' see [[Royal Commission Index|index to the Royal Commission]] report
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  • == Importance of the Government Gazette == ...880 , Death of Aaron Sherritt , Glenrowan Siege , Ned Kellys Trial , Royal Commission , '''Early service''' , Later service , Family , '''Photograph'''
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  • ...ed for reduction on the ranks by the Commission, a procedure which aroused the utmost indignation in Wangaratta, where Sergeant Steele’s sterling servic ...led the gaols for many years with sympathetic or terrorised inhabitants of the North-Eastern District.
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  • ...m the few spectators, some of whom doubtless had their own grudges against the law, while others merely felt involuntary compassion for a man helpless and ...he payment of four guineas for the treatment of a black tracker wounded in the head at Glenrowan.
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  • ...tion, however, was in vain; and on [[1880-07---aftermath|November 11]] Ned Kelly was [[Ned Kellys End|hanged]] in [[Melbourne Gaol|Melbourne Gaol]]. He met ...d morbid curiosity by appearing on the stage of a Melbourne music hall, at the invitation of an enterprising manager.
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  • '''NED KELLY'S LOG''' ...ssed since the siege of the hotel, is the log beside which [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] fell.
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  • '''THE NUCLEUS OF THE GANG''' ...booty way to be driven across the border into the other State, and sold by the confederate there.
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  • '''THE WOMBAT MURDERS''' OUTLAWS VERSION OF THE ENCOUNTER
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  • '''THE OUTLAWRY AND THE MAN WHO CAUSED IT''' ...the family, who alleged that Fitzpatrick tried to take liberties with Kate Kelly, and that in a struggle that followed his pistol went off and shot him.
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  • ...th these. Then began one of the greatest man hunts known in the history of the world. ...ll he intended to do was what Power had donee befire - that is, to bail up the police and secure their firearms and ammunition.
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  • THE TREACHERY OF SHERRITT BEGINNING OF THE LAST HUNT
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  • THE TREACHERY OF SHERRITT BEGINNING OF THE LAST HUNT
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  • ...ellys and their followers when driven to resistance in their later career. The Kellys had a multitude of friends, who, if they did not actually aid them, == The Kellys ==
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  • ...;Loaded Dice." On this occasion Ned had to pay £3 Is., which covered the fine, costs and damage to police uniforms. ...ped a bitter hatred of the law as it was then administered, and herein lay the origin of their subsequent career of resistance and defiance.
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  • ...e miles to Benalla for it. But, continued Ned, I did pull Ben Gould out of the bog, and brought him back to you. Next day Ben Gould assisted the Kellys in branding and castrating calves, and decided to play a joke on McC
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  • '''DAN KELLY''' ...him as a bloodthirsty ruffian. Although he was regarded as an outlaw from the time he was 17 years of age till he was 19 years at his death at Glenrowan,
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  • == THE ADMSSION == ...a, gave evidence before the [[Royal Commission report day 14 page 15|Royal Commission]] on 9th June, 1881, as follows:-
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  • == THE FITZPATRICK EPISODE, APRIL 15, 1878 == ...innocence, and was, therefore, discharged. This discharge also cleared Dan Kelly.
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  • ...arge on which they were arrested?" -"For aiding and abetting Ned Kelly with shooting with intent to murder Constable Fitzpatrick." By the Commission.-"Had Mrs Kelly an infant with her when you arrested her?"
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  • The fear that the baby would die in gaol was apparently the motive for now granting bail. ...ble Fitzpatrick, before the, [[Royal Commission report day 36 page 4|Royal Commission]] on July 6, 1881 , said:-
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  • ...y consisted of several ex-policemen and others who were prejudiced against the Kellys, and on Fitzpatrick's unsupported evidence a verdict of guilty was b Although Mrs Kelly, Skillion and Williamson were arrested and brought to Benalla on April 17,
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  • ...noiselessly upon the outlaws, and take them asleep in one of the houses in the vicinity. ...said, ‘Keep them together.’ That is how I occupied myself.” ([[Royal Commission report day 2 page 5|RC388]])
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  • ...t.  Each of the three heads said he left the leadership of this fiasco to the other two. ...on Sherritt was, and that he (Aaron Sherritt) was likely to know all about the Kellys.
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  • '''THE SPY INDUSTRY''' ...three or four weeks in going over the correspondence that had gone through the office, so as to make himself thoroughly conversant with what had been done
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  • Supt Hare: “I was not there; I know this was the substance of the complaint.” ...police would not dare put a hand on his young friend, Mr D Wall. ([[Royal Commission report day 6 page 3|RC1270]])
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  • == Chivalry of the Police == ...woman, and apparently they were sufficiently demoralised to attack her.  The age of chivalry, as far as this police party was concerned, had gone.
