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  == Importance of the police aboriginal trackers == The police used aboriginal trackers to follow the '''KellyGang'''.
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  | Qld trackers | Queensland trackers
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 1
  ...at a later date, together with those of a party of [[Police Tactics|black trackers]] under his command. Mr Sadleir, with his headquarters at Benalla, was in c
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 1
  ...leading upon the tracks of the outlaws. There were [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] at Wangaratta, one an old man from [[Coranderrk|Corranderrk]] aboriginal ...ourhood came to this spot to water, but it was impossible to get the black trackers back on to the original trail, undoubtedly because it was leading to cover
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 2
  With good black trackers the officers believed they would have had a very fair chance of bringing th
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 5
  ...used fresh mounts. Had her trail been followed by [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] some news might have resulted, but there were no competent and trustworth
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 9 page 1
  ...son’s and Mr Sadlier’s expedition on which the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] shirked duty, although many conflicting rumours of the Kellys’ doings r
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 9 page 5
  ...ective [[Ward|Ward]], Constable Whelan, one or two other constables, black trackers and horses. Mr Wyatt rode on the engine, keeping a lookout with powerful fi
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 1
  ...find a track quite fresh, but after going some thirty of forty yards, the trackers, apparently, as on the former occasion, afraid for their lives, declared th
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 2
  ...n the early morning, telegraphed to the police at Mansfield asking for two trackers, and then went on with Mr [[Wyatt|Wyatt]], who was waiting for him, to [[Fa
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 14 page 6
  ...of Mr Hare, Mr Sadlier, and Mr Nicolson, who placed great reliance on the trackers, nor of the Kellys, who feared them more than all the other police in the d ...m and Captain Standish, with the result that much of the usefulness of the trackers was discounted by Captain Standish’s refusal to employ them on certain oc
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 15 page 5
  ...een mentioned, had a low opinion of the usefulness of the [[Police Tactics|trackers]] under Mr O’Connor’s command, and one evening, when very important inf
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 15 page 6
  ...no means shared Captain Standish’s poor opinion of the [[Police Trackers|trackers]] value, and on this occasion borrowed from Mr O’Connor one of the ‘boy
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 15 page 7
  ...O'Connor|O’Connor]] prevented full use being made of the services of the trackers, and by all the officers under him, including even Mr Hare who showed no wa
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 16 page 3
  ...with the means of buying loyalty, and at the same time the presence of the trackers whom they greatly feared, and the suspicion that their doings were watched
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 16 page 4
  .... In the cases where Mr Nicolson did take action, he made great use of the trackers, who were instrumental in finding more than one of the Kellys’ deserted c
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 16 page 5
  ...re growing thin and wearied from anxiety and fatigue. Owing to fear of the trackers they very seldom rode, but went on foot to places where their horses were b
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 17 page 3
  ...not been particularly well treated, was desirous that he should bring his trackers home as soon as their services could be dispensed with.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 1
  ...le and a special train, with Mr O’Connor, some lady relatives, his black trackers and several pressmen, was despatched from Melbourne for Benalla, en route f ...the day Mr Hare was kept more or less in forced idleness, waiting for the trackers and the men. He greatly regretted that poor Sherritt, who had been married
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 2
  ...ven seems to have calculated on Mr Hare asking for the return of the black trackers, for they were the men on whom he specially wanted to wreak his vengeance f
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 19 page 2
  ...nder steam, Mr Hare intending to proceed to Beechworth and await the black trackers there if the Melbourne special should be much longer delayed. This engine i
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 21 page 2
  Mr [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and his black trackers, and Mr [[Hare|Hare]], wounded like Ned Kelly, were also passengers by the
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 6 page 6
  ...acks of the offenders, whereas it was for the sole purpose of baffling the trackers when daylight came.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 7 page 1
  ...r to find which direction the outlaws had taken. The police had some black trackers with them, but these were of little use, being Victorian blacks, whose sens
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 1
  ...eping guard for fear of surprise. They were dreadfully afraid of the black trackers. I mean the men that came from Queensland. I was told it was marvellous how
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 2
  ...em. Besides, the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] authorities wanted their trackers back, as they belonged to their force of native police, and the officer in
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 4
  ...special train will be sent from Benalla with a number of police and black trackers, and I am going to kill the lot." Reardon begged Kelly not to take him
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 5
  ...sh, telling him of the circumstances, and requesting him to send the black trackers back to Benalla at once, as they had left for Melbourne on the previous Fri ...of Railways, and arranged to have a "special" ready to take the trackers back to Benalla, and they left town about eight or nine o'clock that night,
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 6
  ..." both Queensland men, but they did not come specially to Victoria as trackers. I kept them, and would have taken them had the others not been sent back t ...horses out directly we arrived, and start off to Sherritt's house, put the trackers on the outlaws' tracks, and endeavour to follow them.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 7
  ...e station, for the purpose of wrecking a special train of police and black trackers, which the outlaws said would pass through Glenrowan. Some person—I belie
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 8
  ...enrowan in order to wreck a special train of inspectors, police, and black trackers, which would pass through Glenrowan for Beechworth, to take up their trail
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 11 page 1
  ...red at least fifty or sixty shots, for there were not only my men, but the trackers also, who were blazing away as hard as they could fire. We could only fire
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 1
  ...one gentleman was armed. At Essendon Inspector O'Connor and his five black trackers were picked up, together with Mrs O'Connor and her sister, Miss Smith. [Tho
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 2
  ...ement. The police abandoned the horses and rushed to their arms. The black trackers sprang forward with their leader, and soon took up a good position in front
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 4
  ...ccount I had the rails pulled up, so that these —[[Police Trackers|black trackers]] might be settled. It does not much matter what brought me to Glenrowan. I
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 4
  ...,' and I placed the men around the house. Mr [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and his trackers took up a position in front of the hotel. I then went round towards the bac
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 5
  ...was telegraphed to, and instructed to proceed to Beechworth, and the black trackers, under Lieutenant [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], who were at [[Essendon|Essendon]],
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 7
  ...amount of jealousy was evinced by the Victorian police with respect to the trackers, and that unless they were allowed to go to the front at once, it was littl
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 14 page 1
  ...hat Sherritt was shot, I should start off with a party of police and black trackers to pick up their trail. No trains ran on that line on Sundays and therefore
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• Last of the Bushrangers
  Black Trackers-Again in Charge with carte blanche-Aaron Sherritt's Doom-The Beginning of t
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• The Last of the Bushrangers page 1
  | Black Trackers
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (31)
  ...on met Supt Sadleir next day, the 12th, at Glenrowan.  They had two black-trackers with them, in addition to a party of policemen. ...ll the cattle of the neighbourhood came to water, and we could not get the trackers back again to take up the tracks where they left them.  I am perfectly sat
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (42)
  ..., but what the police really objected to was the cowardice of the [[Police Trackers|blackfellows]] in ordering the police to go first: “Kelly very soon now,
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (46)
  ...trackers.  On March 8, Mr O’Connor, Senior-Constable King, and his six trackers—Corporal Sambo, Troopers Hero, Johnny, Jimmy, Barney and Jack—arrived a ...ers” at Benalla, which effectively defeated Inspector O’Connor and his trackers, and crushed the ambition of those rank and file members of the force who h
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (47)
  ...ere so trained that if strange horses came the dogs would look out for the trackers and boys follow them up?—Yes, that is it.
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (48)
  ...and]] branch of the Broken River.  They came across some tracks which the trackers followed, but these tracks turned out to be the tracks of local stockmen in ...rom the police at Jerilderie had been discovered on the Black Range.  The trackers were about to search for the tracks of this horse when a constable galloped
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (50)
  Mr O’Connor and his trackers went out on two occasions with Mr [[Hare|Hare]], but with no results. At th ...and they were very much struck with the accuracy and speed of the [[Police Trackers|blacktrackers]] when following them.  On one occasion they saw a party of
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (54)
  ...rated idea of the tracking powers of the blacks.  These [[Police Trackers|trackers]] were kept under close police supervision, and the Kellys, not being able
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (57)
  ...n, on the other side, it was decided to get rid of the Queensland [[Police Trackers|blacktrackers]].  Mr HM [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]], who shortly after the cap
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (62)
  ...required to stop the train at the Glenrowan station, and as the police and trackers would not have expected such an attack they would not be in close touch wit
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (63)
  ...urn wired to Queensland Government to allow Mr O’Connor and the [[Police Trackers|backtrackers]] to return.  The Queensland Chief Secretary agreed, and Mr O
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (90)
  ...nsland police|Queensland]] Government in forwarding a contingent of native trackers to Victoria to aid in the pursuit of the outlaws. We take this our approval
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/12/1931
  Request for [[Police Trackers|Black Trackers]]. ...ge in the proceedings it was intended to track the outlaws down with black trackers.
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• Age 1/11/78 (2)
  ...ict are not wanting in courage to face the danger. [[Police Trackers|Black trackers]] will be employed in endeavoring to track the ruffians to there lair, ther ...the arrival of the nights mail from Melbourne. The [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] sent up by it are, however, considered too old for the hard work they wil
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/11/1878 (2)
  ...there were over 30 well-armed and determined men, together with two black trackers.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/11/1878
  ...en proceeded to the spot were the tracks were last seen, and the two black trackers were lain on. There is no doubt there were tracks there, and these were fol
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/11/1878
  ...nite being first learned. Seven troopers, with the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] who have been out for the last few days returned to Benalla to-day from W
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• The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 16/11/1878 (2)
  ...out something definite being first learned. Seven troopers, with the black trackers who have been out for the last few days, returned to Benalla to-day from Wa
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/11/1878
  ...at large for such a length of time. Superintendent Sadleir, with two black trackers, went out yesterday in the direction of [[Winton|Winton]], but it is not kn
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/12/1878
  ...n the alert. All the spare men are out of Mansfield, as are also the black trackers. The irrepressible "[[Wild Wright|Wild" Wright]] appeared yesterd
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/12/1878
  ...ell known Cleveland Bay (Queensland) tracker, and the other "[[Police Trackers|Harry]]," of Yorke Peninsula, a valuable horse tracker -in barracks at
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/2/1879 (2)
  ...delusive, but a substantial improvement seems possible with regard to the trackers.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/2/1879 (8)
  ...hoot the two policemen, Devine and Richards, who were worse than any black trackers, especially Richards, whom he intended to shoot immediately. Mr Tarleton re
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 13/2/1879 (3)
  ...ne|Devine]] and [[Const Richards|Richards]], who were worse than any black trackers, especially Richards, whom he intended to shoot immediately. Mr Tarleton re ...pers place great reliance on the efficiency of the provincial troopers and trackers, and predict the early capture of the gang, if they remain this side of the
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/2/1879
  ...your columns this day and obtain the assistance of [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] and their officers from Queensland, as I feel assured from my own experie
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/3/1879
  ...|King]], and six black con stables, arrived in Albury early on Friday. The trackers are wiry little fellows, specially selected by Mr O'Connor for the service
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• The Argus at KellyGang 11/3/1879
  ...caused much comment. They look a more intelligent body of men than our own trackers, and under the command of such a smart looking and active officer as O'Conn
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/3/1879
  ...ncke contended that as the police had handed over their functions to black trackers, and to the New South Wales police, the men ought to be released. The Queensland aboriginal [[Police Trackers|troopers]], under the command of Sub-inspector O'Connor, and accompanied by
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/3/1879
  ...in Queensland, supplies the following information respecting the [[Police Trackers|native police]] of that colony, a detachment of which is now employed in Vi ...as the ordinary police were powerless to effect their capture. These black trackers formed the nucleus of the Queensland native police, who are composed exclus
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/3/1879 (2)
  '''Trackers from Queensland'''
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 13/3/1879
  ...aws are, so completely are their movements concealed. The Queensland black trackers, under the Command of Lieutenant O’Connor ? ? ? ? ? day wanted ? distinct ...ncke contended that as the police had handed over their functions to black trackers and the New South Wales police, the accused should be let go.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/3/1879
  ...so skilled in bush craft as to be himself a match for a Myalla. Six black trackers accompany them, trained human sleuth hounds, who have served with O'Connor
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1879
  ...Connor|O'Connor]], eight troopers, five Queensland [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], and five pack horses. Although the cold is against the blacks, the entir
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1879 (2)
  A Queensland [[Police Trackers|black tracker]] arrived here last night, and will leave some time during to
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• Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 22/3/1879
  ...Connor|O'Connor]], eight troopers, five Queensland [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], and five pack horses. Although the cold is against the blacks, the entir A Queensland [[Police Trackers|black tracker]] arrived here last night, and will leave some time during to
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• Illustrated Australian News at KellyGang 12/4/1879
  ...ment of Brisbane in order to secure the services of their Native Police as trackers immediately the Kellys are next heard of. A detachment of this able body of ...] [[Category:press report]] [[Category:1879]] [[Category:Queensland native trackers]] [[Category:history]]
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• The Argus at KellyGang 21/4/1879
  ...which, it is suggested that the whole force, Chief Commissioner and black trackers included, should be sent after Weiberg, just to give the Gipps- landers a s
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• The Argus at KellyGang 7/5/1879
  ...mp and give information to the police, who have started off with the black trackers. The police have just returned, leading a horse without a saddle. Further p
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/5/1879
  ...y, consisting of Mr Panton, Mr Smyth, Sub-inspector Toohey, Mr Monk, black trackers, and others, accordingly started this morning to the Wombat. An exhilaratin
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• Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 10/5/1879
  ...mp and give information to the police, who have started off with the black trackers. The police have just returned leading a horse without a saddle. Further pr
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/5/1879 (2)
  ...d, it might have been un-necessary to have brought [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] all the way from Queensland to amuse themselves about Benalla at the expe
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• Sydney Morning Herald (30)
  '''TO-NIGHT, THOSE SENSATIONAL BLACK TRACKERS.'''
