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  • ...received instructions to proceed to Beechworth preceding a special police train (acting as pilot). ...the same moment it flashed through my mind that it was a ruse to stop the train. I then got out and stood on the side board of the van until I got opposite
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  • ...rs reached Melbourne - Superintendent Nicolson left the city by the Sydney train for Benalla, and, arriving there that evening, found the township in a grea
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  • ...ective [[Det Kennedy|Kennedy]], and Mr Nicolson himself therefore took the train for Wodonga, where he arrived on November 2 and interviewed his men. They t
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  • ...instructions which were to the following effect: ‘ . . You can halt the train for a time at Wangaratta while you make enquiries, and if you think there i
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  • ...uoted. The answer came promptly: ‘We are coming up as desired by special train. We shall leave about midnight. Meet us. Standish accompanies me.’ With M ...distant by rail some fifty miles from Benalla, and the [[Railways|special train]] conveying Mr Standish, Mr Nicolson, the police, the tracker, and the Pres
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  • ...lied, ‘No; it will not alter them;’ and with Mr Sadlier he entered the train and proceeded on the journey to Albury. ...urne . Then, the train slowing down, Watt jumped off the footplate and the train went on to Euroa, while the repairer walked towards the Faithfull’s Creek
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  • ...; you must give me express permission to ride upon the engine and stop the train and get down to examine the line. I do not believe it was a whirlwind now,
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  • ...eek, and was stopped for Mr Wyatt to jump off the engine. The guard of the train also alighted, and between them, he and Mr Wyatt finding both the Governmen ...ince horses could not be taken out of the trucks away from a platform, the train started again and in a few minutes reached Euroa where matters were conside
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  • ...the break in the wires. Watt, as related, jumped off the engine, while the train quickened pace again and went on. After a casual examination of the damage
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  • ...of them. However, it proved to be a false alarm, and in a few minutes the train passed on without anybody from it approaching the homestead.
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  • ...those who ventured into the township, and in the early morning the police train from Benalla stopped at the station and gained the news of it there.
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  • ...No officer above the rank of senior constable had accompanied the special train from Benalla, and Mr [[Wyatt|Wyatt,]] from his own observation and remarks ...aw’s tracks and await the arrival of Mr Nicolson, while Mr Wyatt went by train to Benalla to meet the police officer there and acquaint him with all the n
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  • ...waiting for him, to [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Faithfull’s]]. Stopping the train there at about 8.30, he got out and met the party of police who had ridden
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  • ...Benalla and advised a search. On instructions from Mr Nicolson he went by train to join the other officers at Benalla, but was unable to take with him his
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  • ...which they could visit later, or left it behind to be forwarded by another train.
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  • ...ed no come at all. Thereupon matters were expedited a little and a special train, with Mr O’Connor, some lady relatives, his black trackers and several pr
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  • ...curve would hide the torn up rails from the view of the engine-driver of a train coming from Melbourne until the locomotive was upon them. Just there the li ...], begged to be let off the task, but Ned Kelly, saying he soon expected a train with police and those --- blacks, threatened to tickle him up with a revolv
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  • ...his ordinary boots. He had heard of the Kelly plan of wrecking the police train, and with the object of getting free and possibly averting disaster he work
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  • ...to do battle with any of the police who might escape from the wreck of the train
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  • ...as fast as he could between the rails in the direction of the approaching train. Early in the day he had noticed his sister wearing a red scarf. It had fla
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  • ...ever, was abandoned, and with all its occupants in the highest spirits the train steamed out of Benalla, the pilot engine 150 yards in front carrying one or ...light brought the pilot to a standstill, the warning whistles checked the train behind, and as soon as it stopped Mr Hare with his gun in readiness, jumped
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  • ...him, and he had to retire once more and remain upon the platform until the train was ready to convey him with the ladies back to Benalla. There, before havi
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  • ...the address for which they waited. Then came the sound of the approaching train, and all chance of escape was gone, for, with the door locked, the outlaws
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  • Feeling satisfied that the train was safe, Mr [[Thomas Curnow|Curnow]] had made all speed back to Glenrowan,
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  • ...ith a force of artillerymen a 12 pounder Armstrong gun actually started by train for Glenrowan. The Government astronomer was asked if he could send up an e
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  • ...s demonstration was a mere hoax which successfully deluded the people. The train in which [[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] travelled pulled up at North Melbourne, the st ...and Mr [[Hare|Hare]], wounded like Ned Kelly, were also passengers by the train which took the outlaw to Melbourne, and Mr Hare had a good reception at Spe
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  • ...the station. These were the men who were to take up the line and wreck the train that was coming up with the police from Melbourne. Kelly said to me, "
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  • ...m all. They were ripe for murder. They had determined to wreck the special train and to kill everyone who escaped death in the smash. They would surely have
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  • ...acher, go. It was Curnow that held the red handkerchief up and stopped the train. The police said afterwards that Kelly would not have let Curnow go but for
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  • '''THE MAN WHO STOPPED THE SPECIAL TRAIN''' ...people were prisoners to frustrate them. He was successful in stopping the train, and in preventing the contemplated massacre, and was, beyond question, by
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  • ...trick [[Patrick Allen|Allen]], an elderly man, attempted to board a moving train at Auburn, fell between the carriages, and was killed."
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  • ...came alarmed. Then came the move in the game - the despatch of the special train full of police and pressmen - and ladies from Melbourne to Glenrowan. ...the closing scenes in the grim tragedy. How the gang decided to wreck the train and kill the police, how this desperate purpose was frustrated by the coura
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  • ...ck. Certainly it is that Kate was not interfered with in any way until the train in which she was returning reached Winton, a small place a few miles from G
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  • '''THE STOPPING OF THE TRAIN''' ...[Glenrowan|Grovenor]], "is that matter of the stopping of the special train. I do not wish to detract from the courage and resources shown by Mr [[Thom
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  • ...m the burning building. Ned Kelly was brought on to Benalla by the evening train, and lodged in the lock-up, to await the inquest to be held in the morning.
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  • | THE MAN WHO STOPPED THE SPECIAL TRAIN
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  • | THE STOPPING OF THE TRAIN
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  • In those days there was no train, and the journey, which now takes four hours, then took six or seven days.
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  • ...given over into my charge. I started for Sandhurst , by the three o'clock train, and a ballast engine was provided for me, to convey me from Sandhurst to E
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  • ...a stock of provisions and other necessaries, and, proceeding to Echuca by train, started off to our destination lower down the Murray. We camped the first
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  • ...o pieces and eat it. We got back to Echuca that night in time to catch the train. Our bag consisted of thirtyfive turkeys, 120 couple of ducks, fifty geese,
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  • ...a man, who proved to be a line repairer, named Watts, jumped down from the train, coming from the north; he had been sent to repair the line, and he evident
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  • ...y for them, we don't care how many there are, we can fight them." The train after waiting a short time moved on; the driver, not seeing Watts anywhere,
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  • ...k at Euroa had been stuck up by the outlaws. He immediately took a special train to Euroa. Before the arrival of the inspecting superintendent a party of po
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  • ...ion that the Kellys had procured some dynamite and intended blowing up the train out of revenge for our locking up these persons. I took no notice of the re ...out and grumbling at our keeping the train all that time. We got into the train and arrived safely at Beechworth, without the passengers knowing anything a
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  • ...re at Beechworth last night, and killed several people. I expect a special train will be sent from Benalla with a number of police and black trackers, and I
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  • ...ur, but no one knew what they were doing. About ten minutes afterwards the train stopped, and there was great excitement. Bracken saw his chance of escape. ...train next morning. I replied, "If they are not sent up by a special train to night, they need not come at all." In the meantime Mr Ramsay called
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  • We sent to the railway station and ordered a special train to be ready in case the trackers were not coming up that night, and I arran ...der to start off directly the men arrived. My plans were as follows:—The train with my own men, horses, and trackers would reach Beechworth about four o'c
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  • ...the railway line beyond the station, for the purpose of wrecking a special train of police and black trackers, which the outlaws said would pass through Gle
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  • ...y had had the line torn up at a dangerous part, and were going to send the train and its occupants to h—1. ...hould not be able to do anything to prevent the destruction of the special train and its occupants, by giving information to the police in Benalla, which I
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  • ...'What a splendid danger signal that would make.' The idea of stopping the train by means of it then entered my mind, and made me still more anxious for lib
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  • ...ee straight before me some distance along the line, and where those in the train would be able to see the danger signal. I then lit the candle and held it b ...in wait at the station for the special train of police. He said a special train was behind him, and he would go on to the station and then pull up. I cried
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  • ...ken away the station-master, and ordered our horses to be taken out of the train as quickly as possible. ...orters, one of whom kindly bandaged my wrist up; I made arrangements for a train to be sent to Benalla to inform the officer in charge of what had occurred,
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  • ...n were evidently in excellent spirits at the prospect of an encounter. The train proceeded rapidly on its way. At Craigieburn it ran through a gate, which c
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  • ...but it was soon made apparent that he had saved the lives of those in the train, which to a certainty would, along with the pilot engine, have been hurled
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  • ...layed, notwithstanding that the bullets from the outlaws whistled past the train, surely ought to have had a good effect on the men who were facing death in ...d and Sullivan down the line, in order to tear up the line and destroy the train with the police. He was afterwards taken to the hotel. There are a lot of i
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  • ...tor Sadleir here remarked, "You wanted then to kill the people in the train?" Kelly replied, “Yes; of course I did. God help them, they would ha
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  • ...m the burning building. Ned Kelly was brought on to Benalla by the evening train, and lodged in the lock up, to a wait the inquest to be held in the morning
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  • ...wrong, and green is gently, come along." He said, 'There is a special train coming; you give no signals.' Speaking to Hart he said, 'Watch his countena ...ildren were. There was also a man there named Neil M'Kew. By this time the train had arrived, and firing was going on furiously. I did not see Ned Kelly in
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  • ...came. Prior to that the gang drank quite freely with the others. When the train arrived, Ned came and said, 'You are not to whisper a word that has been sa
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  • ...ther, and the gun, officers, and men returned by the first passenger goods train to Melbourne . ...ailways was informed of that determination, and without delay a [[Railways|train]] was got in readiness. Superintendent Hare, who was at Benalla, was telegr
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  • ...nrowan]], but as the termination of the conflict before the arrival of the train at Benalla rendered it unnecessary that it should proceed further, it was d
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  • ...at Glenrowan, and the special would not stop there. They thought that the train would get up great speed going down the incline after passing Glenrowan, an ...he colonies, but the whole world." Had they succeeded in wrecking our train that morning, there would have been fearful carnage afterwards. There is no
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  • ...e crops were on the turn. The four outlaws were very comfortable, watching train loads of police passing up and down the railway line. Next day the owner of
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  • ...er was handed to Supt Nicolson by Supt Sadleir, both of whom took the next train to Albury.  Here is the letter as quoted by Supt Sadleir when giving evide
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  • ...way of it I was quite full of it and would work no more.  I went home by train.
