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  • ...ase himself as to take the lead and give the ugly movement shape and form, and this office the Chairman of Committees has kindly consented to perform on t ...the man who lets it be known that he will head a mob agitation afterwards, and who, moreover, has a political position which he can prostitute for the pur
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  • ...tion in the North-East district since the Kelly outbreak in October, 1878, and particularly into the circumstances of my recent withdrawal from that distr ...e police in re the Kelly gang, forwarded to you on or about the 1st inst., and to which I have received no answer, I have the honour to state that I am aw
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  • ...r. Got it about 4pm. At Mr Hare's request, I communicated with Mr O'Connor and asked him to return to Beechworth. Mr O'Connor, who was about to return to
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  • ...– Messrs Longmore (chairman) Graves, Fincham, Hall, and Anderson, MLA's, and Mr Dixon. ...their services. He had been a member of more than one board and commission and had never received a penny for such services.
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  • ...embers of a commission appointed to conduct an investigation of this sort, and although it is too early to judge of the competence of the board as a body, ..., tends to diminish any feeling of surprise that might have been felt here and elsewhere at the circumstance that, for nearly two years, the police were u
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  • ...When I came to myself I was perfectly prostrate. Was assisted to my hotel, and went to bed, where I remained for the rest of the day in excruciating agony ...in the report of the Glenrowan affair, that I walked boldly to the hotel, and took up the fire. The reporter was Mr M'Whirter, whom I did not know.
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  • ...w South Wales and Victorian Governments about Murray River Customs duties, and the former Government had threatened to seize boats on the river. ...1880, His Excellency the Governor thanked me for my services in the Kelly business.
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  • ...me. He said a couple of trackers would be sufficient for any search party, and that would not allow my men to be worked without myself, which was not corr ...d to the trackers only. Stipulated it should be an ordinary inspectorship, and a permanent one. As to my position at Glenrowan being a safe one, a tracker
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  • ...farther evidence on points of minor importance was given by Detective Ward and Senior-constable Mullane. The board then adjourned until Tuesday week. Present – Messrs Longmore (chairman), Fincham, Dixon , Gibbs, and Hall.
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  • ...them emphatic denials. He was cross-examined by Messers Nicolson and Hare, and the commission then adjourned until to-day at 11 o'clock . Present - Messrs Longmore (chairman), Fincham, Gibbs, Levey, Dixon , and Hall.
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  • Present - Messrs Longmore (chairman), Fincham, Dixon , and Anderson . ...ce Mr Winch over witness, but witness insisted on having his proper place, and succeeded. All his promotion had been by seniority.
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  • ...in charge of the district. One is designated “the Sebastopol raid," and the other "Mr Brook Smith in pursuit." The former, which took pla ...ary detours to follow up the tracks; he rode slowly, loitered in the rear, and altogether so conducted the affair that only one conclusion can be arrived
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  • ...Williams, the secretary of the Police Commission, to consult his lawyers, and according to Mr [[Mansfield Guardian|Hall]], with very little result. ...red only to state some of those facts which Mr Hall has carefully avoided, and I can honestly say that I am more anxious to state these in such a manner a
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  • ...There were present - Messrs Longmore (chairman), Hall, and Fincham, MLA's, and Mr Dixon. ...o many months had been allowed to elapse before any action had been taken, and whether it was not strange that after the sergeant had given evidence again
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  • ...that an inquiry conducted by the Longmore Commission is at once ridiculous and mischievous. A wondering public may well put the question, has not the forc ...ut if so the commissioners are not the men for the work. No more difficult and delicate task can be imagined. It could only be conducted satisfactorily by
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  • ...the detective force. Cautious intimations appeared that something extreme and sensational was to be expected-the notice being given lest the shock should ...s in strong language and weak conclusions to his historic Grattan address, and the proper treatment includes a good deal of contempt.
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  • 571 You found that you were wasting strength and could not catch them?- Exactly. 576 You intended to reverse the policy; you were in continual communication and conversation with Mr. [[Sadleir|Sadleir]]?- Yes.
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  • ...were stolen which were found when they were arrested, but I hand to return and meet Mr. Hare. ...uot; And his reply was, "Oh, how was that? Look at the horses we got, and where they came from."
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  • 907 Who you think did not act correctly in that search, and whom you instructed not to undertake any search parties again; I mean Mr. S 909 And that he acted indiscreetly in returning when he ought not to?- Yes.
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  • ...esday, and was the date of the [[Governor of Victoria|Governor]]'s letter, and I received it from Captain Standish on the 2nd; so that Sunday did not inte '''Francis Augustus [[Hare|Hare]] sworn and examined.'''
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