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  • == CHAPTER I - THE MURDERS ON THE WOMBAT == ...at he had undergone some terrible experience, and he was making his way to the police-station, where Sub Inspector [[Pewtress|Pewtress]], an officer just
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  • ...aniel Kelly, producing a pair of police handcuffs which he had obtained in the tent, proposed that M’Intyre should wear them; but, significantly tapping ...ash ----, that wanted taking down a bit.’ However, he would not shoot if the men surrendered.
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  • ...them to report his arrangement with M’Intyre, where there came the sound of horses’ hoofs and rustling bushes near by. ...ward towards Kennedy, asking him to surrender, as the camp was surrounded. The police looked round bewildered, suspect-ing some practical joke, but almost
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  • ...ll night, and am very weary. Nine am, Sunday. - I am now lying on the edge of a creek named Bridges’. ...arrived to disturb the sleepy quiet of the township Sunday afternoon with the gruesome tale, which, bit by bit, Inspector Pewtress drew from him.
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  • == CHAPTER II - FINDING THE BODIES == ...powerful imagination he did not reach his destination until the evening of the following day.
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  • ...for daylight. Then the other men came up and inspected the dead bodies and the camp, before making search for Kennedy. ...ch, next to the firearms, were the prize most coveted by the Kellys, were, of course, nowhere to be seen.
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  • ...d bushes, against which the horse bumped them as he forced his way through the forest. ...ll the inhabitants, who were possessed with panic, were not satisfied with the arrangements made for their defence.
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  • ...protection, since it was thought the bushrangers might still be lurking in the neighbourhood. ...een held almost against the wounded man’s breast as he lay helpless, and the shot was probably fired from his own gun.
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  • == CHAPTER III - THE BUSHRANGERS’ COUNTRY == ...which despatched heavy reinforcements of constabulary to every township in the North East.
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  • ...|Thom]] would hardly be able to cope with these men. At the same time some of these offenders may commit themselves foolishly some day, and may be appreh ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...eal, and the fact that responsible officers well recognised the gravity of the position, long before it culminated so tragically. ...failed to warn [[Harry Power|Power]] when the search party was creeping up the mountain to arrest him.
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  • ...near Mansfield, it was not known that they were the Kellys’ partners in the outrage, and for some time afterwards suspicion rested on other men. ...ry part of it, was one of the factors which enabled them so long to baffle the police.
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  • == CHAPTER IV - WHY THE KELLYS “WENT OUT” == ...ant approved of Fitzpatrick’s expedition, but told him to be careful, as the Kellys were known to be dangerous characters, quite likely to resist an arr
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  • ...was much more reasonable, and went on with his meal, so far agreeing with the constable as to say, ‘Shut up, mother; that’s all right,’ when she ob ...use, when [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] entered suddenly, and exclaiming, ‘Out of this you -----,’ fired a shot at Fitzpatrick from his revolver.
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  • ...ey encountered and shot Kennedy and his party on the banks of the creek in the Wombat Ranges . ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...ninhabited country; while the total number of police charged with the duty of keeping order therein did not exceed 120. ...man must be aware, were not only calculated to do the police a great deal of harm, but to prevent their receiving material assistance from anybody.’
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  • ...he people imposed a most formidable task upon the police in pursuit of the bushrangers. ...y was felt lest they should have suffered the same fate; but in the course of a day or two they returned safe.
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  • ...und had been inflicted by a charge fired from a muzzle held almost against the unfortunate man’s breast. ...on Saturday may have been a prediction of events from one who had been in the Kellys’ confidence, and had left their society before they stained their
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  • ...elves, after which they saddled up the police horses and rode away through the ranges to their friends at [[Greta|Greta]], some thirty miles from [[String ...rs Chapter 5 page 3|previous page]] / [[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 6 page 1|next page]]
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  • == CHAPTER VI - MR NICOLSON IN PURSUIT – THE OUTLAWRY BILL == ...ble exactitude, what the outlaws’ movements had been after the murder of the police on October 26.
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  • ...e of reaching the main stream, but were forced to abandon the attempt, for the river was higher than it had been for many years, and accordingly they turn ...rby Ranges]], low densely wooded mountains close to Wangaratta, with which the Kellys and Hart were all well acquainted.
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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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  • ...papers of Melbourne and the North Eastern District, of which proclamations the following may be interesting as an example:- ...ister expression, supposed to be identical with William King, of Greta, in the said colony.