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  • ...ay.  The Glenrowan friend took the ammunition already secured and left by train that afternoon for Benalla.  He disembarked at Benalla, and that night the Mrs Skillion and her cousin boarded the evening train at Essendon for Benalla.
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  • Fitzpatrick—Yes, for missing the train once or twice in Sydney.
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  • ...d Joe Byrne.  The four outlaws would next get ready to capture the police train at Glenrowan railway station.
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  • ...er and fuse was supplied to blow up portion of the line in the rear of the train. ...could stop any passenger train, but would not guarantee to stop a special train carrying police and blacktrackers exactly where the Kellys might want it. 
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  • ...h his blacktrackers and equipment at 9.45 p.m. on Sunday, 27/6/1880.  The train bringing Mr O’Connor, his wife and her sister and a number of press repre ...Curnow was ordered, when he stopped the train, to tell the police in the train that the Kellys were in charge of the police barracks.  The rest of the pa
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  • ...main in the hotel.  He rushed over to the railway station, into which the train had just come.  Supt Hare had already given orders to unload the horses, b ...ose to the station he hurriedly jumped off his horse to take charge of the train.  In doing so he broke a bolt in his armour and had some delay in repairin
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  • ...great contract with the police; I have shot a lot of them, and I expect a train from Benalla with a lot of police and blackfellows, and I am going to kill
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  • ...d I was certain.  I said that, because I thought if only one was off, the train would jump it and go on safely.  Hart pointed out the place. ...a lecture before you go.’ A little later Byrne came in and said, ‘The train is coming.’ That stopped all the discourse.  They turned into the back r
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  • ...r in law of Mr Thomas Curnow, State school teacher, who stopped the police train: ...ned the train at Kilmore East, en route for Albury, also alighted from the train.
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  • ...rne. I was staying at Kilmore the previous night and started then with the train. ...going on at the time? — I had not heard previous to my getting into the train of the Kelly capture or that the police had found them, but when I came to
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  • ...he powder and fuse was intended for use on the railway line to prevent the train returning to Benalla against the wishes of the bushrangers. Even after the
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  • ...l, while a great crowd of people were anxiously waiting the arrival of the train at Spencer street.
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  • ...hos [[Thomas Curnow|Curnow]], State school teacher, in warning the special train from Benalla to Beechworth on the morning of June 28, 1880, whereby a terri
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  • ...sides, and a special surgeon dispatched almost daily some thirty miles by train to attend him, the Government questioned the payment of £4/4/- for the tre
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  • ...the stories with a new interest. The author was at Benalla when the police train from Melbourne passed through for Wangaratta, in the vicinity of which the
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  • .... The signal attracted the attention of the engine driver, who stopped the train. Mr Curnow told what he knew to the officer in charge of the party of polic
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  • ...members of the gang at Euroa, Mr Wyatt, police magistrate, arrived on the train with a line repairer named Watt, and discovered the damage to the telegraph
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  • ...the railway track he warned the crew of a pilot engine which preceded the train, of the danger. The police besieged the hotel and a long sniping fight foll ...n into the bank by the outlaws. I immediately ordered everybody out of the train, and at the same moment Constable Bracken ran up and said that he had escap
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  • ...ble services to the country. He not only saved the lives of all in special train on Sunday night, but gave Mr Hare information which led to the almost immed ...ed me to thank you for your most kind telegrams. He will leave per evening train. - Standish.
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  • ...n Sydney, and the way to find this out was to make the journey by the mail train. Twas splendid moonlight; so that the country was to be seen all along, fro ...wnand Country Journal]] [[Category:Goulburn]] [[Category:1870]] [[Category:train trip]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...me to bring these things under his notice; but it wont do to have only one train a day. ...the ls one pays in the crack Sydney establishments. Coming down by the day train, we passed through a large extent of country thickly covered with crooked a
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  • ...rails, and substructure would not only be reduced one fourth by the 14-ton train, but would also be reduced by the great diminution of the destructive weigh
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  • ...the other, New South Wales, a dangerous cattle track. From that followed a train of other comparisons which forced themselves on the traveller and tended to
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  • Blithe, skipping o'er yon hill, the fleecy train An inspection of some of the "fleecy train" then took place. Those before me bore a satisfactory proof of what wa
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  • ...rtunity for grumbling, for Melbourne passengers had only time to catch the train by taking a cab at the door. The cab or car, holding six or eight "far
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  • ...seats, and in a short time were back in Echuca. In the evening I took the train for Melbourne, 195 miles, which was reached towards midnight.
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  • ...ion, and a few minutes afterwards whirling along in a [[Railways|railway]] train to Echuca. We soon came on to plains, and the '''Digger's Rest''' station w ...t of rushing to their doors with the hopeless idea of seeing who is in the train. Plains, relieved by a few honeysuckles next appeared, and "'''Riddell
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  • ...ormer members of Parliament, and the heads of the public departments. Each train consisted of nine carriages, and the passengers numbered about 550. ...passed, and the gardens around [[Essendon|Essendon]] into view. The first train stopped for a few minutes at Essendon. Nobody at the time knew why. Probabl
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  • ...the west. Others commenced to look for the Big Hill at Kilmore, which the train never went near, soon after they were out of Broadmeadows. ...so gradual that few were aware that the trouble had even commenced ere the train was careering gaily down the slope on the other side. The valley of the Dry
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  • ...interest that they saw the passengers flock out of the carriages: but the train itself commanded very little notice. They were already used to the arrival ...quiet and subdued state of mind. By the time the passengers by the second train had made their appearance, and the Governor and party had been conducted to
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  • ...iverina, in winter. From Wagga Wagga I took the coach to Goulburn, and the train to Sydney, a journey occupying 38 hours, and thus completed my second
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  • ...commissioners would have no alternative but to wait there for the evening train. ...Seymour, by the news that the contractor's engine, with ballast [[Railways|train]] attached, was at their service. From Seymour to Longwood, and thence to E
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  • ...d some 10 miles beyond [[Violet Town|Violet Town]], the station to which a train has been running daily for a few months past. The locomotive can at this mo ...the first work of importance. It will not be finished for a fortnight. The train runs along a tempoary track-a 'turn-out' as it is called - and crosses the
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  • ...le can be said of the scenery on the second section, particularly when the train traverses it in the dark, as it did yesterday. Glimpses are obtained from t
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  • ...the tocsin from a now direction, mounted my monument, and fell in with the train; but little did I think that on the very spot upon which I had camped tons
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  • Cobb and Co. not caring to run opposition to the train, are making [[Hay|Hay]] their head-quarters, and are building a coach facto
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  • ...ort]] [[Category:1876]] [[Category:Cobur]] [[Category:Wodonga]] [[Category:train journey]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...favourite ponies through Townsend street, and I had to leave by the early train next morning. ...[Category:press report]] [[Category:1876]] [[Category:Wodonga]] [[Category:train journey]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...past 9 o'clock, in charge of Mr Heikle, the locomotive superintendent. The train was a heavy one, consisting of 15 carriages, and was drawn by two powerful
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  • The train reached Beechworth about half past 3 o'clock, and its arrival at the statio
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  • ...s that over which they bad passed that day. Such a thing as taking a heavy train over such gradients as they had topped that day had never been done before, ...edings then terminated, many of the visitors returning to Melbourne by the train at 8 o'clock.
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  • ...ent from Echuca to Sandhurst by special train, which overtook the ordinary train at Elmore, and the two vans containing the wounded men were attached to it.
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  • ...bout £110, took out a debtors summons against him, and went to Benalla by train for the purpose of serving him. He met Unter at the railway station, and th
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  • ...ll, Tallarook, on Friday last. The members of the club arrived by the 5 pm train on the evening named, and were received on the platform by the Chairman and
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  • ...acquainted with the district, left town for [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] the train leaving Spencer-street at about 3 o’clock, and a further detachment of tr ...andish.―There is not a constable here. Cannot you send men up by special train? All the volunteers are in the Wombat Ranges . If I can get more volunteers
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  • ...nsfield . Please send six armed men, with horses and saddlery, up by first train. Have telegraphed asking Inspector Smith to report with available men at Wa
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  • ...eported that the troopers from Melbourne were on the road; they missed the train yesterday.
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  • ...reached here by last night’s late train, and four more by the 1.30 p.m. train to-day. The first four have gone in the direction of Baumgarten’s, on the
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  • ...eached here just before Superintendent Nicolson started by the 8 o’clock train for Wodonga to-night. The facts on which this despatch is founded did not r
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  • ...hich is very well in its way, but it seems to be considered unnecessary to train them to the use of rifles or carbines. For 12 or 18 months before the butts
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  • ...ts. The railway gates at [[Tarawingi|Tarrawinga]] were not opened, and the train dashed through them, happily without any serious result. No info rmation as
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  • ..., the chief commissioner of police, left town for Benalla by the afternoon train yesterday, doubtless for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the truth
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  • ...nswering their description in that locality, and on Sunday night a special train with twelve troopers left Benalla for the district named. This certainly le
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  • ...s at once conveyed to them. For instance, when Captain Standish arrived by train in the evening, two of the Lloyds and [[Wild Wright|Isaiah Wright]] were se ...minutes’ stoppage at Wangaratta, was reached soon after 3 o’clock. The train consisted of two horse trucks and the guard’s van. In the former were 10
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  • ...ould here be said that while the party was waiting on the platform for the train to get ready, three men were seen hanging about taking stock of the party.
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  • ...y by the present scare. Captain Standish returned to town by the afternoon train. The men who were out to-day were greatly pleased to see him with them in t
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  • ...n troopers and the black tracker who were sent up to Beechworth by special train on Thursday morning. These men returned here on Friday morning, and with th
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  • Some little excitement was caused to-day by the guard of the morning up train stating at Benalla that he had seen four armed men sticking up a bushman on
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  • Superintendent [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] arrived here by the morning train to confer with Superintendent [[Nicolson|Nicolson]], and he brought with hi ...Benalla, eight armed troopers, with their horses, came up here by the last train, and a strong body of men will go out during the night. This expedition may
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  • .../11/1878|Friday]] last stated that “when Captain Standish arrived by the train in the evening, two of the Lloyds and [[Wild Wright|Isaiah Wright]] were se ...joined by Superintendent [[Sadleir|Sadlier]], who had gone up by the early train from here.
