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  • ...e spies proclaimed their great faith in Mr Nicolson’s ability to capture the outlaws. ...son should remain at the Benalla police barracks, so as to be on hand when the outlaws would come in to give themselves up.  They were a happy family—M
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  • ...ed at home on the Eleven-Mile Creek in comparative peace and security from the time of their return from Jerilderie to their destruction at Glenrowan. ...ir friend, and the Kellys knew it.  As the Outlawry Act had lapsed before the alleged offence was committed, she was discharged.
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  • ...p a bait here and there and let any animal that liked pick it up. ([[Royal Commission report day 7 page 1|RC1369]]) ...enalla with the muzzles on.  I have seen Mrs Skillion and Kate Kelly come into Benalla with their dogs muzzled.
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  • ...results of these quarrels increased the public contempt for the valour of the police. ...school children was “the Kellys and the police,” and it happened that the Kellys invariably won.
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  • '''JOINING THE BENEDICTS''' ...'Connor|O’Connor]] arrived at Benalla on March 8, 1879, and boarded with the other officers at Craven’s Commercial Hotel.
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  • ...consequently time was more precious than the rifle; it was the essence of the “contract.” ...tlawry Act Constable Alex  [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] was transferred to the police depot, and from there he was sent to Lancefield, where he was under
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  • ...avage cruelty to arrant cowardice.  Dan and Joe took up their position in the ranges close by, and remained there all day Saturday, [[ev80-06-28Glenrowan ...sed at what he saw.  Just then Joe Byrne fired, and stepping quickly into the room fired a second shot, and Sherritt fell and died without uttering a wor
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  • ...nd soon after that to look for bushes to set fire to the place.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 21|RC13395]]) ...but I remained where I was in fact, I do not think that I could get under the bed.
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  • ...’s door and asking the way the night Aaron Sherritt was shot.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 8|RC13120]]) ...or two with the people outside.  Byrne was with me, and Dan Kelly was at the front door.  I did not hear any conversation with Mrs Sherritt or Mrs Barr
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  • ...ignation having been accepted—be dismissed from the service.” ([[Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 October 1881|RC]]) ...Commission, but if either of them gave similar evidence against the Kellys the evidence would have been considered sufficient for a conviction and a heavy
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  • ...ull of people bailed up there by the Kellys, he then called the men to let the horses go and follow him. Supt [[Hare|Hare]] led the way, followed by Constables [[SConst John Kelly|Kelly]], Barry, Gascoigne, Phillips, Arthur, Inspector O’Connor, and five Queen
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  • ...arms.’ It came from a policeman close behind Sergeant Steele.  ([[Royal Commission report day 27 page 4|RC10636]]) ...onstrated with him (Steele) for shooting.  I did not know him (Arthur) at the time, but two months afterwards I saw him, and inquired as to his name, and
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  • ...ing in the house, and he would not wait; he rushed over to a tree close to the house, leaving his men to place themselves.  He did not place his own men ...The senior constable took two, and the others went by themselves. ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 9|RC11145]])
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  • ...came in a few minutes after himself.  When I went on the ground ([[Royal Commission report day 20 page 8|RC7607]]) ...says, and he pointed to the contractor from Benalla, and said, ‘You take the spanner.’
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  • ...ringe.  Although nearly fifty years have passed away since the looting of the sash, it may yet be discovered in an English museum. ...sonal possessions.  It is very evident that among those who functioned in the interests of '''Law and Order''' was a percentage of dishonest and untruthf
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  • ...under the impression that if any officer had been there to have commanded the men to make a rush they could have been taken easily? ...could have come up to this side and rushed round simultaneously. ([[Royal Commission report day 26 page 4|RC10090]])
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  • '''THE HERO OF GLENROWAN''' ...Rev Dean [[Matthew Gibney|Gibney]] gave evidence on oath before the Royal Commission on June 28, 1881, as follows: -
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  • Question — Did they seem to have the appearance of being guided by orders? — I do not think they had.  I do n ...hey seemed just to be shooting away at random? — Firing at the house was the only thing that anyone could say there was any uniformity about.
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  • ...ttle room they were in, the fire was just running through it.  I saw that the roof itself was sufficiently safe, that I was in no immediate danger.  It ...house, that was the nearest way then, and I called out to the police that the men were all dead inside.
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  • == THE CHARRED BODIES == ...led up with him who knew where he was and ran and took him out.”([[Royal Commission report day 33 page 5|RC12346]])
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