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  • The people here cannot understand why all the police and the head-quarters are at Bena ...on, that they should manage to clear out the bank and make prisoners of 14 people, and drive them through the town ship into the bush is almost beyond belief
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  • ...ror. They bolted as hard as they could run, making in the direction of the railway, with the view of stopping the train going to Euroa, and to be carried out All sorts of rumours are afloat here about the Kelly gang. Most people expect them every day. Several suspicious looking characters have been seen
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  • ...e towns, and not bind them down too closely to Melbourne instructions. The people here have a better idea how to act than can possibly be had by the staff in ...g in a jocular manner. Whilst driving out of the town, they met numbers of people, the town being exceptionally full, owing to a funeral, and to its being li
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  • ...as he was going to the station for maintenance. They also imprisoned four railway repairers who came to work near there. They decamped about 9 last night lea ...ank at Euroa is in town and has been interviewed. The bank is close to the railway station,and is only divided from the other buildings in the main street of
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  • ...on, that they should manage to clear out the bank and make prisoners of 14 people, and drive them through the [[Euroa|township]] into the bush is almost beyo
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  • ...e towns, and not bind them down too closely to Melbourne instructions. The people here have a better idea how to act than can possibly be had by the staff in ...bank is situated in the busiest part of [[Euroa|town]], 50 yards from the railway station, and 20 [[Charles De Boos' Seven Creeks hotel|Mr C L]]
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  • ...ers they expected to take, only to find the whole was a hoax. When the old people were awakened they were astonished to learn what had brought the troopers o ...een placed at different stations along the line, while a great many of the railway employés carry arms, and may be seen utilising their spare time by practic
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  • ...ssue, and closed for two or three days, until further notice. The business people are greatly distressed for want of circulating medium.” With reference to ...akes a number of horrible threats, the principle, of which are against the Railway department, and declares that he will carry them but if justice is not done
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  • ...d it not been that there were some dead horses lying there, which deterred people from visiting the spot. Detective Wilson is of opinion that there is no con
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  • ...ed in any other country, justice was both delayed and denied to these men. People might talk about popes and priests, and tyrants, but what could be more mon ...remand the accused. He had undertaken to perform Mr Foster’s duty on the railway line, and wished to know to what day it would suit the lawyers engaged for
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  • ...t nearly across, and see that the road is clear. This whistling is to warn people about to cross to wait till the train has gone over, as no horse could stan ...huca on Thursday, 20th, and found the new bridge quite fit for opening for railway traffic. As the temporary bridge had become very shaky, not positively dang
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  • ...law to spend a day with him at his country seat Footscray election. A free railway pass came by return post, which secured civility from the guard, and took m ...g of building a brick house and taking out a license to sell grog, so many people pass this way now.”
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  • ...s Hall, [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta,]] this evening. There were close upon 200 people present and Mr Wm Orr, the mayor of the borough, occupied the chair. The pr ...eral legislation there should be some definite term when the wishes of the people of the country should by carried out in spite of the opinions of the Upper
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  • ...employment, but they also pointed out that while he was working for other people he could not be doing much to improve his own land. For all that, he was pr ...ksmith's shop constitute an average township. On the Murray, and along the railway, the villages may contain a number of houses, but in the midst of the selec
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  • ...ding to the latest telegram, to fire upon the police. The hotel is full of people, who have been rounded up and driven into it by the outlaws, who seem to ha Subsequently Captain Standish received another telegram stating that the people of the township who were bailed up in the hotel by the outlawed gang have b
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  • ...he Glenrowan railway station. It is said that Byrne shot the publican. The people who were detained in the hotel by the gang have since been released. Dan Ke
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  • ...are frightened to come out for fear the police will kill them. Amongst the people who are in there are:— James and Michael [[Reardon|Reardon]], my husband
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  • ...SConst John Kelly|Senior constable Kelly]], with Mr [[Dowsett|Dowsett]] (a railway guard), fired on the ruffian. The contest became one which, from its remark ...pped of his armour, and then became quite submissive, and was borne to the railway station by Sergeant Steele, Constable Dwyer, and two representatives of the
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  • ...em to advance towards where they were located, but many of the unfortunate people were so terror stricken that they ran hither and thither screaming for merc ...hizers. They were accordingly handcuffed, and taken with the others to the railway station. Young Reardon, who with his father had been confined in the hotel,
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  • ...has been most tragic of any in the bushranging annals of the colony. Most people will say that it is high time too, for the murders of the police near Mansf ...equence of the smoke. In a few minutes Superintendent Hare returned to the railway station with a shattered wrist. The first shot fired by the gang had passed
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