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  • ...ption, had no anticipation of finding such a complicated job, and when the train which dropped him at the spot had proceeded on its journey, he at once saw
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  • ...h a rate in the hot sun, they were dead beat by the time they got into the train. The platelayers ran along the line in such terror that the engine driver h ...son|Nicolson]] returned here at daylight this morning, and by the forenoon train Captain [[Standish|Standish]], the chief commissioner of police, came up. T
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  • ...others would not hold out. Some men in uniform were seen to arrive by the train last night, and as several gun cases were seen with them the rumour at once
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  • ...s not to wear out the horses in following up a blind trail. When the night train arrived here from Melbourne, it was stated by some of the passengers that a
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  • ...by some others who are taking advantage of the present scare. By the last train from Melbourne this evening some more troopers came to Benalla to strengthe
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  • ...by some others, who are taking advantage of the present scare. By the last train from Melbourne this evening some more troopers came to Benalla to strengthe
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  • ...epairer to find out the fault and set it right, and it was arranged that a train should stop near Euroa to pick him up in the evening. During the day this m ...tandish caused a number of guns and ammunition to be forwarded by an early train for the use of any residents in the township or neighbourhood who might vol
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  • ...at Euroa, came down to Melbourne yesterday, arriving here by the afternoon train. He proceeded at once to the head office in Collins street , and had an int
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  • ...ready for them. We don't care how many there are, we will fight them.' The train, after waiting a short time, moved on. At about half past 7 o'clock in the
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  • ...on learned at Euroa, or else the line had been cut before, as the up goods train which carne in sight not long afterwards let down a line repairer opposite
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  • ...sent down from Benalla to see what was wrong with the line. As soon as the train passed out of sight the man was made prisoner, and also locked up in the st
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  • ...to the line, and signalled the train; but for some unexplained reason the train would not stop.
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  • The police at Benalla, advised by the Euroa constable, started by night train and arrived about 4 this morning. They seem to be well armed and have a bla
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  • ...They exhibited the greatest coolness throughout, and at one time, when the train carne near, in expectation that it might contain a party of police, they we
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  • ...ption, had no anticipation of finding such a complicated job, and when the train which dropped him at the spot had proceeded on its journey, he at once saw
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  • ...h a rate in the hot sun, they were dead beat by the time they got into the train. The platelayers ran along the line in such terror that the engine driver h ...son|Nicolson]] returned here at daylight this morning, and by the forenoon train Captain [[Standish|Standish]], the chief commissioner of police, came up. T
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  • ...to the line, and signalled the train; but for some unexplained reason the train would not stop.
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  • ...rom severe affection of the eyes, and he proceeded to Melbourne by special train during the afternoon, it being understood that he is to take a few days' re
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  • ...e arrangements for the reception of the men. At half-past 6 a.m. a special train was then despatched with the men, who numbered about 50 in all, and at each
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  • ...t with the Kellys was given to me by a gentleman who passed through in the train on Saturday. It was market day at that place on Friday, and among the crowd
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  • ...PM, was sitting in the stationmaster's office there, waiting for the down train to return to Benalla. Gould mistook him for Mr [[Scott|Scott]], the manager
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  • ...appearance of the district has been increased by the irruption by special train of a detachment of the Victorian artillery.
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  • ...e Murray, and escape into New South Wales. He therefore started at once by train via Benalla to intercept them, and hearing, after he had gone, of their rea
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  • ...thened by the arrival from town of six more [[Army|troopers]] by the night train.
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  • ...er strengthened by the arrival from town of six more troopers by the night train.
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  • ...their absence is the more remarkable. A person who arrived by the early up train this morning made a statement to the effect that Byrne, one of the gang was
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  • ...consult with Captain Standish at Benalla; and on Sunday morning a special train took a detachment of the local artillery, and dropped them by parties on th
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  • ...er strengthened by the arrival from town by six more troopers by the night train.
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  • ...ly might with some reason show his spite against that particular passenger train, if he were so disposed. With regard to Mansfield itself, I am glad to anno
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  • ...equipped, supposed to be schoolmasters from Ballarat, had arrived there by train, and at once struck into the bush in pursuit of the Kelly gang of ruffians.
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  • ...a guard of troopers and forwarded on to the Beechworth gaol by the morning train. Later in the day a coach arrived from Mansfield , containing six more pris
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  • ...ached Benalla they were forwarded on to the Beechworth gaol by the evening train. Another arrest was made at Euroa yesterday afternoon by the trooper statio
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  • ...or'' relates that one effect of the Kelly scare is that “by Thursday’s train three bank managers, one of whom was from Portland and two from Hamilton ,
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  • ...hreats which the murderous fiend in human form made to capsize a passenger train has no parallel in the annals of crime. But there is nothing to prevent him
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  • ...said he had walked from a Violet Town during the night, having missed the train. Cross-examined by Superintendent Hare: Did not know at what time the priso
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  • ...[Sadleir|Sadleir]] and 10 troopers followed Superintendent Hare by special train to Euroa. There is great activity in the police camp, but they will give no
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  • ...s|police party]] who proceeded to Euroa last evening returned by the early train to-day, having found that they had been sent on a fool's errand, the inform
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  • ...rintendent Sadleir and 10 troopers followed Superintendent Hare by special train to Euroa. There is great activity in the police camp, but they will give no The police party who proceeded to Euroa last evening returned by the early train today, having found that they had been sent on a fool's errand, the informa
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  • ...e direct with Beechworth. A line-repairer will be sent down by the morning train to see what is the matter.
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  • ...shortly. Captain [[Standish|Standish]] left for town by special [[Railways|train]] at noon today, while Superintendent Sadlier proceeded in the opposite dir
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  • ...ell mounted and armed. A number of troopers were despatched by the evening train to Wagga to proceed in pursuit of the Kelly gang. As soon as news of the Je
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  • ...Deniliquin at a quarter to 6 the next morning, only one minute before the train left the station, giving Mr Tarleton just time to take his seat. At the tim
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  • ...hemselves trapped. Last night a number of police constables left Sydney by train for Wagga. They will be dispersed though the south western districts in ord
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  • ...ed Deniliquin at a quarter to 6 the next morning only one miute before the train left the station, giving Mr Tarleton just time to take his seat. At the tim
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  • A special train was instantly despatched from Benalla with a [[Police Search Parties|force
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  • ...ne over, as no horse could stand in such close proximity to an approaching train as the animal would be forced to do if both were allowed on the bridge toge
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  • ...] arrived here on Saturday, and six Queensland aboriginal troopers came by train from [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]] to day. They have been parading the town all d
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  • ...pathiser or abettor of the outlaws, and was sent to Beechworth by the 8.19 train last night.
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  • ...t day. The first named prisoners were sent to Beechworth by this evening's train.
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  • ...n]] and Wahgunyah, since the line was opened, could be provided for by one train a day instead off two at present running, and as compliance with the reques
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  • ...few Sydney and Melbourne merchants, was now practically left with only one train a day. Mr Woods' action in putting on men to work on the Sunday at the Gipp
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  • ...in Benalla, and was at once communicated with. He left Benalla by a goods train, and started in a buggy for Dandenong early yesterday morning, he being acc
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  • ...of the Kellys, accompanied by another woman and a young man, came down by train from Benalla to Melbourne. On the journey they were recognised by a gentlem
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  • ...on|Skillion]] and [[Tom Lloyd Jnr|Lloyd]] returned to Benalla by the night train and the police took the precaution of examining their effects to see if any
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  • ...l be found detailed below by our special reporter, who went up in the same train as the police from Melbourne. These particulars show that the robbers hardl
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  • ...al manager of the Commercial Bank, who went to Lancefield by the afternoon train. Along with the police were sent two operators with Morse instruments from
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  • ...re. Intelligence was therefore sent immediately to Melbourne and a special train, leaving Spencer street at 25 minutes past 2 o'clock, conveyed Superintende
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  • ...the North eastern line about nine miles from Kilmore. They got out of the train here, and then walked in the direction of Heathcote, with the settled inten
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  • ...re in search of him, and made his way to Sandhurst, whence he proceeded by train to Melbourne. The remainder of his story is almost exactly similar to that
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  • ...accomplices furnished them with reliable information as to the particular train from which the greatest amount of booty could be obtained. Who those accomp ...as to the time of the operations or the place where the sticking up of the train was to happen. We give the information for what it is worth. It is certain,
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  • He never thought that he had arrived in a country where within 12 hours train journey from the metropolis he, would meet with bushrangers. Before dismoun
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  • ...the next station, where the matter was reported, and the guards in the up train were armed with revolvers and told to be on the watch for the Kellys. Upon
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  • ...in reference to required roads. Mr Clark returns to Melbourne by the first train to morrow morning from Beechworth.  
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  • ...arties of police were sent out from various country depots, and by special train last night black trackers and a further contingent of police were dispatche
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  • ''The Herald did not have a correspondent on the special train but they had access to the telegraph. The story grew as the telegraph messa
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  • ...special train, which left at ten o’clock, and since then another special train has gone up for the purpose of bringing down Ned Kelly, who will no doubt b
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  • ...into bush by the outlaws. The police were immediately ordered to leave the train, when Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] appeared on the scene exclai ...ver was apprised of what had been done to the line ahead. When the special train containing Sup. Hare and his men came up and were likely stopped at the sta
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  • Another special train was despatched for the scene of operations at a quarter past two. It convey ...of ammunition was forward from the Victoria Barracks by this afternoon’s train.
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  • ...(10)|Murder of Arron Sherritt – Authorities informed]] , [[The Age (10)|Train leaves Spencer St Station]] , [[The Age (10)|Dr Ryan Sent]] , [[The Age (10 ...n were evidently in excellent spirits at the prospect of an encounter. The train proceeded rapidly on its way. At Craigieburn it ran through a gate, which c
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  • ...layed, notwithstanding that the bullets from the outlaws whistled past the train, surely ought to have had a good effect on the men who were facing death in
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  • ...d and Sullivan down the line, in order to tear up the line and destroy the train with the police. He was afterwards taken to the hotel. There are a lot of i
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  • ...r|Sadleir]] here remarked, "You wanted then to kill the people in the train?" Kelly replied, “Yes; of course I did. God help them, they would ha
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  • ...m the burning building. Ned Kelly was brought on to Benalla by the evening train, and lodged in the lock up, to a wait the inquest to be held in the morning ...wrong, and green is gently, come along." He said, 'There is a special train coming; you give no signals.' Speaking to Hart he said, 'Watch his countena
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  • ...re was also a man there named [[Neil McHugh|Neil M'Kew]]. By this time the train had arrived, and firing was going on furiously. I did not see Ned Kelly in ...came. Prior to that the gang drank quite freely with the others. When the train arrived, Ned came and said, 'You are not to whisper a word that has been sa
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  • ...ther, and the gun, officers, and men returned by the first passenger goods train to Melbourne .
