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  • ...department, would they have agreed to Wallace's taking this position of an agent or informer? ...arrived at the conclusion that Wallace, although ostensibly assisting the police, was not acting fairly by them. He said that he did not know whether he was
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  • ...an> Was it the Education Department that moved in the matter first, or the police?— I know of no steps being taken until I had this interview with Captain ...spicious of Wallace, that Wallace had offered to give information, and the police were distrustful of him.
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  • ...with questions about the basis of Standish's disagreements with his fellow police officers. 'Did you always consider John Sherritt a reliable agent?'
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  • ...an> Did you always consider [[John Sherritt Jnr|John Sherritt]] a reliable agent?— Yes, I did. There was nothing against him at any time. 16028 On what ground did you consider any other agent unreliable?— I never put implicit confidence in any man.
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  • ...shoot each other, if surrounded at any time, shurrer than surrender to the police.’ And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same t
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  • ...ork for me or have anything to do with me, although he had accompanied the police from Beechworth the previous day for the purpose of having an interview wit ...[[#rc16320|16320]]</span> Do you feel at liberty to say who that principal agent is?— “[[Aaron Sherritt|Remmick]].” You see in my statement I merely g
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  • ...t that, and I knew nothing about that till I saw this “Diseased Stock” agent. ...of the most important particulars of any evidence that was of value to the police force as well as Mr. Nicolson?— Yes.
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  • ...June 1880, did you not learn all the information about “[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock]]”?— I did by letter.
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  • ...having received all this information so recently from “[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock]]” you allowed the trackers to leave the North-Eastern dis ...comparing small things with great, talking about generalship and so on in police matters;—do you think it was good generalship being discovered by [[Marga
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  • ...Yes; he told me all about the accounts of those agents, who consisted of [[Police Agents|Stevens]] at Glenrowan and Aaron Sherritt at Beechworth, and no one ...g information?— Yes; that is all I know of, and the “Diseased Stock” agent. He used to get payment from me when he came in and gave information.
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  • ...eal with is the condition of the district as regards crime previous to the police murders, and previous to my doing there. I took charge of the district in J ...roperly no responsibility in any transaction, even where I acted as a free agent at the time, so long as my action was afterwards approved by my superior of
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  • ...nt, question 9873, is “That a man named—told Constable Healey that the police would have hotter work than they ever had before with the last mob: and tha
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  • ..., what is your own opinion of the suitability of the two Sherritts for the police force?— One I had never seen, but I should have nothing to do with men co ...the suitability of a man of Jack Sherritt's bearing and character for the police force?— I do not think he is at all suitable. Any man with criminal conne
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  • ...>[[#rc16813|16813]]</span> Do you remember him saying anything about the [[Police at Sherritt home|watch party in Aaron]] Sherritt's house?— No, I do not t ...19|16819]]</span> Mr. Nicolson said in his evidence, “I used to meet the agent known as ‘Diseased stock’ and I would take down the information he gave
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  • ...ick was to meet him in the evening. I told him also of “[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock]],” handing him the papers, and, I believe, three letters
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  • ...ith.” The man's reasons for refusing were no doubt these, viz., that the Police Department, during Captain Standish's term in Benalla, owed him over £20 w
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  • ...Beechworth. I particularly enjoined him to say it was not for fear of the police, but just to express a general fear that it was too big a place to go into.
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  • 16959 Did that affect your own [[Police Organisation|travelling allowance]]?— No, it did not. ...of much value in showing, that the outlaws were near. The claimant is the agent alluded to by Mr. Hare as refusing to work for him”?— That is a mere as
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  • 16990 Upon his information you brought up a large party of police on the Sunday?— Yes; I did not say a large party 16998 And you left with a party of police with Sherritt, leaving Everton, to go to Sebastopol ?— Yes.
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  • ...im that I was in a very unpleasant position with the Chief Commissioner of Police and with another officer at least, or something of the kind, some unpleasan ...[[#rc17065|17065]]</span> Did not I tell you about the “[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock]]” man?— No, I will explain. You know his real name?
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  • 17101 [[Police Agents|Stevens]] was one?— Yes. 17102 “[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased stock]]” was two?— Yes.