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  • '''THE SPIES''' ...ocking up the New South Wales police at Jerilderie and assuming control of the town.
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  • ...e passed, and that was all.  What further inquiry could be made? ([[Royal Commission report day 48 page 18|RC16610]]) Question by Superintendent Nicolson—To whom did the sheep belong?—How could I specify to whom it belonged when it had been sk
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  • ...eads of the police force at Benalla to Albury while the Kellys entertained the Euroa bank manager and his wife and family and staff with tea at Faithful C “[[Lawrence Kirwan|Renwick]]” was the alias of another spy named Lawrence Kirwan, of Carbour, near Oxley, farmer,
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  • ...e spies proclaimed their great faith in Mr Nicolson’s ability to capture the outlaws. ...son should remain at the Benalla police barracks, so as to be on hand when the outlaws would come in to give themselves up.  They were a happy family—M
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  • ...ed at home on the Eleven-Mile Creek in comparative peace and security from the time of their return from Jerilderie to their destruction at Glenrowan. ...ir friend, and the Kellys knew it.  As the Outlawry Act had lapsed before the alleged offence was committed, she was discharged.
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  • ...p a bait here and there and let any animal that liked pick it up. ([[Royal Commission report day 7 page 1|RC1369]]) ...enalla with the muzzles on.  I have seen Mrs Skillion and Kate Kelly come into Benalla with their dogs muzzled.
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  • ...results of these quarrels increased the public contempt for the valour of the police. ...school children was “the Kellys and the police,” and it happened that the Kellys invariably won.
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  • '''JOINING THE BENEDICTS''' ...'Connor|O’Connor]] arrived at Benalla on March 8, 1879, and boarded with the other officers at Craven’s Commercial Hotel.
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  • ...consequently time was more precious than the rifle; it was the essence of the “contract.” ...tlawry Act Constable Alex  [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] was transferred to the police depot, and from there he was sent to Lancefield, where he was under
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  • ...avage cruelty to arrant cowardice.  Dan and Joe took up their position in the ranges close by, and remained there all day Saturday, [[ev80-06-28Glenrowan ...sed at what he saw.  Just then Joe Byrne fired, and stepping quickly into the room fired a second shot, and Sherritt fell and died without uttering a wor
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  • ...nd soon after that to look for bushes to set fire to the place.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 21|RC13395]]) ...but I remained where I was in fact, I do not think that I could get under the bed.
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  • ...’s door and asking the way the night Aaron Sherritt was shot.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 8|RC13120]]) ...or two with the people outside.  Byrne was with me, and Dan Kelly was at the front door.  I did not hear any conversation with Mrs Sherritt or Mrs Barr
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  • ...ignation having been accepted—be dismissed from the service.” ([[Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 October 1881|RC]]) ...Commission, but if either of them gave similar evidence against the Kellys the evidence would have been considered sufficient for a conviction and a heavy
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  • ...ull of people bailed up there by the Kellys, he then called the men to let the horses go and follow him. Supt [[Hare|Hare]] led the way, followed by Constables [[SConst John Kelly|Kelly]], Barry, Gascoigne, Phillips, Arthur, Inspector O’Connor, and five Queen
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  • ...arms.’ It came from a policeman close behind Sergeant Steele.  ([[Royal Commission report day 27 page 4|RC10636]]) ...onstrated with him (Steele) for shooting.  I did not know him (Arthur) at the time, but two months afterwards I saw him, and inquired as to his name, and
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  • ...ing in the house, and he would not wait; he rushed over to a tree close to the house, leaving his men to place themselves.  He did not place his own men ...The senior constable took two, and the others went by themselves. ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 9|RC11145]])
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  • ...came in a few minutes after himself.  When I went on the ground ([[Royal Commission report day 20 page 8|RC7607]]) ...says, and he pointed to the contractor from Benalla, and said, ‘You take the spanner.’
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  • ...ringe.  Although nearly fifty years have passed away since the looting of the sash, it may yet be discovered in an English museum. ...sonal possessions.  It is very evident that among those who functioned in the interests of '''Law and Order''' was a percentage of dishonest and untruthf
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  • ...under the impression that if any officer had been there to have commanded the men to make a rush they could have been taken easily? ...could have come up to this side and rushed round simultaneously. ([[Royal Commission report day 26 page 4|RC10090]])
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  • '''THE HERO OF GLENROWAN''' ...Rev Dean [[Matthew Gibney|Gibney]] gave evidence on oath before the Royal Commission on June 28, 1881, as follows: -
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  • Question — Did they seem to have the appearance of being guided by orders? — I do not think they had.  I do n ...hey seemed just to be shooting away at random? — Firing at the house was the only thing that anyone could say there was any uniformity about.
