Glenrowan Siege

Events Please note many of the times on this table are best estimates and still being reviewed

Date	Person	Place	Event
26/6/80 .	Saturday .		Aaron Sherrit's last day '
			Outlawry Act expired
			Parliament dissolved
am	AaronSherritt	Chiltern	Aaron Sherritt went to the Chiltern looking for Mrs Barry's cattle
			Const Faulkiner talked to Chinaman about links to KellyGang.
	Bracken	Greta	Const Braken+ search party withdrawn from Maggie's home near Greta
pm	AaronSherritt	DevilsElbow	Aaron Sherritt told Const Armstrong Danny Byrne had seen the Const in house
6 pm
6.30 pm	Aaron Sherritt	Devils Elbow	Aaron Sherritt shot by Joe Byrne at his home. Joe Byrne got Anton Wicks to get Aaron to come out side.
			Aaron was shot in the left breast, 2nd shot brought him down, both were close together
			Belle Sherritt, Mrs Barry, Consts Armstrong, Alexander, Duross and Dowling were inside.
7 pm		Devils Elbow	Joe Byrne tried to get Mrs Sherritt to get the police to come outside and after some time the police were concerned to keep her and her mother inside the house so they got them to stay under the bed. Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly or their friends tried to burn the house down. Joe and Dan left . Likely that Paddy Byrne or others stayed to keep police inside
8 pm	Weekes	Sebastopol	Weekes arrived home?
9 pm
9.30 pm		Glenrowan	Last train from Benalla to Wangaratta left Glenrowan
10	Ned Kelly	Glenrowan	Ned Kelly, Steve Hart and friends arrived at Glenrowan from Greta and set up their base at McDonnell's. Jack Lloyd drove the buggy with the armour. It is likely that Tom Lloyd, John and Daniel Delaney, the McAuliffes, John and William Tanner, Ryans (Joe, and Jack) and Wild Wright,
11 pm			The first task was to break the railway line just north of Glenrowan. Ned and Dan Kelly went up the line and tried to break the line using the tools they had brought with them. Could not break the line. They went back to Glenrowan to get extra tools from the fettlers who were in the tents just behind the railway platform, between there and Jone's Glenrowan Inn. Mrs Jones and her daughter had been awoken and taken along. The fetlers did not have any tools.
12	AaronSherritt	Devils Elbow	Aaron Sherritt's body dragged inside
27/6/80	Sunday		KellyGang gets Glenrowan organised
1 am		Glenrowan
2 am	Reardon	Glenrowan
			Ned Kelly came for the Reardon family to get the tools to break the line Steve Hart took fettlers and Jane Jones down to break track; took 2 hours.
2.20 am	Reardon		Reardons left home with Ned Kelly
3 am	Stanistreet		Stanistreet was awoken by Ned Kelly who was still looking for tools to break the railway track on the Wangaratta side of Glenrowan
	Joe Byrne		After Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly arrived from murder of Aaron Sherritt, Ned Kelly went down to hurry up the work on the railway line
4 am
5 am
6 am			Steve Hart looked after people at Stanistreet's. Ned and rest of KellyGang went up to Mrs Jones' for breakfast
7 am	Armstrong	Devils Elbow	Armstrong tried to a Chinaman to take a message to Beechworth, refused
9 am	Faulkiner		Const Faulkiner saw Pong Luke and Chat Ving
	Hare	Benalla	Hare did a telegraph check of all police stations, no problems
11 am	Curnow	Glenrowan	Curnow & family left home for a drive, captured by KellyGang.