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  • There were no firearms in the police station at all. ...ity. Quinn mentioned his dealings with people such as James Whitty and the agent Billy Cook. He also spoke about local things such as ploughing matches and
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  • ...could. My impression regarding Mrs. Jones is that she was in favor of the police. ...17624]]</span> You could not tell that anyone you spoke to might not be an agent of the gang?— No, I could not. I was not afraid to speak to Mr. [[Stanist
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  • ...olmaster in the North-Eastern district had been acting as an agent for the police, and identifying him as s schoolfellow of Joe Byrne,’ I had several conve ...nts worked better and were more faithful to Mr. Hare than any other of the police officers, and that was an additional reason the outlaws had of fearing Mr.
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  • ...es that application had been made to the Chief Commissioner for additional police prior to the attack upon Euroa, and Mr. Nicolson, in cross-examination, rei ...is remarkable episode. There was, at the time of the robbery, virtually no police protection in Euroa. The constable, the only one stationed there, had been
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  • ...son [[Army|Artillery]] were gradually withdrawn, while the strength of the police in the district was also considerably reduced, as will be seen from the fol Number of Officers and Police stationed in the North-Eastern district and the extra [[Cost of KellyGang|e
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  • ...informant, was the man who tried to induce me to proceed with the Benalla police and meet him at the head of the King River on the day before the Euroa bank .... The relative merits of the [[Police Tactics|two systems]] adopted by the police in connection with operations against the Kelly gang, namely, that of searc
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  • ...informant, was the man who tried to induce me to proceed with the Benalla police and meet him at the head of the [[King River|King River]] the day before th ...raid upon the banks. The relative merits of the two systems adopted by the police in connection with operations against the Kelly gang, namely, that of searc
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  • ...atch parties, or in endeavouring to induce the outlaws to suppose that the police were not on the alert. There were very few search parties despatched, and i
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  • ...ten minutes past eleven; that it took him about half-an-hour to reach the police station; and it is admitted upon all hands that the interview did not termi
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  • ...most important crossing on the King River, and a good site for the mounted police to perform their proper duties. ...Mile Creek|Fifteen-mile Creek]]. My reason for that suggestion is that the police at that station would command the country between the Fifteen-mile Creek an
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  • ...police?— The officer of police must, of course, himself have an [[agents|agent]]. People will not allow him to see them, or get into their secret. 15 That agent, in your view, ought to be a man in whom the officers have undoubted confid
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  • 32 Do you know those young men?— The police know them very well, those that are suspected. We cannot of course tell the 33 The police know them so that if an outbreak should occur hereafter, and an Act were pa
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  • ...ceed to Benalla up to the period of the Kelly gang being surrounded by the police at Glenrowan on the 27th June. ...mes McCulloch. Ten years having elapsed since then, and my position in the police force being still the same, I did not see any advantage to be gained by bei
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  • REPORT OF ACTING C. C. POLICE ON THE NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT. 81/392 Police Department, Chief Commissioner's Office,
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  • == Steps taken by Police == ...Telegraphic communication established between banks, telegraph office, and police station, Beechworth, with a view to signals being given all round on slight
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  • == Steps taken by Police == | [Agent Moses only employed to watch, on the recommendation of Detective Ward
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  • == Steps taken by Police == | [Enquiry by police.] No truth in rumor
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  • == Steps taken by Police == ...lshed Sebastopol, and Reid's Creek, returned, and reports nothing known of police movements (cave party).
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  • == Steps taken by Police == | [Enquiries by police. Report found untrue.]
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  • Police Department (Chief Commissioner’s Office) ...h September instant, in which he denies that my agent, “[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock]],” came into Benalla on Thursday the 24th June 1881, prec
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  • == Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir == ...rvention that the serviced of the ‘[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock Agent]],’ whose story I have elsewhere told, were secured. Yet [[Steele|Steele]
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  • == Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir == ...but as a rule he looked forward to the Kellys being captured by the white police alone.