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  • ...posed to be identical with Charles Brown, of [[King River|King River]], in the said colony.’ ..., and a notice published in the ‘Government Gazette’ and elsewhere, to the following effect:
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  • ...some convenient justice of the peace to be further dealt with and disposed of according to law. ...e of the bushrangers to make police and civilians as active as possible in the pursuit.
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  • == CHAPTER VII - THE RATS’ CASTLE FIASCO == ...u should send all you can by special to reach here before day; mounted and of course armed, and bring tracker. Reply.’
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  • ...ase, and thought the police were only bringing ridicule upon themselves by the proceeding. ..., Mr Nicolson ordered them to follow him, and galloped at full speed up to the front.
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  • ...ple did not know, and conversation between the police and an inhabitant of the locality was in any case natural enough. ...to remain satisfied with Sherritt’s promise of assistance as the outcome of their day’s work at ‘Rats’ Castle.’
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  • ...e fleeing for their lives, and he had named Steve Hart as almost certainly the daring guide who had led them. ...laney’s son heard the noise of galloping over the wooden bridge which is the shortest way thither.
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  • == CHAPTER VIII - THE OUTLAWS LOST TO SIGHT == ...the cuning of his early days of hunting life, and a young man, Jemmy, whom the old one called his pupil, but who did not credit to his teaching, being a s
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  • ...ce where there was water, mentioned some of the men present, and described the brands upon their horses. ...s the officers believed they would have had a very fair chance of bringing the matter to an issue; but, as it was, they found it hopeless to attempt any f
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  • ...uple of days, but it took me, at my time of life, and the other members of the force, mounted constables and others, more than that, but I had to go out n ..., having spent various times from a few days to a fortnight in the bush or the mountains, returned wearied out to their different stations.
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  • ...e favoured at any particular time. Williamson was, however, confident that the Kellys would obtain rations from Mrs Skillion, and he mentioned that she wo ...from justice, and the mere fact that several others beside themselves knew of its history was likely to put them on their guard.
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  • ...ed to suffer these things, and to remain more or less inactive in the hope of some really good chance arising for an successful attempt at arrest. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • == CHAPTER IX - MR WYATT AND THE BROKEN WIRES == ...tlaws, but both of them assert that they had no word of expected danger to the banks, and therefore no special measures were taken to avert it.
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  • ...ill want money and I have got none. When you write, direct to Howlong for (the singer).’ ...where the proposed crossing was to take place, and he also sent notice to the [[NSW police|New South Wales police]].
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  • ...t alter them;’ and with Mr Sadlier he entered the train and proceeded on the journey to Albury. ...res it might very well have been to prevent reports of their flight across the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]] reaching Melbourne.
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  • ...ve pulled the posts down like that - that it would require at least a team of bullocks to do it. ...jured anywhere about.’ He particularly enjoined Mr Gorman to tell no one of what he suspected, and said to him, ‘To anybody who enquires, answer,...
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  • ...sengers who made enquiry, Mr Wyatt replied with his diplomatic formula: ‘The line is down and it looks like a whirlwind.’ ...as down, which could be done in spite of the break in the wires by sending the message northward to [[Albury|Albury]], whence it could go to Denilquin in
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  • == CHAPTER X - THE STICKING-UP OF FAITHFULL’S CREEK == ...tephens’ saying that he was only joking, he explained that the horses of the gang must be stabled and fed.
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  • ...e the door and windows, close together, could be watched by one or more of the outlaws heavily armed with loaded rifle and revolvers. ...ood should be poisoned. Only two of the outlaws sat down at one time while the others stood by with their revolvers in their hands to prevent mischief.
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  • ...e supper under surveillance and afterwards locked up with the other men in the store. ...al enemies; but on his own showing he had done a good deal to make enemies of them, since he confessed to having stolen 280 horses in his time.
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  • ...l confiscated, but beyond imprisonment the men suffered no violence, while the women were still allowed to remain free and were interfered with in no way, ...railway gangers, who were arrested and added to the squad of prisoners in the storeroom.
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  • ...suspected that other of the outlaws’ friends were lurking in hiding near the station. Accordingly Joe Byrne was not threatened in any way while he mount ...ithfull's Creek (2)|Faithfull’s]] Creek. The curious matter was, that at the very moment he was pouring forth these suspicions to Mr Gorman, something f
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  • == CHAPTER XI - THE EUROA BANK ROBBERY == ...h him Gloster’s boy to hold the horses, while he pursued his business at the bank.
