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  • | Sherritt Mrs Sen , Mullane , Downes , Allen , Barry Mrs , Foster , Sherritt Mrs Jnr , Weekes , Alexander | Hare , Ward , Sherritt Mrs Jnr , Barry Mrs , Baber , Alexander , Mullane
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  • | On Wallace, Sherritt & Joe Byrne | Sherritt J
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  • ...to him and said, ‘Mr Nicolson, this is the house of the [[Anne and John Sherritt Snr|Sherritts]]. The outlaws are said to be here.’ He continued to give s ...rty coming a mile away. A little further on, again, was the house of Mrs [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Byrne]], mother of Joe Byrne, a member of the gang, and this
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  • ...e civilians present, knew anything of what was going on. They no doubt saw Sherritt speaking to the Commissioner, but the later most of the people did not know
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  • ...South Wales . News shortly arrived that on the evening of the day named by Sherritt men supposed to be Byrne and Dan Kelly had been seen riding towards the Mur
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  • ...owed to go to rest. Steve Hart was left in the house as sentry, and he let Mrs Devine know that on any attempt to escape, she and the imprisoned constable
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  • ...rwise, and the evidence is inconclusive, though there is little doubt that Sherritt cared far more for the reward money than for his faith towards other member ...hich Aaron answered that it was three miles or more. Mr Hare believed that Sherritt had sold him, but on riding forward found that he spoke the truth, for they
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  • ...n their way to the house. The police waited; the outlaws did not come, but Sherritt was confident that before long they would do so, and said that if the polic ...had he been seen with the police and remained afterwards in the district. Sherritt realised his danger and on Mr Hare’s advice left the camp immediately at
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  • ...d to break up the camp, but Sherritt assured him that [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]] had, except through him, no means of communicating with the outlaws ...n hut which was not far distant from theirs. Miss Byrne did not go to meet Sherritt, but the old lady drew him aside and told him she had discovered the police
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  • ...the intelligence with which the ambush was conducted. Some five days after Mrs Byrne caught sight of the police Mr Hare came to the conclusion that it was During the time Mr Hare was in the camp Sherritt spent his days as a rule at his own place or his mother’s, which was near
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  • ...t proposed a little scheme. The outlaws, he said, would be sure to come to Mrs Byrne’s, and Joe Byrne would be leading a pack horse with the treasure st
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  • ...as reported, would visit Lloyd’s next day. A police party accompanied by Sherritt went from Benalla, and arrived before daylight next morning near Lloyd’s
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  • ...and a constable immediately set out to the Kellys’ house to capture him. Sherritt, however, bolted when he saw the trooper coming, and though a couple of sho ...Day was just breaking as they climbed the hill, and at the top they found Mrs Skillion, sitting on a log waiting for them. She saluted the police by putt
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  • ...e in letter writing. One of his compositions, posted in September by young Sherritt was a threatening letter to Detective Ward and other police, warning them o
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  • ...d then rode into Beechworth and told Mr Nicolson who happened to be there. Sherritt was instructed to conceal his fear of the gang and endeavour to remain on g ...rom the New South Wales police at Jerilderie. The train in which Lloyd and Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]] travelled was on one occasion searched, but
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  • ...arty of police should be sent to live in concealment in the house of Aaron Sherritt, who had been recently married to a Beechworth girl and was living with his
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  • ...party of [[Police at Sherritt home|four police]] in [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]]’s house. Aaron had been somewhat under a cloud in Mr Hare’s absence.
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  • ...d. Aaron asked who was there, and Wicks answered him. [[Ellen Sherritt|Mrs Sherritt]] went to the door, then turning to her husband she said, ‘It is [[Anton ...arry beyond that there was a man looking for work, and glancing at [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron]] he said, ‘I wanted that fellow. I have got him now and I am satis
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  • ...e were police in the house. [[Joe Byrne|Joe Byrne]] made [[Mrs Ellen Barry|Mrs Barry]] open the front door of the kitchen. It was the back to which Byrne ...ey trusted that the outlaws would not fire through the weatherboard walls. Mrs Barry, indeed, begged them not to, saying that they would shoot her daughte
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  • | THE CAMP AT MRS. BYRNE'S | AARON SHERRITT'S DEATH
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  • ...ratta on horses that were tired out; and that the five constables in Aaron Sherritt's hut on the night of his murder were guilty of gross cowardice and disobed ...esident who conveyed to us the surprising news that [[Jones' Glenrowan Inn|Mrs Jones]], the licensee of the hotel where the fighting took place, was not o
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  • THE STORY OF SHERRITT'S MARRIAGE '''' ...e and [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]] were watching [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne's]] house. Meeting with "The Sun" representative in Melbour
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  • "I was at the inquest in connection with [[Aaron Sherritt|Sherritt's]] murder. There were two bullets in his body. It was a double-barrelled r ...rritt's marriage. I had a good deal to do with it. He used to tell [[Ellen Sherritt|his girl]] he had plenty of money. Well, I knew that there was some due to
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  • ...e and worse and they had no tucker at all. So one day [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]] came along and said she was ashamed but they had nothing and would "Along the road, about dinner time, I met Mrs Byrne's two sons, Joe and Paddy. They said, "Hello, where are you goin
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  • ...strict instructions not to make a fire or give any sign of their presence. Sherritt was with them. ...got from him that the Kellys had gone to the hut the night before and shot Sherritt dead. "Good God!" I cried, "what were you doing?" He co
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  • ...was that he was attacked by the whole Kelly family, that [[Mrs Ellen Kelly|Mrs Kelly]] hit him with a frying pan, and that [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] shot hi Murder of Aaron Sherritt.