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/8/1879
  ...[[Sadleir|Sadlier]] and Inspector [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], left Benalla with trackers for Kilmore, at half past 2 o'clock. Particulars of the circumstances under
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/8/1879 (8)
  A telegram has just been received, stating that the black trackers had put up for the night at Kilmore, so that they can't be here until to mo
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/8/1879
  ...elligence regarding the robbers is that they have been traced by the black trackers to within a few miles of Heathcote. The account of our special reporter, wh ...ortunately turned back to await the arrival of the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]. Their excuse was that Superintendent [[Hare|Hare]] had sent a telegram a
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/8/1879 (2)
  ...ancefield. Sub inspector Baber, four troopers, Lieutenant O'Connor and his trackers, were dispatched immediately in that direction. They arrived there at about
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/8/1879 (3)
  ...hotel observed a fire on the saddle of a neighbouring hill. The police and trackers, after receiving refreshments at Lehane's, started to look for tracks. The ...ll they were completely obliterated by the heavy rains. This afternoon the trackers have arrived here to rest till morning when they will start again. A party
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/8/1879 (5)
  ..., about 41 years of age. In the course of his narrative he stated that the trackers were close upon them at Pyalong. Mounted constable Sainsbury, stationed at
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• Illustrated Australian News at KellyGang 30/8/1879
  ...stolen horses or cattle by these desperadoes. Parties of police and black trackers have scoured the ranges in all directions hitherto without success. Our eng
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• The Argus at KellyGang 27/9/1879
  ...e dry and sarcastic humour in this production. The [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] are supposed to have diacovered the proximity of the Kellys, and the narr A story is told in Benalla of Lieutenant O'Connor and his black trackers following footprints which they are sanguine of being the Kellys, and which
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/5/1880
  ...d their restoration to Queensland of the detachment of Queensland [[Police Trackers|native police]], who, under the leadership of Lieutenant [[O'Connor|O’Con ...mitted if once the gang feel sure they have only to deal with the ordinary trackers the Victorian Government can command. Most people resident in the bush are
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (10)
  ...wered that of the outlaw [[Joe Byrne|Joseph Byrnes]]. The Queensland black trackers and six constables, in charge of Lieutenant [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and Mr
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• Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 10/6/1880
  ...although it provoked excitement. At an early hour in the morning both the trackers and police were observed hurrying between their quarters and the stables, a ...ng morning that the police from Benalla set out. They proceeded with black trackers to [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne's]], and searched a number of houses in t
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• The Argus (2)
  ...ent out from various country depots, and by special train last night black trackers and a further contingent of police were dispatched from Melbourne . The fir
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• The Age (2)
  ...one gentleman was armed. At Essendon Inspector O'Connor and his five black trackers were picked up, together with Mrs O'Connor and her sister, Miss Smith. [Tho ...ement. The police abandoned the horses and rushed to their arms. The black trackers sprang forward with their leader, and soon took up a good position in front
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• The Age (5)
  ...on, and on that account I had the rails pulled up, so that these —black trackers might be settled. It does not much matter what brought me to Glenrowan. I d
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• The Age (9)
  ...n under cover,' and I placed the men around the house. Mr O'Connor and his trackers took up a position in front of the hotel. I then went round towards the bac
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• The Age (10)
  ...was telegraphed to, and instructed to proceed to Beechworth, and the black trackers, under Lieutenant [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], who were at Essendon, where they w
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• The Age (11)
  ...amount of jealousy was evinced by the Victorian police with respect to the trackers, and that unless they were allowed to go to the front at once, it was littl
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• The Argus (4)
  ...ight. At Essendon Sub-inspector [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and his five black trackers were picked up. They had come recently from Benalla, and were en route for ...side, and stuck to this post gallantly throughout the whole encounter. The trackers also stood the baptism of fire with fortitude, never flinching for one inst
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• The Argus (7)
  ...train which might be sent after them, in the hope of destroying the black trackers. They descended on Glenrowan at about three o’clock on Sunday morning, an
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• The Argus (8)
  ...e train would go on, and I had the rails pulled up so that these – black trackers might be settled. I do not say what brought me to Glenrowan, but it seems m
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• The Argus (10)
  ...aight towards the house, and I went to the railway gates. Two of the black trackers were with us. They got into a ditch, and I got behind one of the railway ga
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• The Argus (11)
  ...aced the men around the house. Inspector [[O'Connor|O’Connor]], with his trackers, took up a position in front, and I went round to the further part of the p
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• The Argus (12)
  It has been known for some time past that the Queensland black trackers were under orders to leave the colony, and that they were to have departed ...is now in Queensland , having been sent there by Mr Ramsay to obtain black trackers to take the place of the men about to be withdrawn. Some inquiry into the c
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/6/1880
  ...fully as ever. But the exploit of wrecking a train and killing some of the trackers, and riding triumphantly away, would have told well with the criminal class
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/6/1880 (2)
  It has been known for some time past that the Queensland black trackers were under orders to leave the colony, and that they were to have departed ...is now in Queensland , having been sent there by Mr Ramsay to obtain black trackers to take the place of the men about to be withdrawn. Some inquiry into the c
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• The Argus (13)
  ...5 on Sunday night. At Essendon Sub-inspector O’Connor and his five black trackers were picked up. They had come recently from Benalla, and were en route for ...train which might be sent after them, in the hope of destroying the black trackers.
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• The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (2)
  ...One of these random shots grazed the head of one of Lieutenant Connor’s trackers, and incensed him to such and extent that he vowed vengeance on the barn, a
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• The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (5)
  ...----, you can’t hurt me,: and a hot fire was kept up from the police and trackers in ambush. Superintendent Hare retired, and left Lieutenant Connor and Seni
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• The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (6)
  ...over.' I immediately placed the men around the house. Mr, O'Connor and his trackers took up a position in front, and I went around to the further part of the p
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (19)
  ...know not. It has been reported, however, that the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] are to be sent back to Queensland ; if they are, it would look as if the
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• The Argus (14)
  ...resources. Kelly spoke frequently of his determination to bring the black trackers to grief, and alluded to that as one strong motive for the act in question. ...Inquiry on Byrne]] , [[The Argus (18)|Sub Inspecto O'Connor and the Black Trackers]] ,'''
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• The Argus (15)
  ...e had the body soon removed from the public gaze. The officers, policemen, trackers, and gentlemen then at the barracks, who were present at the encounter, wer
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• The Argus (17)
  ...nt are those six little demons,’ alluding to the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]. ‘Then O’Connor and Hare. If I had them killed I would feel easy and
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• The Argus (18)
  ...n id="_Toc20153930">[[#_Toc20153930|SUB INSPECTOR O’CONNOR AND THE BLACK TRACKERS]]</span> == ...n by Sub-inspector [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] in the encounter at Glenrowan. Mr O’Connor makes the following statemen
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• The Argus (19)
  ...at Glenrowan on Monday. But the important fact to bear in mind is that the trackers paralysed the gang. Since their arrival there has only been this last and d
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• Sydney Morning Herald (33)
  ...e soon had the body removed from the public gaze. The officers, policemen, trackers, and gentlemen who were there at the Barracks, and who were present at the
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• The Age (17)
  ...onroy, Gascoigne, Barry and Phillips, and Inspector O'Connor and the black trackers. After Mr Hare was wounded Senior constable Kelly was left in charge of the
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• The Argus (23)
  ...he police authorities, and a large body of police accompanied by the black trackers from the Queensland native police, was sent to Euroa, which township had be
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• The Argus (24)
  ...ing then frightened of being tracked by Queensland [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], they took steps to destroy them by wrecking the special train, and they ...y, Gascoigne, and Phillips, together with Inspector O'Connor and his black trackers.
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• Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 1/7/1880
  ...circumstances, under which they found themselves placed, the troopers and trackers meanwhile getting out the horses and baggage. While this was going on a hur ...erything was let go by the board in an instant, and the troopers and black trackers literally flew to arms and gallantly followed Superintendent Hare and Lieut
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• Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 1/7/1880 (2)
  One of these random shots grazed the head of one of Lieutenant Connor's trackers and incensed him to such an extent that he vowed vengeance to the barn, and
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (2)
  ...had kept so quiet during the past twelve months was that they thought the trackers would go away. We may here remark, in reference to the latter statement, th
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (3)
  ...men under his command underwent their “baptism of fire”; and the black-trackers, under Lieutenant O’Connor, also fought gallantly.