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  • ...anted the trap, to harness the horse himself. This was not at all the kind of language to which Kelly was accustomed from his prisoners, but Mrs Scott’ ...was made while the outlaws got out to put the horse on his feet and see to the harness, but without any other incident Faithfull’s Creek was reached bef
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  • ...en and children to go into the kitchen, he shut up Scott and the clerks in the store. ...d in a few minutes the train passed on without anybody from it approaching the homestead.
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  • ...id that only a few days before the robbery he was seen drinking at the bar of an hotel in Euroa and allowed to depart without question. ...ld do when they encountered the police, they rode away in the direction of the Strathbogie Ranges .
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  • == CHAPTER XII - A CHANGE IN THE COMMAND == ...our hours’ pursuit, I do not think it signifies much, if you get well on the tracks, if you are two or three hours behind, compared with having your sup
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  • ...s]]. Stopping the train there at about 8.30, he got out and met the party of police who had ridden out from Euroa, while Mr Wyatt continued his journey. ...left would be impossible to follow in the darkness. About six next morning the men returned to Euroa for rest, and Mr Nicolson lay down but could not slee
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  • ...onstable [[Johnston|Johnson]]. They remained away for six or seven days in the bush without discovering anything, and on their return reported themselves ...d quarters and directed operations against the outlaws with the assistance of Mr Hare.
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  • ...s association with Captain Standish, in the way of a speedy termination to the Kelly gang’s career. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • == CHAPTER XIII - THE KELLY GANG AT JERILDERIE == ...uthority to command the search parties which were everywhere organised for the use when they should be wanted.
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  • ...female relatives, while injustice was winning over others from the side of the law to theirs. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...crossing place where a chain of hills on either side of the river runs all the way to Goulburn. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...ately despatched to watch every crossing place in the hope of intercepting the Kellys on their return from New South Wales. ...fter which they went into the police station to take up their quarters for the night.
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  • ...g Mrs Devine prepare their meals, spent the remainder of the afternoon and the night undisturbed. ...t suspicious by Byrne’s manner, for he was careful to note the brands of the horses.
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  • ...r the impression that he was thereby doing a good turn for poor debtors of the bank. ...n coming to the town had been simply to kill them, and that the robbing of the bank was a mere incident in his visit.
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  • ...rowess, with tirades against the police and some account of the murders at the Wombat—eventually appeared in print. ...he said might kill him, but with the result of the wholesale slaughter in the township.
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  • ...repaired the line before next day he would be visited later on and shot by the gang. ...ine o’clock that night Mr Hare in Benalla received a wire telling him of the robbery at Jerilderie.
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  • == CHAPTER XIV - THE CAMP MRS BYRNE’S == ...Kellys were at home again in the Strathbogie Ranges, or some other part of the mountainous North Eastern District. They may have ridden back together, for
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  • ...far more for the reward money than for his faith towards other members of the gang. ...near was on the other side of a deep gully, with the Woolshed diggings on the flat between.
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  • ...ould do so, and said that if the police wanted to get them they must watch the house. ...other friends of the Kellys at a distance, returning to join the police in the evening.
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  • ...no means of communicating with the outlaws, and that there was still hope of effecting a capture. ...ng Aaron at the same time for his stupidity for not doing so. He expressed the utmost surprise and some incredulity, but his mind was relieved by feeling
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  • ...he conclusion that it was useless to waste more time in the gully and left the camp, though his men were kept there for about a fortnight longer. ...al powers in every way, but he considered himself a better man than any of the other three.
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  • ...kers, nor of the Kellys, who feared them more than all the other police in the district. ...dish’s refusal to employ them on certain occasions when reliable news of the outlaws had been obtained.
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  • ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err ...chapter]] . .The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers [[The True of Bushrangers Index|index]]'''
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  • ...es as a miner—at others as a farm hand, a stockman, a selector in search of land—and in all his journeys he succeeded in escaping recognition. ...be impossible to them to take blood money and afterwards live in safety in the North Eastern District.
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  • ...t to Mr Hare, but as the outlaws did not put in an appearance nothing came of it. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...might be hiding in the vicinity to defer their visit to their cousin till the coast was clear. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...he matter to Detective [[Ward|Ward]], asking him to get Mr Hare to prevent the police interfering with him, and this was done. ...carried away into the bush for the express purpose of taking a rise out of the police.
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  • ...dish determined to go in pursuit without assistance from Mr O’Connor and the blacks. ...reas afterwards bitterness and jealousy arose, in which Mr Hare as well as the Commissioner became involved with Mr O’Connor.
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  • ...and Nolan expressed polite wonder at the tracker’s powers of working in the dark. ...hout the comfort of a fire on freezing nights when the mercury was down in the twenties.