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  • ...nister of Railways was informed of that determination, and without delay a train was got in readiness. Superintendent Hare, who was at Benalla, was telegrap == Train leaves Spencer St Station ==
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  • ...The end. - the hotel burnt , Interview with Ned Kelly , The attempt on the train , Ned Kellys statements , The bullet proof armour , The stationmaster narra ...d advanced. After some time he returned, and directions were given for the train to push on. Accordingly, we followed the pilot up to Glenrowan station, and
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  • ...him suspiciously. ‘I would,’ he continued, ‘have fought them in the train, or else upset it if I had the chance. I didn’t care a – who was in it, == THE ATTEMPT ON THE TRAIN ==
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  • ...ome.’ Inspector Sadleir. –‘You wanted then to kill the people on the train? Kelly.- ‘Yes, of course I did; God help them, but they would have got sh ...e was also a man there named [[Neil McHugh|Neil McKean]]. By this time the train had arrived, and firing was going on furiously , and we all took shelter ab
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  • ...e door of the room and said, 'Here she comes,' evidently thinking that the train was about to be wrecked. With that they seemed to me to be making preparati ...- ‘I arrived at Glenrowan with five men about 5 am . Others came down by train. I was challenged in the vicinity of the hotel by the police, and I informe
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  • ...door, unlocked it, and rushed out. I ran to the railway station, found the train had arrived and the police on the platform; told them where the Kellys were ...Glenrowan because I thought I might be of use in my clerical capacity. The train arrived at Glenrowan between 12 noon and 1 o’clock ,, and I went at once
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  • ...at the back door, with a view to prevent escape on them. When he left the train Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], who had just escaped from the hot
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  • ...til the ordinary train on Monday morning, and he at once ordered a special train to start as early as possible on Sunday evening. It is now perfectly obviou ...nt for Mr Ellery and asked him if he could proceed to Glenrowan by special train with the electric light, so as to prevent the escape of the murderers. Mr E
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  • ...the brains of the station master if he ventured to signal the special. The train, however, did not proceed beyond Glenrowan. Superintendent Hare and his men ...elayer stopped the special outside of Glenrowan, and instead of seeing the train wrecked, the gang found the police upon them. A frightful tragedy had been
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  • ...til the ordinary train on Monday morning, and he at once ordered a special train to start as early as possible on Sunday evening. It is now perfectly obviou ...t for Mr Ellery, and asked him if he could proceed to Glenrowan by special train with the electric light, so as to prevent the escape of the murderers. Mr E
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  • ...The end. - the hotel burnt , Interview with Ned Kelly , The attempt on the train , Ned Kellys statements , The bullet proof armour , The stationmaster narra ...d advanced. After some time he returned, and directions were given for the train to push on. Accordingly, we followed the pilot up to Glenrowan station, and
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  • ...understood by the authorities that there would be no Kelly on the ordinary train arriving at Spencer street at 2 o'clock as it that known till arrangements
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  • ...of people congregated, and the details of news brought through by a goods train, although very stale to Melbourne readers, was snapped up and passed from m
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  • ...sy in our minds. They told us we would be let go as soon as the Beechworth train was smashed up when suddenly we ...em to stand by the front of the house and they went into the verandah. The train came up slowly and some police got out at the station. We could see them gr
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  • [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] was removed by train to Melbourne today. He is very much better this morning, and it is now quit == THE PERSON WHO SAVED THE TRAIN ==
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  • ...have “supped full of horrors.” The despatch, during the day by special train, of a detachment of artillery and a twelve-pounder cannon, sent for with th ...n we went through the gates, but although the shock was imperceptible, the train came to a standstill shortly afterwards, and a quarte of an hour was lost i
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  • ...with the constable who had ridden off for Glenrowan on the arrival of our train. Sergeant Steel and Senior constable Kelly at once made a tour of inspectio
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  • ...lowly on, I came ahead, and walked up the station platform just before the train arrived. I went round the station and over to Jones’s, where I stood. and
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  • ...n into the bush by the Kellys . I immediately ordered every man out of the train, and at the same moment Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] rushed up, ...hildren. There was also a man there named Neil M’Kean . By this time the train had arrived, and firing was going on furiously, and we all took shelter abo
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  • ...e not noticing, I quietly picked it up and waited my opportunity. When the train was coming the gang went into one of the back rooms as if to hold a consult ...the fact that he went along the went along the line to warm the Beechworth train of the break.
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  • ...tied up to the back-door to prevent escape by that means. When we left the train, Constable Bracken, who had just escaped from the hotel, told us the gang w ...of the police would have been glad of the chance to look him up. A special train conveyed the police black tracks and others, together with Ned Kelly and th
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  • ...the bush by the outlaws. The police were immediately ordered to leave the train, when Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] appeared on the scene, excla ...ain came up there would be a smash; but he had left some bolts so that the train could pass safely. He and others were then ordered to enter into [[Jones' G
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  • ...e Arthur,]] and was conveyed into a room at the railway-station. A special train which conveyed Superintendent Hare to Benalla brought up Superintendent [[S I have just seen [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] put into the train, a special, for Benalla. He is very bad without any mortal wound, but in a
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  • ...ctively exhibited the “danger signal,” and then ? the occupants of the train; after which he galloped off to Wangaratta for further assistance. Joe Byrn
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  • ...It left Benalla by the early morning train, travelled some eighty miles by train, got out at a small station, and pushed through the forest and over the ran
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  • ...rain, several hundreds of people had assembled to await the arrival of the train from Wodonga. ...assengers soon informed the excited crowd that Kelly was in the van of the train. Despite all the efforts of the police and the railway officials who had be
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  • ...d better then than during the journey down, and much less feverish. In the train his pulse was 125, but at the gaol it was only 114. He told me he didn’t ...iss Lloyd, cousin of the outlaw, was the only relative present, and as the train left she cried without restraint. It is understood here that Kelly has been
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  • == <span id="_Toc20153926">[[#_Toc20153926|THE ATTEMPT TO WRECK THE TRAIN]]</span> == ...he line until too late, and the inevitable result would have been that the train, with its living freight, would have rushed over the embankment into the gu
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  • ...cked out the key stealthily, unlocked the door, and bounded away. When the train was heard stopping Kelly said, ‘You will see some play now, boys. We will
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  • ...r O’Connor makes the following statement:- ‘I went down by the special train on Sunday night, at the request of Captain Standish. I collected my trooper ...iving outlaw, Ned Kelly, was brought to town from Benalla by the afternoon train, and crowds assembled both at the Spencer street and North Melbourne statio
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  • ...[[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]], was brought to town from Benalla by the afternoon train, and crowds assembled both at the Spencer-street and North Melbourne statio
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  • ...that the gang intended to put on their armour, walk deliberately up to the train when it fell off the line, and ...t up that pilot engine, and that -- -- -- -- schoolmaster hadn't given the train warning of danger,
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  • ...: I arrived at Glenrowan with five men about 5 am; the others came down by train; I was challenged in the vicinity of the hotel by the police, and informed ...as dying, I anointed him; Kelly freely confessed his intention of wrecking train, &amp;c.
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  • ...m suspiciously. “I would,&quot; he continued,” have fought them in the train, or else upset it, if I had the chance. I did not care a — — who was in ...made by sympathisers of the late gang to rescue him. On the arrival of the train Kelly was carried carefully to the guard's van, and laid on the floor.
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  • ...he line until too late, and the inevitable result would have been that the train, with its living freight, would have rushed over the embankment into the gu
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  • ...I thought by removing sleepers and all there would be less danger for the train. Kelly objected to this, and talked to me again fiercely. I represented to The man who stopped the train turns out to be Mr Thomas [[Thomas Curnow|Curnow]], the local schoolmaster.
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  • ...e school master at Glenrowan and through whose instrumentality the special train which was on its way to Beechworth on Saturday night was saved from being w
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  • ...left [[Benalla|Benalla]] at five o'clock on Monday morning by the special train, which was sent for to convey more police to the fight. On arrival at [[Gle
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  • ...sent a body of armed police to the [[Glenrowan|district]] by the earliest train, and another detachment was sent from Wangaratta, but consequent on the gre ...as yesterday sufficiently well to leave town, and proceeded by the evening train to Sunbury, where he will be the guest of the Hon WJ [[Rupertswood|Clarke]]
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  • ...f the guard, no whistle was sounded. The statement that the gang heard the train whistle must be unfounded. At Glenrowan station the guard had to superinten ...the first information of the Kelly gang at Glenrowan, came to Melbourne by train yesterday. He was accompanied by Mrs Curnow and their infant child, but dec
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  • ...ly, with four troopers, accordingly proceeded to Glenrowan by the forenoon train, and two or three policemen were directed to come down from Wangaratta. The ...|black trackers]], they took steps to destroy them by wrecking the special train, and they arranged at the same time to secure a party of police whom they h
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  • ...se Dowsett]], guard on the Victorian railways, states - I came up with the train that left Benalla at 5 o'clock on Monday morning and on arriving at Glenrow
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  • ...ted I brought my son (the deceased) to the Wangaratta Hospital by the 11am train.
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  • ...led up the rails beyond Glenrowan. On Sunday night at 10 o'clock a special train left Melbourne, containing Lieutenant Connor and his blacktrackers, arrivin ...g scrub, where it was thought the outlaws would take refuge on hearing the train approach, and Lieutenant O'Connor and Superintendent Hare held a hurried co
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  • ...with the constable who had ridden off for Glenrowan on the arrival of our train.
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  • ...ly on, I came ahead, and walked up the station platform just   before the train arrived. I went round the station and over to Jones', where I stood and saw
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  • ...ife would have been sacrificed, and every one who was in the first special train felt under deep obligation to him.In conclusion, Mr Ramsay said that every ...sufficiently recovered to leave his bed.He left Melbourne by the afternoon train yesterday on a visit to the estate of the Hon WJ Clarke, at Sunbury, where
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  • ...no communication with Glenrowan, so we must wait until the arrival of the train to know the result.  The relatives and sympathisers made no secret of thei
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  • ...is “love” to his wife. With regard to the attempt to wreck the special train near Glenrowan early on Monday morning last, he states that his reason for ...nd have a sleep; but mind you don’t dream too loud!” When he heard the train approaching, Mr Curnow hastened and gave the timely warning. The Minister o
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  • [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] was forwarded to Melbourne by the first train on Tuesday morning, and taken out at the North Melbourne station platform, ...nted. Brought my son (the deceased) to the Wangaratta Hospital by the 11am train.