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (6)
  ...5 on Sunday night. At Essendon Sub-inspector O’Connor and his five black trackers were picked up. They had come recently from Benalla, and were en route for ...side, and stuck to this post gallantly throughout the whole encounter. The trackers also stood the baptism of fire with fortitude, never flinching for one inst
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• The Argus (32)
  ...n away the gang would be most likely to commit another outbreak. The black trackers not only frightened the Kellys, but caused them much inconvenience and hard ...the past few months traces of the gang were often discovered by the black trackers.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 3/7/80
  ...y stated that it was the intention of the gang, after destroying the black trackers and the police, to proceed to Benalla, and blow up the police camp and a ba
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• Herald (20)
  == THE BLACK TRACKERS == ...to the excellent and effective aid rendered by the black [[Police Trackers|trackers]] in the capture of the Kelly murderers, although their services have not b
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• Herald (24)
  ...at once to Glenrowan, wreck the train containing the police and the black trackers, and then come straight into Benalla and stick up the banks there. Had they ...Stillard]], [[Const Reilly|Riley]], [[Const Hewitt|Hewitt]], and two black trackers named [[Moses|Moses]] and [[Spider|Spider]]. The third batch, which came fr
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• The Age (25)
  ...l superior in appearance to Mr O’Connor’s men, and are said to be fine trackers. They will remain in the service of the Victorian police, and will probably
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• The Age (26)
  ...Wilson, Wallace, Graham, Kelly, Strelord, Ryan, Riley, Hewitt; and the two trackers Moses and Spider. Party from Wangaratta: Sergeant Steele and Constables Mon
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• The Argus (36)
  ...on its most eventful journey. We picked up [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] his black trackers at [[Essendon|Essendon]], and Mrs O'Connor and her sister. ...Superintendent Hare and seven troopers, Inspector O'Connor and five black trackers, one volunteer, two ladies, engine-driver, stoker, and guard, and four pres
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• Herald (26)
  ...do any tracking work which may be needed. The fact that experienced black trackers are at hand will do much to prevent more bushranging.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/7/1880
  ...f the town, close behind the racecourse.  Before the arrival of the black trackers the gang occasionally visited Hart’s house.  It is unnecessary to say it
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/7/1880 (2)
  ...to the police.  They could not, however, do this without having the black trackers on their trail very soon afterwards, and they therefore planned that their ...stationed there for tracking purposes.  There names are Sergeant [[Police Trackers|Jim Crow]], Corporal Billy the nut, and Constables Peter Walsh, Paddy Brown
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• Sydney Morning Herald (38)
  ...by a pilot engine for safety) picking up Lieutenant O'Connor and the black trackers at Essendon, went to Glenrowan. The engineer of the pilot-engine learned, w
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/7/1880 (2)
  ...with regard to the police, who were at this time aided by a body of black trackers from the Queensland native police, under the direction of Sub-inspector [[O
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/7/1880 (4)
  ..., the special train left town with Inspector O’Connor and his five black trackers, and the representatives of the Melbourne press.  Mrs O’Connor, and her ...erintendent Hare with his men, and Sub-inspector O’Connor with his black trackers, at once advanced on the hotel.  They found it to be a small wooden buildi
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• Sydney Morning Herald (41)
  ...y a pilot engine for safety) picking up Lieutenant O'Connor and some black trackers at Essendon, went on Sunday evening to Glenrowan. The engineer of the pilot
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• The Argus (41)
  ...airs, and informed them that I intended stationing [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], whom I expected from Queensland, at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. ...[[Chomley (2)|Chomley]], who had gone to Queensland for a fresh supply of trackers for our own force, returned, as I did not expect him back for eight or ten
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• The Argus (42)
  ...s|Phillips]], leaving a party behind us all ready equipped, with two black trackers, for Mr. Sadleir, in case anything occurred while I was away. I remained in ...urne were as follows:—Mr. O'Connor, his wife and sister, five Queensland trackers, and six gentlemen connected with the press.
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• The Argus (43)
  ...el. Some six or seven men followed me, amongst them were some of the black trackers, but I cannot say who any of them were. When approaching the hotel the plac
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• The Argus (44)
  ...appointed to decide to whom it is to be paid, and that the constables and trackers who were engaged at the destruction of the gang will be allowed to partake ...I frequently expressed the same opinion to you in the last few months. The trackers were removed on the 25th June; the outlaws believing they had left for Quee
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• The Argus (46)
  &quot;The conduct of the Queensland [[Police Trackers|trackers]] was excellent, and shows, certainly, that in good company at least they m + In charge of trackers
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• The Argus at KellyGang 21/7/80
  ...tation, in order to wreck a special train of inspectors, police, and black trackers, which would pass through Glenrowan for Beechworth, to take up the ‘Kelly
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (6)
  ...n the state of affairs, and informed them that I intended stationing black trackers, whom I expected from Queensland, at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. I
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (7)
  ...ppened before Mr Chomley, who had gone to Queensland for a fresh supply of trackers for our own force, returned, as I did not expect him back for eight or ten ...s soon as possible, as it was my intention to take up my party and the two trackers, in the event of Mr O’Connor not consenting to return. I told Mr Stephens
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (8)
  ...rne were as follows:—Mr O’Connor, his wife and sister, five Queensland trackers, and six gentlemen connected with the press.
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (9)
  ...s hotel. Some six or seven men followed me, amongst them some of the black trackers, but I cannot say who any of them were.When approaching the hotel the place
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (10)
  ...appointed to decide to whom it is to be paid, and that the constables and trackers who were engaged at the destruction of the gang will be allowed to partake
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (11)
  ...I frequently expressed the same opinion to you in the last few months.The trackers were removed on the 25th June. The outlaws believing they had left for Quee
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (13)
  “The conduct of the Queensland [[Queensland police|trackers]] was excellent, and shows, certainly, that in good company at least they m
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• Herald (28)
  ...d have shot, Superintendent Nicolson and the whole of the Queensland black-trackers one day, when near McVean’s homestead, near Greta, but refrained from doi
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• The Argus at KellyGang 11/8/1880 (4)
  ...lly, surround the house.” I sang out to my men to stop firing. The black trackers were more active in firing than the police. They were told to stop several
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• Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 12/8/1880
  Black trackers and relays, Sirs,
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• The Argus at KellyGang 17/9/1880
  ...vernment for an [[Royal Commission|inquiry]] into the conduct of the black trackers under his command here in connexion with the pursuit and capture of the Kel
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/10/1880 (3)
  ...here were about a dozen constables there in the morning, besides the black trackers. There were 53 in the evening. I fired at a young fellow named Reardon. I f
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/11/1880 (2)
  ...seemed entirely at fault. They had the assistance of detectives and black trackers, and— judging by the sum expended—an almost unlimited command of money.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/11/1880 (5)
  ...friends, they continued to elude the hands of justice.  A party of black trackers, hired from Queensland, had evidently the effect of deterring the gang from ...tendent Hare and a party of police, Sub-inspector O’Connor and the black trackers, and representatives of the metropolitan press―in all 26 souls.  Provide
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• The Argus at KellyGang 26/11/1880 (4)
  ...ak up the line.  Mrs Jones was present.  Kelly said the police and black-trackers were coming up in a special train.  He had his armour on; he had one or tw
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/12/1880 (2)
  ...was to a great extent owing to the well calculated withdrawal of the black trackers. He was quite sure that had the matter been brought before the House during
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1881 (3)
  ...n the urgent position of affairs, could you return to Beechworth with your trackers by the early train to morrow, or by a special train, if that can be arrange
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• The Argus at KellyGang 24/3/1881 (3)
  ...to Beechworth. Mr O'Connor, who was about to return to Queensland with his trackers, rather reluctantly consented to go. A special train left about 9 or 10 o'c
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• The Argus at KellyGang 24/3/1881 (4)
  Mr O'Connor. – From the outset you were jealous of my trackers finding the outlaws.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/3/1881 (2)
  ...ere, and that he would be off again by daybreak.  The party had two black trackers with them.  Next morning found Mr Smith had not started. Roused him up and
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/3/1881 (3)
  ...police that I was going on to Euroa, and wished them to send me two black trackers. Also indicated to the police there which way I thought they should move.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 28/3/1881 (2)
  ...boots. Received information that the outlaws were the offenders. Two black trackers went out on these inquiries. Other things, such as provisions, were stolen.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 28/3/1881 (3)
  ...steps, but not in the exact spot where the man said he had seen Byrne. The trackers said they saw a track such as Joe Byrne would leave, but that it was that o
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/3/1881 (2)
  ...nsland native police officer, whose services, together with six aboriginal trackers, had been secured by the Victorian Government, against the recommendation,
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/3/1881 (3)
  ...ecessaries, such as blankets and food, and that Corporal Sambo, one of the trackers, was ill. Had to send Sambo to Benalla on March 15. He died of congestion o ...Hare was in charge. Mr Hare told me, after observing the efficiency of the trackers, that we ought not to go out except on the best information, as something i
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/3/1881
  ...the sticking up of the Lancefield bank, telling; him to start my party of trackers. We arrived on the same day at Kilmore. We picked up the robbers' tracks an
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/3/1881 (2)
  ...hot Aaron Sherritt dead, and requesting me to return to Beechworth with my trackers. Lost no time in responding. Forthwith saw Captain Standish, who asked me w
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/4/1881
  ...trict, and had conversations with the men. Said that I would station black trackers at various points. All I asked the parties to do was that they should commu ...if he had a down on me. He told many people he would have me and the black trackers. After I returned to Benalla I was privately informed that the outlaws were
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/4/1881 (2)
  ...ft Benalla on June 25, 1880. Two trackers were left in the district. Other trackers had been sent for from Queensland. On Sunday, June 27,1880, about half past
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/4/1881 (3)
  ...The special train brought Mr Sadleir, two ladies, four reporters, and the trackers. Told off Constable Barry to ride on the engine, and did not, as has been s
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/4/1881
  ...ble to use it, recommend that the sums set opposite the names of the black trackers be handed to the Queensland and Victorian Governments to be dealt with at t
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/4/1881 (2)
  ...eele, £290; Superintendent Sadleir, £240; Mr O'Connor (in command of the trackers), £237; Jesse Dowsett, the railway guard, who assisted to capture Edward K ...quot;Hero,&quot; &quot;Spider,&quot; and the other black [[Police Trackers|trackers]], are allotted £50 each, to be handed to the Governments of Queensland an
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/4/1881 (2)
  To Mr GIBB – Witness believed the black trackers to be extremely efficient, and that they would follow a track as well as it ...strongly advised Captain Standish against the withdrawal of the Queensland trackers. I recommended Mr Hare not to come to the district, because I disapproved o
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/4/1881 (3)
  The object of these instructions was to hasten the action of the trackers. The instructions were carried out at a certain bridge, and two of the outl
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• The Age (62)
  ...t there does not appear to be any real foundation for the rumor. The black trackers at present stationed in Benalla are believed by the authorities to be bette
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• The Argus at KellyGang 5/5/1881 (2)
  ...O'Connor several times there during the day. Saw him giving orders to the trackers, and talking to Mr Sadleir. Witness arrived at Glenrowan about 9 o'clock a.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/5/1881
  ...r O'Connor was competent to command them if they were appointed. The black trackers might do their part of the work well, but yet might not care to arrest desp ...soon as possible, as he knew of no one more competent to command the black trackers than Mr O'Connor.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/5/1881
  ...h the avowed purpose of wrecking the train containing the police and black trackers, that in a conversation with the prisoner shortly after the Lonigan murder
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/5/1881 (2)
  ...ered by the Government to be the best man available to take command of the trackers. It has also been determined to considerably strengthen the force in the No ...Government doing so on the ground that the services of Mr O'Connor and the trackers, lent by it to our Government, have not been sufficiently recognised. It is
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/5/1881
  ...was to obtain evidence regarding the conduct of Mr O'Connor and the black trackers under him in connexion with the Kelly operations. In consequence of the con
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/5/1881