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  • == Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir == ...itself. Each mountain was to be surrounded by a cordon of several hundred police and military, who would then march to its summit, where - it was assumed th
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  • == Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir == | [[Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter I page 1|I]]
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  • | police including Sgt [[Steele|Steele]], Det [[Ward|Ward]] and Const [[Strahan|Stra The police were prepared to allow Mrs Kelly bail but they required 50 pounds from her
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  • | [[Police Organisation|Secretan]] | [[Police Organisation|Secretan]] reported to Sadleir '''KellyGang''' camp
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  • | Monk , [[Queensland police|Queensland]] police write to O'Connor about trackers ([[The Argus at KellyGang 13/5/1879|Argus] | [[Diseased Stock Agent|Deseased Stock]]
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  • | James [[James Wallace|Wallace]] wrote to police | [[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased stock agent]] wrote to Nicolson
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  • | [[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased stock agent]] wrote to Nicolson | [[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock]]
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  • | [[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock Agent]] wrote to police | [[Standish|Standish]] retired from the police force, Nicolson took over
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  • [[Diseased Stock Agent|Balfour]] WC [[Benalla Police Station|Bell]]
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  • ...issed all the judges of county courts, courts of mines and insolvency; all police magistrates, coroners and wardens of goldfields; the engineer in chief of r ...ne of operations. Mr. [[Nicolson|Nicolson]], the Assistant Commissioner of Police, who had done good service in the capture of bushrangers in the early days
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  • ...''' was considered to be a great [[Sympathizers|sympathiser]] and my chief agent. ([[Royal Commission report day 48 page 2|RC16317]]) ...ent]] passed the Felons Apprehension Act. That turned us into outlaws. The police now had authority to shoot us on sight. They did not need an act of Parliam
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  • ...n Sherritt and my daughter]] ''',''' [[#l79|Later in 1879]] , [[#2ndcp|2nd Police Cave Party]] , [[#ein80|Early in 1880]] , [[#doAS|Death of Aaron Sherritt]] ...fourteen at the time when Aaron Sherritt died and described by one of the police as an old-fashioned boy.
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  • == Diseased Stock Agent == == Importance of the Diseased Stock Agent ==
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  • With Nicolson, I was the commander of the police chasing the '''KellyGang;''' the first time was with Standish after the Eur ...met Captain Standish and Mr. Nicolson at Euroa. and there was a number of police there.
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  • ...' April 1879 I was employed by Mr. Hare as a scout and guide to assist the police in the pursuit of the Kellys , at the rate of one pound per day. ([[Royal C ...ry:People starting with K]] [[Category:Lawrence Kirwan]] [[Category:Police agent]] [[Category:Renwick]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...a police to [[Standish|Standish]], and with [[Hare|Hare]] commander of the police hunting after the '''KellyGang'''. Some people saw me as a dour Scot and th I led the police team against the '''KellyGang''' '''''' from the time it was formed after t
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  • ...s Ellen Kelly|Ellen]], was Patrick Quinn's sister in law. A sympathizer or agent? I lived at South Hansen, seven miles beyond Greta. ...KellyGang''' approached me in November and suggested that I might tell the police about the '''KellyGang''''s intention of robbing banks in Bright, Seymour,
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  • ...ct of operations at Glenrowan was not judicious or calculated to raise the police force in the estimation of the public It is easy to find fault. I was on du ...th police districts were combined and my headquarters changed to [[Benalla Police Station|Benalla]] ([[Royal Commission report day 10 page 1|RC1721]])
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  • I was a friend of [[Joe Byrne|Joe Byrne]] and a police agent. I was murdered by Joe Byrne. ' Also known as Tommy '''Links to the KellyGa ...sed me of cutting the brand from the hide of the beast. That prevented the police from bringing the more serious charge of cattle-stealing. ([[Royal Commissi
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  • ...was [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]]'s sister who helped him as a police agent??. Det [[Ward|Ward]] even called me a 'secret, cunning, good girl, and I ha ...ne|Byrne]]'s place. After this Mrs Byrne suspected Aaron of being a police agent and she broke off the relationship between Aaron and her daughter [[Catheri
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  • ...urders|7/11/1878]]''' On the morning of the 7th the [[Sebastopol Cavalcade|police arrived in force]]. They smashed their way into my home and offered no apol ...colson|Nicolson]] smashed his way into my home and most of the rest of the police followed. They were looking for the '''KellyGang'''. They all finished up t
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  • ...ne|Byrne]]'s place. After this Mrs Byrne suspected Aaron of being a police agent and she broke off the relationship between Aaron and her daughter [[Catheri
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  • ...ther came over each night to keep me company each night when Aaron and the police went out to watch over [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]] fence or do what ev I had a role in the police action when Sup Hare and Det Ward came to our place. ([[Royal Commission re
