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  • Horse stealing was like taking a sports car for a spin today. The sport of young ...changing, and altering of brands, that unless the owner drops upon his own horse, no person can know it by description. They are so clever at altering the b
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  • ...'''KellyGang''' found fame and fortune and where their friends indulged in horse stealing and tried to make a life against the challenges of the squatters a
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  • ...bushrangers and a record of their most eventful career of highway robbery, horse stealing, romance and murder
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  • ...e on boys” and he and the police made a rush for the hotel. I let go the horse I was holding and followed them over. I would be about twenty yards behind
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  • ...erally known in the township that they were in search of the Kellys, whose horse stealing exploits, and the alleged attempted murder of a certain Constable ...e, no Australian bushman ever thinks of walking where it is possible for a horse to get foothold, or scramble through the trees. Wattle and sassafras scrub
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  • ...ined he too would be murdered, quick as thought he leapt on to Kennedy’s horse and gal-loped away through thick scrub. ...n his horse fell heavily. He mounted again and rode on for a time till his horse gave in; when, believing him to be wounded, the constable took of saddle an
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  • ...hing a glimpse of some stranger near the Broken River, immediately let his horse go and concealed himself, believing that he was pursued by the bushrangers.
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  • ...d together, and slung like packs, one on either side a horse’s back. The horse chosen to carry this burden seemed to have some instinctive horror of trave
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  • ...rt limbs bruised and disfigured by the trees and bushes, against which the horse bumped them as he forced his way through the forest.
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  • ...the body, and, like those of his unfortunate comrades, it was slung upon a horse for conveyance through the bush to the saw mills, whence a vehicle took it
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  • ...idden himself away until, later, he was shot dead, while going to seek his horse at Peechelba, a station he had stuck up upon the New South Wales border.
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  • ...communication with one another, and effected many captures of adventurous horse and cattle stealers. Until the whole of the professional ‘duffing’ popu
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  • ...[[Joe Byrne|Joe Byrne]], the fourth, had also both been known as cattle or horse stealers, but enjoyed by no means so evil a notoriety as the Kellys. At the
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  • ...mily who happened to be in trouble at the time, were wanted on a charge of horse stealing. The warrant was not in his possession, but that circumstance was ...ion’s companion, Fitzpatrick naturally did not believe, and studying the horse attentively, he recognized it. ‘Why, that is Dan Kelly’s mare,’ he sa
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  • [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] said he would, and, tying up his horse, went in to join the party, where he was welcomed with abuse by Mrs Kelly, ...depart, keeping him in the hut till eleven o’clock, when he mounted his horse and rode away through [[Winton|Winton]] to [[Benalla Police Station|Benalla
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  • ...]], on the [[Murray Flats|Murray Flats]]. Baumgarten had been convicted of horse stealing, and was a known associate of the bushrangers, who had often visit
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  • ...or provide him with firearms or any other weapon or with ammunition or any horse equipment or other assistance or directly or indirectly give or cause to be
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  • ...d by his men, the police officer charged the house, flung himself from his horse at the door and broke it in. One of his party, Constable [[Const Hugh Brack
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  • ...of Joe Byrne, and had been engaged in several [[Horse and Cattle stealing|horse stealing]] exploits with him and the Kellys, besides which it was pretty ce
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  • ...Wangaratta. It came upon the outlaws’ tracks, recovered Kennedy’s pack horse, which they had abandoned, and then, by his orders, returned to Wangaratta.