  ...fficer, and never received any instructions from him. There were six black trackers there now. They came about July, 1880. Mr O'Connor's men returned to Queens
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/5/1881 (2)
  ...y. Not more than three trackers ought to be with a party. They are capital trackers. ...kept together in one barracks. The white troopers used packhorses, but the trackers will not work unless they have blankets and tents.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/5/1881 (3)
  ...drain in front, but nearer to the house. He noticed that Jacky, one of the trackers, could not speak for fear when news of the outlaws being at Glenrowan was b ...tempt to capture them, but to preserve their tracks and send for the black trackers. If Byrne came alone, the party was to attempt to kidnap him.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 26/5/1881
  ...ive his services if he is not otherwise engaged, and to take charge of our trackers and generally assist in the police duties in the North-Eastern district. Mr
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• The Argus at KellyGang 3/6/1881 (2)
  ...be obtained to take charge of the trackers. Mr O'Connor had been long with trackers, who required special handling. ...O'Connor's appointment would raise jealousy in the force. Believe that the trackers should be scattered about, and that five or six should not be kept together
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/6/1881
  ...ys,&quot; and led the way himself. His own men, Mr O'Connor, and the black trackers followed. The representatives of the press remained on the platform, being
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/6/1881
  ...me out of the hotel and heard the challenge from the drain where the black trackers were. Then heard shots fired towards the hotel from the drain. Heard a voic
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/6/1881
  ...t together they would be ready to act when an emergency arose. The present trackers worked better than those under Mr O'Connor, as they would obey any officers Mr O'Connor - In Queensland the trackers were bound to obey no one but the officer over them.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/6/1881
  ...or, and he was at the top of the list for promotion. Came to Victoria with trackers in consequence of an application made by the Victorian Government, and here ...ut. Captain Standish once asked one of his own officers to take one of the trackers from his command.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/6/1881 (2)
  ...myself, which was not correct. I objected to a permanent separation of the trackers. Fancied he wanted them separated in order to show that my services were no ...nder that of inspector, and would not have taken that if it related to the trackers only. Stipulated it should be an ordinary inspectorship, and a permanent on
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/6/1881
  ...ons, it was deemed desirable to go to Wangaratta. Mr Smith said that black trackers might be procured at Wangaratta.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/6/1881 (2)
  ...for some distance. Gave up the track in the midst of some thick scrub. The trackers were rather slow on this occasion. They retraced their steps. Witness inten
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/6/1881 (4)
  ...recall to your recollection the fact that were sent to Victoria to act as trackers. I was not entrusted with the command or the charge of the party, and was n
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/7/1881
  ...recommendations as have reference to Mr. Inspector O'Connor and the black trackers under him, as in the projected reorganisation of the police arrangements fo ...on of the Victorian police authorities for the temporary service of native trackers to assist in the pursuit of the outlaws, it was due to Mr. O'Connor that he
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/8/1881 (2)
  ...o Sandhurst on foot. That does not speak much for their abilities as black trackers, and I may state that those members of the force who have had an opportunit
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/8/1881 (3)
  ...ub-inspector could return to Queensland , as he is never troubled with the trackers. Is Detective Ward and the assistant commissioner capable of outwitting the ...ng, that he reported the matter to Mr Nicolson, and advised that the black trackers should be at once employed, as the ground was then soft; that Mr Nicolson t
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/8/1881
  ...others which he made was this, that when he consented to go with his black trackers in pursuit of Sherritt's murderers, he asked Captain Standish for a special
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• The Argus at KellyGang 1/9/1881 (2)
  ...volunteers at Glenrowan. Was sure he could not have objected to the black trackers being present with the police on parade when he complimented them on the ca
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• The Argus at KellyGang 7/9/1881
  ...reinforcements, and Mr O'Connor was nominated to the command of the black trackers. When he found the Government thus disposed to be more liberal he expressed
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• The Argus at KellyGang 7/9/1881 (3)
  ...2 additional constables, and Mr O'Connor was appointed to manage the black trackers. Witness then called attention to the fact that the evidence given as to th
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• Argus 8/9/1881
  ...ground was so dry that they were unable to make any headway without black trackers.
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• Argus 8/9/1881 (2)
  The police in pursuing them were quite at a loss for lack of competent trackers. When he (Mr Nicolson) returned to the North-Eastern district on the second ...o scrub there, and they were simply given up because they were lost by the trackers. Moreover, the whole matter was left in the hands of Johnson and his party,
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/9/1881 (3)
  1. That I was, during the years 1879 and 1880. in charge of the black trackers sent from Queensland : to assist in the pursuit of the Kellys. .... Started again next morning with Mr Nicolson and Mr Sadlier and the black trackers. This was now the fourth day. Witness had no command after this.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/10/1881 (3)
  ...e this opportunity of expressing our approval of the services of the black trackers as a body, and deeply regret that any misunderstanding amongst the officers
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/10/1881 (4)
  ...e sent telegram to Captain Standish, asking that Mr O'Connor and his black trackers might be sent back at once. (See question 1501) ...t another telegram to Captain Standish - &quot;That if Mr O'Connor and his trackers did not come that night it would be no use their coming on the Monday.&quot
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/10/1881 (7)
  ...estioned the payment of four guineas for the treatment of one of the black trackers who had received a wound in the head at Glenrowan.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/10/1881 (3)
  Allusion is made to the employment of Inspector O'Connor and the Queensland trackers, whose services are said to have been retained contrary to the wishes and j
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• The Argus at KellyGang 17/12/1881
  ...daylight the following morning, and the pursuit foiled for want of skilled trackers.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 23/12/1881
  ...e Chief Secretary, as the late officer in command of the Queensland native trackers, and a witness who was examined by the Police Commission He says:-
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• The Argus at KellyGang 5/1/1882
  ...questioned a charge of four guineas for the treatment of one of the black trackers. If so, what has Mr HARE to do with that? Did he grudge the money due on ac
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/1/1882
  ...t the men had been a failure, although it is admitted that the fear of the trackers was what paralysed the outlaws. So with the steps taken to privately arrang ...ON SHERRITT on the Sunday afternoon, he proposed and arranged to start the trackers and the police the next morning. It was only the remonstrances of Superinte
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/2/1882 (3)
  ...white flag had been fired on, not by the regular police, but by the black trackers. The following is the statement in the sketch : – &quot;Indeed the firing ...ssing in the writer's mind, namely, the extraordinary conduct of the black trackers on that occasion. It must be obvious that if one of the constables had been
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/3/1882
  ...ess to acknowledge that in spite of these instructions he had to check the trackers on one occasion, and that in the darkness and excitement no one person coul
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/3/1882
  ...eele challenged the woman there was firing from the direction of the black trackers. It was impossible for Arthur to have said to Sergeant Steele, &quot;I'll s
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/6/1882
  ...s also pointed out that it is of great importance that the services of the trackers should be applied for as soon as possible after the tracks they are require
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• The Argus at KellyGang 11/7/1892
  ...further murder a special tram would be sent to Beechworth with police and trackers, Ned Kelly and Hart had ridden to Glenrowan and, taking possession of the t
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• The Argus (56)
  '''Autum 1879''' The Queensland trackers arrived in Victoria.([[The Argus at KellyGang 10/3/1879|Argus10/3/79]]) ...icolson 6/7/1879''' The Lancefield robbery was a distraction but it showed trackers in action , but it showed that the authorities could make arrests. ([[The A
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• Untitled Document
  ...cer who was the leader of the trackers, Inspector O'Connor, &quot;No doubt trackers can be utilized in following the traces of men on foot, but for this kind o A few days before Glenrowan Standish had succeeded in getting the Queensland trackers withdrawn. When the news of Aaron Sherritt's death came through they were i
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• Royal Commission report day 1 page 7
  ...ot consent to him going out alone, but sent Mr. Sadleir with him. No doubt trackers can be utilized in following the traces of men on foot, but for this kind o
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• Royal Commission day 1 report page 9
  ...e gave all the information to Mr. Nicolson. It was arranged that the black trackers and a party of men were to start away at one o'clock the next morning. Mr.
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• Royal Commission report day 1 page 10
  ...Sadleir|Sadleir]], and Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] to Beechworth without the trackers, saw Mrs. -, who stated what she had seen, and decided it was no use going
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  ...t once. He asked me to get the train to meet him at Essendon, as his black trackers were at the late John Thomas Smith's place. I went down to the station and
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• Royal Commission report day 1 page 24
  ...tracks?- Because if we had had you and your numerous baggage, horses, and trackers, we should have been known some hours before we got there. 318 From the outset you were jealous of my trackers finding the outlaws?- That is absolutely untrue.
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• Royal Commission report day 2 page 3
  ...Yes and it was on the same day I saw this. I had with me one good [[Police Trackers|blackfellow]] - a Darling black tracker-who traced them up within a quarter ...ice Trackers|Black - trackers]] where not engaged?- No; we had a few black-trackers picked up here and there, and that man I had with me was a really skilled b
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• Royal Commission report day 2 page 4
  ...t?- No; orders that had been issued. I took up a few police and a [[Police Trackers|black-tracker]] myself, but l found this large number of police about Beech
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• Royal Commission report day 2 page 7
  ...long the [[Warby Ranges|Warby]] ranges, and had tracked them with [[Police Trackers|blackfellows]], and had recovered one of the police horses, which had been
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• Royal Commission report day 2 page 14
  ...an from there to the hospital to get that black I had before- the [[Police Trackers|Queensland]] black that I had before at [[William Baumgarten|Baumgarten]]'s ...ne; that I had gone down to Euroa, and that I wished them to send down two trackers from there to me to Euroa- They had three, I think.
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  529 And the trackers were to go to [[Euroa|Euroa]]?- I believe that is it; but the telegram can
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• Royal Commission report day 3 page 6
  ...fth man and other friends, each had taken separate directions, so that the trackers pursuing might find themselves running down one wrong man. Sub-Inspector [[
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• Royal Commission report day 3 page 7
  ...ere the black trackers then under your control?- Yes; there were two black trackers went out with this party. 753 I mean the special detachment?- Yes; the [[Police Trackers|Queensland blacks]]. There were two went out on those enquiries. There were
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• Royal Commission report day 3 page 10
  ...place with the guide to point out the spot w here he had seen the man. The trackers went to the place. We could see the trace of footsteps, and we could see al ...ty, and despatched them to search through the country. I returned with the trackers, and with Senior Constable Kelly, the two constables, and Mr. O'Connor, to
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• Royal Commission report day 3 page 15
  ...nd from that time our relations were perfectly satisfactory. He placed the trackers at my disposal, and I could take them myself at any time-to take them whene
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• Royal Commission report day 3 page 16
  ...a]] bank robbery, and our pursuit of them failed through want of efficient trackers, even although the tracks were recent. ...laws on their return, but, as at Euroa, in the absence of efficient native trackers, without effect. Although reports did come in of the re-appearance of indiv
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• Royal Commission report 25/3/1881
  ...yGang''' under a number of categories such as the cost of the railways and trackers etc.
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• Royal Commission report day 4 page 11
  ...79?- The 6th of March 1879 at seven p.m. I was accompanied by six [[Police Trackers|black troopers]], and by one senior-constable, a white man. The names of my ...1|1074]] And your men?- No; only myself and my senior-constable. The black trackers do not take the oath ever; they are enlisted. We left Benalla at eleven a.m
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• Royal Commission report day 4 page 12
  1083 Did all those [[Police Trackers|trackers]] come from [[Queensland police|Queensland]]?- Yes, up to this time.
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• Royal Commission report day 4 page 13
  ...t, upon one occasion, he and his constables could not get up to one of the trackers, who at the time was following some horse tracks, before the tracker had go 1102 What was the special duty of the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] in Queensland-the same as here?- Just the same as white police in one bra
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• Royal Commission report 30/3/1881
  ...Joe Byrne visiting his mother. Nicolson decided not to follow up with the trackers for fear that the '''KellyGang''' would find out the name of the police inf ...etween Queensland and Victoria concerning the engagement of the Queensland trackers.