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  • ...was [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]]'s brother who helped him as a police agent '''Links to the KellyGang''' , [[#2|Early Years]] , Fitzpatrick Incident , ...ne|Byrne]]'s place. After this Mrs Byrne suspected Aaron of being a police agent and she broke off the relationship between Aaron and her daughter [[Catheri
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  • I was paid as an agent by [[Standish|Standish]], Sup [[Hare|Hareand]] [[Nicolson|Nicolson]]. ([[Ro I did not get my work with the police approved by the Education authorities. (RC14718)
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  • I was the police detective based mainly at Beechworth. In that role I chased the '''KellyGan ...icolson]] , [[#6|Spring 1879 Early 1880]] , [[#scp|Cave party]] , [[#paasp|Police at Aaron Sherritt's place]] , [[#26/6/1880|Death of Aaron Sherritt]] , [[#2
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  • === Jacob was a farmer who assisted the police as they hunted the KellyGang === I had been in Victoria for nearly 30 years and never had any trouble with the police ([[Royal Commission report day 16 page 13|RC4543]])
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  • ...bed as being tall and softly spoken. At the age of 28 I was described in a police report as being 6 foot 1 inches tall, of medium build, and 13 stone in weig ...ent 15/04/1878''' Mr [[Wyatt|Wyatt]] thinks that I could have assisted the police at about this time, offering to bring the Kellys in if the Government would
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  • ...lexandra shire was formed in 1869 '''Local Government''' '''[[Police Towns|Police]] Station''' '''''' '''[[Telegraph|Telegraph]] Office''' Maurice Raphael Estate agent and mining sharebroker
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  • [[Steve Hart|Steve Hart's]] family lived near Green's paddock, police party watched are in October 1879. ([[Royal Commission report day 14 page 1 '''Smith''' an agent?. ([[Royal Commission report 3/5/1881|RC3007]])
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  • Ned Kelly apparently accused me of being a police [[Police Agents|agent]], probably because I assisted Const [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] after he h ...ence and is liable to a heavy fine and keeps a book of information for the police and his character needs no comment for he is capable of rendering Fitzpatri
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  • '''Robert George Duff''' was the agent at Maindample park. He gave evidence at the trial id Walter Lynch. ([[The A In about 1891 the police station at Maindample was closed
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  • The police station was opened in 1866 ...scovery of gold Oxley developed with blacksmiths, hotels, schools, shops a police station. Oxley was on the route to [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] (via [[Everton
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  • ...had secured Const [[Devine|Devine]] and [[Const Richards|Richards]] at the police station they came into Jerilderie and 'booked' into the Royal. ...10 February 1879 Const Richards introduced me to a group of men dressed in police uniform. They entered the front bar which at that time was located in the s
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  • ...[ev78-12--2Euroa Robbery|12/12/1878]], after the [[Euroa|Euroa]] robbery a police search party was sent into the Strathbogie ranges. ([[The Argus at KellyGan The police believed the KellyGang were in the Strathbogie Ranges ([[The Argus at Kelly
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  • '''Henry''' '''Baylis,''' Esq,police magistrate, '''Chas. M Lloyd, John Leitch, James Cochran, William Faed, Ale stock &amp; station agent'''s Power''', '''Rutherford''', and Co, Mr '''George Mair''' ('''Ettersbank
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  • In December- January 1879 Sup [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] sent an [[agents|agent]] into the Wombat Ranges.([[Royal Commission report day 11 page 4|RC2028]]) Mr Monk and 2 of his men agreed to lead the police to [[Stringy Bark Creek|Stringy Bark Creek]] and they left again in heavy r
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  • ...most famous of the police agents but there were a number of others. See [[Police Agents|names]]. ...r there was often a fine line between people who were prepared to help the police and those who wanted to hinder them. Standish was dismissive of many of Nic
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  • == The role of police agents == == <span id="List of police">[[#List%20of%20police|police agents at KellyGang]]</span> ==
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  • ...lson|Nicolson]] assured the press that the reward would not be paid to the police ([[The Argus at KellyGang 17/12/1878|Argus17/12/78]]) ...was of course lower than for the others. Almost all the money went to the police.
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  • &quot;One of the earliest combined movements of the police in pursuit of the outlaws was not calculated to favorably impress the mind ...ome on 2/11/[[ev78-10--4Mansfield Murders|1878]]. That was reported to the police on 5/11/1878. ([[Royal Commission report day 10 page 14|RC1946]])
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  • === Reports to the police about the === ...on|Nicolson]] in about May 1880 that the '''KellyGang''' had armour, other police officers did not believe him. See text of letter [[events 1880-4/ 1880-6|20
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  • By April [[15-04-78 Fitzgerald incident|1878]] the police had had some successes against the locals and many of the Kellly's friends ...e boys refused to be arrested and they started a life in the bush with the police in pursuit.
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  • ...That message appeared in the press next morning. the Inspector-General of Police in New South Wales' response to the news of the [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]] r ...'''KellyGang''' and their friends perhaps understood this better than the police and played little games. Occasionally the lines would be broken without rea
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