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  • ...ce, he would go to the North Eastern District and refuse to leave it until the outlaws were taken, dead or alive. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • == CHAPTER XVI - A CHANGE IN THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN == ...£6,722—Mr Nicolson thus having at his disposal per month less than half the money spent by Captain Standish and Mr Hare.
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  • ...confidence and help in a manner forming a refreshing contrast to the state of affairs under Mr Hare. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...orses to stand hard work upon such feed as they could pick when hobbled in the bush at night. ...nervous unrest which it was hoped would result sooner or later in some act of rash stupidity.
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  • ...before the end of the month, and at the outlaw’s own request a notice of the letter was published in a local paper. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...s murderer and bushranger who gave Queen’s evidence) and hunt him out of the colony. ...sion searched, but no ammunition was found. They had either thrown it from the window at a spot which they could visit later, or left it behind to be forw
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  • ...used in correspondence with him, in his assumed character as an inspector of stock wrote as follows: ...u for news how to proceed on a day which I shall then state, before end of the week. Other animals are, I fear, diseased. Yours faithfully, B C W.’
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  • ...d to a Beechworth girl and was living with his wife at his old quarters in the gully at [[Woolshed|Woolshed]]. ...rything, he went up in obedience to orders and threw himself heartily into the work.
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  • ...remained at Benalla the outlaws would be afraid to come into the open, and the Queensland Government, which considered that their officer had not been par ...tter in future, and promised to give his most loyal endeavours to the work of betraying his former associates to death.
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  • ...was there, and Wicks answered him. [[Ellen Sherritt|Mrs Sherritt]] went to the door, then turning to her husband she said, ‘It is [[Anton Weekes|Anton W For a moment Aaron seemed to hesitate. Then he walked to the door, asking again, ‘Who is that?’ and seeing it was really Wicks, said
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  • ...and were constantly threatened with death unless they confessed who was in the house, would say nothing but that they were men looking for work. ...alight to the house and actually tried to do so, placing brushwood against the walls and striking matches, which went out.
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  • == CHAPTER XVIII - THE PRISONERS AT GLENROWAN == ...Victorian police. Mr Ramsay therefore wired to Mr Hare that he would send the men up next morning, and Mr Hare, with pardonable irritation, replied that
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  • ...r they were the men on whom he specially wanted to wreak his vengeance for the hunted life his gang had led so long. ...ood as twenty, for he had some faint hope that if only one rail were taken the engine might leap it and go safely on.
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  • ...Curnow assured Kelly that there was no need to distrust him as he was with the outlaws heart and soul, to which Kelly replied, ‘Yes; I know that, and I ...s placed on the mantelpiece, seized an opportunity when no one was looking of picking it up and slipping it into his boot, with a view to making his esca
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  • ...ife—a subject on which he had talked seriously to McIntyre on the day of the police murders nearly two years before. ...ing to do battle with any of the police who might escape from the wreck of the train
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  • == CHAPTER XIX - THE ASSAULT UPON THE HOTEL == ...tation of knowing that his resource and courage had saved the occupants of the special from almost certain death.
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  • ...ed out of Benalla, the pilot engine 150 yards in front carrying one or two of Mr Hare’s men armed and watchful. ...ard had said he would go on to Glenrowan station, draw up there, and await the special which was following. Begging him for God’s sake not do so, as he
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  • ...tating them to the stationmaster, and made arrangements for reinforcements of police being sent forward to Glenrowan. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...throughout with pluck and judgment, and not long after telling Mr Hare of the Kelly’s presence he galloped away to Wangaratta to bring back further aid ...emaining hours of darkness, they continued energetically to pour lead into the hotel.
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  • ...ire absence from foolish rashness is the only commendable quality of which the police gave evidence that day, and this was shown to such as strikingly unh ...secured it, putting an end one could contemplate with satisfaction to the bushrangers’ long career.
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  • ...ss of the fire which met them as they sallied into the open and approached the police lines. ...re any more till daylight, so that all these people may go in safety. When the house is empty, we will fight for ourselves.’
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  • ...te have made a bolt for liberty, and at any rate would have shot down some of their assailants; but encased in iron they could scarcely move and could no ...tlaw over for ever, he was presently stripped of his armour and carried to the railway station where a doctor attended to his wounds.
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  • ...ger good cause to refrain from pouring volleys into the hotel and shooting the outlaws without danger to police and private citizens. ...n of a great wooden shield, under cover of which the police might approach the hotel in safety.