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• Royal Commission evidence day 5 page 1
  ...you mean by &quot;your party&quot; the [[Police Trackers|trackers]]?- The trackers. We arrived the same day at [[Kilmore|Kilmore]], late at night. Although it
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  ...n the urgent position of affairs, could you return to Beechworth with your trackers by the early train to morrow, or by a special train, if that can be arrange
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  ...o retain troopers till Superintendent [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]] returns with trackers from Queensland; he will reach Brisbane on Monday.&quot; That telegram was
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  ...on the part of the Victorian police towards Mr. O'Connor and his party of trackers. It appears that the greatest cordiality invariably prevailed between the t
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  ...m he reluctantly did it. If it was not for Mr. Ramsay, who believed in the trackers, I firmly believe he would not have sent for me at all.
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• Royal Commission report day 6 page 6
  ...tracks.” One of my men answered, “Yes, they are wonders these [[Police Trackers|Queensland blacks]].” He said, “Do you mean to say that they can track
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• Royal Commission report day 6 page 7
  ...ut any Victorian police—there was an officer, sub-officer, and six black-trackers. I can only remember being out once with them, but Mr. O'Connor says twice;
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• Royal Commission report day 6 page 8
  ...to this man's place for breakfast, and were tracked by Mr. Smith with his trackers passing the door and going into these very mountains. I had untied my 'poss ...course not equal to [[Police Trackers|blacks]], but very good for European trackers—and we went on to the tracks for a considerable time. We found the tracks
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• Royal Commission report day 6 page 9
  ...4|1294]]</span> That accounted for the fact he could not send the [[Police Trackers|tracker]]?— Yes. That afternoon my men were very much done up, and so was
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• Royal Commission report day 6 page 13
  ...Was that in confirmation of the opinion that you had us to having black-trackers in pursuit of the Kellys?— That is on my second occasion. ...Wangaratta, and Beechworth—did you continue to have confidence in black-trackers in pursuit of the Kellys, so much so that you continued to use them on your
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• Royal Commission report day 7 page 1
  ...this statement to the Commission to show them that, if we had taken black-trackers there, no secrecy of any sort could have been observed—we might as well h
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• Royal Commission report day 7 page 5
  ...ning this business, more especially about the Queensland [[Police Trackers|trackers]], and I then said to him, “Suppose I make certain arrangements with cert
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• Royal Commission report day 8 page 1
  ...airs, and informed them that I intended stationing [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], whom I expected from [[Queensland police|Queensland]] , at Benalla, Wang
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• Royal Commission report day 8 page 3
  ...In many instances he mentioned Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] with his black trackers; but in particular —those were his words —he would “get that inspecto
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• Royal Commission report day 8 page 5
  ...ation from Captain Standish that Mr. [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and the black trackers were to be sent back to Queensland . ...]], who had gone to [[Queensland police|Queensland]] for a fresh supply of trackers for our force, returned, as I did not expect him back for eight or ten days
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  ...accompany me, leaving a party behind us, already equipped, with two black trackers, for Mr. Sadleir, at [[Benalla|Benalla]], in case anything occurred whilst
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  ...hat means he will be able to tell whether it would be advisable to get the trackers to follow them; the man in charge of the watch party should accompany “To ...kind, assisted by the senior man of the party. Shortly I hope to have two trackers stationed at Beechworth, so that there may be no delay in following the tra
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• Royal Commission report day 10 page 11
  ...all the cattle of the neighborhood came to water, and we could not get the trackers back again to take up the tracks where they left them. I am perfectly satis <span id="rc1876">[[#rc1876|1876]]</span> Who, the [[Police Trackers|trackers]]?— Yes.
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  ...to follow on horseback, and if you let them out of sight, unless you have trackers, you have to gallop up, and the chances are you come out right on before th
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• Royal Commission report day 11 page 3
  ...quite fresh during the previous night or very early that morning, but the trackers just led us perhaps twenty or thirty yards, and would not or could not foll ...the impression on your mind with reference to the conduct of the [[Police Trackers|black tracker]] at that time—you said he would not or could not follow th
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• Royal Commission report day 11 page 4
  ...n to fall back upon the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] [[Police Trackers|trackers]]. Mr. Hare proposed this—that we should send for them, and Captain Stand
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  ...was, immediately after the [[Euroa|Euroa]] bank robbery, an offer of black trackers from the Queensland police. 2038 Had you not black trackers in your employment from the first?— We had odds and ends of men, such as
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  ...c2225|2225]]</span> Had you either of the Victorian [[Police Tactics|black trackers]] in your party?— I am told so; but I do not remember seeing either of th
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  ...ne o'clock , though we started at 6.30. When we arrived we found the black trackers had run the track back towards [[Strathbogie Ranges|Strathbogie]] for a mil
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• Royal Commission report day 12 page 4
  ...lock ; therefore, if he had known earlier, he might have sent a party with trackers down earlier.
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  ...case that came under my knowledge, that those Queensland [[Police Tactics|trackers]] were highly efficient men, and that if a track were picked up by them, th
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  ...that the [[KellyGang|Kellys]] ceased at once to show themselves after the trackers arrived in Victoria .
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• Royal Commission report day 12 page 12
  ...ated removing the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]. ...re about the beginning or end of March of that year that I spoke about the trackers. I was on my way either to or from Tasmania where I had a few weeks' leave
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• Royal Commission report day 13 page 1
  ...ous night. After some consultation, I advised him to get [[Police Trackers|trackers]] with Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] back again. We had some difficulty in gett ...ice Station|Benalla]] to [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] without waiting for the trackers; and later on, when he came to agree to this, I recommended him to take an
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  ...?— There were only two of his men and Constable [[Kirkham|Kirkham]], two trackers, [[Jacky|Jack]] [[Jimmy|Jimmy]]. ...kham a colored man?— No, one of our ordinary men; he was attached to the trackers.
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  The conduct of the Queensland trackers was excellent, and shows, certainly, that in good company at least they may + In charge of trackers.
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• Royal Commission report day 14 page 3
  ...fresh order you received?— The order was that I was to receive two black trackers, and to start whenever I got information, but to telegraph where I would li
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  3071 What was the difference?— All the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] were kept in Benalla—that was the only difference. <span id="rc3072">[[#rc3072|3072]]</span> Then you could go out with black trackers without sending for them?— We could by sending for them; they were always
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  3085 This simply refers to the black trackers?— Yes. 3086 Then this change was simply that you got the black trackers there to assist you?— Yes.
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  ...c3438">[[#rc3438|3438]]</span> Have you ever had experience with the black trackers in this country?— No, I never saw any until I went up in July last.
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• Royal Commission report day 15 page 4
  ...t there does not appear to be any real foundation for the rumor. The black trackers at present stationed in Benalla are believed by the authorities to be bette
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  <span id="rc3895">[[#rc3895|3895]]</span> Did any black trackers come to follow the tracks?— No; not one. <span id="rc3898">[[#rc3898|3898]]</span> You saw the black trackers when you went to Glenrowan?— Yes.
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  ...id="rc3935">[[#rc3935|3935]]</span> Where were the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]?— They were running round in all directions about this time.
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  ...as he?— I saw him along with Mr. Sadleir, and I saw him giving the black trackers lunch. <span id="rc4010">[[#rc4010|4010]]</span> Did you see the black trackers eat their lunch?— I saw Mr. O'Connor distributing it to them.
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  ...34">[[#rc4034|4034]]</span> After that?— I only saw him giving the black trackers their lunch.
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  ...r. O'Connor go after you knew it was Mr. O'Connor?— I saw him giving the trackers lunch, and I may have seen him afterwards, but I did not take particular no
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 May 1881
  ...commendations as have reference to Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and the black trackers under him, as in the projected re-organization of the police arrangements f ...ed second in command in the North-Eastern district, in charge of the black trackers, he having been considered the best adapted for that service.
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• Royal Commission report day 17 page 3
  ...information to the sub-officer at Beechworth, and [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] were sent out under Constable [[Kirkham|Kirkham]]. I believe that Paddy B <span id="rc4738">[[#rc4738|4738]]</span> You heard that two black trackers and Kirkham were sent out?— I saw them.
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  ...east of the building, and there was a shot fired at it by one of the black trackers; they kept inside then.
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  ...d="rc4846">[[#rc4846|4846]]</span> Did you see the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]?— I did. <span id="rc4850">[[#rc4850|4850]]</span> Did you not see the black trackers till after you had been on the ground an hour?— Yes, I did; they were in
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  ...rm round at the north end of the building, travelling round, and the black trackers were stationed at one point, or were they divided?— They were divided, an ...mes walking about during the day attending to his duties, having the black trackers under his charge, was that so?— I never saw him speaking to any of them;
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  <span id="rc4959">[[#rc4959|4959]]</span> Was he going round to the black trackers or to the ordinary men?— He was walking with some of the reporters.
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  ...o-night. and go to Lancefield in the morning. King asked me if he took the trackers would I go with him. This I refused, telling him that it was a good man tha
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  ...?— No, he was second to Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] with [[Police Trackers|trackers]]. ...ncefield. He said I would have to remain behind, and, after he started the trackers, he asked me how it was we did not reach Lancefield last night. I replied I
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• Royal Commission report 10/5/1881
  ...did they do when Paddy Byrne was around the place. Why were the aboriginal trackers sent out just before Aaron Sherritt was murdered.
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 5
  ...?— Seven went with Mr. Hare and remained, and Mr. O'Connor and six black trackers, that would be the number there. Constable [[Const Patrick Walsh|Walsh]] ha
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  ...n> Do you remember the time Mr. O'Connor arrived in Benalla with the black trackers?— Yes. ...ut with black trackers—He and a senior-constable from Queensland and six trackers, together with our men.
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  ...p your position, and after daylight, did you see anything of the six black trackers under Mr. O'Connor?— No, I did not. ...</span> Do you know of your own knowledge where Mr. O'Connor and his black trackers were from daylight up to the time you say you first saw him?— Not of my o
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  ...fles, some with double-barrelled guns, some with Spencer rifles, the black trackers had Sniders, and I think Mr. O'Connor had a Snider.
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  ...ior-constable Kelly had us at the front of the house. Mr. O'Connor and the trackers were at the upper end of the house, and part of the back of the house was g
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  ...Nicolson came up to take up search parties before we had trackers. We had trackers from [[Coranderrk|Coranderrk]]. He used to go out with parties himself. He
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  ...hen in the Victorian police?— He was only then in charge of the troop of trackers, as far as I know. ...c6213|6213]]</span> Was Mr. O'Connor, during the time he was here with his trackers, recognised and known among the force—did you know him as a Victorian off
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  6235 You were asked about the position of the black-trackers and Mr. O'Connor?— Yes. 6242 Then Mr. O'Connor's duty was to keep in charge of the black trackers?— Yes.
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  ...r. O'Connor had left the Victorian service, and had gone to take the black trackers home, and was not amenable to any Victorian rule except public opinion, wou ...ved, and was on his way back to Queensland, and volunteered with his black trackers, and of his own free will and accord came up to assist, would he be then an
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  ...4|6324]]</span> You think that having come here as an officer in charge of trackers, and being sworn in as a member of the police force of Victoria, he would o
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  ...o not think you are over Mr. O'Connor”?— That might mean as far as the trackers are concerned. ...d be in charge of the white men, and Mr. O'Connor of the [[Police Trackers|trackers]].
