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  • ...ber by young Sherritt was a threatening letter to Detective Ward and other police, warning them of mischief to happen before the end of the month, and at the
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  • ...ious letters and putting up in different places certain caricatures of the police, and also mentioned that he and Ned were discussing rival plans for stickin ...party and another more modern make of rifle taken from the New South Wales police at Jerilderie. The train in which Lloyd and Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillio
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  • ...t to catch the outlaws in that neighbourhood, and arranged that a party of police should be sent to live in concealment in the house of Aaron Sherritt, who h ...pressed himself in such an unfortunate manner that to some of these senior officers it appeared that he was casting a slur upon their courage, and suggesting u
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  • ...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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  • ...things being ready, under cover of a heavy fire upon the windows from the police, Johnston ran forward and fired the building. In a very few minutes the pla ...y gang could trouble Victoria no more, and congratulatory telegrams to the officers concerned and to the Victorian Government flashed over the wires one after
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  • ...n with the iron helmet when it was struck by the numerous bullets from the police rifles, which flattened themselves against it. As the bushranger was carrie ...W J (then Mr) Clarke and his wife, who drove him in their carriage to the police depot at Richmond. For weeks afterwards Mr Hare’s wound was attended to b
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  • ...e sympathy by representing himself and his family as the victims of wicked police oppression, which had forced him, against his will, to adopt a career of ro ...nd, in fact, though the Commissioners had a word of praise for most of the officers upon some points, blame was far more Freely bestowed than praise in their r
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  • ...nd-and a very important part-is enclosed for the purposes of a yard to the police station. There is a gully running through one corner of this yard, and in t ...re in the belief that his heavy armour was invulnerable, fired away at the police so coolly that they might be excused for as they did, thinking that it was
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  • '''POLICE AGAIN PARALYSED''' ...hy rather than that of a general epidemic of fright and pusillanimity. The police authorities were beside themselves.
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  • ...in large towns could not have any idea of the tyrannical conduct of police officers in remote country districts - could not have any notion of the harshness, o
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  • ...eman all over. And it was in this disguise that he managed to fool all the police with whom he came in contact in the city and to enjoy a real good time in s ...e vastly interested the police, but she was not communicative. None of the officers knew her, and the man in charge asked her if she were not afraid to be ridi
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  • ...e various incidents which occurred during my connection with the Victorian police, I have often been asked to give the records of them a more permanent form. ...Kelly gang, unpleasant feelings and jealousies sprang up between different officers engaged in the search, and interested persons kept adding fuel to the fire.
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  • ...the furniture being broken up and burnt. About this time a large force of police had been sent to my assistance, and I was in some measure able to restore o ...as known about the head of the river—so we arranged to take four mounted police, and go in search of diggers who were mining without licences. We followed
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  • ...existed at the head quarters of the district, where there were a number of officers stationed. ...Hare]] [[Category:December 1802]] [[Category:Recollections of a Victorian Police Office]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:book]] [[Cat
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  • ...dinner was over, was so drunk he could not bring the coffee in. One of the officers undertook to find out where he got his liquor from, an~ soon ascertained th == Relations between the police officers ==
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  • ...self was discovered, but he had disappeared. Info rmation was given to the police, and every effort was made to find him, but without success. Power at once ...ble was spared to effect his capture, many of the best bushmen amongst the police being selected from all parts of the colony, and sent into the district he
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  • ...h in horses and money, for any information concerning the movements of the police, but the temptation of getting the reward of £500 was too much for him, so ...eatly excited at the prospect of securing Power, as he had baffled so many officers and men for the last eighteen months. At twelve o'clock we mounted our hors
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  • ...followed up still further into the [[Warby Ranges|Warby Ranges]], and the police found liennedy's horse, which the outlaws had abandoned. The animal was kno ...ne and all. Their whole aim and object was to fall in with the Kellys. The officers had a most trying time. They had to decide between false and deceiving repo
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  • ...aken to protect the banks, and all kinds of weapons were supplied to their officers. It was feared that they would stick up one of these institutions, and Euro ...g conversation, and he told the bank manager all about the shooting of the police at the Wombat, and showed him the gold presentation watch he had taken from
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  • ...able not to interfere with the women. During the time I and several of the police were going up every Friday night to Beechworth to apply for the remand of t ...interfered with by the Kellys. I remember distinctly saying to my brother officers, "Well, whatever happens, we shall be in the thick of it, so they cann
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