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  • ...were ever really very close upon the Kellys. An examination of Kennedy’s horse led him to the conclusion that it had been abandoned for about a week. ...ding the party into marshy ground, where there were thousands of prints of horse and cattle hoofs and it was quite out of the question to follow any individ
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  • ...killion went, she went far, for according to the agents’ information her horse was always knocked up when she returned, and for her expeditions she consta
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  • ...ng at his watch, Mr Wyatt came to the conclusion that with this slow going horse, which objected to any pace faster than a walk, it would be impossible for
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  • ...in his turn before dismounting, while Kennedy had taken shelter behind his horse and made excellent revolver practice, one bullet going through Kelly’s be
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  • ...his groom was out, and telling Kelly if he wanted the trap, to harness the horse himself. This was not at all the kind of language to which Kelly was accust ...s vehicle fell, and a halt was made while the outlaws got out to put the horse on his feet and see to the harness, but without any other incident Faithful
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  • ...p and followed, the troublesome overseer presently getting a fall from his horse and dropping out of the party, much to Mr Nicolson’s satisfaction. By mid
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  • ...ous and kept at a distance; but [[Joe Byrne|Joe Byrne]] had jumped off his horse and entered into a long conversation, during which he had asked Sherritt to
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  • ...e bar. Before this, towards evening, he had sent Byrne away leading a pack horse, with the money in a bag strapped to the saddle. He himself was next to lea
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  • ...y reported to do. On instructions from Mr Hare, Sherritt got down from his horse and sneaked forward to make certain who the men by the fire might be, and i
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  • ...he told the superintendent much of the ways of [[Horse and Cattle stealing|horse stealers]] generally and of himself and the Kellys in particular. For his o
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  • ...ously sensible thing for himself and the constable to do was to follow the horse, get the pack, and hide it in the bush, returning when the excitement was o
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  • ...£15, thus [[Cost of KellyGang|saving]] the Government £4 and getting the horse into the bargain. The police stables, too, at Benalla were another useless
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  • ...ed by two horsemen just as darkness was coming on. One of them led another horse. He did not know them at first, but when they spoke he recognised Joe Byrne
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  • ...rs, leading Bracken’s horse. He order the constable to mount and led the horse with a halter, remarking that he could not trust Bracken with the bridle, t
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  • ...s likewise going presently to bed, and he made all haste to harness up his horse for a race to Benalla. Suddenly he heard the train approaching. It was at s
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  • '''UNCLE JIM–AND A HORSE DEAL.''' ...ing! Uncle Jim’s here-coming right through the panel now on his chestnut horse.”
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  • ...he other side. The uncle matches gravely and contentedly, for he knows the horse - he quotes its pedigree briefly and with the air of one who has said all t "The horse is yours," is the brief reply. "Take care of him."
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  • ...isitors' gig, talking blithely of the glorious time that the advent of the horse upon her youthful horizon has uncurtained for her. ...s of her acquaintance even had the privilege of occasionally riding such a horse as she now owned, absolutely, as her own.
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  • ...now - takes him away from human habitations often for weeks at a time. His horse and his dogs are his only companions on these long excursions, and it would
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  • ...not true, as far as I know. I got into trouble for it. And I only saw the horse as the boys were playing with it.
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  • ...eal in farming. He is as keen as ever on horses; he always did love a good horse; and he finds agriculture an agreeable and profitable pastime.
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  • ...ks there that would never think of taking anything else who couldn't see a horse or a saddle wanting someone to look after it. Strange the ? had for horses.
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  • ...le ?ing after dark always had their hands ready to throw up if anyone on a horse rode by. If you stopped a man on the road and asked him the way, or the tim
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  • ...tion. The idea was a most promising one. It was that the New South Wales [[Horse and Cattle stealing|robbers]] should steal in their own State and the Kelly ...a mistake made some time or other. And it was Byrne that made it. A stolen horse was found in his paddock at Barnawartha. He couldn't account for it beyond
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  • ...nstantly shot. Kennedy dismounted and fired at the outlaws from behind his horse but the animal bolted past McIntyre who jumped on it and galloed away. Kenn
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  • ...s been brought in by Mr Lyving, the bank clerk, who escaped, and getting a horse reached Deniliquin about 9pm. The telegraph line soon after became O.K., an ...more dangerous to have your escort than to meet the Kellys." Powell's horse turned a complete summersault on Bunyip Plain.
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  • ...d not be overlooked. Jack Lloyd, who was implicated in the alleged case of horse stealing for which Fitzpatrick sought to arrest Dan Kelly, was subsequently
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  • ...a few vehicles, he was riding away in different clothes and on a different horse, when he encountered a party of three young men armed to the teeth, who wer
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  • ...as something to be proud of, usually. In [[Gippsland|Gippsland]], today, [[Horse and Cattle stealing|cattle duffing]] is extremely common. There are farmers
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  • ...eally know wrong from right. In an ethical sense. He knew that to 'find' a horse that had not been lent, and to collect the reward, was not permitted by the
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  • ...h that special species of desperate courage that animated Kennedy, saw the horse coming, and took the opportunity to escape that offered. He sprang on to th
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