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  ...rc6353">[[#rc6353|6353]]</span> Are you daily in the habit of seeing those trackers, and hearing Kirkham's reports on them?— Yes. ...onghold, and were lining it, as they were afraid of being tracked by black trackers. This man, the informant, said the armour was being made to fit them to rid
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  ...any offender, there is only one man to fight—we cannot trust much to the trackers to fight—there is only one man to fight, and nine horses, which make a gr <span id="rc6407">[[#rc6407|6407]]</span> Who was in charge then of the black trackers?— Constable [[Kirkham|Kirkham]], and Sub-Inspector [[Sup Henry Baber|Babe
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  ...u were appointed to the Victorian police. You were only remaining with the trackers till such time as the gang were captured. That was my idea, and I never hea ...c6452|6452]]</span> When Constable [[Kirkham|Kirkham]] was attached to the trackers, was I not his officer?— Yes, after King went away. I believe Mr. [[Sadle
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  ...cure, the men not properly posted, I would leave the nest in charge of the trackers, and go round myself.
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  ...rc6519">[[#rc6519|6519]]</span> Suppose they had not gone, would the black trackers have been fit to cope with the outlaws?— I think they would have had a ve
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  ...d="rc6608">[[#rc6608|6608]]</span> Did you see the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]?— I saw them come out of the drain once, just as the people rushed out 6610 Did you see Mr. O'Connor with the black trackers then?— No.
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  ...ng?— Yes. When I left for those provisions, I think Mr. O'Connor and the trackers gave them a volley from there, at the window, so that the outlaws should no
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  ...nnor?— I think there was no one there but Mr. O'Connor and the two black trackers.
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  ...take charge of the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], I mean the O'Connor trackers?— I got charge of them at Heathcote, at the time of the Lancefield robber ..."rc6929">[[#rc6929|6929]]</span> You have also been in charge of the black trackers brought from Queensland since?— Yes.
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  ...n> Then, in point of fact, though you were there to do duty with the black trackers under Mr. O'Connor, you would recognise [[SConst John Kelly|Senior-Constabl ...nsider Mr. O'Connor your superior officer while you remained here with the trackers?— Yes.
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  <span id="rc7068">[[#rc7068|7068]]</span> That is the [[Police Trackers|trackers]]?— Yes.
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  ...="rc7255">[[#rc7255|7255]]</span> At the time you saw him had he the black trackers immediately under his control?— No.
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  ...black trackers and the police firing?— Yes; but I did not see the black trackers at this time. ...on the Benalla side, and I fired at him two or three shots, and one of the trackers who was with me, named Barney , fired too, and this man retreated back.
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  <span id="rc7466">[[#rc7466|7466]]</span> Supposing his black trackers fired at the front of the house would their fire reach that house between y
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  ...hin fifteen yards of him—did you hear him giving any orders to the black trackers that were with him under his command?— I did not hear him give an order.
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  ...o; I never enquired. I always thought you were just in charge of the black trackers.
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  ...and I knew it myself, about a party of police and [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] being sent to the [[Woolshed|Woolshed]], through information received. Th
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  ...7657]]</span> How many shots do you think we fired—the police—both the trackers and the white police, as near as you can think?— Twice that, at least.
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  ...he position that Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] held by seeing Snider shells or cartridges in the position they were said ..."rc7841">[[#rc7841|7841]]</span> What do you call “boys”?— The black trackers; so I knew they were in that direction, and then finding the cartridges aft
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  ...re not to take them; we were to preserve the tracks and send for the black trackers.
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  ...pecial train]] from Melbourne came with Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and five trackers, and four gentlemen belonging to the press, and two ladies. We got the hors ...guards’ van. There was one, Constable Kirkham, he got in with the black trackers in the carriage—a first-class carriage.
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  ...Hare, and I am not certain whether Mr. O'Connor did or not, but the black trackers were.
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  ...onst Arthur|Arthur]], [[Const W Phillips|Phillips]], and some of the black trackers. <span id="rc8077">[[#rc8077|8077]]</span> Were the black trackers?— Some of them were there.
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  ...2|8132]]</span> Had you any conversation with him?— There were two black trackers with him. <span id="rc8150">[[#rc8150|8150]]</span> Then that is two black trackers?— Yes.
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  <span id="rc8658">[[#rc8658|8658]]</span> And who else?— Two black trackers. ...e, or when you posted the men there?— They were all–five men and three trackers.
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  ...ask me that question?— There was nobody there about except the two black trackers.
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  ...did not say where they were posted. He merely said O'Connor and the black trackers were down in the drain.
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  ...in the trench when you were there besides Mr. O'Connor?— There were two trackers and Constable [[Kirkham|Kirkham]]. Mr. O'Connor said, “Oh, it is full of
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  ...ed at the house, and said, “You , would you shoot my wife.” One of the trackers, while he was standing in the trench too with Mr. O'Connor there, a bullet
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  ...en over to me?— I heard he was given over to you to look after the black trackers.
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  ...or|O'Connor]], at Glenrowan?— I did, inasmuch as he was in charge of the trackers with him. ...particular time when you saw them fire?— There were Mr. O'Connor and two trackers, and Constable Kirkham, and Mr. Sadleir and I–that is six altogether.
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  ...; so in the morning we were travelling in that direction, and the [[Police Trackers|black tracker]] picked up some tracks. He followed them on for about a mile
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  ...orseback, about 100 yards away, on the hotel side. Constable Barry and two trackers were put on guard to watch. Before all the horses were got out I noticed so ....' I now left my post and went to the two men above me, who I thought were trackers, but I found they were police constables; they told me not to stop there, a
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  ...went inside again; I looked round, and found that it was one of the black trackers that had fired the shot. At this time someone in front of the building call
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  ...er named Jimmy fired at a man running out?— No, I stated that one of the trackers told me he could see his mate Jimmy firing. Of course that is only hearsay <span id="rc9801">[[#rc9801|9801]]</span> Did you see the trackers?— In the morning?....
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  ...Would that pay there mentioned, in your opinion, apply solely to the black trackers?— Yes; that is the three pounds a month. ...an> I can find none about it except one, where it says he and his party of trackers are not to be separated?— I have made enquiry, and I find that most of th
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  <span id="rc9839">[[#rc9839|9839]]</span> Do you know whether the black trackers received Queensland pay?— No, they received double pay from our departmen
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  ...pit saws, supposed taken to construct armour out of. Would be well to send trackers at once to [[Acock|Acock's]], near Glenrowan. Will have tracks, if any, pre
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  ...r. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] should take charge of the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] ?— Yes. ...t information; and, in case of an outbreak, we must fall back on the black trackers, and we must make them as efficient as we could.
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  ...seven years before he came here; and I know those [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], from what I was told over there, require very delicate handling. ...cer in the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] police, in charge of the black trackers?— Yes, and for other reasons. Mr. O'Connor's name was quite sufficient to
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  <span id="rc9906">[[#rc9906|9906]]</span> Were the black trackers utilized in the matter of the stolen saw?— Yes. <span id="rc9909">[[#rc9909|9909]]</span> I suppose no trackers could prove of service where there was great traffic on a road?— That is
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  ...s, our chief dependence must, in case of a fresh outbreak, be in our black trackers and it is most advisable to make them as efficient as possible. at present
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  How did he come to be apointed to take charge of the trackers from Queensland?
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  ...ned in that ditch?— No I did not know, only I have heard lately that the trackers were there.
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  ...out, “Come on, boys,” and made for the hotel. All the police and black trackers, and Mr. O'Connor accompanied him. For a minute or two the reporters on the
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  ...hing to the ladies in the train and run off, preceded by some of his black trackers. ...''.] —I could point out the position on the ground. There were two black trackers further up the drainthan Mr. O'Connor, to his right.
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  ...d do nothing till daylight, and as the man was evidently wounded the black trackers would have very little difficulty in tracing him. Constable [[Const W Phill
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  ...c10689">[[#rc10689|10689]]</span> You do not know whether it was the black trackers?— I could not say who it was, but it was the party in the gutter between
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  ...n id="rc10707">[[#rc10707|10707]]</span> Where the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] were?— Where I understood they were. That cross fire in the direction o ...t of what you saw?— I left Melbourne in the special train with the black trackers, and picked up Mr. [[Hare|Hare]] and his men at [[Benalla|Benalla]], when t
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  ...police, those in a line across the hotel with the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] in the drain, and for the hour I was there I am perfectly satisfied that ...86">[[#rc10786|10786]]</span> Those all came from the police and the black trackers?— Yes.
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  ...know when he went there?— I saw him go down in the drain where the black trackers were. I next saw him on the Benalla side of the hotel at one of those trees
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  ...shots from the constables themselves on either side?— Yes, and the black trackers.
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  ...ate that I left with Mr. Hare?— Yes, certainly, surrounded by your black trackers.
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  ...pector Montfort, that during the period I have been in charge of the above trackers and on all occasions when out with them in search of offenders and otherwis ...than Inps O'Connor's, &quot;if any other person told one of Mr. O'Connor's trackers to do this, that, or the other, or gave him any instructions at all, he wou
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  ...ade him write a report in connection with certain cases in which the black trackers were engaged. That is since they came up. They came up when I was in Benall ...fort|Montfort]], that during the period I have been in charge of the above trackers and on all occasions when out with them in search of offenders and otherwis
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  <span id="rc10999">[[#rc10999|10999]]</span> Do [[Police Trackers|they]] keep in good health?— In very good health, and never enter a publi ...> Have you seen at any time any signs of insubordination amongst the black trackers?— None whatever, nor ever heard of any.
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  ...m, and he said if any other person told one of Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]]'s trackers to do this, that, or the other, or gave him any instructions at all, he wou <span id="rc11019">[[#rc11019|11019]]</span> Do you think that if the present trackers at Benalla were under the management of Mr. O'Connor that they would rather
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  ...to track just as well by the men that are there as they would even by the trackers you had. ...actually see them?— No, I never heard of that. I can only speak of these trackers.
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  ...taking charge of the black trackers?— Solely to take charge of the black trackers? ...1057]]</span> That is the only reason, solely to be in charge of the black trackers?— I do not think so.
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  ...er; and then Sergeant Steele sang out to steady firing—it was a [[Police Trackers|blackfellow]]; and Steele went behind a bush; and after Kelly went to the t
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  ...04|11204]]</span> You could not tell whether they were either of the black trackers?— No.
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  ...58|11358]]</span> Had you been in the position the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] were, would not it be your duty to challenge that man coming down towards
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  ...to the engagement and services of Mr O'Connor and his contingent of black trackers.
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  In mid June it was decided that the Queensland trackers would return home. The Royal Commission examined the politics surrounding t
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  ...id="rc11465">[[#rc11465|11465]]</span> King being away, if the Queensland trackers were ordered back, unless you went with the they would be without an office
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  ...ained the authority of the Government to engage the services of four other trackers, and I am on the look-out for them both here and in N.S.Wales. Their pay wi ...must have been some decision by the Queensland Government to with draw the trackers previous to that; there must be some correspondence on that?— What my Com
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  ...itten by yourself in reference to the withdrawal of yourself and the black trackers from this colony?—[''The witness made a note of the same''.] ...f the Government—it says a useless fellow?— They were all useless, the trackers they had here.....
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  ...is nothing in that letter to say that Captain Standish wished to take the trackers from your control during the time you had charge of them?— Yes.
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  <span id="rc11671">[[#rc11671|11671]]</span> The black trackers' horses and Victorian police?— Yes.
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  ...c11761|11761]]</span> Do you think that shot was fired by one of the black trackers?— It might have been.
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  ...eak them up. He says it is no use trying to work with such a large body of trackers, a couple would be enough, and that O'Connor will not allow his men to work
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  ...#rc11835|11835]]</span> Would that have been only as it affected the black trackers?— Certainly not. ...[[Chief Secretary|Chief Secretary]] wants to offer you the command of the trackers in the North-Eastern district.”
