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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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  • ...nowledged himself badly defeated by the outlaws. His health began to fail, and he asked to be relieved. ...rly in July, 1879, and was given a free hand in controlling the pursuit of the Kellys.
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  • ...e security so that they may become reckless and venture out into the open, and be easily captured or destroyed. ...e movements of the police, and advised the outlaws if there was any danger of police invasion.
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  • '''THE ARMOUR AND AMMUNITION''' ...t the manager was secured behind a stout wall, which had a porthole in it, and through which he could shoot an intruder without exposing himself to view.
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  • ...e disembarked at Benalla, and that night the ammunition was handed over to the outlaws. ...ure to return, because they paid me £2 as a deposit on the further supply of rifle cartridges they want.”
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  • ...consequently time was more precious than the rifle; it was the essence of the “contract.” ...le Alex  [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] was transferred to the police depot, and from there he was sent to Lancefield, where he was under Senior-Constable [
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  • ...r the contractors saw four horsemen coming towards them from the direction of Benalla.  They rode up to where these two men were working. ...n into the dry lagoon and saw that the Kellys had fed their horses on oats and chaff, but principally raw oats. 
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  • They decided on the following programme:— ...idered that if they could put their case before the Governor, while he was their prisoner, he would be converted into a sympathiser.
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  • ...81, Sergeant Steele said, “I was under the impression that they had left the district altogether.” ...ithout exposing himself to the risk of being either wounded or captured by the Kellys. 
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  • ...weapon in aid of such apprehension whether its use be preceded by a demand of surrender or not to apprehend or take such outlaw alive or dead. ...s summons as so published shall in like manner be evidence of the truth of the several matters stated therein.
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  • ...nt cowardice.  Dan and Joe took up their position in the ranges close by, and remained there all day Saturday, [[ev80-06-28Glenrowan|June 26, 1880]]. ...and stepping quickly into the room fired a second shot, and Sherritt fell and died without uttering a word.
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  • ...that; and he went round 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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  • ...oath said: “I remember going up to Sherritt’s door and asking the way the night Aaron Sherritt was shot.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 8|R ...herritt or Mrs Barry.  They came out and went in again.  I had no chance of escaping.
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  • ...nstable Armstrong’s resignation having been accepted—be dismissed from the service.” ([[Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 October 1881|RC]]) ...Kellys the evidence would have been considered sufficient for a conviction and a heavy sentence.
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  • ....  The train bringing Mr O’Connor, his wife and her sister and a number of press representatives arrived at Benalla about 1 o’clock on Monday mornin ...bered up.  He was in charge of the stationmaster’s wife and children at the gatehouse.
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  • ...bailed up there by the Kellys, he then called the men to let the horses go and follow him. ...n Kelly|Kelly]], Barry, Gascoigne, Phillips, Arthur, Inspector O’Connor, and five Queensland blacktrackers.
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  • ...aylight or moonlight.  It was sufficiently light to tell a man.  I heard the police call to Sergeant [[Steele|Steele]], saying, ‘Do not shoot her; you ...he time, but two months afterwards I saw him, and inquired as to his name, and found it was Constable Arthur.”
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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 ...Commission) — Who placed his men? — The senior constable took two, and the others went by themselves. ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 9|RC11145
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  • ...e Hart for them, who 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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  • ...and went across two other men, and went through the sofa at the other end of it.  ...ked his rifle at my face, and I did not know what to do with the children, and I ran away up to where Mr Sadleir was.”
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