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  • ...ttle room they were in, the fire was just running through it.  I saw that the roof itself was sufficiently safe, that I was in no immediate danger.  It ...house, that was the nearest way then, and I called out to the police that the men were all dead inside.
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  • == THE CHARRED BODIES == ...led up with him who knew where he was and ran and took him out.”([[Royal Commission report day 33 page 5|RC12346]])
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  • ...ent Miss Kelly to go on now and ask if she might go to the house. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 1|RC12774]]) ...dleir, I never saw her; I saw Mrs Skillion approaching and turned her from the house.
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  • ...my opinions as, I might call myself, a '''post factum''' witness. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 2|RC12788]]) ...st amongst them, I would say the guilty ought to be spared for the sake of the innocent.
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  • '''THE CHARRED BODIES''' ...over to his sister by Supt Sadleir, who wrote an official report, in which the following diabolical concoction appeared:—
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  • Story of the KellyGang - the The Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang and their Pursuers
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  • ...rangers from Wangaratta to the Warby Ranges, when the fresh tracks made by the Kellys were pointed out to him. ...Hare]] £800, although he left the field as soon as he received a wound on the left arm.
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  • == Royal Commission’s Report == ...abolishing the police station at Glenmore, and in reducing the strength of the stations at Stanley, Yackandandah, Tallangatta, Eldorado and Beechworth.
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  • ...the three latter—Constable Armstrong having resigned—be dismissed from the service. ...on recommend these members of the force to the favourable consideration of the Government for promotion.
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  • ...for the treatment of one of the blacktrackers who had received a wound in the head at Glenrowan.” ...ot sign the report because he had to give evidence as a witness before the Commission.
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  • ...retiring allowance, an annual gratuity for his services at the capture of the Kellys. For many years past he has been living a quiet life at Wallan, and [[The Argus at KellyGang 13/1/1879|Order Now]]<br />
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  • ...d sufficient time to prepare the defence. The presiding magistrate granted the remand. [[The Argus at KellyGang 13/1/1879|Order Now]]<br />
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  • THE KELLY GANG A strange statement is made by the Pretoria correspondent of the &quot;Daily Express.&quot;
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  • '''THE KELLY GANG''' '''AN EXTRAORDINARY YARN; DAN KELLY AND STEVE HART'''
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  • THE KELLY GANG ...00, and spent it in travelling through America and Great Britain with Kate Kelly and Kate Byrne, a sister of Joe Byrne.
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  • THE KELLY GANG To The Editor of the Argus
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  • KELLY GANG'S MAGAZINE ...y where it was hidden by the Kelly gang, a quantity of gunpowder, fired in the course of burning off, was responsible for a startling occurrence near [[Ki
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  • ...any episodes what no other man could write, and, in producing this book in the evening of life, he has made a very valuable contribution to Victorian hist ...himself upon the mysterious stranger. It was Ned Kelly, the leader of the gang, dressed in bullet-proof armour from head to knees.&quot;
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  • DAYS OF THE KELLY GANG ...Saturday morning. Before he came to Victoria Mr Whelan was a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary.
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  • THE LONDON &quot;FIFTY&quot; ...tment as inspector of powder magazines on the gold fields. He served under the following chief commissioners: Captain (after Sir) WHF Mitchell, Sir Charle
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  • ...ly a year and 10 months. Until recently Mr Sadleir was an active member of the Historical Society of Victoria, to which he was able to give much valuable [[The Argus at KellyGang 7/5/1915|Previous edition]] [[The Argus at KellyGang 22/12/1922|Next edition]]
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  • ...of Ned Kelly were killed. Mr Curnow was a school teacher, but retired from the Education department some time ago. [[The Argus at KellyGang 22/9/1919|Previous edition]] [[The Argus at KellyGang 20/02/1923|Next edition]]
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  • KELLY GANG AT EUROA ...when there were very few settlers, but he states that after the opening of the railway line from Melbourne to Wodonga in 1873, settlement steadily increas
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  • '''Kelly Gang Days Recalled''' ...ng officers from Sydney , they took possession of the principal hotel, and the following day everyone who entered was made prisoner.