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  • ...d advanced. After some time he returned, and directions were given for the train to push on. Accordingly, we followed the pilot up to Glenrowan station, and ...ough bullets were whizzing about the station and striking the building and train. The first brush was exceedingly hot. The police and the gang blazed away a
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  • ...him suspiciously. “I would,” he continued, “have fought them in the train, or else upset it if I had the chance. I didn’t care a —— who was in THE ATTEMPT ON THE TRAIN
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  • '''The attempt on the train continued''' ....” Inspector Sadleir. — “You wanted, then, to kill the people in the train?” Kelly. — “Yes, of course I did; God help them, but they would have
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  • ...or of the room and said, ‘Here she comes,’ evidently thinking that the train was about to be wrecked. With that they seemed to me to be making preparati
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  • ...I was one of the party of police who arrived at Glenrowan with the special train, and was just behind Mr [[Hare|Hare]] when he was shot. After Mr Hare asked
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  • ...ad broken out there, proceeded with the Beechworth detachment of police by train on Monday morning, and on arrival had the wires cut, and connected with a s ...ty, speed was slackened on account of the curves, and in order to keep the train that was following in sight. When a strange signal was observed the pilot e
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  • I came down in the train with him from Glenrowan, and we entered into conversation. He said that my ...a raid on one the banks in Benalla had their plan succeeded in the railway train. When Ned Kelly was asked whether he intended to rob the Colonial Bank at B
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  • ...and accompanied Mr [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] and a party of police in a special train to Glenrowan. We arrived before daylight, but the moon was shining. The men
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  • ...r yesterday’s issue, that but for the Chief Secretary ordering a special train, the police did not intend leaving Melbourne until the next day, thus displ
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  • ...raction to people from all parts of the North eastern district.  By every train people arrive, and spend hours in examining the battlefield, taking sketche
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  • ...lowly on, I came ahead, and walked up the station platform just before the train arrived. I went round the station and over to Jones's, where I stood, and s
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  • ...day last he left home and went across country, intending to take the first train on Monday morning for Wodonga, and then to make his way to one of Mr. Wilso My brother came to Melbourne on Monday night by the train which brought the police. I was just then reading a morning newspaper, and
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  • ...tt was murdered, it was decided to proceed at once to Glenrowan, wreck the train containing the police and the black trackers, and then come straight into B ...ncipals engaged in stopping short the raid of the outlaws. Had the special train gone over the embankment and the passengers been destroyed, the scheme of t
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  • ...charge by Superintendent Sadleir, who came on to Melbourne by the evening train. His visit to Melbourne is made very probably with the object of guiding, b
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  • A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF ONE WHO WENT IN THE SPECIAL TRAIN
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  • &quot; Dear —,–A special train starts for Beechworth at 9 to-night.–Yours, —.&quot; ...but we waited in vain, and it was three minutes to 10 when the [[Railways|train]]—consisting of engine, one carriage, and brake-van— passed out of the
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  • ...all without any chance of our escape. All lights having been put out, the train moved along slowly till we reached the station. Superintendent [[Hare|Hare] ...It must have been this ball, by the line, that passed over or through the train, and struck [[McDonnell's Railway Taven|M'Donnell's]] Hotel on the other si
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  • ...Queenscliff train on and after today. The present guard of the Queenscliff train, Mr Halley, will be removed to Melbourne . It may be stated that the [[Kell
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  • ...eeing that the horses could be disembarked there, he returned and took the train on.  When the horses were being taken out, Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|
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  • ...he spot, a 12-pounder cannon was sent to the scene off action by a special train. The gun was to be manned by a contingent of the Artillery Corps. ...it would probably have eventuated in the maiming or killing of all in the train.
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  • ...and off duty all the time, to follow him to Jones', and not to signal the train. I went into the back kitchen, where Mrs Jones and daughter, aged aged abou Meanwhile, information had been sent to Melbourne , and a special train of police (preceded by a pilot engine for safety) picking up Lieutenant O'C
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  • ...he held up, with a lighted   match behind it. By this action the special train was secured, and the locale of the gang discovered.
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  • ...n advance of the special train.  At 2 o’clock on the Monday morning the train left Benalla for Beechworth, and was soon travelling at the rate of about 6 ...he attention of the driver of the pilot-engine, and he in turn stopped the train that was coming on behind.  Mr Curnow then informed the police of the pres
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  • ...rt to carry out to a successful issue their design of wrecking the special train.  They went to the residence of the local stationmaster, Mr [[Stanistreet ...th a fiendish determination to bring about the complete destruction of the train.  At the place situated the line took a sudden turn down an incline, and p
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  • ...from Ned Kelly, to so remove the rails as to render the destruction of the train inevitable.  How the plans of the gang failed, the foregoing narrative wil ...ly, with four troopers, accordingly proceeded to Glenrowan by the forenoon train, and two or three policemen were directed to come down from Wangaratta.  T
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  • ...n the Mansfield tragedy.  Superintendent Hare returned to the town by the train which brought down Edward Kelly.  Mr Hare was on his return to his residen ...of refuge, but that he would, for his part, have fought the police in the train, and killed every one of the passengers; and he added, “If I were once ri
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  • ...opol would give much earlier information than they did, and that a special train would be sent from Melbourne with a police force on Sunday morning. ...h place is on the direct line from Beechworth to the Kelly haunts. Had the train been wrecked, the outlaws, after witnessing its destruction, could easily h
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  • Information had been sent to Melbourne, and a special train of police (preceded by a pilot engine for safety) picking up Lieutenant O'C ...ich he held up, with a lighted match behind it. By this action the special train was secured, and the locale of the gang discovered.
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  • ...e, and I never spoke to him again, and he went to Melbourne by the evening train. The principal agent employed by Mr. Nicolson I had appointed to meet me th ...hed to Detective [[Ward|Ward]] to come down to Benalla the next morning by train. He did so, and, after some conversation, he informed me that on the previo
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  • ...ou asking authority to send on a [[Railways|pilot engine]] in front of our train. Your reply to me was, ‘A good idea; there's no knowing what desperate de ...ck, and that I wished the engine that I had ordered to act as pilot to the train to Beechworth, which would reach Benalla about two a.m. .....
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  • ...allow Barry to go on their engine, so I recalled him. The occupants of the train from Melbourne were as follows:—Mr. O'Connor, his wife and sister, five Q ...oving anywhere. I got off the engine and told every man to jump out of the train and keep a sharp look-out. I then started off in company with Mr. Rawlins t
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  • ...stationmaster's wife, and to lose no time in getting the horses out of the train and saddling them. Whilst the men were so engaged, Constable [[Const Hugh B ...table Kelly called out to me to send some more ammunition at once from the train. I did so directly I arrived at the platform, and Mr Rawlins volunteered to
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  • ...ew words with him as to the position of affairs, proceeded to Glenrowan by train, accompanied by the whole of the reserve on the Benalla station.
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  • ...scaped death from the wrecked train, and that if any civilians were in the train, they should share the same fate, as they had no business accompanying the ...ght.  He had previously declared that they would wait at Glenrowan till a train came. 
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  • ...est of the gang to the police and shooting all they could, and seizing the train and making for Benalla to sack it, as the circumstances of his capture next
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  • ...scaped death from the wrecked train, and that if any civilians were in the train, they would share the same fate, as they had no business accompanying the p
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  • ...right. He had previously declared that they would wait at Glenrowan till a train came. ...hile being away, time passed, and just as I was about to start I heard the train coming in the distance.
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  • ...e, and I never spoke to him again, and he went to Melbourne by the evening train. The principal agent employed by Mr Nicolson I had appointed to meet me tha ...telegraphed to Detective Ward to come down to Benalla the next morning by train. He did so, and after some conversation, he informed me that on the previou
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  • ...graphed to you, asking authority to send on a pilot engine in front of our train. Your reply to me was, ‘A good idea; there’s no knowing what desperate ...ck, and that I wished the engine that I had ordered to act as pilot to the train to Beechworth, which would reach Benalla about 2 am.
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  • ...allow Barry to go on their engine, so I recalled him. The occupants of the train from Melbourne were as follows:—Mr O’Connor, his wife and sister, five ...hin 300 yards of us. I immediately unlocked my carriage, jumped out of the train, and walked towards the pilot. When about a few yards beyond our engine I m
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  • ...ationmaster’s wife, and to lose no time in getting the horses out of the train and saddling them. Whilst the men were so engaged, Constable [[Const Hugh B ...table Kelly called out to me to send some more ammunition at once from the train.I did so directly I arrived at the platform, and Mr Rawlins volunteered to
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  • ...ds with him as to the position of affairs, proceeded to '''Glenrowan''' by train, accompanied by the whole of the reserve on the Benalla station.
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  • ...ioner spoke to the prisoner, who was most impudent in his replies, and the train then left the station. ...y after noon a telegram was received in Melbourne stating that the special train had arrived safely at, its destinaion. However, its arrival was so unexpect
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  • ...icials were present, and Kelly, having been deposited in the carriage, the train was at once despatched.
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  • ...He shouted out that they ought to give their horses to him, and he would train them properly.  It was evident that he desired to attract attention to him ...’s party and the prisoner were picked up of course at Newmarket, and the train went bowling along with out stopping at any station, except Seymour and Ben
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  • ...lly has by some means heard that she has made this application, for in the train to-day he inquired if her compensation would be paid out of the reward fund
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  • ...in Jones’s public house at Glenrowan prior to the arrival of the special train. It is also anticipated that one witness will be brought from Jerilderie. ...to be thrown on the seat by two constables. At Euroa he looked out of the train, and, pointing to a fences, said, ‘That is where Steve Hart hung up his h
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  • ...ntyre were brave men, but Fitzpatrick—he was a b—— thing.”When the train passed Donnybrook he put his head out of his moving prison, and exclaimed,
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  • As, while waiting for the arrival of the train on Sunday afternoon, our representative overheard a person express a doubt
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  • ...of tins of preserved meat, which I believe were left by the police. By the train this morning Captain [[Standish|Standish]], Superintendent [[Sadleir|Sadlei
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  • ...on bullets were flying in all directions striking the railway station, the train, and [[McDonnell's Railway Taven|McDonald’s Hotel]], and as has been subs
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  • ...st Mr C A Smyth in the prosecution. [[Richard Hart|Dick Hart]] by the same train, but no other sympathisers. According to the surmises of a gentleman behind
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  • ...Carthy O’Leary is concerned in the defence, and will probably come up by train to-night.  Mr Zincke has thrown up all responsibility, in the case.  In a
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  • ...n hotel in Glenrowan, bailed up all the people, and awaited the train. The train came, but was warned, and the hotel was surrounded by the police. Evidence
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  • Witness: At Benalla, after he was taken there in the train from the Glenrowan affair.
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  • ...loyd Jnr|Tom Lloyd]] left the court on Saturday afternoon, and returned by train to Glenrowan, ''en route'' for their homes near Greta. Mrs Skillian is said
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  • ...statement since. I arrived here on Thursday night by the eleven o’clock train. I had an interview with Subinspector Kennedy with regard to the case on Fr ...lso said if his mother …………. get justice he might possibly upset a train. If I did not state to Ward that the prisoner told me that he shot Kennedy.
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  • ...also said that if his mother was not released, he would overturn a railway train.
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  • ...also said that if his mother was not released he would overturn a railway train.