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  Insp O'Connor was asked about the skiils of his trackers and in particular whether they are considered more efficient in small detac
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  ...d which we all thought were the outlaws'—I mean as to the working of the trackers?— You asked me to hold back all the white police and let you go on with y
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  ...evidence several references by Captain Standish as to the slowness of the trackers working?— Yes.
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  ...— Yes, I remember that before that Mr. Hare had very little faith in the trackers, though he was one that sent for them first; but I understood, after that t ...Commission''— Before that I wish to ask you, in your opinion, would the trackers act as well in twos or threes as in larger numbers?— Not against armed me
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  ...n?— Certainly not. I think Constable Kirkham is a very poor man with the trackers. He is a very good tempered man, and manages to get on very well with them,
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  ...d, and he objected to including some four or five of the [[Police Trackers|trackers]] that were there on the parade. ...es; he used some strong words, and I had to go and order the men back. The trackers did not understand it, and possibly the white police did not know.
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  ...— Arising out of the question as to whether your [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] are considered more efficient in small detachments or singly for tracking <span id="rc11985">[[#rc11985|11985]]</span> Connected with the black trackers all the time?— Yes. I was up in the northern portion of Queensland , the
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  ...cing the robbery of the bank there, and an order to despatch you with your trackers to [[Kilmore|Kilmore]], and that you would proceed from thence to Lancefiel ...012">[[#rc12012|12012]]</span> Did you ever hear what work was done by the trackers?— Well, I heard it from yourself.
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  ...some other things. When I arrived he told me of the arrival of Queensland trackers; that they had been despatched that morning, Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Sadleir w
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  ...Connor and his senior-constable were never to part with the command of the trackers. ...2073]]</span> My question is, if Captain Standish ordered two of the black trackers to go out with Mr. Sadleir or any one else, would Mr. O'Connor be bound to
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  ...land police|Queensland Government]], in reference to Mr O’Connor and his trackers, to be placed before the Commission. A statement was received from a prisio
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  ...orted to Senior-Constable Mullane at seven o'clock in the morning, and the trackers were sent up by the afternoon train; but Ward had said Sherritt could not p
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  ...id that?— Because we had no provisions, and night came on, and we had no trackers. ...From what he said, “We will go to Wangaratta to-night and get the black trackers, and be able to run the tracks to-morrow.”
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  ...irable to go into [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] to get [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]?— Yes, and to get provisions.
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  ...our desire to have black trackers?— We had the trackers then, we got the trackers the previous day.
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  ...re on foot. It was two of the [[Aboriginals|Coranderrk]] [[Police Trackers|trackers]] we had; and we camped at the Taminick station that night, and the followi
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  ...very slow, and did not appear to like to go into the scrub at all, the two trackers we had. There was then some conversation between the officers which I did n
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  <span id="rc12491">[[#rc12491|12491]]</span> Did the trackers say they were away?— They said, pointing, “Him going away this way.”
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  ...call to your recollection the feet that we were sent to Victoria to act as trackers. I was not entrusted with the command or the charge of the party, and was n
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  ...Mr. Sadleir?— Yes, I was out with Mr. [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] and the black trackers nearly all the time they were out in search parties.
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 5 July 1881
  ...s as have reference to Mr. Inspector [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and the black trackers under him, as in the projected reorganization of the police arrangements fo ...the Government should make provision for the permanent employment of black trackers as an auxiliary branch of the police service; care being taken that they sh
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• Royal Commission report day 37 page 4
  ...orses; we followed them up to a gully near Mr. Newcombe 's –the [[Police Trackers|black boys]] them there, it coming on dark. We stopped at [[Taminick|Mr. Ne
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• Royal Commission report day 37 page 27
  ...hose agents were at different parts of the district, and he kept the black trackers in Benalla with Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] .
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• Royal Commission report day 37 page 28
  ...o the black trackers. The tracks were followed for a short distance by the trackers; they then left off and went into a spring that was there, and, like the ot ...">[[#rc13540|13540]]</span> Could you have followed the tracks without the trackers?— We could not.
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• Royal Commission report day 37 page 32
  ...ation three days old it would then entirely depend upon the ability of the trackers. ...on the road; still I have seen trackers track on the road. I saw the last trackers that came from Queensland —they tracked on the main road between here and
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• Royal Commission report day 37 page 34
  ''The Witness'' —When Mr. Nicolson came up with the party of black trackers, he came to [[Sebastopol|Sebastopol]] from [[Everton|Everton]], and after t
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• Royal Commission report day 38 page 4
  ...Nicolson . I proceeded to Younghusband's station with the police and black trackers, and there made search until Mr. Nicolson arrived. He took charge of the po ...ther they had. They had trackers, but not the Queensland [[Police Trackers|trackers]]. Then the next occurrence would be after I came out of the hospital. Abou
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  ...keeping three standing parties of police, and two [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] at each station, that at any time you receive information all you will ha
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• Royal Commission report day 38 page 8
  ...e to send the trackers down; consequently, there was nothing done, and the trackers returned to Benalla. On the 19th Mr. Hare came to Beechworth, and about sev
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• Royal Commission report day 39 page 7
  ...er us coming to the end of the search?— Yes. The [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] knocked about for some time, and could not make anything of it. There wer ...1|14081]]</span> In whose hands was this search—who was in charge of the trackers and party of men — what officer or acting sub-officer?— There was a man
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• Royal Commission report day 39 page 8
  <span id="rc14097">[[#rc14097|14097]]</span> Was this before the black trackers came?— Yes. <span id="rc14098">[[#rc14098|14098]]</span> The trackers proved of no service to you on that occasion?— No.
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• Royal Commission report day 42 page 15
  ...ub-inspector could return to Queensland , as he is never troubled with the trackers. Is Detective Ward and the Assistant-Commissioner capable of outwitting the
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• Royal Commission report day 43 page 5
  ...e in the vicinity of [[Sebastopol|Sebastopol]]. Mr. Nicolson and the black trackers came as far as Everton; Aaron met them there according to appointment. On p
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• Royal Commission report day 43 page 6
  15117 Can you say what was done by the trackers?— They proceeded on to the place, but they got to the tracks of someone d
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• Royal Commission report day 45 page 12
  ...r cut his tracks and run them. By dividing my party and leaving it without trackers ''''tis''' rendered of little use any way. FRANK [[SConst James|JAMES]] , S
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• Royal Commission report day 45 page 13
  ...y and the promptitude with which he acted. McGuirk then suggested that the trackers be immediately put on, and follow up the tracks, as the ground was soft Mr.
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• Royal Commission report day 46 page 1
  ...e. Amongst other things he stated that when he consented to take the black trackers up in pursuit of the murderers of [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]] , he as
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• Royal Commission report day 46 page 5
  ...Mr. Sadleir, and Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] went to Beechworth without the trackers, saw Mrs. —, who stated what she had seen, and decided it was no use goin
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• Royal Commission report day 46 page 6
  ...d had the train sent out to pick up Mr.[[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and the black trackers at [[Essendon|Essendon]].
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• Royal Commission report 31/8/1881
  Did Standish support the use of the Queensland trackers? Did Standish object to the trackers being on parade?
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 9
  ...s one thing I wish to ask with reference to the Kelly outbreak—the black trackers were brought here contrary to your wishes?— Yes, they were. ...you said, “Because if we had you and your numerous baggage, horses, and trackers, we should have been known some hours before we got there.” Was that when
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 10
  ...ot the slightest use. Those men you speak of are [[Police Trackers|special trackers]] we have got from Queensland . 16145 You have no knowledge that Mr. O'Connor's trackers were different?— No doubt they could track well enough.
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 16
  16244 Were the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] there?— They were in the barracks, but whether on parade I cannot tell. ...f volunteers?— No; they were temporarily attached to the police force as trackers.
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 17
  ...e out into the yard, and he objected to including some four or five of the trackers that were there on the parade.” Does that recall it to your memory?— No ...trackers? — Certainly not. They were all very decent fellows—the black trackers. I always had a kind word for them.
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• Royal Commission report day 48 page 3
  ...ey remained there they were not likely to break cover, but immediately the trackers were removed they would be at once heard of, and his plan of operations was .... Hare's idea or the Government?— We had sent up to Queensland for black trackers; Mr. Chomley had gone up to Queensland to obtain them—in fact, they were
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  ...e Kellys were going to catch the inspector and the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]; and I had my doubts whether it was not a trap, and on the train I said t
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• Royal Commission report day 48 page 15
  <span id="rc16552">[[#rc16552|16552]]</span> In your report relating to the trackers, did you not detain them as long as you could till orders to send them to M ...pan> In your last paragraph, you said you thought it advisable to send the trackers away as a ''ruse''?— Yes.
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• Royal Commission report day 48 page 16
  ...I frequently expressed the same opinion to you in the last few months. The trackers were removed on the 25th June; the outlaws believing they had left for Quee 16569 You say in your evidence that the trackers were frequently out?— No, I do not.
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• Royal Commission report day 48 page 17
  ...ecently from “[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock]]” you allowed the trackers to leave the North-Eastern district?— Yes, undoubtedly. I had two others
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 4
  ...nd others have given similar evidence, how these [[Coranderrk|Corranderk]] trackers failed as they did on every occasion, and how Sergeant [[Steele|Steele]], b
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 6
  ...urned out to be mistaken; two trips with Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and his trackers and some police, altogether lasting about three weeks, and one night watchi ...son and Mr. O'Connor for not going without the informant, namely, that the trackers could not distinguish between the tracks of the outlaws and those of the fr
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 7
  ...final call that brought the innocent persons out. I know that some of the trackers were too forward during the day, and I had to check them myself. I shall no
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 9
  ...as appointed also to the district, and to take the management of the black trackers. Now I know it has been asserted out of doors, and in this room, that it wa
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 13
  ...the Witness)'' . –You remember the day the Queensland [[Police Trackers|trackers]] were sent away, on the Tuesday, from Benalla?— I remember their going. ...#rc16777|16777]]</span> Is this correct (''Mr. Hare's report''):— “The trackers were removed on the 25th June; the outlaws, believing they had left for Que
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 4
  ...h party. That search party had only been placed there, while I brought the trackers up to Beechworth, simply to watch Mrs Byrne's, to ascertain if the report o
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  ...has, moreover, been proved that so far from the outlaws believing that the trackers had left the district, as asserted by Mr Hare , it was the presence of thes ...house, were saying they were to get that Inspector O'Connor and the black trackers; and I believe Bracken proved that; but I understand that he, having been t
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 7
  ...am I believe I sent on that occasion from Benalla to Mansfield was for two trackers to be sent by the [[Broken River|Broken River]] , and Benalla to Euroa, to
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 8
  ...11th. I also have learned that the police pursuit of them without skilled trackers was vain. We had one tracker who was notorious for his uselessness-a man wh ...n to the tracks of two of the outlaws, but, owing to the incapacity of the trackers he also had with him, he lost the tracks and had to give up the pursuit.
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 11
  ...y untrue, as asserted by Johnston that there was scrub in front of us. The trackers (one was a man called Doctor-a very good man-and the other Jimmy-who was a
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 12
  ...rtillerymen to guard the townships, and also had the services of the black trackers from Queensland . The system of search parties scouring the country was con
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  ...ross-examined on this point he is obliged to admit that the removal of the trackers was no ruse, and that the taking of Ned Kelly and the destruction of the ga
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  ...enty-nine and One thousand eight hundred and eighty in charge of the black trackers sent from Queensland to assist in the pursuit of the Kellys .
