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  • | Return of police officers, Police Strength , Approximate Expenditure from Police Contingent | Police Memos, Statements by Const Falkiner, Mr Rawlins and Com Chomley
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  • ...ass of men with whom the police had to deal, and the fact that responsible officers well recognised the gravity of the position, long before it culminated so t ...ose scream was also a danger signal to the outlaw. It was only because the police, who were forced, by trackless scrub and flood-swollen creeks, to pass clos
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  • == CHAPTER V - POLICE PREPARATIONS == ...much of it mountainous and uninhabited country; while the total number of police charged with the duty of keeping order therein did not exceed 120.
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  • ...the affair very keenly, regarded it as a wild goose chase, and thought the police were only bringing ridicule upon themselves by the proceeding. ...the expedition, and one which created great excitement among the cordon of police surrounding the hut. Mr Nicolson’s party searched it rapidly from room to
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  • ...ut the later most of the people did not know, and conversation between the police and an inhabitant of the locality was in any case natural enough. ...ure, and her answer was, ‘He has made his bed, let him lie on it.’ The officers made use of all their persuasiveness, but entirely without effect, and they
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  • ...some source Kelly had most accurate information of the disposition of the police party, for he described how the members of it sat in a little open space wh With good black trackers the officers believed they would have had a very fair chance of bringing the matter to a
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  • ...were being provisioned and interviewed almost in sight of the police, the officers felt themselves compelled to suffer these things, and to remain more or les
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  • ...to take place, and he also sent notice to the [[NSW police|New South Wales police]]. Then, on Mr Nicolson’s return from the search expedition, the two officers, consulting together, agreed that it was most desirable to have a good watc
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  • ...y Mr Nicolson with several important details which might have affected the police officer’s judgment. The result was that to Mr Wyatt’s question, ‘Will ...o one but Mr Wyatt seemed to have an inkling of anything wrong. The police officers were on what they considered an important quest, and even had the Kellys cu
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  • ...d.’ Later on, after some scruples as to whether he should interfere with police plans, Mr Wyatt, who remained at Benalla, wired to Captain [[Standish|Stand
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  • ...eave them alone. The Scott household, in addition to the manager and other officers, consisted of Mrs Scott, seven children, and two servants, who were all in ...station Ned Kelly talked freely to Mr Scott. He told him something of the police murders, showed him Kennedy’s watch, and told him in a friendly way that
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  • ...ice, Mr Wyatt gave a guarded opinion in favour of waiting for the superior officers. If they were likely to arrive within a few hours, he considered the value ...rrival of Mr Nicolson, while Mr Wyatt went by train to Benalla to meet the police officer there and acquaint him with all the news in his possession.
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  • ...inions and wishes of Mr Hare, very readily fell in with this view, and the police party departed under the leadership of Senior Constable [[Johnston|Johnson] ...rs, who would be galloping away into the bush, with news almost before the police party had left the barracks.
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  • ...a legitimate cause of soreness and bitterness to the other leaders of the police associated with him. He, however, entered upon his new duties in the North
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  • ...ng more incensed, the prisoners more insulting and defiant, and the police officers themselves more disgusted with the false position in which they were placed
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  • ...ritt was confident that before long they would do so, and said that if the police wanted to get them they must watch the house. ...imself to other friends of the Kellys at a distance, returning to join the police in the evening.
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  • ...n the trackers, nor of the Kellys, who feared them more than all the other police in the district. ...r, Mr Sadlier, Captain Standish and Mr Hare all lived in unity together at police head quarters in Benalla, but before Mr O’Connor had been very long in th
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  • ...ndish, as has been mentioned, had a low opinion of the usefulness of the [[Police Tactics|trackers]] under Mr O’Connor’s command, and one evening, when v ...urally felt very much aggrieved by this rebuff, as up to this time all the officers had treated one another confidentially, whereas afterwards bitterness and j
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  • ...vented full use being made of the services of the trackers, and by all the officers under him, including even Mr Hare who showed no want of gratitude for the f
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  • ...so Mr O’Connor; and when Mr Nicolson went back to the district the three officers gave each other their confidence and help in a manner forming a refreshing
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  • ...ber by young Sherritt was a threatening letter to Detective Ward and other police, warning them of mischief to happen before the end of the month, and at the
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  • ...ious letters and putting up in different places certain caricatures of the police, and also mentioned that he and Ned were discussing rival plans for stickin ...party and another more modern make of rifle taken from the New South Wales police at Jerilderie. The train in which Lloyd and Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillio
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  • ...t to catch the outlaws in that neighbourhood, and arranged that a party of police should be sent to live in concealment in the house of Aaron Sherritt, who h ...pressed himself in such an unfortunate manner that to some of these senior officers it appeared that he was casting a slur upon their courage, and suggesting u
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  • ...pouring volleys into the hotel and shooting the outlaws without danger to police and private citizens. ...ending the construction of a great wooden shield, under cover of which the police might approach the hotel in safety.
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  • ...things being ready, under cover of a heavy fire upon the windows from the police, Johnston ran forward and fired the building. In a very few minutes the pla ...y gang could trouble Victoria no more, and congratulatory telegrams to the officers concerned and to the Victorian Government flashed over the wires one after
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  • ...n with the iron helmet when it was struck by the numerous bullets from the police rifles, which flattened themselves against it. As the bushranger was carrie ...W J (then Mr) Clarke and his wife, who drove him in their carriage to the police depot at Richmond. For weeks afterwards Mr Hare’s wound was attended to b
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  • ...e sympathy by representing himself and his family as the victims of wicked police oppression, which had forced him, against his will, to adopt a career of ro ...nd, in fact, though the Commissioners had a word of praise for most of the officers upon some points, blame was far more Freely bestowed than praise in their r
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  • ...nd-and a very important part-is enclosed for the purposes of a yard to the police station. There is a gully running through one corner of this yard, and in t ...re in the belief that his heavy armour was invulnerable, fired away at the police so coolly that they might be excused for as they did, thinking that it was
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  • '''POLICE AGAIN PARALYSED''' ...hy rather than that of a general epidemic of fright and pusillanimity. The police authorities were beside themselves.
