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  • Horse stealing was like taking a sports car for a spin today. The sport of young ...changing, and altering of brands, that unless the owner drops upon his own horse, no person can know it by description. They are so clever at altering the b
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  • ...'''KellyGang''' found fame and fortune and where their friends indulged in horse stealing and tried to make a life against the challenges of the squatters a
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  • ...bushrangers and a record of their most eventful career of highway robbery, horse stealing, romance and murder
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  • ...e on boys” and he and the police made a rush for the hotel. I let go the horse I was holding and followed them over. I would be about twenty yards behind
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  • ...erally known in the township that they were in search of the Kellys, whose horse stealing exploits, and the alleged attempted murder of a certain Constable ...e, no Australian bushman ever thinks of walking where it is possible for a horse to get foothold, or scramble through the trees. Wattle and sassafras scrub
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  • ...ined he too would be murdered, quick as thought he leapt on to Kennedy’s horse and gal-loped away through thick scrub. ...n his horse fell heavily. He mounted again and rode on for a time till his horse gave in; when, believing him to be wounded, the constable took of saddle an
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  • ...hing a glimpse of some stranger near the Broken River, immediately let his horse go and concealed himself, believing that he was pursued by the bushrangers.
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  • ...d together, and slung like packs, one on either side a horse’s back. The horse chosen to carry this burden seemed to have some instinctive horror of trave
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  • ...rt limbs bruised and disfigured by the trees and bushes, against which the horse bumped them as he forced his way through the forest.
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  • ...the body, and, like those of his unfortunate comrades, it was slung upon a horse for conveyance through the bush to the saw mills, whence a vehicle took it
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  • ...idden himself away until, later, he was shot dead, while going to seek his horse at Peechelba, a station he had stuck up upon the New South Wales border.
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  • ...communication with one another, and effected many captures of adventurous horse and cattle stealers. Until the whole of the professional ‘duffing’ popu
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  • ...[[Joe Byrne|Joe Byrne]], the fourth, had also both been known as cattle or horse stealers, but enjoyed by no means so evil a notoriety as the Kellys. At the
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  • ...mily who happened to be in trouble at the time, were wanted on a charge of horse stealing. The warrant was not in his possession, but that circumstance was ...ion’s companion, Fitzpatrick naturally did not believe, and studying the horse attentively, he recognized it. ‘Why, that is Dan Kelly’s mare,’ he sa
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  • [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] said he would, and, tying up his horse, went in to join the party, where he was welcomed with abuse by Mrs Kelly, ...depart, keeping him in the hut till eleven o’clock, when he mounted his horse and rode away through [[Winton|Winton]] to [[Benalla Police Station|Benalla
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  • ...]], on the [[Murray Flats|Murray Flats]]. Baumgarten had been convicted of horse stealing, and was a known associate of the bushrangers, who had often visit
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  • ...or provide him with firearms or any other weapon or with ammunition or any horse equipment or other assistance or directly or indirectly give or cause to be
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  • ...d by his men, the police officer charged the house, flung himself from his horse at the door and broke it in. One of his party, Constable [[Const Hugh Brack
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  • ...of Joe Byrne, and had been engaged in several [[Horse and Cattle stealing|horse stealing]] exploits with him and the Kellys, besides which it was pretty ce
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  • ...Wangaratta. It came upon the outlaws’ tracks, recovered Kennedy’s pack horse, which they had abandoned, and then, by his orders, returned to Wangaratta.
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  • ...were ever really very close upon the Kellys. An examination of Kennedy’s horse led him to the conclusion that it had been abandoned for about a week. ...ding the party into marshy ground, where there were thousands of prints of horse and cattle hoofs and it was quite out of the question to follow any individ
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