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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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  • ...e Hart left.  As the day wore on the fifty policemen continued to fire at the hotel. ...der to make sure that these youthful warriors should not outwit the police and escape.
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  • ...he Wangaratta side of the house were altering the direction of their fire, and we saw a very tall form in a yellowish-white long overcoat, somewhat like a ...d Phillips near the railway fence in his rear.  There was also someone at the upper side, but I do not know who it was.
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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. ...oned in the interests of '''Law and Order''' was a percentage of dishonest and untruthful officials.
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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? ...and a blank wall the other side.  The men could have come up to this side and rushed round simultaneously. ([[Royal Commission report day 26 page 4|RC100
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  • '''THE HERO OF GLENROWAN''' Very 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 not think reall Question — In point of fact, that there was a want of generalship? — Oh, that was evident.
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  • ...nger.  It was very hot, but still I saw I was not in any immediate danger of being caught. ...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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  • ...ject is going, of course, was to see to get those men time for repentance; and I would have preferred much to have seen them executed rather than to have ...hink they committed suicide? — I could not judge of anything except from the position in which they were lying. They lay so calm together, as if laid ou
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  • == THE CHARRED BODIES == ...was a party who had been bailed 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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  • ...of men, and then I sent Miss Kelly to go on now and ask if she might go to the house. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 1|RC12774]]) ...dleir, I never saw her; I saw Mrs Skillion approaching and turned her from the house.
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