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  • ...hen Detective-Sergeant [[Ward|Ward]] caught him and [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]] skinning a sheep. The result was a sentence of six months in gaol for Byr ...outlawry- the attempt [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] to arrest Dan .. Their [[Mrs Ellen Kelly|mother]], sent to gaol for a long term of imprisonment for what
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  • THE TREACHERY OF SHERRITT ...s Byrne outwitted the whole lot of them, and a few words that she had with Sherritt, consequent upon a discovery that police were in the neighbourhood, provoke
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  • ...recognised them in their get-up and changed appearance. They visited Aaron Sherritt's house, and climbed over the Strathbogie Ranges, where the police were sho ...rong, and others. Sherry was shot - and subsequently removed, only to die. Mrs Jones's two children were shot - one fatally. But this was the extent of th
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  • ...Miss 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 ...attle-stealing. He was educated at the Eldorado school, where he and Aaron Sherritt were most intimate friends.
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  • ...ourne to the late Chief Justice, that the gang had been in [[Mount Battery|Mrs Rowe's]] garden cutting cabbages, near Euroa, and similar reports were dail == Aaron Sherritt ==
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  • ...and dangerous job before you, but I will do all I can to assist you." Sherritt had a most exalted opinion of Ned Kelly, and said he did not believe there
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  • == Aaron Sherritt == ...on, and told the detective what I had done. His reply was, “I have known Sherritt for years, and if he likes he can put you in the position to capture the Ke
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  • ...hen said, “We are awfully late, we must hurry on to [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]]’s house,” and we again followed him in the same order as before == At Mrs Byrne ==
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  • ...rne]]'s. Amongst my men I had one who was a thorough larrikin, and [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron]] took a great fancy to him. I sent him to Beechworth for some suppli ...ey had stuck up the bank there, and the first place they would come to was Mrs Byrne's. Aaron said to him, "I want you to join me in a scheme, and if
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  • ...possessed of them. However, I got one addressed to [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt,]] Sheepwash Creek, near Beechworth. This was the address of his father. I ...ime, he thought he would enter his horse for the steeplechase that [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron]] was supposed to ride in, thinking he would thus have a better oppor
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  • ...the direction of Beechworth. Half an hour afterwards Aaron, on his way to Mrs Byrne's, called in at my camp. I told him that Dan Kelly had been seen that ...e remainder of the party go to the usua1 place at the stock yard and watch Mrs Byrne's. You come with a couple of men to my mother's place, and get two me
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  • ...on Aaron, and started him off over the back of our camp, so that if the [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|old woman]] had seen him walking away she could not have rec ...two old women discovered our watching-place. My men and Aaron pleaded that Mrs Byrne had no means of communicating with the outlaws, as she did not know w
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  • ...e 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 on the hill ...se to see if any one arrived or left during the night. [[Margaret Skillion|Mrs Skillian]] and [[Kate Kelly|Katie]] were aware they were being watched, and
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  • == Mrs. Skillian's Hoax == ...e former was always riding about. Reports came in that [[Margaret Skillion|Mrs Skillian]] used to be seen at all hours of the night riding about the bush,
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  • == Aaron Sherritt married == ...ments of the outlaws at Benalla, I started off to Beechworth and saw Aaron Sherritt. I found he had married during my absence, and his family and his wife's re
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  • ...d arrange to do so. Exactly at that time on the following Saturday [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron]] was shot, and two of the outlaws were guarding his place for some h == Aaron Sherritt’s Doom ==
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  • ...ws took possession of the township. They kept watching for persons passing Mrs Jones's hotel, and they would call upon them to "bail up," and ma ...one, or answered any call during the night, they would shoot her husband. Mrs Bracken said she looked out of her window two or three times during the nig
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  • == Aaron Sherritt inquest == At the inquest on the body of [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]], held at the Vine Hotel, Beechworth, before Mr W H [[Foster|Foster]], PM,
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  • ...their tracks. They knew, therefore, directly the news reached Benalla that Sherritt was shot, I should start off with a party of police and black trackers to p This was what [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs. Byrne]] alluded to when she said they were about "to do something tha
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  • The Police at Euroa-Aaron Sherritt-Jerilderie-Capture of the Police Station and Constables-Amateur Policemen-T ...Revenge-A Letter from Joe Byrne-Whorouly races-On Watch at Mrs. Sherritt's-Mrs. Byrne's Discovery-Break-up of the Camp-Arrest of Kelly Sympathizers-A Dyna
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  • Aaron Sherritt | Aaron Sherritt
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  • ...n Dan suggested that Constable Bracken should be handcuffed to the sofa in Mrs. Jones' Hotel. While their mother had great pride in Ned's ability to lead, ...ill in his 'teens he was intimately associated with [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]], with whom he was convicted of having meat in his possession suspected to
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  • ...had a cousin.  He said they urged him to go for a long time as a scout.  Sherritt never told me at that time that they were going to stick up a bank.  He to ...Jerilderie, which was in a very different direction.  They pressed Aaron Sherritt to join them to test how deeply he was involved with the police.  The Kell
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  • ...alled “agents.” The first “spy” engaged was [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]]. ...rsed the promises made to Sherritt by Sadleir and Nicolson, and then Aaron Sherritt, who was at that time engaged to Joe Byrne’s sister, was appointed as a p
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