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  • ...tinually in collision with the police, Lloyd senior, some years before the Kelly outbreak, being imprisoned for four years for maliciously killing a neighbo ...ways in gaol. At any rate, if he, and more men such as he, had been in the Kelly district when the murders did take place, the career of the outlaws would p
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  • ...civilians that some members of the police, who received extra pay while on Kelly hunting duty, were not too anxious to capture their game and go back to the ...ding of Superintendent [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] to Benalla to take command of Kelly operations, leaving Superintendent Sadlier in ordinary charge of his distri
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  • ...d digging near by came up and mingled with the throng. All idea of further Kelly hunting was abandoned for the day. Refreshments were sent for, and soon the
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  • ...miles from Melbourne, and considerably south of the district known as the Kelly country, in which the bushrangers were most at home. There is some conflict ...t the Kellys were doing was [[Patrick Quinn|Patrick Quin]], husband of Ned Kelly’s aunt, and himself a relative to the outlaws; and he claims to have give
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  • From this day there began a new regime in the Kelly pursuit, Mr Nicolson going to Melbourne to take the Chief Commissioner’s ...the district, who knew that every move was watched and reported by active Kelly sympathisers, who would be galloping away into the bush, with news almost b
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  • ...chworth, and learnt that on previous Wednesday Dan Kelly had been at [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]]’s and had breakfasted there. The gang, he said, had sep
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  • ...ion; and it appears that almost from the inception of the enterprise [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]] had observed policemen’s tracks, which the sympathisers ...the outlaws possessed the same iron constitutions. According to Aaron, Ned Kelly had twice his physical powers in every way, but he considered himself a bet
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  • ...ny]], [[Jimmy|Jimmy]], [[Barney|Barney]], and [[Jacky|Jack]]. Early in the Kelly campaign the Queensland authorities had offered the services of some of the
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  • ...and to keep his hand in, and partly because he was not pleased with [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne’s]] conduct towards him and felt a desire to punish her.
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  • ...beaten thus, and promptly put muzzles on their dogs. On one occasion Kate Kelly was seen riding away with a large bundle on the saddle to her cousin [[Tom
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  • ...nd he informed Mr Hare that he was going to make love to [[Kate Kelly|Kate Kelly]]. She was well disposed towards him; but Mrs Skillion, who was keener sigh [[Margaret Skillion|Mrs Skillion]] appears to have shown great feminine ingenuity in w
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  • ...finding the agent who was working in a paddock near by. On hearing of Dan Kelly’s visit he hid himself until dark, and then rode into Beechworth and told ...e New South Wales police at Jerilderie. The train in which Lloyd and Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]] travelled was on one occasion searched, but no ammuniti
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  • ...’Connor and others Mr Sadlier consented. [[Kate Kelly|Kate Kelly]] and [[Margaret Skillion|Mrs Skillion]], who with numerous other sympathisers had come upon ...rry]]; from the house the body of Joe Byrne. The bodies of [[Dan Kelly|Dan Kelly]] and [[Steve Hart|Steve Hart]] were seen by Dean Gibney, lying side by sid
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  • ...mpathisers remained in sullen, threatening mood, and while [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] lived the gang and their exploits were a constant topic of thought and co ...sing together in the hotel, were convinced that this was the case, but Ned Kelly, when asked his opinion, said he believed they were too cowardly to volunta
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  • "[[Dan Kelly|Dan]] and [[Steve Hart|Steve]] are dead. I know it. No matter how. They are ...n a chance at all. There's a picture show with a lot of nonsense about the Kelly gang going about now. I've got an injunction against it in some places, but
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  • ...table [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]], the trooper whose attempt to arrest Dan Kelly at the homestead was the primary cause of the Kellys becoming outlaws. ...which the police and [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]] were watching [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne's]] house. Meeting with "The Sun" representative
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  • [[James Kelly|Jim Kelly]] during his interview with "The Sun" representative, was asked w And he told. He said that after [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]] found Aaron Sherritt spying for the police she met him an
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  • ...So a party of them, under his leadership, maintained guard over Mrs [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Byrne's]] house, in the hope that the outlaws would visit it for seve ...omrades dead, the people of a whole continent clamouring for his life, Ned Kelly was sent to Melbourne in heavy custody of superfluous men and unnecessary w
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  • TRIAL AND DEATH OF NED KELLY ...|Fitzpatrick]], towards his mother, and charged that officer with perjury. Kelly also described how his mother had been left to bring up a large family of y
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  • ...belonged to-that does not matter now. But the owner was a man who believed Kelly's story of what happened on the afternoon of Fitzpatrick's disastrous visit ...nd the provisions left for them by their sisters-[[Kate Kelly|Kate]] and [[Margaret Skillion|Maggie]]. These girls were possibly the bravest Australian women w
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  • ...e best horsewoman in the whole family, was often mistaken for Kate. As Jim Kelly has told me time after time, Maggie was the one to whom they were chiefly i ...only place where they could be obtained. And to Melbourne accordingly Kate Kelly was sent to buy them.