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  • ...arge of the party. We heard the railway line had been torn up. The special train in which we were stopped at Benalla. I heard [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] ...ant [[Steele|Steele]]’s party came from Wangaratta. Shortly afterwards a train came from Benalla and Wangaratta. By six o’clock in the morning the hotel
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  • When the last train arrived to-night the blinds of a second-class compartment were found to be
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  • ...last night, but none came. Some interest was created on the arrival of the train by the statement that, just as it neared the platform, a man jumped out of
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  • ...keeps up with great difficulty. Mr [[Graves|Graves]], MLA, arrived by the train last evening. Mr David Gaunson is most assiduous in his attention to the pr
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  • ...of the fight at Glenrowan I asked Sub-inspector O’Connor, who was in the train, to come with me to place the men. He did not do so. I expect a portion of ...t]] and [[Kate Kelly|Kate Kelly]] arrived here from Greta by the afternoon train. Kate Kelly was permitted to pass through the side door, but Hart was not a
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  • ...se.  At this juncture Kate Kelly, who with young Hart had just arrived by train, entered the court, and was accommodated with a seat within a couple of yar
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  • ...ds received a letter from the station-master on duty. The extra van on the train was the cause of remark at all the stations along the line. At some of the ...sengers in the train. At [[Euroa|Euroa]] where the up train meets the down train, anxious inquiries were made by the up passengers as to when the outlaw wou
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  • And that's the way the dread avengers of the law coming down by special train were warned first by Curnow, that the rails on ahead, had been torn up and
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  • ...nspector Kennedy, and Mr Gurner, the Crown solicitor, arrived by the first train from Melbourne to-day, which also picked up Sergeant Steele, Senior-constab
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  • Mr Gaunson is expected to arrive by the night train, and as he will not be able to see the prisoner to receive instructions til
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  • ...is handkerchief to two ladies standing near a brick house and laughed. The train stopped for a few minutes at Seymour , and then sped on its journey again, '''Constable M’Intyre''' arrived in town last night by the last train from Beechworth. He was in a very exhausted state, and appeared to be suffe
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  • ..., and afterwards passed through Benalla on his was to Melbourne by special train ...ving been brought to the platform, the prisoner was placed in the van. The train started at half past 12 , and making good time arrived at 5 o'clock at Newm
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  • ...tlaw, looking through the glass window, which was not allowed down, as the train started away, said “Good bye, ladies: I shall never see you again.” ...he went to the right-hand side of the van, and kept a keen look out.  The train dashed on to Glenrowan, where a slight halt was made for the purpose of a m
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  • ...a rapid start was made for Wangaratta, with the object of taking a special train thence to Melbourne. ...hanged. Constable [[McIntyre|McIntyre]] proceeded to Melbourne by the same train, and owing to severe illness from which he is suffering, has since had to b
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  • ...said he had intended to shoot every one that escaped from the wreck of the train. Prisoner was asked if it was true about his shooting Fitzpatrick. He said,
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  • ...the gang.  The statement of the prisoner that he did intend to wreck the train and shoot down the survivors was explained by the fact that he was at the t
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  • ...dy of the police to sudden death. He tore up the rails in order to upset a train, and then he, being protected by armour, could with ease have shot any surv
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  • ...ey tempted fortune once too often, and in endeavouring to wreck the police train, they put a sudden termination to a long course of crime. Punishment was lo
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  • ...n, a lonely wayside railway station, for the purpose of wrecking a special train with police which they knew would be sent up to pursue them as soon as the ...of the gang―Mr Curnow, the local schoolmaster―escaped and stopped the train by a signal before it reached Glenrowan, and thus what would have been the
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  • ...amous falsehood of Edward Kelly, ‘that he had sent Mr Curnow to stop the train.’ Thus your chairman endeavours, by repeating the criminal’s falsehoods
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  • ...pected to be a very close one Thursday is the polling day, and the morning train from Melbourne is expected to bring voters from Melbourne who will come to
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  • ...eechworth with your trackers by the early train to morrow, or by a special train, if that can be arranged. If you can oblige us in this way, could you manag
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  • ...e revolver. I saw a considerable number of men off by the half past 1 p.m. train on the following day, and sent Mr Nicolson to the North-Eastern district to
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  • I immediately ordered a special train, and proceeded with Mr Nicolson, nine mounted constables, and one black tra ...approached Faithful's Creek, where the outlaws had stuck up a station, the train pulled up, and they saw that the telegraph lines on both sides of the railw
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  • ...ueensland with his trackers, rather reluctantly consented to go. A special train left about 9 or 10 o'clock pm.
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  • ...d to go up with the last train that night, and were to return by the first train in the morning.
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  • ...roken post. Sent Mr Sadleir to question the guard and engine driver of the train, and they said they had noticed nothing peculiar at Euroa. ...ed the police, and there received Captain Standish's telegram. Returned by train next morning to Benalla, but left Mr Sadleir with a body of police at Wanga
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  • ...er a consultation with Messrs Sadleir and O'Connor, I started by the early train from Benalla on Monday morning, with the trackers and five or six men. Reac
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  • ...d that such was his idea. Captain Standish, in his evidence, spoke about a train of baggage waggons with the trackers, and that we worked so slowly. He woul
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  • ...ning I left Benalla for Melbourne . Mr Hare and Ned Kelly were in the same train. At Euroa I got an Age newspaper containing an account of the affair. My na
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  • ...he alert, and sent a number of other messages. Made arrangements about the train and the conveyance of the police to Beechworth, the nearest railway point t
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  • ...eceived information from the agents that the outlaws intended to blow up a train with dynamite about a certain period. Just at this period, the telegraph wi ...the pilot engine ahead. Took down and loaded my gun, and jumped out of the train. Walked towards the pilot, and before I reached it met its guard, who told
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  • ...ormation about the purchase of the ammunition in Melbourne. They boarded a train from Melbourne at the time, but found nothing.
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  • ...elegraphed for Mr O'Connor and his boys at 1 pm that day. I took a special train at 2 pm for Lancefield- road station and drove on to Lancefield, arriving t
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  • ...re obtains £800; Mr T. Curnow, the schoolmaster who gave the alarm to the train, £550 Senior-constable Kelly £377; Sergeant Steele, £290; Superintendent The drivers and guards of the pilot engine and the special train receive sums from £104 downwards.
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  • ...at he released the brake as he thought it would assist the progress of the train, he not being aware that the engine was on another line shunting some truck
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  • ...eral messages contradictory in their nature as to the arrival of Mr Hare's train. These messages all came from Wangaratta with which communication was kept
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  • ...invaluable. Before he appeared on the scene it was quite possible that the train would be wrecked in the thirty feet culvert, as the gang intended, and a di ...inn, and hid it about his person, and when the alarm of the arrival of the train was given, he un- locked the door, effected his escape, and rushed to the s
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  • ...ure. Dan Kelly said they might all go, but before they left Byrne said the train was coming, and Ned Kelly cried out, “No one must leave now.&quot; The fi ...were not to leave till Ned gave us a lecture. He did so, but just then the train was heard. Mrs. Jones was not tipsy, and did not seem terrified or excited.
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  • ...esent at the Glenrowan affair. Got there about 3 o'clock am in the special train. Mr O'Connor started for the hotel shortly after Mr Hare. Saw Mr Hare wound
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  • ...he had shot a lot of police at Beechworth, and that he wanted to wreck the train coming with police from Benalla. Ned threatened to shoot witness if the lat ...work.&quot; Witness told Curnow the line was broken, and told him how the train could be stopped.
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  • ...the pilot engine, a quarter of a mile ahead, which came back and took the train to Glenrowan. There we took off the horses and saddled them. Heard Mr Hare ...s fired when be was fired upon by the outlaws. He received an order in the train from Mr Hare. Mr Hare's party understood one another, and did not require f
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  • ...ak for fear when news of the outlaws being at Glenrowan was brought to the train, and the party had not yet left the platform. But Jacky was singing out lou ...for Beechworth. This detachment of men, with horses, got into the special train at Benalla. When Bracken, at Glenrowan, brought the information that the ou
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  • On November 1, 1878 , left for Benalla. Got special train started for Beechworth to search the ranges. Before leaving Benalla there w
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  • ...es off. Constable Bracken rode to Wangaratta and told him that the special train had stopped at Glenrowan, and that the gang was there.
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  • ...itness, but he believed that he heard the first volley when coming down by train. He believed, from information he received, that it was the first volley he
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  • ...was present at the Glenrowan fight on behalf of ''The Sketcher''. When the train drew up at the station Mr Hare gave an order to get the horses out. The pol ...''The Argus'', and was present at Glenrowan. On the arrival of the special train there, Superintendent Hare, learning that the Kellys were in Jones's Hotel,
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  • ...about the line having been broken up was known at Benalla when the special train passed there. (Witness described the stoppage at Glenrowan.) Mr Hare was 70
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  • ...ain from Melbourne to Glenrowan, described the events of the day. When the train stopped at Glenrowan, and the police made for the hotel, Mr O'Connor was in ...moving, and thought they were running away. Observed to the ladies in the train, &quot;The beggars are running away.&quot; Afterwards saw that they were on
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  • ...e Glenrowan affair, having arrived there about mid-day. Was passing in the train when he heard the outlaws were bailed up at Mrs Jones's hotel. When he asce
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  • ...arther on. Superintendent Hare and I consulted, and we decided to draw the train.
