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  • ...ever, was abandoned, and with all its occupants in the highest spirits the train steamed out of Benalla, the pilot engine 150 yards in front carrying one or ...light brought the pilot to a standstill, the warning whistles checked the train behind, and as soon as it stopped Mr Hare with his gun in readiness, jumped
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  • ...him, and he had to retire once more and remain upon the platform until the train was ready to convey him with the ladies back to Benalla. There, before havi
    3 KB (563 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...the address for which they waited. Then came the sound of the approaching train, and all chance of escape was gone, for, with the door locked, the outlaws
    3 KB (505 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • Feeling satisfied that the train was safe, Mr [[Thomas Curnow|Curnow]] had made all speed back to Glenrowan,
    4 KB (758 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...ith a force of artillerymen a 12 pounder Armstrong gun actually started by train for Glenrowan. The Government astronomer was asked if he could send up an e
    3 KB (550 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...s demonstration was a mere hoax which successfully deluded the people. The train in which [[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] travelled pulled up at North Melbourne, the st ...and Mr [[Hare|Hare]], wounded like Ned Kelly, were also passengers by the train which took the outlaw to Melbourne, and Mr Hare had a good reception at Spe
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  • ...the station. These were the men who were to take up the line and wreck the train that was coming up with the police from Melbourne. Kelly said to me, "
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  • ...m all. They were ripe for murder. They had determined to wreck the special train and to kill everyone who escaped death in the smash. They would surely have
    3 KB (532 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...acher, go. It was Curnow that held the red handkerchief up and stopped the train. The police said afterwards that Kelly would not have let Curnow go but for
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  • '''THE MAN WHO STOPPED THE SPECIAL TRAIN''' ...people were prisoners to frustrate them. He was successful in stopping the train, and in preventing the contemplated massacre, and was, beyond question, by
    4 KB (614 words) - 23:51, 20 November 2015
  • ...trick [[Patrick Allen|Allen]], an elderly man, attempted to board a moving train at Auburn, fell between the carriages, and was killed."
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  • ...came alarmed. Then came the move in the game - the despatch of the special train full of police and pressmen - and ladies from Melbourne to Glenrowan. ...the closing scenes in the grim tragedy. How the gang decided to wreck the train and kill the police, how this desperate purpose was frustrated by the coura
    4 KB (574 words) - 23:51, 20 November 2015
  • ...ck. Certainly it is that Kate was not interfered with in any way until the train in which she was returning reached Winton, a small place a few miles from G
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  • '''THE STOPPING OF THE TRAIN''' ...[Glenrowan|Grovenor]], "is that matter of the stopping of the special train. I do not wish to detract from the courage and resources shown by Mr [[Thom
    6 KB (1,067 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...m the burning building. Ned Kelly was brought on to Benalla by the evening train, and lodged in the lock-up, to await the inquest to be held in the morning.
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  • | THE MAN WHO STOPPED THE SPECIAL TRAIN
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  • | THE STOPPING OF THE TRAIN
    4 KB (481 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • In those days there was no train, and the journey, which now takes four hours, then took six or seven days.
    7 KB (1,336 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...given over into my charge. I started for Sandhurst , by the three o'clock train, and a ballast engine was provided for me, to convey me from Sandhurst to E
    5 KB (882 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...a stock of provisions and other necessaries, and, proceeding to Echuca by train, started off to our destination lower down the Murray. We camped the first
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