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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 17 page 1
  ...used in correspondence with him, in his assumed character as an inspector of stock wrote as follows: ...you for news how to proceed on a day which I shall then state, before end of the week. Other animals are, I fear, diseased. Yours faithfully, B C W.’
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 17 page 2
  ...ncealment in the house of Aaron Sherritt, who had been recently married to a Beechworth girl and was living with his wife at his old quarters in the gul ...utting in a good word for Mr Nicolson who had begged to retain the command a little longer. Mr Hare’s protests had no effect. Captain Standish and Mr
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 17 page 3
  Mr [[Sadleir|Sadlier]], in spite of his disapproval of the change, supported Mr Hare loyally. Mr [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and his t ...tter in future, and promised to give his most loyal endeavours to the work of betraying his former associates to death.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 17 page 4
  ...only just dark when the inmates of the house heard footsteps outside, and a knock at the door followed. Aaron asked who was there, and Wicks answered h ...oor, asking again, ‘Who is that?’ and seeing it was really Wicks, said a word or two jokingly, before beginning to direct him to his home.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 17 page 5
  ...fired several shots into the house, by way of encouragement, but still the police did not stir, and still the women who ran backwards and forwards, and were ...ying that they would shoot her daughter, and they fired no more, but spoke of setting alight to the house and actually tried to do so, placing brushwood
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 1
  ...ht they need no come at all. Thereupon matters were expedited a little and a special train, with Mr O’Connor, some lady relatives, his black trackers ...vengeance from the men he had betrayed, but to Mr Hare he had always been a faithful and active assistant, and with all his faults he seems to have won
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 2
  ...sent up. He even seems to have calculated on Mr Hare asking for the return of the black trackers, for they were the men on whom he specially wanted to wr ...if he did not do it, and do it quickly. Kelly wanted four rails’ lengths of the line broken, but Reardon assured him that one length was as good as twe
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 3
  ...ster, Mr Stanistreet, which had been used as a place of detention for some of the women. Curnow assured Kelly that there was no need to distrust him as h ...en no one was looking of picking it up and slipping it into his boot, with a view to making his escape.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 4
  ...a subject on which he had talked seriously to McIntyre on the day of the police murders nearly two years before. ...paring to do battle with any of the police who might escape from the wreck of the train
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 19 page 1
  ...xultation of knowing that his resource and courage had saved the occupants of the special from almost certain death. ...y of the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 19 page 2
  ...ed out of Benalla, the pilot engine 150 yards in front carrying one or two of Mr Hare’s men armed and watchful. ...with his gun in readiness, jumped down from his carriage and met the guard of the pilot engine approaching him. The signaller, he told Mr Hare, had gone,
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 19 page 3
  ...ing them to the stationmaster, and made arrangements for reinforcements of police being sent forward to Glenrowan. ...y of the original. We have taken care to reproduce this document but areas of the original text may been damaged. We also apologise for any typographical
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 19 page 4
  ...ted throughout with pluck and judgment, and not long after telling Mr Hare of the Kelly’s presence he galloped away to Wangaratta to bring back further ...y]], and very much at their own sweet will, throughout the remaining hours of darkness, they continued energetically to pour lead into the hotel.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 20 page 1
  ...absence from foolish rashness is the only commendable quality of which the police gave evidence that day, and this was shown to such as strikingly unheroic d ...n of himself, not a man of his force was wounded by the first volleys, and a determined rush upon the house would have secured it, putting an end one co
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 20 page 2
  ...f the fire which met them as they sallied into the open and approached the police lines. ...ce, he showed more manly spirit. According to Mrs Reardon, he spoke to her a little before she left the house for the second time. ‘If you escape’,
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 20 page 3
  ...te have made a bolt for liberty, and at any rate would have shot down some of their assailants; but encased in iron they could scarcely move and could no ...presently stripped of his armour and carried to the railway station where a doctor attended to his wounds.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 20 page 4
  ...pouring volleys into the hotel and shooting the outlaws without danger to police and private citizens. ...ending the construction of a great wooden shield, under cover of which the police might approach the hotel in safety.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 20 page 5
  ...was quite capable of deliberately remaining with her brother and taking up a rifle to assist the defenders. ...tel, while later, in the Wangaratta hospital, Mrs Jones’ little boy died of his wounds.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 21 page 1
  CHAPTER XXI THE LAST OF THE BUSHRANGERS ...Kelly|Ned Kelly]] lived the gang and their exploits were a constant topic of thought and conversation all through the country.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 21 page 2
  ...udges against the law, while others merely felt involuntary compassion for a man helpless and fallen, ruffian though they recognised him to be. ...elly outbreak, questioned the payment of four guineas for the treatment of a black tracker wounded in the head at Glenrowan.
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