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  • ...[Lyving|Living]] kept his word; and the production—a bombastic eulogy of Kelly’s prowess, with tirades against the police and some account of the murder ...ey had all the time under the revolver muzzles of one or more of them. Ned Kelly walked about the town and entered another hotel where there were several pe
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  • == CHAPTER XIV - THE CAMP MRS BYRNE’S == ...age bush farmer’s conscience, and even with regard to the police murders Kelly had succeeded to some extent in fostering a belief that the constables were
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  • ...them. [[Aaron Sherritt|Sherritt]] believed that the whole gang would be at Mrs Byrne’s on the following night and he asked Mr Hare to bring men to watch
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  • ...the intelligence with which the ambush was conducted. Some five days after Mrs Byrne caught sight of the police Mr Hare came to the conclusion that it was ...the outlaws possessed the same iron constitutions. According to Aaron, Ned Kelly had twice his physical powers in every way, but he considered himself a bet
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  • ...ny]], [[Jimmy|Jimmy]], [[Barney|Barney]], and [[Jacky|Jack]]. Early in the Kelly campaign the Queensland authorities had offered the services of some of the
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  • ...t proposed a little scheme. The outlaws, he said, would be sure to come to Mrs Byrne’s, and Joe Byrne would be leading a pack horse with the treasure st
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  • ...beaten thus, and promptly put muzzles on their dogs. On one occasion Kate Kelly was seen riding away with a large bundle on the saddle to her cousin [[Tom
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  • ...love to [[Kate Kelly|Kate Kelly]]. She was well disposed towards him; but Mrs Skillion, who was keener sighted, strongly objected to her sister having an ...Day was just breaking as they climbed the hill, and at the top they found Mrs Skillion, sitting on a log waiting for them. She saluted the police by putt
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  • ...finding the agent who was working in a paddock near by. On hearing of Dan Kelly’s visit he hid himself until dark, and then rode into Beechworth and told ...rom the New South Wales police at Jerilderie. The train in which Lloyd and Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]] travelled was on one occasion searched, but
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  • ...er. In February Mr Nicolson had learnt of the theft of plough shares and [[Kelly's Armour|mould boards]] from several farms in the neighbourhood of Oxley, a
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  • ...n disorderly conduct. He also paid a visit to [[Anne and John Sherritt Snr|Mrs Sherritt]], from whom he learnt that she had lately seen Joe Byrne, and tha On June I Mr [[Nicolson|Nicolson’s]] connection with the Kelly pursuit finally ceased, Mr [[Hare|Hare]] coming up to Benalla to take over
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  • ...whom he had been long acquainted. [[Joe Byrne|Byrne]] and [[Dan Kelly|Dan Kelly]], who was his companion, bailed up Anton Wicks, and, putting handcuffs upo
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  • ...no ordinary trains would be passing along the line for many hours, and Ned Kelly felt sure that on the news of Sherritt’s murder being wired to Melbourne ...d to tickle him up with a revolver if he did not do it, and do it quickly. Kelly wanted four rails’ lengths of the line broken, but Reardon assured him th
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  • ...o need to distrust him as he was with the outlaws heart and soul, to which Kelly replied, ‘Yes; I know that, and I can see it.’ ...e not been ill in bed all day Kelly would not have captured him so easily. Kelly then told Curnow he might drive home, directing him to go to bed, and warni
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  • ...lenrowan Inn|Mrs Jones]] interfered, saying that before they departed, Ned Kelly wished to give them a lecture. The prisoners waited respectfully, and Ned, .... Byrne came in from the back room, saying, ‘The train is coming.’ Ned Kelly went out to join the others; Bracken seized the opportunity to escape, lock
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  • ...d see the train go to destruction. His sister, who thought as he did, took Mrs Curnow to her room, assuring her that her husband was likewise going presen
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  • ...oughout 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 aid. ...ed to anybody for direction looked to [[SConst John Kelly|Senior-Constable Kelly]], and very much at their own sweet will, throughout the remaining hours of
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  • ...d their own. Only a few minutes before, a man whom they believed to be Ned Kelly had come to the house; but it proved to be a stranger just arrived in Glenr ...st have cursed the impulse which had made her detain the prisoners for Ned Kelly’s interrupted lecture. Now, she turned upon them fiercely, denouncing the
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  • ...spite of the answer, ‘Women and children,’ the shots still continued. Mrs Jones’ little boy was taken out by a man who carried him in his arms. [[J ...ere at least, to do him justice, he showed more manly spirit. According to Mrs Reardon, he spoke to her a little before she left the house for the second
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  • ...t in the house would have put fresh difficulties in the way of the attack. Mrs Skillion, indeed, was quite capable of deliberately remaining with her brot ...after his removal from the hotel, while later, in the Wangaratta hospital, Mrs Jones’ little boy died of his wounds.
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