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  • ...the country towns was full of it, while there was immense activity in the police department, which despatched heavy reinforcements of constabulary to every ...istrict, cattle stealing and other minor crimes were common there, and the police were kept constantly on the alert. The popularity of cattle ‘duffing’ i
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  • ...eir relatives, the Kellys, and were also continually in collision with the police, Lloyd senior, some years before the Kelly outbreak, being imprisoned for f ...art of it, was one of the factors which enabled them so long to baffle the police.
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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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  • ...ure of the district and the people imposed a most formidable task upon the police in pursuit of the bushrangers. ...ice parties in addition to Kennedy’s were at that time absent from their stations in search of the Kellys, and considerable anxiety was felt lest they should
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  • Describing his general experience of the [[Police Search Parties|search party]] work, Mr [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] spoke as follo ...ight in the bush or the mountains, returned wearied out to their different stations.
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  • ...f the banks that there was likelihood of a raid being made upon them. More police had been applied for by Mr Sadleir and Mr Nicolson for the work of pursuing ...ay deep in the mountains, intent upon nothing but evading pursuit, and the police saw good cause to believe from such reports as reached them that the gang w
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  • ...on’s agents, and reestablished a party of [[Police at Sherritt home|four police]] in [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]]’s house. Aaron had been somewhat u ...that after nightfall the constables should go, one by one, from the police stations at Wangaratta or Glenrowan to their respective rendezvous, and keep the hou
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  • ...and in the district to any applicant who received a bad character from the police, and the knowledge that the mounted constables, by an adverse report, could Finally, new police stations were established at commanding points where mischief might be apprehended;
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  • ...e various incidents which occurred during my connection with the Victorian police, I have often been asked to give the records of them a more permanent form. ...en, who for the previous two years had set law, order, the government, and police at absolute defiance.
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  • ...de day and night before they reached their mountain retreat. They knew the police would endeavour to follow their tracks, and they had to keep on the alert. ...ot have heard of the matter until twelve o'clock at night. At daylight the police attempted to pick up the tracks of the outlaws. There were foot-prints of h
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  • ...able not to interfere with the women. During the time I and several of the police were going up every Friday night to Beechworth to apply for the remand of t ...rking at them until the women came up. It appeared as if the dogs knew the police were their natural enemies. At first I used to make one of my men in the se
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  • The men were all in great spirits. We had to cross the [[Railway Stations|railway gates]] at Glenrowan. We often found great difficulty in crossing t ...d, and a man inside called out, "Who's there ?" I replied, "Police; open the door." After a few seconds he did so. I said, "Have you
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  • ...ack of the platform call out, “Who goes there?" The reply was "Police." I saw a man getting over the back of the platform, and heard him cal ...low me to the telegraph station, as I wanted to communicate with the other stations, and get them to send some assistance.
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  • ...nd in order to do so the Government, at the suggestion of the heads of the Police Department, violated one of the most cherished principles of civilised nati ...nd upon what information.  All the responsible men in charge of different stations who had been a long time in Benalla—the detectives and officers—were al
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  • ...llys were at Urana, New South Wales, and at Rutherglen, in Victoria.  The police were very much hampered by the numerous wild reports of the imaginary appea ...bo, Troopers Hero, Johnny, Jimmy, Barney and Jack—arrived at the Benalla police barracks, which were to be their headquarters while tracking the outlaws.
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  • ...ishing the police station at Glenmore, and in reducing the strength of the stations at Stanley, Yackandandah, Tallangatta, Eldorado and Beechworth. ...hat the conduct of Captain [[Standish|Standish]], as Chief Commissioner of Police, as disclosed by the evidence brought before the Commissioners, was not cha
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  • ...ers, and the recovery of nearly all the property they took from one or two stations they "stuck-up." Those who know this really valuable public offic
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  • ...is town and neighbourhood contained 200 persons. Three hotel two stores, a police station, a butcher's shop, and a few old buildings, comprise the town. The ...Murrumbidgee with their dray and two horses, selling goods at the various stations. At most of these they took a good deal of money. One morning the brothers
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  • ...'''Macfarlane''' and '''Webster''''s station. This is one of the prettiest stations on the route. ...l, several good stores, and public houses. Robert B Mitchell, Esq., is the police-magistrate, and be is highly spoken of in his small kingdom, which also inc
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  • ...at 5 pm. The distance to Goulburn by rail is 132 miles, and the number of stations and platforms between these terminii is twenty-five. We reached [[Goulburn ...is was not so easy a task as he imagined. She took up a run and defied the police who came to the squatter's assistance. In undisturbed possession she remain
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