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  • ...of deliberately remaining with her brother and taking up a rifle to assist the defenders. ...tel, while later, in the Wangaratta hospital, Mrs Jones’ little boy died of his wounds.
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  • CHAPTER XXI THE LAST OF THE BUSHRANGERS ...eir exploits were a constant topic of thought and conversation all through the country.
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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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  • ...in [[Melbourne Gaol|Melbourne Gaol]]. He met his death with a fair amount of courage, though he could not trust himself to make a speech as he had conte ...ity by appearing on the stage of a Melbourne music hall, at the invitation of an enterprising manager.
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  • ...Euroa]] and [[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|Jerilderie]] robberies, death of [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]] and [[ev80-06-28Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] sie ...organisation that is committed to letting the KellyGang ride free through the people, places, events and things that make their story exciting.
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  • your copy of the following difficult to get material. Most of this material is essential reading but out of print and not available from other sources.
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  • == CHAPTER I - THE MURDERS ON THE WOMBAT == ...at he had undergone some terrible experience, and he was making his way to the police-station, where Sub Inspector [[Pewtress|Pewtress]], an officer just
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  • ...aniel Kelly, producing a pair of police handcuffs which he had obtained in the tent, proposed that M’Intyre should wear them; but, significantly tapping ...ash ----, that wanted taking down a bit.’ However, he would not shoot if the men surrendered.
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  • ...them to report his arrangement with M’Intyre, where there came the sound of horses’ hoofs and rustling bushes near by. ...ward towards Kennedy, asking him to surrender, as the camp was surrounded. The police looked round bewildered, suspect-ing some practical joke, but almost
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  • ...ll night, and am very weary. Nine am, Sunday. - I am now lying on the edge of a creek named Bridges’. ...arrived to disturb the sleepy quiet of the township Sunday afternoon with the gruesome tale, which, bit by bit, Inspector Pewtress drew from him.
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  • == CHAPTER II - FINDING THE BODIES == ...powerful imagination he did not reach his destination until the evening of the following day.
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  • ...for daylight. Then the other men came up and inspected the dead bodies and the camp, before making search for Kennedy. ...ch, next to the firearms, were the prize most coveted by the Kellys, were, of course, nowhere to be seen.
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  • ...d bushes, against which the horse bumped them as he forced his way through the forest. ...ll the inhabitants, who were possessed with panic, were not satisfied with the arrangements made for their defence.
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  • ...protection, since it was thought the bushrangers might still be lurking in the neighbourhood. ...een held almost against the wounded man’s breast as he lay helpless, and the shot was probably fired from his own gun.
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  • == CHAPTER III - THE BUSHRANGERS’ COUNTRY == ...which despatched heavy reinforcements of constabulary to every township in the North East.
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  • ...|Thom]] would hardly be able to cope with these men. At the same time some of these offenders may commit themselves foolishly some day, and may be appreh ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...eal, and the fact that responsible officers well recognised the gravity of the position, long before it culminated so tragically. ...failed to warn [[Harry Power|Power]] when the search party was creeping up the mountain to arrest him.
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  • ...near Mansfield, it was not known that they were the Kellys’ partners in the outrage, and for some time afterwards suspicion rested on other men. ...ry part of it, was one of the factors which enabled them so long to baffle the police.
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  • == CHAPTER IV - WHY THE KELLYS “WENT OUT” == ...ant approved of Fitzpatrick’s expedition, but told him to be careful, as the Kellys were known to be dangerous characters, quite likely to resist an arr
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  • ...was much more reasonable, and went on with his meal, so far agreeing with the constable as to say, ‘Shut up, mother; that’s all right,’ when she ob ...use, when [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] entered suddenly, and exclaiming, ‘Out of this you -----,’ fired a shot at Fitzpatrick from his revolver.
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  • ...ey encountered and shot Kennedy and his party on the banks of the creek in the Wombat Ranges . ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...ninhabited country; while the total number of police charged with the duty of keeping order therein did not exceed 120. ...man must be aware, were not only calculated to do the police a great deal of harm, but to prevent their receiving material assistance from anybody.’
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  • ...he people imposed a most formidable task upon the police in pursuit of the bushrangers. ...y was felt lest they should have suffered the same fate; but in the course of a day or two they returned safe.
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  • ...und had been inflicted by a charge fired from a muzzle held almost against the unfortunate man’s breast. ...on Saturday may have been a prediction of events from one who had been in the Kellys’ confidence, and had left their society before they stained their
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  • ...elves, after which they saddled up the police horses and rode away through the ranges to their friends at [[Greta|Greta]], some thirty miles from [[String ...rs Chapter 5 page 3|previous page]] / [[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 6 page 1|next page]]
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  • == CHAPTER VI - MR NICOLSON IN PURSUIT – THE OUTLAWRY BILL == ...ble exactitude, what the outlaws’ movements had been after the murder of the police on October 26.