12		Glenrowan	Circus passed through Glenrowan
1 pm	Sherritt	Beechworth	First message of Aaron Sherritt's death sent from the Beechworth Gaol
		Glenrowan	Ned Kelly playing hopstep & jump in yard, people playing games
	Foster	Beechworth	Mr Foster and Cheshire get news of death of Sherritt
2 pm
2.30 pm	Hare	Benalla	Hare informed Standish of Sherritt's murder
3 pm		Benalla	Train was got ready to go to Beechworth with Hare, Const Kelly, Barry, Canny, Gascoigne, Kirkham, Arthur, and Phillips
	Sadleir		Sup Sadeir was with Sup Hare in Benalla
	Sherritt	Beechworth	Sgt Mullane + 5 police leave Beechworth for Sherritt's home
4.30 pm	Standish	Melbourne	Standish got the news, tried to O'Connor to return to Beechworth
		Glenrowan	Reardon family moved into Glenrowan Inn by KellyGang
			KellyGang released some 21 prisoners on Sunday
5 pm	Ramsay	Melbourne	Ramsay approved special train to take O'Connor & trackers up
6 pm
7 pm	O'Connor	Flemington	At Flemington O'Connor got telegram from Standish asked trackers back
8 am
9.57 pm		Melbourne	Police special train left Melbourne
10 pm	Hare	Benalla	Hare had 2 hours sleep after sending telegrams
10.15pm	O'Connor	Essendon	O'Connor and trackers caught train to go to Beechworth
10.30pm	Curnow	Glenrowan	Curnow + family left Inn with Ned Kelly to return home
11.30pm	Bracken		Const Bracken captured, taken to the Inn
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28/6/80	Monday		' THE DAY OF THE GLENROWAN SIEGE '
1 am
1.30 am		Benalla	Special train arrived in Benalla (2.30am)
	Ned Kelly	Glenrowan	Ned Kelly allows women and children to leave Inn
			Mrs Jones asks Ned Kelly to give a lecture
2.05 am	Hare	Benalla	Train left Benalla for Beechworth via Glenrowan
2.20 am
2.35 am	KellyGang	Glenrowan	KellyGang hear train arriving and start to put armour on
2.40/50am	Curnow		Curnow used red scarf and candle to flag the train down, told Hare KellyGang at the Jones Inn (Age29/6/1880)
	Hare		Train arrived at the platform with Hare, O'Connor, SConst Kelly, Consts Arthur, Barry, Canny, Gascoigne, Kirkham, and Phillips, Trackes Barney, Jackey, Jimmy, Johnny, and Hero, Train crew Archie McFie, Morgan , Press Allen, Carrington, McWhirter, and Melvin , Mrs O'Connor, Miss Webb and Charles Rawlins.
	Hare	Stainistreet's	Hare & Rawlins went to station master's house to find out what was going on Hare and saw Mrs Stainstreet. Police unload horses
2.50 am	Bracken	Platform	Hare came back to platform, saw Bracken, ' KellyGang at Jones' Inn'
3 am	NedKelly Hare	Inn	The KellyGang were on the verandah of the Inn. Hare and police started off on foot for the Inn. Hare was also shot in the opening volley. Ned Kelly was shot in the left arm and right foot. The people in the Inn went for the floor. Mrs Jones' son, Jack, was shot near the hip. Another bullet grazed her forehead. (Kilmore1/7/80)
3.10 am	Hare	Platform	Hare sitting on a log after being shot
	JackLloyd	McDonnell's	Jack Lloyd fired 2 signal rockets
	NedKelly	down the line	Ned Kelly got to his horse and rode down to where the rail line was broken
	ConstKelly	Inn	Const Kelly steadied the police to maintain a cordon around the Inn
	O'Connor	drain	O'Connor and his native trackers made it into a drain in front of the Inn
	women		Women & children tried to leave the Inn, driven back by police fire
	McHugh	Inn
3.20 am	police	Inn	Police keep on firing at the Inn with 3 other KellyGang members & people
	Hare	platform	Hare made his way back to Platform to have wound bound
	Const Kelly	Inn	Police running short of ammunition, seeing his men around Inn,
3.30 am
3.40 am	KellyGang	Inn	Joe Byrne and others in Inn kept up occasional shot
	police		Police kept firing
3.50 am	Hare		Hare left Glenrowan on a train for Benalla
4 am	Sadlier	Benalla	Sadlier sending telegrams
4.10 am	Bracken	Wangaratta	Const Braken arrived at Wangaratta to see Sgt Steele
4.20 am	Const Kelly		Const Kelly finds Ned Kelly's rifle. Fear KellyGang had escaped
4.30 am	Hare	Benalla	Hare arrived at Benalla (Sadlier said he returned at 4 about am)
4.40 am			Hare dictating telegrams
4.50 am	Steele	Wangaratta	Sgt Steele left Wangaratta to ride horse to Glenrowan
	Jack Jones	Glenrowan	Jack Jones was shot while sheltering on the floor in the Inn
5 am			Neil McHugh brought injured Jack Jones out of the Inn
5.10 am			Sgt Steele arrived (RC9001)
5.20 am	Sadlier	Benalla	Sadlier and police leave Benalla for Glenrowan
	Laing		The train from Wangaratta started for Glenrowan
5.30 am	Joe Byrne	Inn	Joe Byrne shoot in groin in Inn
5.40 am	Standish	Melbourne	Standish gets news of Glenrowan
			Train from Wangaratta arrived at place where track broken?
