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  • | Threat of another out break
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  • ...the large household from the bank. Mr Scott refused, saying his groom was out, and telling Kelly if he wanted the trap, to harness the horse himself. Thi ...orses in Kelly’s vehicle fell, and a halt was made while the outlaws got out to put the horse on his feet and see to the harness, but without any other
    5 KB (834 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...by mountains. After riding for some time Aaron Sherritt halted and pointed out a glimmer of firelight through the trees. It was the bushrangers, he said.
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  • ...Curnow’s) brother in law, Dave Mortimer, to the barracks to call Bracken out, since the constable would know his voice and come unsuspectingly into the ...f [[Joe Byrne|Joe Byrne]], and it was nearly an hour later when Kelly came out again with Bracken and the others, leading Bracken’s horse. He order the
    6 KB (1,009 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...im had his waggon team, so he harnessed up his horses straight off and set out for Forbes. It was 400 miles away. He got there in six days, and was home a
    5 KB (924 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...lways the driver put his hands up and kept them there, whilst Power turned out the passengers and made them empty their pockets on to the ground. This don ...r asleep in a rude shelter, with his feet projecting. He was rudely hauled out and handcuffed.
    6 KB (1,042 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...y 11 years old, and Dan only 4. The mother was left with a large family to look after. And the family lived in a district that is scarcely less desolate no ...sheep. The result was a sentence of six months in gaol for Byrne. He came out a sworn enemy to the society that had punished him so severely for a crime
    5 KB (902 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...mpathisers. It is quite possible you will meet the Kellys themselves while out at the back of the run. Whatever your sentiments are, don't think too loud.
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  • ...get out of the coach, and stand on the road, and turn their pockets inside out, letting the contents fall on the ground; Power himself keeping them all at ...man, and knew every gap and hiding-place in the mountains. The police were out after him day and night for eighteen months, and no money nor trouble was s
    6 KB (1,150 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...ion hands, with one day's rations, as we expected to be in the vicinity of Power's whereabouts some time next day. We found our guide was a very bad bushman a ...good deal of caution Quinn consented to one of his associates taking L- to Power's hiding-place in the mountains.
    10 KB (1,856 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...this time my brother officer and self had our work to do, endeavouring to look after and quiet L—, who did nothing but cry, and try to escape from us. I ...pass there." The clerk put a pair of handcuffs on Power, then went to look after the horse. Power, meanwhile, dressed himself, and told us he had a pr
    7 KB (1,280 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...ot; The drayman still remained obdurate, and Power then said to him, "Look here my good man, you see the position I am in; if I allow you to pass with ...the post office, where a large crowd awaited his arrival. He put his head out of the coach window and took off his hat to the people, and then, when the
    8 KB (1,463 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...ntinue carrying out his plans. The press throughout the colony was calling out about the disgraceful conduct of the police in not capturing the offenders. ...dependent of all control, and anything you do the Government will bear you out in." I told Mr Ramsay that I felt very much flattered at the confidenc
    4 KB (675 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...whispered command. When I saw Kelly level his ride, I told my party to get out of the buggy, which they did, and I advanced to my horse's head, for I thou ...t on the road by spies, and that, even if I succeeded, we should be hunted out and shot.
    9 KB (1,703 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...ter the apparatus arrived on the ground to get it fairly at work. To carry out the same idea, however, Mr Ramsay telegraphed suggesting that large bonfire
    5 KB (856 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...Fitzpatrick was not fit to be in the police force and could not be trusted out of sight. and on whose unsupported evidence three innocent persons, Mrs Kel ...with the police at Stringybark Creek, he found meat in a cask and threw it out on the ground floor; but no one was arrested or charged "having meat i
    7 KB (1,244 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...o twelve miles to Benalla for it. But, continued Ned, I did pull Ben Gould out of the bog, and brought him back to you. ...all appeared to be existing in poverty and squalor. She said her sons were out at work, but did not indicate where, and that their relatives seldom came n
    7 KB (1,170 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...fied now that he had beaten the four policemen and the bootmaker, Ned held out his hands to Mr Mclnnes, and invited him to put the handcuffs on him.
    6 KB (951 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...e if the arrangements proposed by the Superintendent were properly carried out. "It has been decided to carry out the plan proposed by me on August 10 last, but which has unavoidably been d
    8 KB (1,318 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...ed in the force by the recommendations of the Commission have been carried out.
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