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  • ...take further evidence in the afternoon. On Friday they leave by the first train for Wangaratta, where further evidence will be taken, and the commission wi
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  • ...ly afterwards given to Sergeant Steele, who was then proceeding by special train to Beechworth, but as he was under distinct orders for particular duty, tha ...itness. Mr Marsden, clerk of the Bench, who was a passenger by the special train referred to, was examined in reference to certain charges made by several p
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  • ...n, while he was on the verandah of the hotel; that as soon as he heard the train stop he knew that there had been foul play, meaning (as he explained) that
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  • ...n the night of the 3rd November, 1878 , Sergeant Steele arrived by special train at Wangaratta, and witness told him he had information that four horsemen h
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  • ...tlaws at Glenrowan, and his own action in warning and stopping the special train. Some persons had said he was favourable to the outlaws, others that he was
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  • ...he conduct of Mr Thos Curnow, state-school teacher, in warning the special train from Benalla to Beechworth on the morning of the 28th of June, 1880, whereb
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  • 10. Captain Standish replied that Mr O'Connor would be sent by first train on the following day, Monday. ...ws would be at some distance. He ordered the horses to be taken out of the train, and whilst this was being done, a light was seen in the station master's h
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  • ...rence to Mr Carrington's evidence shows that, prior to the starting of the train, it was generally known or at least currently reported at Benalla, that the ...n command, should not have tolerated the presence of ladies in the special train when leaving Benalla, especially as he was aware of the report that the rai
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  • ...son at midnight , when he was at Albury. He returned to Benalla by special train, and telegraphed instructions to the various police stations throughout the
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  • ...Mr Nicolson relies to a great extent upon the corroborative fact that the train by which his successor arrived reached Benalla at half past 11, that it too
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  • ...t officer's alleged errors of judgment, but it is overlooked that the last train had passed, and both post and telegraph offices were closed. A reference to
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  • ...Mr Sadleir came down the line,&quot; i.e., the instant he landed from the train. Now, how is it that ...was commenced by the outlaws on Mr Sadleir and his party as they left the train, and that the other police seeing the outlaws firing returned the fire. Her
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  • ...do so, but he objected at the time. Just before his wife left the house a train from Benalla came up to the station. Never told any person that he was lyin
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  • ...e affray, and at 10 minutes past 5 went to stop the approaching Beechworth train. The moon was then descending in the horizon, and the scene of the affray w
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  • ...police at Wangaratta. The moment he heard of the departure of the special train from Benalla, he was on the qui vive. He proceeded to the railway station t ...hile it was still dark, the Benalla police arrived. As they got out of the train the outlaws came into the verandah, and opened fire upon them, and the poli
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  • Arriving by the morning train at [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] we found waiting for us there three members of t
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  • ...artist from ''The Australian Sketcher'' accompanied the other press on the train from Melbourne to Glenrowan. '''Ned Kelly's trial''' '''Royal Commission'''
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  • ...in|Melvin]] was the Argus reporter at Glenrowan. He went up on the special train from Melbourne and arrived with the first group of police under Sup Hare
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  • ...ing breaking story. The Herald did not have a correspondent on the special train but they had access to the telegraph. The story grew as the telegraph messa
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  • ...at about this time,&quot;I waited there for a few minutes, and just as the train was starting in tumbled Mr Nicolson. I only had time to hand him the telegr ...h had the unpleasant task of asking them to stay and to off on the special train. &quot;... I told him, if and asked him if he was willing to go up; said it
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  • ...r years. I saw a considerable number of the men off by the 4.30 [[Railways|train]] the following day. I ordered Superintendent [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] up to t
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  • ...stopol]] and believed they were there now. I immediately ordered a special train, and proceeded, with Mr. Nicolson, nine mounted constables. and one black t
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  • ...of the Kellys. I started the following morning, the 12th by the 6.10 a.m. train, and arrived at Euroa about l0 o'clock. 25 You started by the first train?- Yes the early train. I there saw Mr. Nicolson, found him very much knocked up in appearance, an
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  • ...e party. Mr. Nicolson telegraphed to me to come up to Benalla by the early train next morning. At one o'clock in the morning the men were all ready, with th
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  • ...ck ?&quot;. He said, &quot;I am going back by the next train-the afternoon train&quot;. He not only did not do that, but he remained in Melbourne, and went
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  • ...aol, I ordered him to be taken down in a special carriage by the afternoon train, I think it was. I stayed at Benalla that day, and had an interview with Mr
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  • ...here on Thursday to have a chat with you. Please come down by the evening train and come to my office the following day as early as convenient. I had a lon
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  • ...any. They were not sent to Benalla, or with my knowledge. They went in the train with me and went on, having received their routes to other parts of the dis
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  • 342 Those started from where?- From Benalla. On the 30th instant by the last train I went to Wangaratta to see the state of things there. I then went on alone ...m. Hearing nothing from this party and no further news Wodonga, I took the train to Wodonga myself and met the party. They reported to me they had seen the
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  • ...We two went up by the last train at night, and were to return by the first train in the morning. ...oke to him. Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Sadleir then joined me; this was just as the train was starting, or just about two or three minutes before, and he told us tha
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  • ...were police at Euroa, and I would have waited for information by the next train, or sent a mounted constable to enquire; but you must remember there were p
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  • ...were as I was getting into the carriage-we were just in time to catch the train, and all this occurred in say about three to five minutes. ...ances of that nature, would the station master, at your request, delay the train at [[Benalla|Benalla]]?- I do not know whether he would or not. I know we a
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  • ...ever said anything of this kind, as expressed. As I was coming down in the train-Mr. [[Wyatt|Wyatt]] was with me. I expressed the fear that I would be too l ...Yes; I reached [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Faithfull's Creek]], pulled up the train when we came opposite the creek, and left Mr. Wyatt there, and did not see
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  • ...course of the morning Captain [[Standish|Standish]] arrived by the morning train, on the 12th, and he consulted me about what was best to be done, and we de
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  • ...We two went up by the last train at night, and were to return by the first train in the morning.&quot;
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  • ...t down to me, and I impressed that strongly upon him, and I went up to the train to meet Mr. Sadleir, and on his return he came alone. I asked him where was
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  • ...and acting upon that information, started about five o'clock by the early train on Monday morning from Benalla, with the trackers and five or six men. We r
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  • ...roughout, economy was enforced in every direction. Not one special railway train has been used; and in view of the search being protracted, every effort has
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  • ...he interview now, because I wish to return to Benalla by the half past two train?&quot; Mr. Ramsay was quite agreeable, and I was turning away from him to g
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  • ...I certainly was. I met Captain Standish at the railway as I was leaving by train when I was returning to Benalla. He handed me a telegram, addressed to me, 947 Is this the occasion that Captain Standish stated he met you at the train?- This is that occassion mentioned in his evidence.
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  • ...ain, and I wrote to Captain Standish telling him, so that I did go by that train. ...ou going back ?' He said, 'I am going back by the next train-the afternoon train.' He not only did not do that, but he remained in Melbourne, and went to Si
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  • 973 And you left by the 2.30 train that day?- Yes, I left Flemington at three o'clock on that day.
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  • ...e, and I never spoke to him again, and he went to Melbourne by the evening train. &quot;Have you any explanation to offer about that report?- I would rather
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  • ...e. In Captain Standish's evidence he says the Queensland police had such a train of men and baggage horses, and that we would be so s1ow. Now Captain Standi
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  • ...of the Lancefield bank, telling Mr Nicolson to start our party by special train for Kilmore, but he, Mr Nicolson, was not to accompany us. ...d our party to be got ready, and that he would be down by the 6 [[Railways|train]] to [[Benalla|Benalla]]. Mr Nicolson at once replied to Mr. Sadleir to bri
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  • ...out a mile from his (Byrne's) mother's house. We started out at once, took train to the nearest point-[[Everton|Everton]]; thence by horseback to a certain
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  • ...p.m Mr. Nicolson ran up to me and told me he had to go to town by the six train, and therefore would have to put off the dinner, but he was going to write ...n a proper way, and get back to the station by ten, and I was there at the train at a quarter to ten.
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  • 1138 He had arrived by train with a lot of men?- Yes. There we had a long conversation. Ned Kelly had be
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  • ...onversation with Mr. Sadleir that I referred to above, we all got into the train, with the exception of a few men left on guard, and proceeded to Benalla. C
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  • ...mentioned it before. This is the report:- &quot;I went down by the special train on Sunday night, at the request of Captain Standish. I collected my trooper
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  • ...and met Mr. Sadleir and me on the platform, and we all then went up in the train to Beechworth. It is a small matter, perhaps hardly worth speaking about.
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  • ...ed, &quot;All I know is that Captain Standish informed me that the special train would be at Essendon at ten o'clock.&quot; The second remark I wish to make
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  • ...as the telegram dated from?- From [[Euroa|Euroa]]. I left Melbourne by the train between two and three o'clock. I met Captain Standish and Mr. Nicolson at E
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  • ...he 2nd of June I went up there. I arrived at Benalla by the eleven o'clock train. I went first to the hotel, and after some time I went to the office of the ...me down from Beechworth to Benalla. He arrived in the morning by the early train, the first thing. He said to me, “Mr. Hare, do you know that Mr. Nicolson
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  • ...aying that if he agreed to it he would send him up by the first [[Railways|train]] on Monday morning. I replied— “If Mr. O'Connor does not come up to-ni
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  • ...he week occurred on that night just as we were leaving Benalla. We had the train crowded, and we consulted together what was best to be done; we were in a g
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  • ...unt back to the train and hitch the pilot on to it. When I got back to the train, I spoke to everybody there—the reporters, Senior-constable Kelly, and ev
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  • ...s it were, and I jumped out of the carriage and I went to the guard of the train, the engine was in front of the carriages, and I said, “How long will it
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  • ...trict the Beechworth men could at once proceed without taking up a special train with a large body of men, and its becoming known all over the country, beca
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  • ...—Have you been there since?— Never, and except in going through in the train, was I there previously. I was on the Benalla side of [[Jones' Glenrowan In
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  • ...ere the reporters were at the commencement?— Do you mean when I left the train? 1552 Are you not aware they were in the carriage of the train with the windows barricaded with cushions?— I feel confident they were on
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  • ...y of fifteen or twenty armed men to Echuca. They were sent to Sandhurst by train, and from there travelled by ballast waggon or any other way they could to
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  • ...went up to the Lancefield Road station, got my buggy and horses out of the train, and drove off to Lancefield, with some men, as quickly as I could. I arriv
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  • ...arty of fifteen or twenty armed men to Echuca. I was to go to Sandhurst by train, and from thence get on by ballast waggon or any other way I could with my ...c1606">[[#rc1606|1606]]</span> He went up with you and Mr. O'Connor in the train?— Yes. He was no friend of mine. I did not know any of them except Mr. Me
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  • <span id="rc1607">[[#rc1607|1607]]</span> He went from Melbourne in the same train with you?— Yes, and was on the scene the whole day. There were four repor
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  • ...cker. Reply.” The answer is— “We are coming up as desired by special train. We shall leave about midnight . Meet us. Standish accompanies me.” That
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  • ...time, but a few minutes, to decide what we should do, and we went into the train and travelled on, starting towards Albury. ...[#rc2002|2002]]</span> Would Mr Wyatt on that occasion have come up by the train you were going by?— Yes.
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  • ...d, by Mr. Nicolson's direction, across to Wodonga, and got ready a special train. I think it was about half-past two when we started, and got to [[Wangaratt
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  • ...ould easily find it. I communicated with Mr. Nicolson, and just before the train started ...handed in; also the one from Mr. Nicolson to you?— Yes. Just before the train that I wanted to go by started for Benalla, I got a message from Mr. Nicols
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  • ...ad a conversation with Mr. Nicolson and Mr. O'Connor?— I met them at the train.
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  • ...I refer to that. The time was 4.40, it seems, by luggage train. Well, the train was still going slowly from Violet Town , when a man came along the foot-pl ...raph repairer, from Benalla, came to me as he had seen me getting into the train, and was now desirous of speaking to me. He came forward and said, “Look
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  • ...his,” and I said, “All right then, I will give in your message.” The train never stopped but merely slowed, and my question was put to him with the ob ...t would be absolutely impossible for me to go and come back, and catch the train, and keep an appointment the next day at [[Avenel|Avenel]], which was essen
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  • ...you must give me express permission to ride upon the engine, and stop the train and get down and examine the line. I do not believe it was a whirlwind now, ...I will come to that; but you can judge by the facts that at that time the train was nearly due from [[Longwood|Longwood]] to Euroa and [[Benalla|Benalla]],
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  • ...man, and Gorman to say, that it looks like a whirlwind.” I got on to the train. The passengers looked at me, and enquired, “What is the matter?” and I <span id="rc2154">[[#rc2154|2154]]</span> Was the guard of the train made acquainted with the facts?— It was the guard I met under the culvert
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  • ...y great importance, and when Mr. Nicolson and Mr. Sadleir both left in the train I felt rather nonplused, because I had expected one of them would go back w <span id="rc2175">[[#rc2175|2175]]</span> What length of time dove the train stop there?— Fifteen minutes.
