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== Importance of Const Devine ==
Stationed at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]]
== Links to the KellyGang ==
'''Jerilderie Robbery 10/2/1879''' About midnight on Saturday 9/2/[[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|1879]] the '''[[KellyGang|KellyGang]]''' arrived at the police station in [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]] were Const [[Const Richards|Richards]] and I and our families were asleep. We were awaken by [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] calling out;'Constable Devine, there is a drunken man at [[Jerilderie|Davidson]]'s hotel in the township who has committed a murder. Get up at once all of you.'
Const [[Const Richards|Richards]], got up first and I followed soon after. We were undressed and not prepared to meet the '''KellyGang'''. After they had established that we were the only police at the station Ned Kelly brought out a revolver and threatened me. Joe [[Joe Byrne|Byrne]] threatened Const Richards. The '''KellyGang''' then got the keys to the lock up and locked us in the watch house. After this the '''KellyGang''' went inside and escorted our wives and children into a room and appointed Steve [[Steve Hart|Hart]] to guard them. These men threatened my wife and family with my life if they tried to escape or alerted any one else.
On the Sunday morning the '''KellyGang''' let my wife, Mrs. Devine, go about the station as usual so as not to raise any suspicion. Ned found out from her that she used to clean out the court house and prepare the place for the Sunday service. Joe Byrne went with her to the court house in the town. The Catholic service was conducted by Father '''Kiely'''. No one came near the police station all day Sunday.
After this the '''KellyGang''' dressed them selves up in police clothes and went around the town as they pleased as visiting police. Sometimes they even took Const Richards with them to give them more creditability with the local community.
See also ([[The Argus at KellyGang 12/2/1879 (3)|Argus12/2/79]]) ([[Sydney Morning Herald (25)|SMH12/2/79]]) ([[The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 15/2/1879|Alexandra15/2/1879]]) ([[The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 7 page 2|FH]]) ([[Cookson, 07_09_1911_2|BWC]]) ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (38)|JJK]]) ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (39)|JJK]])
My horse was found ([[The Argus at KellyGang 22/9/1879|Argus22/9/79]]) ([[Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 9/10/1879|Kilmore9/10/1879]])
'''Photograph'''
== Early Service ==
== Later Service ==
I went to West Australia, and became a racecourse detective ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (40)|JJK]])
I died in 1926 ([[The Argus at KellyGang 20/5/1926|Argus20/5/1926]])
== Family ==
'''wife''' ?... '''children ?.... home ?..'''
== What happened to Const Devine's family ==
KellyGang
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