5.50 am
6 am
6.10 am	Sgt Steele	Glenrowan	Steele arrived at Glenrowan?
6.20 am			Wangaratta police arrived at Glenrowan
6.30 am	Sadlier		Sadlier & party from Benalla arrived at Glenrowan
6.40 am
6.50 am		Inn	Reardon's son shot by police while trying to leave Inn
7 am	NedKelly		Ned Kelly seen while he was trying to return to Inn to join KellyGang
7.10 am	NedKelly		Ned Kelly captured by Steele, Reardon +
7.20 am
7.30 am	NedKelly	platform	Ned Kelly taken to platform by police
7.45 am
8 am		Inn	Handkerchief as flag of safe passage seen from civilians in Inn
8.15 am
8.30 am
8.45 am
9 am	Standish		Standish left Melbourne for Glenrowan, by train
9.15 am
9.30 am	Sadleir		Sadleir ordered a cannon to shoot at Inn
9.45 am
10 am		Inn	Police agree to let civilians out of the Inn. The McAuliffes were arrested as sympathizers
	Joe Byrne		Police hear of Joe Byrne's death; only Dan Kelly and Steve Hart left on Inn
10.15 am	Standish	Melbourne	Standish leaves Melbourne on a special train
10.30 am
10.45 am
11 am	Jack Jones	Wangaratta	Jack Jones arrived at Wangaratta Hospital
11.30 am
12 noon			Beechworth police arrive at Glenrowan Const Johntson arrived at Glenrowan
12.30 pm			Rev Gibney arrived at Glenrowan
1 pm
1.30 pm
2 pm
2.30 pm	Standish	Benalla	Standish's train arrives at Benalla, sees Hare
3 pm	Sadleir	Inn	Sadleir agrees to plan to set fire to Inn
3.30 pm	Johnston	Inn	Inn set on fire by SConst Johnston (2.45)
	Gibney		Father Gibney saw KellyGang all dead inside burning Inn
	Joe Byrne		Joe Byrne's body removed before it was burnt
3.45 pm
4 pm			roof fell in 1/2 hour after fire started (Argus5/7/80)
4.15 pm	Standish	Benalla	Standish's train leaves Benalla for Glenrowan
4.30 pm	Dan Kelly	Inn	Bodies of Dan and Steve removed from the burnt Inn
	Steve Hart
4.45 pm	Sadlier	Glenrowan	Sadlier agrees to hand Dan & Steve's bodies over to the families
	Standish		Standish arrived at Glenrowan
5 pm	A Sherritt	Beechworth	Aaron Sherritt was buried at Beechworth
5.30 pm
6 pm		Kelly Home	Bodies of Dan and Steve at Kelly home
7 pm			The wake starts after the funeral
night	Jack Jones	Wangaratta	Jack Jones died in Wangaratta Hospital from wounds at start of siege (Age) (Argus) (Herald) (MDTel) (OMA)
29/6/80	Tuesday		(Age) (Argus) (Herald) (MDTel) (OMA)
		Benalla	All police at Glenrowan paraded before Standish, (trackers not included)
am	Joe Byrne	Benalla	Joe Byrne photographed against cell door
pm	Ned Kelly	Melbourne	Ned Kelly taken down to Melbourne train.
	Joe Byrne	Benalla	Inquest into Joe Byrne's death
	O'Connor		O'Connor and trackers returned to Melbourne
4 pm	Joe Byrne	Benalla	Joe Byrne buried at Benalla cemetery by the police.
30/6/80			(Age) (Argus) (Herald) (MDTel) (OMA) (SMH)
	Nicolson		Call for a Royal Commission by Ass Com Nicolson
	Sherritt	Beechworth	Inquest into Aaron Sherritt's death continued
	Curnow	Benalla	Standish interviewed Curnow.
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