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== Importance of Mr Henry Betteley Jefferson ==
The post master and Telegraph operator at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]]
== Links to the KellyGang ==
'''[[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]] Robbery 10/2/[[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|1879]]''' After the '''[[KellyGang|KellyGang]]''' had finished robbing the bank they turned their attention on the telegraph lines.
After having lunch at the nearby Travellers Rest Hotel I returned to the Post and Telegraph Office to find [[Joe Byrne|Joe Byrne]] waiting for me. He was guarding my apprentice 14 year old '''James Ewan [[Rankin|Rankin]]''' . Shortly after, [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] arrived. He smashed the insulators holding the telegraph wires with the butt of his pistol and took all my staff away from the Post Office and down the the [[Royal Mail Hotel|Royal Hotel]] with the other prisoners. ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (40)|JJK]])
Joe [[Joe Byrne|Byrne]] then set about reading all the telegrams to make sure that we had not been sending messages about them. While this was going on Ned [[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] broke all the wires and destroyed the insulators.
After all this intimidation I was warned by Ned [[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] to try and communicate with the outside world for at least a day. I was also told that they intended to take me out in the bush and dump me but the '''Kel''' '''lyGang''' did not follow up on that threat in the end.
Ned Kelly and Joe Byrne then escorted young Rankin and I across to the Royal Mail Hotel, and from there to the police barracks. We were locked up with SConst [[Devine|Devine]] and Const [[Const Richards|Richards]]. On our release I repaired the telegraph lines.
I was not prepared to bow to these fellows and managed to get a message out after they left town. It appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and many other papers next morning. The message was
<blockquote>"The '''[[KellyGang|KellyGang]]''' stuck up the office here to-day at 9 o'clock, cut the office connections and cut down seven poles. My assistant and I were covered by revolvers and were marched to the lock up, which the gang had stuck up. We were there locked up together with two constables. We were released at 7 pm and told not to touch the wire till morning, but I have done so and fixed a wire along the fence. They stuck up the Bank of new South Wales. Have just heard (9pm) that they are in the township again"
</blockquote>
Trooper [[Const Richards|Richards]], the schoolmaster William [[William Elliott|Elliott]], young [[Rankin|Rankin]] and I barricaded ourselves in the post office with firearms in readiness. We were ready if the '''KellyGang''' returned to hold up the mail coach when it arrived later that evening.
In the event '''KellyGang''' went on their way south to re-cross the Murray River into Victoria.
See also ([[The Argus at KellyGang 11/2/1879|Argus11/2/79]]) ([[The Argus at KellyGang 13/2/1879 (2)|Argus13/2/79]])([[The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 15/2/1879|Alexandra15/2/1879]]) ([[The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 7 page 4|FH]]) ([[The True of Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 8|CHC]])
On Tuesday morning Sir Henry Parkes (Colonial Secretary) and Mr Saul Samuel (PMG) instructing me to go to Albury for my safety. I objected but in the end I was sent to Deniliquin. Mr Peter Dunne replaced me for about 5 months.([[Cookson, 07_09_1911_1|BWC]])
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== Early Service ==
== Later Service ==
After this events in Jerilderie I married Sophie Gun, a river boat captains daughter and had several children through the 1880s. I continued in the Post Office finally reaching the posting of Post Master in Newcastle, at that time the second largest Post Office in the state.
I died in Ashfield NSW in 1926 where I had lived much of my retirement. ([[Sydney Morning Herald (10)|SMH11/3/1926]])
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== Family ==
'''wife''' Sophie Gun. '''children ?.... home ?..'''
== What happened to the Jefferson's family ==
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