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  • | The first encounter, Capture of Ned Kelly, The siege continued, The end.
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  • | capture of Power
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  • Referring to explanation regarding to the capture of the Kelly Outlaws.  I would beg to state that I was awakened on the mor
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  • ...red at him by a squatter who chanced upon him in the bush, but had escaped capture and hidden himself away until, later, he was shot dead, while going to seek ...f the former, and the terrible difficulties of the latter in attempting to capture them.
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  • ...ading guns. In these measures he was influenced, not only by the desire to capture the Kellys and to protect peaceful citizens from their raids, but by a deep
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  • ...ho received extra pay while on Kelly hunting duty, were not too anxious to capture their game and go back to the inactive barracks scale of pay. Most of them,
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  • ...[[Reward|reward]] of £500 per head was offered by the Government for the capture of the bushrangers to make police and civilians as active as possible in th
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  • This was not a hopeful beginning for the capture of the outlaws. Mr Sadlier says the noise of shod horses in that country wa
    4 KB (700 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...probably was not impressed with the capacity of the police for effecting a capture, and her answer was, ‘He has made his bed, let him lie on it.’ The offi
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  • ...On the face of it one would suppose that here was a chance of effecting a capture, but Mr [[Sadleir|Sadlier]] insisted that to follow Mrs Skillion for any di
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  • ...selves for an expedition to Euroa and made all necessary arrangements. The capture of the hawker’s cart was a particularly useful circumstance to them, as m
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  • ...it, with the exception that the mob of prisoners had been added to by the capture of the telegraph repairer, Watt. Ned Kelly questioned him closely as to his
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  • ...was an increase of the [[Reward|reward]] offered by the Government for the capture of the outlaws to £1,000 per head, and an offer of the same amount by the
    4 KB (598 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...mmunicating with the outlaws, and that there was still hope of effecting a capture.
    3 KB (544 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...en it was too stale to be of any use. They probably realised that with the capture of the Kellys their occupation would be gone, and that, though some part of
    3 KB (534 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...be arrested, 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
    3 KB (526 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...ake another bank raid, which, if attempted, would probably result in their capture. Some exploit was necessary to renew their prestige and furnish them with t
    3 KB (560 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...d not have them disturbed unless a chase was practically certain to end in capture. Acting on this principle he let one chance go which Mr Sadlier thought sho
    5 KB (793 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...here were complaints in the press from time to time about their failure to capture the Kellys, knowing what they did, they kept their own counsel. For many mo
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  • ...clock in the evening the outlaws were about to go to the police station to capture Bracken, the constable already referred to. Curnow had heard Ned Kelly talk ...r on foot, all these being intended as hostages or decoys to assist in the capture of Bracken. Knocking and calling failed to bring him out of the barracks, a
    6 KB (1,009 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...r the marks were caused by the rifle fire at Glenrowan on the night of the capture, or by the bushrangers practicing with their pistols. But the holes were th
    5 KB (909 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...may be quite true, of course. The subsequent inquiry into the pursuit and capture of the gang, by a Royal Commission, resulted in reports very damaging to th
    5 KB (863 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...r who made them burn my place down. They hadn't the courage to rush it and capture the Kellys.
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  • Of course, the pursuit and capture of the outlaws was the principle task undertaken by Sergeant Steele in all
    5 KB (802 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...a lock-up keeper down there who was very anxious to get the reward for the capture of the Kellys. One night someone told him that a man had been seen climbing
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  • Most of the people who took prominent part in the hunting and ultimate capture of the Kelly bushrangers have gone to that bourne where the wicked cease fr
    5 KB (930 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • (The failure of the police to follow and capture the Kellys at this stage is strongly commented on in the Royal Commission r
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  • The capture of Jerilderie and looting of the bank of New South Wales there (£3000 was
    5 KB (832 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...ir capture. Rewards amounting to four thousand pounds were offered for the capture of the four outlaws. The New South Wales Government offered another thousan
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  • Evidence as to the shooting and capture of Ned Kelly was given by [[SConst John Kelly|Senior-constable Kelly]], who
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  • ...enjoy a real good time in satirically criticising their futile efforts to capture those notorious outlaws the Kellys. Not once during the three weeks of his
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  • ...Beresford [[Mount Battery|Turner]] furnishes the following account of his capture by the Kelly outlaws-
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  • ...ble end - burnt to cinders - and all that sort of thing. We heard of Ned's capture, and were for taking to the bush again; but the old shepherd made us promis
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  • ...ested persons kept adding fuel to the fire. In writing this account of the capture and destruction of the Last of the Victorian Bushrangers, I have endeavoure ...line of railway between Melbourne and Sydney, as the last resource for the capture of four men, who for the previous two years had set law, order, the governm
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  • ...smith to knock off the irons, and got clear into another colony. After the capture of Meakin, Dr. Mackay presented me with a handsome gold watch, which I have Presented to Lieutenant Francis Hare for his gallant capture of an armed bushranger at Tarrawingee, the 23rd of June, 1856 .
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  • ...l parts of the colony, and sent into the district he frequented to try and capture him.
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  • The Government had offered a reward of £500 for the capture of Power, and my brother officer offered this tempting bait to L-. The man
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  • ...and he always rode splendid horses (of course, stolen property). After his capture I was a good deal with him. I drove him to Beechworth in my buggy, and he t ...ever saw again after leaving him at the hollow tree the morning of Power's capture. I had letters from him, and paid the £500 reward promised to him, to a ge
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  • ...ill fated party of police in the Wombat Ranges, in October 1878, until the capture and death of the bushrangers at Glenrowan, in June 1880, are still too fres
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  • ...olice could not lay their hands on them, although every effort was made to capture them.
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  • ...e, and scattered the wire in every direction. Whilst doing this, a further capture of four men who were working on the line as gangers, and who saw them cutti
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  • ...g|Living]], in which he said this was a pure invention, but also after his capture, stated distinctly there was not one word of truth in the accusation made a ...ring the night to every known crossing-place, to endeavour to effect their capture, but all to no effect. The distance between Jerilderie and Benalla, where I
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  • ...nown Sherritt for years, and if he likes he can put you in the position to capture the Kellys, but I doubt his doing so.” I told him Aaron felt sure they wo
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  • ...here and apprehend him. The constable afterwards took great credit for his capture, not knowing that his arrest was an arranged matter. He was brought before
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  • ...ert, never knowing when a party would be on them. Ned Kelly said after his capture, the hardest part of their life was the constantly keeping guard for fear o
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  • ...onth. He went back to Benalla, and did everything in his power to effect a capture, but all to no purpose—and I was compelled to go back to Benalla, very mu
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  • ...stable, who rejoined the force for the express purpose of assisting in the capture of the Kelly gang. He was a clever, shrewd, careful, quiet man. Young [[Rey
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  • ...a detached building) that he was going down soon to the police barracks to capture Bracken, and that he was going to take her daughter down to call him out. M
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  • ...lete without a full account of all that transpired at Glenrowan during the capture. I have, therefore, taken the following narrative from ''[[The Age (2)|The
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  • Mr Hare, who had been engaged in the capture of [[Harry Power|Power]], the notorious bushranger, was spoken to as to his
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