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  • ...I know that I went away with the impression that I could not get a special train for some time, at least for some hours. ...return, at 6.50, from [[Euroa|Euroa]], rode on engine, stopped [[Railways|train]], got down and examined. Found all wires (4 of Government line and I of ra
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  • ...k. My impression is that Whelan received the authority to send the special train somewhere about the same time, within a few minutes of the other message th 2204 We may suppose that Whelan's being instructed to send a special train was in consequence of the information conveyed to Captain Standish?— By h
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  • ...ot occupy more than twenty-five minutes or half-an-hour, I got back to the train, went rapidly to Euroa and put the horses out there. While that was being a
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  • ...o give, I then said— “Whatever you resolve, I will now go back by this train to Benalla, wait there for Mr. Nicolson, come back with him in our special, ...anything I could. I did that, and came back in good early time before the train arrived.
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  • On the afternoon of the Euroa robbery he travelled by train from Violet Town with a telegraph linesman and saw that the telegraph wires ...att looked out and saw Mr Watt, the telegraph linesman jump off the moving train and go down to the line.
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  • ...e of the [[KellyGang|Kelly]] bank robbery at [[Euroa|Euroa]]— “Luggage train from [[Violet Town|Violet Town]] to Euroa at 4.4 —from Euroa at 4.37.” ...d I have a little correction to make there. I think I stated yesterday the train was due. That might lead to a mis-apprehension. I meant “overdue.” I re
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  • ...merely in the usual way, by sending a telegraph repairer down by the first train, 4.40, in the day. ...u have spoken of?— The interval that would be occupied by the usual mail train running from [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Faithfull's Creek station]], stopping
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  • ...o'clock of that night you saw Johnson and party without the horses in the train at [[Benalla|Benalla]]?— Much later than that. ...365|2365]]</span> What hour?— Much after twelve. I imagine we got to the train, and they began to put the horses in about a quarter to one, but we did not
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  • <span id="rc2442">[[#rc2442|2442]]</span> How long did the train stop then?— Two or three minutes.
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  • ..., several of his communications. Mr. Nicolson left Benalla that evening by train, and that was his last appearance in the district. ...2524|2524]]</span> What time did Mr. Nicolson leave?— By the six o'clock train.
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  • <span id="rc2565">[[#rc2565|2565]]</span> What time did the train come in that day?— A quarter past eleven .
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  • ...way station. That would be about the time Mr. Nicolson would be leaving by train for Melbourne .
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  • ...w them start for [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]], the combined parties, by special train, and then I returned and got to bed again about half-past three. I was call
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  • ...t know from my own observations, because the Wangaratta men got out of the train in the break of the line, and came in quietly through the timber and bush w
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  • ...him as to the position of affairs, proceeded to [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] by train, accompanied by the whole of the reserve on the Benalla station.
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  • ...g Bridge . Then I proceeded to Wangaratta. I was just in time to catch the train. Finding that Mr. [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] was up in [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]],
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  • ...morning?— We were in [[Beechworth|Beechworth]], and went down by special train. ...al train, and they came back with him, and we all went down in the special train.
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  • ...e part I took in it. Arrived there at nine, and left in the evening by the train.
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  • ...leir]] on your return from Melbourne?— The very minute I came out of the train, on the 3rd of April, there was a note to call at the police station, and I
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  • ...n> Did you hear any firing?— I saw one shot as I was coming along in the train previous to arriving at Glenrowan station.
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  • ...rc4778">[[#rc4778|4778]]</span> What did you do then?— We got out of the train and took up our position at once.
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  • ...nnor''— You stated that I was pointed out to you when you got out of the train — would that be?— About ten o'clock. ...84|4984]]</span> ''By Mr. Sadleir''. —How soon after you landed from the train did I speak to you?— I do not remember, I am sure.
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  • ...where did you stand at that time?— Immediately after we came out of the train I think it was. ...e [[SConst P Mullane|Mullane]] would be present. I saw him jump out of the train, and you all came with him—he must have been present when I gave those or
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  • ...turn to [[Benalla Police Station|Benalla]]. On our arrival there a special train was waiting to convey the party of police from there to [[Beechworth|Beechw ...a about eight p.m. that evening ''en route'' for Beechworth in the special train.
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  • ...telegram]] return to Benalla, and on our arrival there there was a special train to convey us to Beechworth. <span id="rc5167">[[#rc5167|5167]]</span> What was the object of that special train?— It was to distribute the search parties round towards Beechworth.
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  • ...at?— Yes, about that. That day I was told to saddle up and go off to the train. I did not know what was wrong till I got near to [[Kilmore|Kilmore]], when
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  • ...cials to Constable Twomey, who was stationed at Wangaratta. He came to the train to give this information so that the police should remain there instead of
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  • ...owan that evening, and returned to Benalla in the same train that the same train that [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] and the body of Byrne were brought to Benalla
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  • ...as speaking to them and singing all the way up from the time he got in the train.
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  • ...ay I heard the information given, but the information was talked of in the train.
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  • <span id="rc5680">[[#rc5680|5680]]</span> What train of circumstances induced you to alter your opinion of him from the Whorouly
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  • ...nalla, and were at Benalla that morning. I fancy you were somewhere in the train. .../span> That would be about a quarter to three, at all events—you left by train at three that same day?— Yes.
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  • ...want to know what he was bound to do—what did he do?— He met us at the train, and told us the position of the men. ...nior-Constable Kelly was telling Mr. Sadleir as we were getting out of the train, and Mr. Sadleir told us to take up our positions at the place Senior-Const
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  • ...tra ammunition, the men that went out first. The ammunition was sent up by train, afterwards to be divided, but I did not divide it.....
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  • ...regulation number of rounds first; then there was fresh ammunition sent by train; but I did not divide that, and do not know how much each got. ...was no time to make any arrangement, because as soon as we got out of the train the firing from the outlaws began, and we had to take up our positions.
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  • ...The train was going, and not having time to telegraph, he jumped into the train and came here and came off, and I returned him with the other men to Euroa. ...[#rc6218|6218]]</span> About this information; you said he jumped into the train and came here—where did you see him?— At the police station.
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  • ...round, in ease of his services being required?— Mr. Sadleir detained the train to get [[Nicholson|Dr. Nicholson]], who was attending Mr. Hare, so as to ha
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  • ...">[[#rc6625|6625]]</span> What time did you come?— I went by the special train with Mr. Hare, from Benalla.
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  • ...Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] that the Kellys were in that house?— Yes. When the train got within a little distance of Glenrowan somebody came and told us the Kel
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  • ...|Sadleir]]'s party come?— Yes, I was there when they came. I heard their train come up to the station.
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  • ...7098]]</span> How many rounds of ammunition did you take with you from the train when you started?— Twenty.
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  • ...other members of the search party are listed. There were problems with the train that was carrying the search party from Benalla to Euroa. When the train got within a little distance of Glenrowan somebody came and told the police
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  • <span id="rc7379">[[#rc7379|7379]]</span> They came in fact by the special train?— Yes. <span id="rc7390">[[#rc7390|7390]]</span> They were in the train with you?— Yes.
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  • ...4|7504]]</span> ''By Mr. O'Connor''— Can you state what time the special train arrived at Glenrowan?— I had a watch and I looked at it just then, it was ...d="rc7518">[[#rc7518|7518]]</span> When we came out of the train, when the train pulled up at the platform, do you remember seeing Mr. Hare on the platform?
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  • ...great contract with the police—I have shot a lot of them, and I expect a train from Benalla with a lot of police and black-fellows, and I am going to kill ...</span> Why did you say that?— Because I thought if only one was off the train would jump it and go on safely.
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  • ...[[#rc7623|7623]]</span> What o'clock was that?— About an hour before the train came with the police. ...her man can see in written form.” Byrne came in then and he said, “The train is coming.” That stopped all the discourse. They turned into the back roo
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  • ...6]]</span> What time did it take to put this armour on when they heard the train was coming?— About twenty minutes, I suppose. <span id="rc7758">[[#rc7758|7758]]</span> Did you expect the train to pass without stopping at Glenrowan?— I was afraid it would.
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  • ...a great contract with the police-I have shot a lot of them, and I expect a train from Benalla with a lot of police and black-fellows, and I am going to kill ...ne and later in Jones's Inn. This included the following, 'Just before the train arrived Dan Kelly said, &quot;Now you can all go home,&quot; and Reardon st
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  • ...id="rc7774_7356">[[#rc7774_7356|7774.7356]]</span> You do not know how the train came to be stopped?— No, I do not. ...igne|Gascoigne]] and [[Const W Phillips|Phillips]] ; and we went from this train to the pilot engine, which was perhaps a quarter of a mile ahead, and got i
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  • ...away then, after he was wounded. The only orders he gave to me were in the train, and the general order to the men when he was on the field.
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  • ...der from Mr. [[Hare|Hare]] before reaching [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]], in the train, and another order from Senior-Constable [[SConst P Mullane|Mullane]] when ...everyone else that was given to you?— There were but three of us in the train, and the three heard it.
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  • ...fficer, or your superior officer of any grade, come round to you after the train with Mr. Sadleir arrived with any orders or instructions?— No, I think no
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  • ...tandish]], and also Mr. [[Nicolson|Nicolson]]. He was going up in the same train. We arrived at Benalla about eight o'clock I think. The three constables wi
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  • ...tables also came in from the ranges. We were ordered—there was a special train got ready, and Mr. [[Nicolson|Nicolson]], Captain [[Standish|Standish]], an
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  • ...st Arthur|Arthur]], and [[Const W Phillips|Phillips]]. We went down to the train about half-past one. ...034]]</span> With horses ready and everything?— And a [[Railways|special train]] from Melbourne came with Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and five trackers, and
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  • ...two who had their arms in their hands. I was getting the horses out of the train. We all rushed down.
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  • ...the back door. I ran down to meet Mr.[[Sadleir|Sadleir]] when I heard the train coming in, and he was standing upon the platform when I went down. ...rear of the house, you then went to meet the train?— I went to meet the train.
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  • .../span> Did you visit him at all between Mr. [[Hare|Hare's]] leaving by the train for Benalla, after his second return to the railway station, at the time yo
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  • ...during the whole time that elapsed between the leaving of Mr. Hare in the train, and the taking charge of Mr. Sadleir?— Yes, I went round.
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  • ...ested we should go where we thought we should meet him, as he was going by train. <span id="rc8634">[[#rc8634|8634]]</span> He went away in the train?— He went away, and I did not see him till after the Glenrowan affair.
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  • <span id="rc8679">[[#rc8679|8679]]</span> You stated that the special train arrived at Benalla about half-past one a.m. from Melbourne, and brought me
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  • ...Yes; I remember we had all the horses in trucks just before the [[Railways|train]] came up. ...ation–upon the train stopping did not you see a porter walking up to the train, or a guard, carrying a lamp?— Yes, I think so. I spoke to [[McPhee|Archi
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