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  ...="rc17002">[[#rc17002|17002]]</span> Do you not know when one of the black trackers saw ——, Joe Byrne's friend, and took deliberate aim at him?— I did no
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• Royal Commission report day 51 page 7
  ...e men there only on the Saturday previous until I could bring up the black trackers and a few mounted men to act upon the information that Mrs. Sherritt had gi
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• Royal Commission report day 51 page 11
  ...(we had got hold of them again a bit through some [[Police Trackers|black trackers]]), I went back to Wangaratta and reported what had been done to Mr. Nicols ...ltogether, as far as I recollect. We went back to this spot with the black trackers.
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• Royal Commission report day 51 page 13
  17326 He says, “We had the trackers then; we got the trackers the previous day. Is that all Mr. Nicolson said?— He had some conversatio
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• Royal Commission report day 51 page 14
  ...o I joined on to the party-those two ran those tracks splendidly, no black trackers could beat it. They ran them right away close on to the [[Brien's orangery|
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• Royal Commission report day 52 page 2 (2)
  ...cial [[Railways|train]] of inspectors, police, and [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], which would pass through Glenrowan for Beechworth, to take up their trai
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 22 September 1881
  ...pon the evidence dealing with matters up to the period of arrival of black trackers. ...ould proceed down to the arrival of the Queensland [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] in the colony.
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 October 1881
  ...e this opportunity of expressing our approval of the services of the black trackers as a body, and deeply regret that any misunderstanding amongst the officers
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• 2nd Report of the Royal Commission
  | '''The Queensland Trackers''' .... Problems over the size of search parties and the clothing for the native trackers. Deathof Corporal Sambo.
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• Royal Commission second (page 1)
  ...ons as have reference to Mr. Inspector [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and the black trackers under him, as, in the projected re-organization of the police arrangements ...uld make provision for the permanent employment of [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] as an auxiliary branch of the police service; care being taken that they
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• Royal Commission second Report (page 3)
  ...e this opportunity of expressing our approval of the services of the black trackers as a body, and deeply regret that any misunderstanding amongst the officers
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• Royal Commission second Report Part VIII ( page 11)
  ...ts were made to follow her, but the difficulty of doing so without skilled trackers was thought insurmountable, and all efforts to trace her nightly expedition
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XI ( page 14)
  '''XI.-THE''' '''QUEENSLAND''' '''TRACKERS''' ...and consideration. While Captain Standish entertained this opinion of the trackers, it must be noticed that Mr. Hare, Mr. Sadleir and other competent authorit
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XII ( page 16)
  ...fth man and other friends, each had taken separate directions, so that the trackers pursuing might find themselves running down one wrong man. Sub-Inspector [[
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XII ( page 17)
  ...fth man and other friends, each had taken separate directions, so that the trackers pursuing might find themselves running down one wrong man. Sub-Inspector [[
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XII ( page 18)
  ...nown what the object of these depredations was, but a search party and two trackers were sent out, and upon this occasion was discovered the footprints with th
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XIV ( page 20)
  ...murder was received, prompt action was taken. The [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], who, with Mr [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], had been withdrawn from the district
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• Royal Commission Second Report Part XV ( page 21)
  ...n. The special, containing Mr. O'Connor, his wife, and sister-in-law, five trackers, and several representatives of the press, arrived at Benalla at about half
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• Royal Commission Second Report Part XIII ( page 21)
  ...rposes of a rifle pit. Here he took up his position, along with two of his trackers, the distance from the hotel being between 40 and 50 yards. The accounts gi
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• Royal Commission Second Report Part XV ( page 24)
  ...sent telegram to Captain Standish, asking that Mr. O'Connor and his black trackers might be sent back at once. See Question 1501. ...t another telegram to Captain Standish, &quot;That if Mr. O'Connor and his trackers did not come that night it would be no use their coming on the Monday.&quot
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• Royal Commission Second Report ( page 28)
  ...nt of four guineas for the treatment of one of the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] who had received a wound in the head at Glenrowan.
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 1 page 5
  83 You have got the black trackers now at Benalla?— Yes.
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 3 page 2
  ...n the state of affairs, and informed them that I intended stationing black trackers, whom I expected from Queensland, at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. I ...pened before Mr. Chomley, who had gone to Queensland for a fresh supply of trackers for our own force, returned, as I did not expect him back for eight or ten
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 3 page
  ...and Phillips, leaving a party behind us all ready equipped, with two black trackers, for Mr. Sadleir, in case anything occurred while I was away. I remained in ...urne were as follows:—Mr. O'Connor, his wife and sister, five Queensland trackers, and six gentlemen connected with the press.
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 3 page 4
  ...el. Some six or seven men followed me, amongst them were some of the black trackers, but I cannot say who any of them were. When approaching the hotel the plac
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 3 page 5
  ...appointed to decide to whom it is to be paid, and that the constables and trackers who were engaged at the destruction of the gang will be allowed to partake ...I frequently expressed the same opinion to you in the last few months. The trackers were removed on the 25th June; the outlaws believing they had left for Quee
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 4
  ...ive his services if he is not otherwise engaged, and to take charge of our trackers, and generally assist in the police duties in the North-Eastern District. M
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 5 page 9 (2)
  | [Reported by Scout Renwick. Search party, under Mr. Nicolson, with trackers, with result that tracks seen were not those of outlaws.] Searched place of
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 20
  Queensland trackers
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter VI page 2
  ...chief constables and constables. Henry Dana’s small company of [[Police Trackers|Native]] (black) Troopers were chiefly occupied with troubles caused by the
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XII page 2
  My first experience came to me at this time of what a [[Police Trackers|blackfellow]] can do in a bush search where whites are hopelessly at a loss
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XIX page 3
  ...rty also found traces of the Kellys, as we believed, but our ‘scratch’ trackers failed us also. In the face of so many misadventures and failures, it is we
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XVIII page 4
  ...s had headed back towards their own (the Greta) country. Without competent trackers it was impossible to carry on this particular search, and Mr Nicolson retur
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XVII page 2
  ...la, where I then lived, he showed special interest in the Queensland black trackers. Their throwing of the boomerang gave him great delight. The onlookers watc
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XXI page 3
  ...ckened from his work on the engine, whom Kelly took to be one of the black trackers. ( ''It was known by all his family that it was dangerous to approach Ned K
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Appendix page 1
  ...ites and an [[Aboriginals|aboriginal]], and the raising of a body [[Police Trackers|native troopers]] was the subject of their discussion. The two white men we ...rs to have died with him. At any rate, some 27 years elapsed before native trackers were again employed in Victoria . This was when the Kelly bushrangers were
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XX page 1
  '''THE''' '''QUEENSLAND''' '''BLACK TRACKERS''' ...e early days had been forgotten. The body known as Henry Dana’s [[Police Trackers|native troopers]] was broken up in 1852, and the police of 1878 had forgott
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XX page 2
  ...od one another, there would not have been those early fiascos. Our scratch trackers would not tell us of their fears, but preferred taking us off the track alt ...mounted to drink from a creek and other signs, these were all clear to the trackers. As the work proceeded the finding of a sheath-knife, of a horse-dung still
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XX page 3
  The power of vision in those trackers is not confined to things near; they can see long distance objects with gre It is strange that Hare, although urging that these trackers should be obtained, showed no interest in their work and failed altogether
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Table of Contents
  | The Queensland Black Trackers How the Black Trackers Worked
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• Jerilderie Robbery
  Request sent for [[Queensland police|Queensland]] trackers ,([[The Argus at KellyGang 15/2/1879|Argus]]), | O'Connor &amp; Qld trackers arrive at Albury. ,([[The Argus at KellyGang 6/3/1879|Argus]]),
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• 05/1879-07/1879 Events
  | Monk , [[Queensland police|Queensland]] police write to O'Connor about trackers ([[The Argus at KellyGang 13/5/1879|Argus]])
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• Events 1880-4/ 1880-6
  | Com Seymour ordered [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and trackers back to Qld | O'Connor and the Qld trackers ordered to leave for Melbourne
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• Glenrowan Siege
  | Ramsay approved [[Railways|special train]] to take O'Connor &amp; trackers up | At Flemington O'Connor got telegram from Standish asked trackers back
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• Aftermath
  | [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] wrote to [[Standish|Standish]] about the trackers
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• Const Armstrong
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• Const Arthur
  ...fully the direction they take and preserve the tracks, so as to enable the trackers to pick up the trail when they arrive. It is not intended to dispute the pa
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• Sup Henry Baber
  ...k at Lancefield was held up. Insp [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and the Queensland trackers came and attempted to follow the tracks in the rain. I accompanied them. ([ I had a real interest in the new aboriginal [[Police Trackers|trackers]]. ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 2|RC11006]])
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• Barney
  ...pm on 6/3/[[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|1879]]. The names of my fellow trackers were Corporal [[Sambo|Sambo]] and Troopers [[Hero|Hero]], [[Johnny|Johnny]] Paddy Brown, and Monkey Brown came to Victoria to work as [[Police Trackers|trackers]] after with Sup [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]]. They were my brothers. We all cam
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• Archibald Batchelor
  ...role in the following terms. (On 30/5/80)&quot;Mr. Nicolson and the black trackers came as far as [[Everton|Everton]]; Aaron met them there according to appoi
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• Brooke Smith
  I agreed to send the party out the next day with trackers. We returned to [[Wangaratta|Kitts Hotel]], where I was staying at about 9p
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• Chomley (2)
  ...aced by Hare 2/6/1880''' I was sent to Queensland to get [[Police Trackers|trackers]] to replace those under Insp O'[[O'Connor|Connor]]. I was in Queensland arranging for Victoria to get its own trackers at the time of the siege ([[The Argus (13)|Argus]] 29/6/80) ([[The Argus (1
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• Thomas Curnow
  ...station, with the purpose of wrecking a special train of police and black trackers, which the outlaws said would pass through Glenrowan. ([[Royal Commission r ...enrowan in order to wreck a special train of inspectors, police, and black trackers, which would pass through Glenrowan for Beechworth, to take up their trail
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• Elliott
  ...supposed taken to [[Kelly's Armour|armour]] out of. Would be well to send trackers at once to Acock's, near Glenrowan. Will have tracks, if any, preserved&quo
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• Foster
  I thought that we would see the '''KellyGang''' after the trackers were withdrawn ([[Ovens and Murray Advertiser (2)|OMA1/7/80]])
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• Ben Gould
  On 27/9/80 Monkey Brown, Peter Brown, native trackers, went to [[Violet Town|Violet Town]], to track an offender who damaged prop
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• Hare
  ...Trackers|trackers]] in Benalla, Beechworth and Wangaratta. These were the trackers recruited by Mr. [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]]. ([[Royal Commission report day 14
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• Steve Hart
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• Hero
  One of the aboriginal police trackers from Queensland '''Links to the KellyGang''' '''below''', Early Years ,[[#1 ...pm on 6/3/[[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|1879]]. The names of my fellow trackers were Corporal [[Sambo|Sambo]] and Troopers [[Johnny|Johnny]], [[Jimmy|Jimmy
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• Jacky
  One of the aboriginal police trackers from Queensland '''Links to the KellyGang''' '''below''', Early Years , [[# ...pm on 6/3/[[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|1879]]. The names of my fellow trackers were Corporal [[Sambo|Sambo]] and Troopers [[Hero|Hero]], [[Johnny|Johnny]]
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• SConst James
  ...r cut his tracks and run them. By dividing my party and leaving it without trackers 'tis rendered of little use any way. I was directed to go the other way.
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