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  • ...ults of these quarrels increased the public contempt for the valour of the police. ...ays the favourite game played by school children was “the Kellys and the police,” and it happened that the Kellys invariably won.
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  • ...out.  Men were seen moving about.  In making a hasty retreat, one of the police, Constable Graham, tripped over a log and dropped his rifle, which he did n ...ry Act Constable Alex  [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] was transferred to the police depot, and from there he was sent to Lancefield, where he was under Senior-
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  • ...ed by the policy pursued by Supt [[Nicolson|Nicolson]], and as long as the police kept out of their way no one in the district was hurt.  It was the general ...to Queensland to secure about half a dozen blacktrackers for the Victorian police force.  Mr O’Connor and his “boys” left Benalla for Melbourne on Fri
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  • ...afterwards have gone before a justice of the peace or some officer of the police force and then to the best of his ability given full information respecting 7        Any justice of the peace or officer of the police force having reasonable cause to suspect that an outlaw or accused person s
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  • ...alled forty policemen.  In the opinion of the Kellys, the attitude of the police change from savage cruelty to arrant cowardice.  Dan and Joe took up their ..., and he fired a second shot at Aaron, and he fell on the floor. ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 20|RC13386]])
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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]]) ...ained inside till daylight.  The first time I went into the room the men (police) appeared as if they were bustling about looking for their firearms, and th
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  • ...’s door and asking the way the night Aaron Sherritt was shot.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 8|RC13120]]) ...he never began to do it while I was there.  Byrne did not say there were police in the house; always two men he wanted out. 
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  • ...ignation having been accepted—be dismissed from the service.” ([[Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 October 1881|RC]]) The evidence of these four men was not believed by the Royal Commission, but if either of them gave similar evidence against the Kellys the evidenc
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  • ...the flashes made by the firing of the police at the hotel, which they (the police) knew was full of innocent men, women and children.  One of these four sho ...e a single shot until Ned was wounded, which was the third volley from the police
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  • ...arms.’ It came from a policeman close behind Sergeant Steele.  ([[Royal Commission report day 27 page 4|RC10636]]) ...a second time, when I got into the yard and found how I was treated by the police.  I thought my life was in danger.  I knew it was in danger.  I knew it
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  • ...The senior constable took two, and the others went by themselves. ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 9|RC11145]]) ...“That is a woman and children” — something to that effect? ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 15|RC11318]])
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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]]) ...(Mrs Jones) said.  That would be two o’clock, about an hour before the police arrived.
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  • By the Commission.—That was hot work.—Hot work! You would not like to be there, I can tel Question by Commission — At the time that Steele, you say, was firing upon you, and your wife es
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  • ...more important than the green sash referred to, is the confiscation by the police officials of the four suits of armour used by the members of the Kelly Gang Mr Thomas [[Carrington|Carrington]], before the Royal Commission, was sworn and examined: —
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  • ...could have come up to this side and rushed round simultaneously. ([[Royal Commission report day 26 page 4|RC10090]]) ...ly’s armour on the platform.  If it was good enough for him to face the police with, surely someone could have put it on and have gone in, besides with th
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  • ...Rev Dean [[Matthew Gibney|Gibney]] gave evidence on oath before the Royal Commission on June 28, 1881, as follows: - ...Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Australia. ([[Royal Commission report day 33 page 1|RC12290]])
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  • Question — Did they (police) seem to be under any control? — I could not say that they were guided by ...use or not, but the reason of that was that sometimes, in my position, the police were above and beyond the house, and I could not really say then whence the
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  • ...back of the house, that was the nearest way then, and I called out to the police that the men were all dead inside. Question — Did they (the police) rush to the building then? — There came two or three running up very soo
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  • ...time in the press different remarks about casting censure upon the Police Commission - that they had not given me any portion of the reward. Now I wish to make Question — This is not the Commission that allocated the reward? — Indeed!
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  • ...led up with him who knew where he was and ran and took him out.”([[Royal Commission report day 33 page 5|RC12346]]) ...I saw the others running to the other side, I suppose I called out to the police. They were on my right hand as I went up. After I came out I turned to them
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