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  • == Ned Kelly’s family, Steve Hart, and Joe Byrne == ...Quinn, and all her people were thieves. The mother ([[Mrs Ellen Kelly|Mrs. Kelly]]) is still alive, but was in gaol during most of the time her sons were ou
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  • == Ned Kelly’s Statement == ...he police became a nuisance to the family." At one period of his life Kelly described himself as a "wandering gamester." He states in this do
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  • ...d they both rode into Beechworth together. My man was taken for one of the Kelly spies, especially as he was in Aaron's company. The people of Beechworth at ...constable said, "What is it ?" He replied, "I feel sure the Kelly gang will return from Jerilderie either tonight or during the course of thi
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  • ...gnificently mounted. The men and horses could have been backed against the Kelly gang, man for man, at anything. We also arranged that I should ride out mys ...purchased a few days before. He was pointed out to me by several people as Kelly and Byrne's greatest friend. I was asked why I did not have him arrested fo
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  • ...there or not. He did not. I asked him if there were any strangers at [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]]'s. He said, "Yes, a man named Scotty, who lives up o == Arrest of the Kelly Sympathizers ==
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  • ...three sisters; the former was always riding about. Reports came in that [[Margaret Skillion|Mrs Skillian]] used to be seen at all hours of the night riding ab
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  • ...to have the Harts' house watched from Wangaratta, and for a party to watch Kelly's house from Glenrowan, The orders to the men were, that after dark every n ...t Glenrowan, reported that the four men who had been watching [[Kelly Home|Kelly's house]] were completely knocked up, being out night after night in the we
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  • ...as they were about to put this newly conceived plan into operation, Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillian]], sister of the Kellys, dressed in a dark riding habit t Kate Kelly at this juncture came upon the scene, but the only expression which escaped
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  • ...accurate aim. I have no hesitation in saying that had they been without [[Kelly's Armour|armour]] when we first attacked them at the hotel, and could have Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly went to [[Woolshed|Woolshed]] shoot [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]] Satur
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  • While suffering the pangs of this terrible torture, Ned Kelly cried out: "If ever I shoot a man, Lonigan, you will be the first&quot ...o uniforms and costs. (It was Supt Hare who, in later years, described Ned Kelly as the greatest man in the world.)
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  • ...innocence, and was, therefore, discharged. This discharge also cleared Dan Kelly. ...enalla and rapped at my quarters, and told me that he had been shot by Ned Kelly and wounded in the arm. That was on the morning of the 16th. I examined his
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  • ...ere called, many looked surprised. It was not known outside Greta that Mrs Kelly had been married to George King some time after she settled on the Eleven-M Although Mrs Kelly, Skillion and Williamson were arrested and brought to Benalla on April 17,
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  • ...It was arranged that Wright should go at once to Greta and interview Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]], from whom Wright asserted he would obtain, the full fa ...hing was blackened by powder, showing that the shot had been fired, as Ned Kelly subsequently stated, at very close range.
