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• Archibald M'Phee's report 18/12/1880
  ...said he could not as he had his wife to protect and that he was running a great risk of his life (this conversation did not last two minutes. I then went a ...out twenty yards behind the police when the firing commenced and having no fire arm on me at the time. I though that the position I was in rather unsafe an
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter I page 2
  ...sed, and the whereabout of his mates. The other men took the billy off the fire and invited their prisoner to smoke and take tea with them, while Ned Kelly ...d a grievance, and that if he had been, they would have roasted him on the fire. Constable Fitzpatrick he alleged to be the cause of the present trouble. H
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter I page 3
  ...disregarded it and showed fight; but he, too, fell wounded before he could fire his revolver, and dropped upon his knees. ...had occurred. The notes, which were evidently written under the strain of great fatigue and excitement, M’Intyre had some vague notion might be discovere
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 6
  ...nt a most uncomfortable time, for Dan Kelly and Hart were quite anxious to fire into them for the offence of interceding for Rankin, and Ned Kelly declared
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 15 page 6
  ...outlaws, and cheerfully submitted to resting on the bare ground without a fire - an experience in the frosty highlands by no means pleasant but by this ti ...ending days and even weeks at a time in the bush, without the comfort of a fire on freezing nights when the mercury was down in the twenties.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 20 page 4
  ...ings. Firing upon the building still continued, but the order was given to fire high, which it was supposed would prevent the outlaws leaving the house or ...onfires to light up the scene, and also recommending the construction of a great wooden shield, under cover of which the police might approach the hotel in
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• Cookson, 27 08 1911 4
  ...t of the children, and gazing with unseeing eyes into the blaze of the big fire, what time the visitors warm themselves pleasantly and discuss many uninter ...life, as she tells it, is fragmentary and incomplete. There is such a very great deal that she could not remember, she explained.
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• Cookson, 31 08 1911 1
  ...et marks on it. He was not sure whether the marks were caused by the rifle fire at Glenrowan on the night of the capture, or by the bushrangers practicing
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• Cookson, 01 09 1911 1
  ...ged pilgrim is passing. If she would but exorcise the thing with wholesome fire, and brush the matted silvered locks cleanly from the forehead, she might l
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• Cookson, 06 09 1911 1
  ...reasons. They had been compelled to kill men for whom courage they had had great respect, and they had done that which would throw the whole of the force of ...ible contingencies. He not only divided his party, but allowed M'Intyre to fire off his rifle at some birds, thus attracting the Kellys to the spot. The pa
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• Cookson, 11 09 1911 1
  ...Kelly searched the tent. Having got the firearms, Ned Kelly said it was a great pity that Lonergan had tried to get away. One of the other men replied, 'Ye
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• Cookson, 21 09 1911 2
  “You stop there, I’ll light the fire, and get some tucker.” ...y much. It was very evident from the bushranger’s manner that he reposed great confidence in me. As we partook of our food he became still more communicat
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 1 page 1
  ...cers engaged in the search, and interested persons kept adding fuel to the fire. In writing this account of the capture and destruction of the Last of the ...e. And outside their own families the sympathy they obtained was almost as great, though it was of a more meretricious order. The gang was lavish with its m
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 2 page 3
  ...deceased procured a coffin, and Jemmy being a favourite in the district, a great number of sorrowing and sympathetic persons followed the remains to the gra ...the body of the deceased lying there! He had evidently, on perceiving the fire, gone down to enure his money hidden there, and got suffocated by the smoke
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 2 page 4
  ...out and saw men tearing up mattresses, and feathers being thrown into the fire, and all the furniture being broken up and burnt. About this time a large f ...no diggers working on the river, so we went back, considering we had run a great risk to no purpose.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 3 page 2
  ...stead with a sheep skin as covering, the clerk and black fellow before the fire on the floor. ...f the fowl but it was the poorest creature four men ever dined off. We had great difficulty with our horses, they were tired, cold, and hungry, as they had
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 3 page 3
  ...d hardly closed his eyes all night. At daylight, he got up and lighted his fire, and put on a "billy" of water to boil, and while waiting had lai ...saw six or eight men standing at the door, and the dogs were barking at a great rate, and the peacock shrieking. My brother officer went in advance with Po
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 4 page 3
  ...trigger; consequently, the gun went of. We all recognized that there was a great risk in shooting with our friend, and were glad that he decided to put away ...iters on, and bandages round his wrists and neck. He was groaning as if in great pain.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 3
  ...his horse, and getting the animal between him and the bushrangers, opened fire upon them. The horse bolted and passed close by M'Intyre, who vaulted on it ...ter. He said Ned Kelly told him that he made both Joe Byrne and Steve Hart fire into Kennedy whilst he was lying wounded, as neither of them had shot eithe
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 4
  ...eastern district, and were well adapted for the purpose, and the men felt great confidence in using them. Each of these breech loading shot guns cost the G ...g they started to attack the camp. Their chief aim was to secure some good fire arms and horses, and they were under the impression that all they would hav
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