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  • | Return of police officers, Police Strength , Approximate Expenditure from Police Contingent | Police Memos, Statements by Const Falkiner, Mr Rawlins and Com Chomley
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  • ...ass of men with whom the police had to deal, and the fact that responsible officers well recognised the gravity of the position, long before it culminated so t ...ose scream was also a danger signal to the outlaw. It was only because the police, who were forced, by trackless scrub and flood-swollen creeks, to pass clos
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  • == CHAPTER V - POLICE PREPARATIONS == ...much of it mountainous and uninhabited country; while the total number of police charged with the duty of keeping order therein did not exceed 120.
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  • ...the affair very keenly, regarded it as a wild goose chase, and thought the police were only bringing ridicule upon themselves by the proceeding. ...the expedition, and one which created great excitement among the cordon of police surrounding the hut. Mr Nicolson’s party searched it rapidly from room to
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  • ...ut the later most of the people did not know, and conversation between the police and an inhabitant of the locality was in any case natural enough. ...ure, and her answer was, ‘He has made his bed, let him lie on it.’ The officers made use of all their persuasiveness, but entirely without effect, and they
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  • ...some source Kelly had most accurate information of the disposition of the police party, for he described how the members of it sat in a little open space wh With good black trackers the officers believed they would have had a very fair chance of bringing the matter to a
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  • ...were being provisioned and interviewed almost in sight of the police, the officers felt themselves compelled to suffer these things, and to remain more or les
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  • ...to take place, and he also sent notice to the [[NSW police|New South Wales police]]. Then, on Mr Nicolson’s return from the search expedition, the two officers, consulting together, agreed that it was most desirable to have a good watc
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  • ...y Mr Nicolson with several important details which might have affected the police officer’s judgment. The result was that to Mr Wyatt’s question, ‘Will ...o one but Mr Wyatt seemed to have an inkling of anything wrong. The police officers were on what they considered an important quest, and even had the Kellys cu
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  • ...d.’ Later on, after some scruples as to whether he should interfere with police plans, Mr Wyatt, who remained at Benalla, wired to Captain [[Standish|Stand
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  • ...eave them alone. The Scott household, in addition to the manager and other officers, consisted of Mrs Scott, seven children, and two servants, who were all in ...station Ned Kelly talked freely to Mr Scott. He told him something of the police murders, showed him Kennedy’s watch, and told him in a friendly way that
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  • ...ice, Mr Wyatt gave a guarded opinion in favour of waiting for the superior officers. If they were likely to arrive within a few hours, he considered the value ...rrival of Mr Nicolson, while Mr Wyatt went by train to Benalla to meet the police officer there and acquaint him with all the news in his possession.
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  • ...inions and wishes of Mr Hare, very readily fell in with this view, and the police party departed under the leadership of Senior Constable [[Johnston|Johnson] ...rs, who would be galloping away into the bush, with news almost before the police party had left the barracks.
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  • ...a legitimate cause of soreness and bitterness to the other leaders of the police associated with him. He, however, entered upon his new duties in the North
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  • ...ng more incensed, the prisoners more insulting and defiant, and the police officers themselves more disgusted with the false position in which they were placed
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  • ...ritt was confident that before long they would do so, and said that if the police wanted to get them they must watch the house. ...imself to other friends of the Kellys at a distance, returning to join the police in the evening.
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  • ...n the trackers, nor of the Kellys, who feared them more than all the other police in the district. ...r, Mr Sadlier, Captain Standish and Mr Hare all lived in unity together at police head quarters in Benalla, but before Mr O’Connor had been very long in th
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  • ...ndish, as has been mentioned, had a low opinion of the usefulness of the [[Police Tactics|trackers]] under Mr O’Connor’s command, and one evening, when v ...urally felt very much aggrieved by this rebuff, as up to this time all the officers had treated one another confidentially, whereas afterwards bitterness and j
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  • ...vented full use being made of the services of the trackers, and by all the officers under him, including even Mr Hare who showed no want of gratitude for the f
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  • ...so Mr O’Connor; and when Mr Nicolson went back to the district the three officers gave each other their confidence and help in a manner forming a refreshing
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