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  • ...e of reaching the main stream, but were forced to abandon the attempt, for the river was higher than it had been for many years, and accordingly they turn ...rby Ranges]], low densely wooded mountains close to Wangaratta, with which the Kellys and Hart were all well acquainted.
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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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  • ...papers of Melbourne and the North Eastern District, of which proclamations the following may be interesting as an example:- ...ister expression, supposed to be identical with William King, of Greta, in the said colony.
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  • ...posed to be identical with Charles Brown, of [[King River|King River]], in the said colony.’ ..., and a notice published in the ‘Government Gazette’ and elsewhere, to the following effect:
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  • ...some convenient justice of the peace to be further dealt with and disposed of according to law. ...e of the bushrangers to make police and civilians as active as possible in the pursuit.
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  • == CHAPTER VII - THE RATS’ CASTLE FIASCO == ...u should send all you can by special to reach here before day; mounted and of course armed, and bring tracker. Reply.’
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  • ...ase, and thought the police were only bringing ridicule upon themselves by the proceeding. ..., Mr Nicolson ordered them to follow him, and galloped at full speed up to the front.
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  • ...ple did not know, and conversation between the police and an inhabitant of the locality was in any case natural enough. ...to remain satisfied with Sherritt’s promise of assistance as the outcome of their day’s work at ‘Rats’ Castle.’
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  • ...e fleeing for their lives, and he had named Steve Hart as almost certainly the daring guide who had led them. ...laney’s son heard the noise of galloping over the wooden bridge which is the shortest way thither.
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  • == CHAPTER VIII - THE OUTLAWS LOST TO SIGHT == ...the cuning of his early days of hunting life, and a young man, Jemmy, whom the old one called his pupil, but who did not credit to his teaching, being a s
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  • ...ce where there was water, mentioned some of the men present, and described the brands upon their horses. ...s the officers believed they would have had a very fair chance of bringing the matter to an issue; but, as it was, they found it hopeless to attempt any f
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  • ...uple of days, but it took me, at my time of life, and the other members of the force, mounted constables and others, more than that, but I had to go out n ..., having spent various times from a few days to a fortnight in the bush or the mountains, returned wearied out to their different stations.
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  • ...e favoured at any particular time. Williamson was, however, confident that the Kellys would obtain rations from Mrs Skillion, and he mentioned that she wo ...from justice, and the mere fact that several others beside themselves knew of its history was likely to put them on their guard.
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  • ...ed to suffer these things, and to remain more or less inactive in the hope of some really good chance arising for an successful attempt at arrest. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • == CHAPTER IX - MR WYATT AND THE BROKEN WIRES == ...tlaws, but both of them assert that they had no word of expected danger to the banks, and therefore no special measures were taken to avert it.
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  • ...ill want money and I have got none. When you write, direct to Howlong for (the singer).’ ...where the proposed crossing was to take place, and he also sent notice to the [[NSW police|New South Wales police]].
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  • ...t alter them;’ and with Mr Sadlier he entered the train and proceeded on the journey to Albury. ...res it might very well have been to prevent reports of their flight across the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]] reaching Melbourne.
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  • ...ve pulled the posts down like that - that it would require at least a team of bullocks to do it. ...jured anywhere about.’ He particularly enjoined Mr Gorman to tell no one of what he suspected, and said to him, ‘To anybody who enquires, answer,...
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  • ...sengers who made enquiry, Mr Wyatt replied with his diplomatic formula: ‘The line is down and it looks like a whirlwind.’ ...as down, which could be done in spite of the break in the wires by sending the message northward to [[Albury|Albury]], whence it could go to Denilquin in
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  • == CHAPTER X - THE STICKING-UP OF FAITHFULL’S CREEK == ...tephens’ saying that he was only joking, he explained that the horses of the gang must be stabled and fed.
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  • ...e the door and windows, close together, could be watched by one or more of the outlaws heavily armed with loaded rifle and revolvers. ...ood should be poisoned. Only two of the outlaws sat down at one time while the others stood by with their revolvers in their hands to prevent mischief.
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  • ...e supper under surveillance and afterwards locked up with the other men in the store. ...al enemies; but on his own showing he had done a good deal to make enemies of them, since he confessed to having stolen 280 horses in his time.