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  • ...party’s cart, Steve Hart, and Beecroft, drove the hawker's wagon and Dan Kelly rode on horseback. ...is hand, carefully closed the bank door. Dan Kelly kept guard outside. Ned Kelly observed the entry of Steve Hart into the bank, and he then withdrew the ch
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  • ...the Murray, and intended going to Goulburn, in New South Wales, where the Kelly’s had a cousin.  He said they urged him to go for a long time as a scout ...[[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]] was a police spy, and Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly called on him and gave him the story of a visit to Goulburn, New South Wale
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  • ...he [[Police Trackers|blackfellows]] in ordering the police to go first: “Kelly very soon now, you go catch ‘em.” ...horse down to Greta and sold it to Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]] (Ned Kelly’s sister), to whom he gave the usual receipt.  Mrs Skillion soon discove
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  • “The signals which [[Margaret Skillion|Mrs Skillion]] makes from her place clearly bring her within the r “Sir,—I have been requested by E and D Kelly to do what I could to assist them in crossing here, I am to write to you to
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  • These spies also reported that the outlaws were starved out, and that Dan Kelly was seen somewhere, and that he was very thin and starved-looking.  Mr Nic ...of the immunity they now enjoyed from pursuit, and settled down in their [[Kelly Home|old home]] at Eleven-Mile Creek.  They put a ceiling of bark in the h
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  • ...rranged that the cousin who helped to make the armour should go with Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]] and a friend from Glenrowan way.  The three were to go ...up and wired to Supt Sadleir at Benalla to watch the evening train for the Kelly friends and relatives, and to search the train for ammunition, which under
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  • ...n exchange of prisoners.  The first thing was to secure their [[Mrs Ellen Kelly|mother’s]] freedom, and also that of the others, Skillion and Williamson, ...ed, and, notwithstanding that a party of police were there, watching [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|his mother]]’s house, he went home.  His mother had some startling
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  • ...s]].  Mr HM [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]], who shortly after the capture of Ned Kelly succeeded Captain Standish as Chief Commissioner of Police, had already bee ...aron Sherritt|Sherritt]] expected trouble after his quarrel with Mrs [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Byrne]] and his threat to shoot and outrage Joe Byrne.  Supt Hare de
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  • ...e that Martin Cherry was lying wounded in a detached building, shot by Ned Kelly early in the day, as it has since been ascertained, because he would not ho ...moved to the railway platform, and Supt. Sadleir handed them over to Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]] and [[Richard Hart|Richard Hart]].
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  • ...two years, it was decided to abandon the attempt to take the bodies of Dan Kelly and Steve Hart from their relatives, and the sixteen mounted policemen retu ...Dean Gibney put aside for ever the absurd concoctions which claim that Dan Kelly escaped from Glenrowan, and which formed the subject of a despicable book u
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  • ...d in Beechworth. In all probability they will be present when the eighteen Kelly confederates are brought up before Mr WH Foster, PM, this (Saturday) aftern ...than all the reward we have offered. It should be immediately doubled. Had Kelly doubled his gang the escort and £10,000 would have easily fallen into his
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  • '''THE KELLY SYMPATHISERS''' ...xplained that the object was to obtain relief for the persons known as the Kelly [[Sympathizers|sympathisers]], who had now been in gaol three months, witho
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  • '''THE KELLY GANG''' ...ally believed here that the police have recently been on the tracks of Ned Kelly.
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  • '''THE KELLY GANG. MANSFIELD ''' ...s Kelly's late residence, Greta, a few days ago, and immediately after Ned Kelly came there for the purpose of seeing the child and his sister. I believe th
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  • ...or the report. As a matter of fact, it appears that on Friday night Mrs. [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]], a married sister of the Kellys, accompanied by another
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  • ...st important information with regard to the Kelly gang. The visit of Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillian]] and her companions to [[Melbourne|Melbourne]] does not
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