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  • '''NED KELLY'S GRAVE DISCOVERY IN OLD GAOL.''' ...notorious bushranger [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]], who was hanged and buried in the gaol on November 11, 1880.
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  • When the Kellys were Cornered ...luable. As far as is known by officers of the Chief Secretary's department the telegrams have not been published previously.
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 12/12/1931|see previous]] ...regarding the outlaws since the middle of the day. Should any arise during the night I have arranged that copies shall at once be forwarded for Mr Ramsay'
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  • ...35 years at Benalla, Richmond , and Melbourne . He was a vice-president of the Richmond Football Club in 1903 [[The Argus at KellyGang 13/1/1879|Order Now]]<br />
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  • '''WAS IN BANK THE KELLYS RAIDED''' ...lmsbury and then carne to Wangaratta where he was manager of the branch of the Bank of New South Wales for 30 years until he retired some years ago. He wa
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  • '''NED KELLY LINK''' ...the charred remains of Dan Kelly and Steve Hart, two other members of the gang of bushrangers.
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  • ...it him, and Tom struck him a violent blow on the chest. John objected that the blow was not hard enough, and invited him to try again, when as Tom drew of ...yd, about five miles from [[Greta|Greta]] Superintendent Furnell conducted the case. Thomas Lloyd, jun , cousin of deceased, was present in custody.
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  • '''full text of the article''' '''''' [[The Argus at KellyGang 3/7/80|see previous]]
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  • Full text of the article '''REMAND OF NED KELLY'''
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  • Full text of the article “I have the honour to be, sir your most obedient servant.
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  • ...er his command here in connexion with the pursuit and capture of the Kelly gang. ...t shall be the scope of any investigation, until after the trial of Edward Kelly has taken place.
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  • '''THE POLICE AND THE KELLY GANG''' ...addressed by Mr [[Graves|Graves]], MLA, as representative of Delatite, to the Chief Secretary:―
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  • ...he believed he was the man in the whole of the force to capture the Kelly gang, if they could be captured. ...ing the long time the gang were at large was almost beyond belief; in fact the whole district was in a deplorable state of terror.
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 8/12/1880|see previous]] ...eclined to anticipate the inquiry, and had written the following letter on the matter: -
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  • ...appointed. It is constituted as follows - His Honour Judge Cope chairman, the Hon W M'Culloch MLC, Mr J H Graves MLA, Mr T Hunt MLA, Mr J Gibb MLA, F Lon ...charge of this inquiry. The proceedings it is understood, will be open to the public.
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  • '''MR J H GRAVES, MLA, AND THE POLICE''' TO THE EDITOR 0F THE ARGUS
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  • Constable Patrick [[Const Patrick Walsh|Walsh]] was charged be fore the local bench to day with burglary ...utside Venetian shutters. The street door was locked, and he locked one of the other doors.
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  • ...ndividual in the community would have dreamed of, is, we submit, unfair to the police. ...tically hold a brief for - or will at any rate minimise the case against - the alleged sympathises.
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  • ...y to prove injurious to the public interest or depreciate the value of the commission's report. ...attend a meeting of the commission to be held at 11 o'clock next Friday at the Treasury.
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  • ...ield Guardian|Hall]], MLA, has been added to the [[Royal Commission|Police Commission]]. [[The Argus at KellyGang 16/3/1881|Previous edition]] [[The Argus at KellyGang 18/3/1881|Next edition]]
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  • ...hose who assisted the authorities in the efforts made to capture the Kelly gang. == [[Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 18 March 1881|The Minutes of the Commission]] ==
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  • '''THE POLICE BOARD''' TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS  
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1881|see previous]] ...ugh the full details of what the police have been doing should be known to the Government, it would be obviously contrary to public policy that they shoul
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1881 (2)|see previous]] ...turned next day to Melbourne, but never received a word of recognition for the services of my men or myself until Lord Normanby officially thanked me thro
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1881 (3)|see previous]] ...them to recover. If they die at Lake Hindmarsh, their death is recorded in the returns from that place.
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1881 (4)|see previous]] ...of the old gardens have been allowed to fall into neglect. Like children, the blacks soon tire of their play things...
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  • ...ithdraw some remarks of his attacking Mr O'Connor's private character. The commission meet again at 11 am to-day. '''THE POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 24/3/1881|see previous]] ...utlaws. Then rode on to the house of Mrs Byrne, mother of Joe Byrne one of the outlaws at Sebastopol, and Mr Nicolson and I interviewed her, but got no in
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