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  • ...l confiscated, but beyond imprisonment the men suffered no violence, while the women were still allowed to remain free and were interfered with in no way, ...railway gangers, who were arrested and added to the squad of prisoners in the storeroom.
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  • ...suspected that other of the outlaws’ friends were lurking in hiding near the station. Accordingly Joe Byrne was not threatened in any way while he mount ...ithfull's Creek (2)|Faithfull’s]] Creek. The curious matter was, that at the very moment he was pouring forth these suspicions to Mr Gorman, something f
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  • == CHAPTER XI - THE EUROA BANK ROBBERY == ...h him Gloster’s boy to hold the horses, while he pursued his business at the bank.
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  • ...anted the trap, to harness the horse himself. This was not at all the kind of language to which Kelly was accustomed from his prisoners, but Mrs Scott’ ...was made while the outlaws got out to put the horse on his feet and see to the harness, but without any other incident Faithfull’s Creek was reached bef
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  • ...en and children to go into the kitchen, he shut up Scott and the clerks in the store. ...d in a few minutes the train passed on without anybody from it approaching the homestead.
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  • ...id that only a few days before the robbery he was seen drinking at the bar of an hotel in Euroa and allowed to depart without question. ...ld do when they encountered the police, they rode away in the direction of the Strathbogie Ranges .
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  • == CHAPTER XII - A CHANGE IN THE COMMAND == ...our hours’ pursuit, I do not think it signifies much, if you get well on the tracks, if you are two or three hours behind, compared with having your sup
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  • ...s]]. Stopping the train there at about 8.30, he got out and met the party of police who had ridden out from Euroa, while Mr Wyatt continued his journey. ...left would be impossible to follow in the darkness. About six next morning the men returned to Euroa for rest, and Mr Nicolson lay down but could not slee
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  • ...onstable [[Johnston|Johnson]]. They remained away for six or seven days in the bush without discovering anything, and on their return reported themselves ...d quarters and directed operations against the outlaws with the assistance of Mr Hare.
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  • ...s association with Captain Standish, in the way of a speedy termination to the Kelly gang’s career. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • == CHAPTER XIII - THE KELLY GANG AT JERILDERIE == ...uthority to command the search parties which were everywhere organised for the use when they should be wanted.
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  • ...female relatives, while injustice was winning over others from the side of the law to theirs. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...crossing place where a chain of hills on either side of the river runs all the way to Goulburn. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...ately despatched to watch every crossing place in the hope of intercepting the Kellys on their return from New South Wales. ...fter which they went into the police station to take up their quarters for the night.
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  • ...g Mrs Devine prepare their meals, spent the remainder of the afternoon and the night undisturbed. ...t suspicious by Byrne’s manner, for he was careful to note the brands of the horses.
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  • ...r the impression that he was thereby doing a good turn for poor debtors of the bank. ...n coming to the town had been simply to kill them, and that the robbing of the bank was a mere incident in his visit.
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  • ...rowess, with tirades against the police and some account of the murders at the Wombat—eventually appeared in print. ...he said might kill him, but with the result of the wholesale slaughter in the township.
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  • ...repaired the line before next day he would be visited later on and shot by the gang. ...ine o’clock that night Mr Hare in Benalla received a wire telling him of the robbery at Jerilderie.
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  • == CHAPTER XIV - THE CAMP MRS BYRNE’S == ...Kellys were at home again in the Strathbogie Ranges, or some other part of the mountainous North Eastern District. They may have ridden back together, for
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  • ...far more for the reward money than for his faith towards other members of the gang. ...near was on the other side of a deep gully, with the Woolshed diggings on the flat between.
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  • ...ould do so, and said that if the police wanted to get them they must watch the house. ...other friends of the Kellys at a distance, returning to join the police in the evening.
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  • ...no means of communicating with the outlaws, and that there was still hope of effecting a capture. ...ng Aaron at the same time for his stupidity for not doing so. He expressed the utmost surprise and some incredulity, but his mind was relieved by feeling
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  • ...he conclusion that it was useless to waste more time in the gully and left the camp, though his men were kept there for about a fortnight longer. ...al powers in every way, but he considered himself a better man than any of the other three.
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  • ...kers, nor of the Kellys, who feared them more than all the other police in the district. ...dish’s refusal to employ them on certain occasions when reliable news of the outlaws had been obtained.
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  • ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err ...chapter]] . .The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers [[The True of Bushrangers Index|index]]'''
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  • ...es as a miner—at others as a farm hand, a stockman, a selector in search of land—and in all his journeys he succeeded in escaping recognition. ...be impossible to them to take blood money and afterwards live in safety in the North Eastern District.