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  • ...in large towns could not have any idea of the tyrannical conduct of police officers in remote country districts - could not have any notion of the harshness, o
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  • ...eman all over. And it was in this disguise that he managed to fool all the police with whom he came in contact in the city and to enjoy a real good time in s ...e vastly interested the police, but she was not communicative. None of the officers knew her, and the man in charge asked her if she were not afraid to be ridi
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  • ...e various incidents which occurred during my connection with the Victorian police, I have often been asked to give the records of them a more permanent form. ...Kelly gang, unpleasant feelings and jealousies sprang up between different officers engaged in the search, and interested persons kept adding fuel to the fire.
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  • ...the furniture being broken up and burnt. About this time a large force of police had been sent to my assistance, and I was in some measure able to restore o ...as known about the head of the river—so we arranged to take four mounted police, and go in search of diggers who were mining without licences. We followed
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  • ...existed at the head quarters of the district, where there were a number of officers stationed. ...Hare]] [[Category:December 1802]] [[Category:Recollections of a Victorian Police Office]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:book]] [[Cat
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  • ...dinner was over, was so drunk he could not bring the coffee in. One of the officers undertook to find out where he got his liquor from, an~ soon ascertained th == Relations between the police officers ==
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  • ...self was discovered, but he had disappeared. Info rmation was given to the police, and every effort was made to find him, but without success. Power at once ...ble was spared to effect his capture, many of the best bushmen amongst the police being selected from all parts of the colony, and sent into the district he
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  • ...h in horses and money, for any information concerning the movements of the police, but the temptation of getting the reward of £500 was too much for him, so ...eatly excited at the prospect of securing Power, as he had baffled so many officers and men for the last eighteen months. At twelve o'clock we mounted our hors
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  • ...followed up still further into the [[Warby Ranges|Warby Ranges]], and the police found liennedy's horse, which the outlaws had abandoned. The animal was kno ...ne and all. Their whole aim and object was to fall in with the Kellys. The officers had a most trying time. They had to decide between false and deceiving repo
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  • ...aken to protect the banks, and all kinds of weapons were supplied to their officers. It was feared that they would stick up one of these institutions, and Euro ...g conversation, and he told the bank manager all about the shooting of the police at the Wombat, and showed him the gold presentation watch he had taken from
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  • ...able not to interfere with the women. During the time I and several of the police were going up every Friday night to Beechworth to apply for the remand of t ...interfered with by the Kellys. I remember distinctly saying to my brother officers, "Well, whatever happens, we shall be in the thick of it, so they cann
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  • ...did not see anything particularly striking about them, but other Victorian officers spoke in the highest terms of their wonderful skill in tracking. == Police Agents ==
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  • ...throughout the colony was calling out about the disgraceful conduct of the police in not capturing the offenders. A change of Ministry having taken place abo ...told him I had already tried my hand and failed, and that there were many officers in the force senior to me who should have a trial. He replied: "The Go
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  • ...they ran hither and thither screaming for mercy. They then approached the police and threw themselves upon their faces. ...d in the shoulder by a bullet fired from a ride in the hands of one of the police. The unfortunate youth was at once attended to by the doctors already named
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  • ...f the outlaws had been taken. The train proceeded no further, and the gun, officers, and men returned by the first passenger goods train to Melbourne . ...overnment had expired, Captain Standish telegraphed to the commissioner of Police at Brisbane, and requested that they might be allowed to remain, but that p
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  • ...eared to be every likelihood that, if the fight was continued, some of the police might be seriously injured, the [[Chief Secretary|Chief Secretary]] instruc ...dingly summoned Assistant Commissioner Nicholson, who was in charge of the police in the district, and told him of the dissatisfaction which was experienced
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  • ...t with Sergeant Kennedy from that end and the others to act with the Greta police, and to search simultaneously up and down the [[King River|King River]] and ...nnedy by telegraph, he will be required here to consult with the other sub-officers engaged in this matter. Let him come by to-morrow's coach, bringing a plain
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  • ...ted off late on Sunday afternoon to recover the bodies of the brave police officers. The party called at [[Wangaratta|Monk's sawmills]], and there secured a re ...ansfield when the bodies of Lonigan and Scanlan were brought in. The local police authorities showed signs of nervous strain, and they arrested "Wild&qu
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  • ...These people reported to the police what they had seen. On this report the police organised that notorious failure afterwards known as the "[[Sebastopol ...police were about there in droves. Baumgarten also gave them the views the police held on the Kellys and their alleged plans. The Kellys camped in the vicini
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  • ...t CC of police; and Supt J Sadleir went to Beechworth, and with a party of police and civilians, all mounted, and numbering about fifty, intended to sneak no ...ed myself to knocking the men into some order.  I went to the various sub-officers and asked, ‘Where are your men?’ and I said, ‘Keep them together.’
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  • ...nd in order to do so the Government, at the suggestion of the heads of the Police Department, violated one of the most cherished principles of civilised nati ...nalla by Captain Standish’s orders.  They (the different constables and officers and detectives) all went into a room, and were asked the names of the perso
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