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  • ...t to Mr Hare, but as the outlaws did not put in an appearance nothing came of it. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...might be hiding in the vicinity to defer their visit to their cousin till the coast was clear. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...he matter to Detective [[Ward|Ward]], asking him to get Mr Hare to prevent the police interfering with him, and this was done. ...carried away into the bush for the express purpose of taking a rise out of the police.
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  • ...dish determined to go in pursuit without assistance from Mr O’Connor and the blacks. ...reas afterwards bitterness and jealousy arose, in which Mr Hare as well as the Commissioner became involved with Mr O’Connor.
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  • ...and Nolan expressed polite wonder at the tracker’s powers of working in the dark. ...hout the comfort of a fire on freezing nights when the mercury was down in the twenties.
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  • ...ce, he would go to the North Eastern District and refuse to leave it until the outlaws were taken, dead or alive. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • == CHAPTER XVI - A CHANGE IN THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN == ...£6,722—Mr Nicolson thus having at his disposal per month less than half the money spent by Captain Standish and Mr Hare.
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  • ...confidence and help in a manner forming a refreshing contrast to the state of affairs under Mr Hare. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...orses to stand hard work upon such feed as they could pick when hobbled in the bush at night. ...nervous unrest which it was hoped would result sooner or later in some act of rash stupidity.
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  • ...before the end of the month, and at the outlaw’s own request a notice of the letter was published in a local paper. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...s murderer and bushranger who gave Queen’s evidence) and hunt him out of the colony. ...sion searched, but no ammunition was found. They had either thrown it from the window at a spot which they could visit later, or left it behind to be forw
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  • ...used in correspondence with him, in his assumed character as an inspector of stock wrote as follows: ...u for news how to proceed on a day which I shall then state, before end of the week. Other animals are, I fear, diseased. Yours faithfully, B C W.’
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  • ...d to a Beechworth girl and was living with his wife at his old quarters in the gully at [[Woolshed|Woolshed]]. ...rything, he went up in obedience to orders and threw himself heartily into the work.
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  • ...remained at Benalla the outlaws would be afraid to come into the open, and the Queensland Government, which considered that their officer had not been par ...tter in future, and promised to give his most loyal endeavours to the work of betraying his former associates to death.
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  • ...was there, and Wicks answered him. [[Ellen Sherritt|Mrs Sherritt]] went to the door, then turning to her husband she said, ‘It is [[Anton Weekes|Anton W For a moment Aaron seemed to hesitate. Then he walked to the door, asking again, ‘Who is that?’ and seeing it was really Wicks, said
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  • ...and were constantly threatened with death unless they confessed who was in the house, would say nothing but that they were men looking for work. ...alight to the house and actually tried to do so, placing brushwood against the walls and striking matches, which went out.
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  • == CHAPTER XVIII - THE PRISONERS AT GLENROWAN == ...Victorian police. Mr Ramsay therefore wired to Mr Hare that he would send the men up next morning, and Mr Hare, with pardonable irritation, replied that
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  • ...r they were the men on whom he specially wanted to wreak his vengeance for the hunted life his gang had led so long. ...ood as twenty, for he had some faint hope that if only one rail were taken the engine might leap it and go safely on.
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  • ...Curnow assured Kelly that there was no need to distrust him as he was with the outlaws heart and soul, to which Kelly replied, ‘Yes; I know that, and I ...s placed on the mantelpiece, seized an opportunity when no one was looking of picking it up and slipping it into his boot, with a view to making his esca
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  • ...ife—a subject on which he had talked seriously to McIntyre on the day of the police murders nearly two years before. ...ing to do battle with any of the police who might escape from the wreck of the train
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  • == CHAPTER XIX - THE ASSAULT UPON THE HOTEL == ...tation of knowing that his resource and courage had saved the occupants of the special from almost certain death.
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  • ...ed out of Benalla, the pilot engine 150 yards in front carrying one or two of Mr Hare’s men armed and watchful. ...ard had said he would go on to Glenrowan station, draw up there, and await the special which was following. Begging him for God’s sake not do so, as he
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  • ...tating them to the stationmaster, and made arrangements for reinforcements of police being sent forward to Glenrowan. ...f the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical err
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  • ...throughout with pluck and judgment, and not long after telling Mr Hare of the Kelly’s presence he galloped away to Wangaratta to bring back further aid ...emaining hours of darkness, they continued energetically to pour lead into the hotel.
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