Mansfield Murders
Events
| Date | Person | Place | Event |
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| 4/10/1880 | |||
| 5/10/ | |||
| 6/10/ | |||
| 7/10/ | |||
| 8/10/78 | Secretan | First report to Sadleir from the detectives | |
| 9/10/78 | MrsKelly | Beechworth | Mrs Kelly, Bill Skillion and Brickey Williamson found guilty of attempted murder of Const Fitzpatrick. Trail conducted before Sir Redman Barry at Beechworth. Bowman appeared for the Kellys and Chomley ran the prosecution case. Fitzpatrick gave evidence as did Dr Nicholson. Lindsay told the court that Fitzpatrick had told him that he had been shot by Ned Kelly and Sgt Steele gave evidence about the arrests. There was little cross examination of the prosecution's witnesses. |
| 10/10/1878 | Beechworth | Trial continued (OMA10/10/78) | |
| 11/10/1878 | Beechworth | Francis Harty and Joseph Ryan were called as witnesses for the defence.
William Baumgarten and Samuel Kennedy were found guilty of recieving stolen horses from James Whitty (Argus) | |
| 15/10/78 | DanKelly | Det Ward reported Dan Kelly working on Fifteen Mile Creek and search should be sent from Wangaratta and Mansfield to catch KellyGang. | |
| 17/10/78 | Secretan | Secretan reported to Sadleir KellyGang camp | |
| 18/10/78 | Sadleir | Sadleir's orders to Pewtress about Kennedy's search party. | |
| 20/10/78 | Secretan | Secretan reported to Sadlier | |
| 21/10/78 | Sadleir | Sadleir's last orders for Kennedy and the other search parties | |
| 24/10/78th | Kennedy | Mansfield | Sgt Kennedy met SConst Kelly in Mansfield ' |
| 25/10/78fr | KellyGang | Greta | SConst Strahan with Const Shoebridge, Thom and Ryan left Greta
KellyGang came accross the tracks of Sgt Kennedy+ between Table Top and the bogs; see Cameron Letter. |
Murders at Stringy Bark Creek in the Wombat Ranges | |||
| 26/10/78sa | KellyGang | StringyBarkC | Sgt Kennedy Const Scanlon and Lonigan murdered by the KellyGang at about 5pm.
weather very wet |
| TomLloyd | PowerLook | In the evening Tom Lloyd met the KellyGang in the Wombat Ranges | |
| Ward | Det Ward Power's Look Out. met Strahan, Shoebridge, Thom + | ||
| 27/10/78su | KellyGang
Standish ' |
Greta
Oxley |
KellyGang saw the family, had a meal with William Tanner near Greta
Standish first heard of murders KellyGang seen passing through7-jan-12 at night. They then went east to the Pioneer Bridge Hotel and Everton on the Ovens River weather very wet |
| 28/10/78mo | Standish | Melbourne | Standish saw Berry to arrange for extra weapons and men to chase KellyGang (Age)(Argus)
weather started to turn fine |
| 3pm | Brook Smith | Brook Smith on search party to Merriang, across the Buffalo .
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| later |
Nicolson |
Benalla |
KellyGang at Sherritt's
special police train left for Benalla with Nicolson & SConst Kelly, Duross + |
| Consts Kelly, James, Connor, Meehan, & I, from Benalla on a search party | |||
| 29/10/78tu | Faulkiner
Ward |
Wangaratta | Faulkiner out on a serach party, from Wangaratta, up King River to Mansfield
Det Ward at Isard's, met Consts Arthur and Thom.(Age)(Argus) |
| 30/10/78we | KellyGang
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. . Parliament |
The KellyGang camped on the Murray Flats west of Wodonga (Age) (Argus)(OMA)
Wild Wright released from custody in Mansfield (Argus2/11/78) See extract from Hansard (Argus13/12/78) |
| Government | Parliament passed the Felons Apprehension Act | ||
| Duross at Violet Town. Ward at Wangaratta, met Nicolson | |||
| 31/10/78th
5.30am 8am |
Search party to find Sgt Kennedy left Mansfield. Mr Sparrow told main search that he found Sgt Kennedy (Age)(Argus) The KellyGang tried to cross on the punt at Bungawannah and visited William Baumgarten's family | ||
| 1/11/78fr
1-2pm |
Kennedy | Mansfield
Parliament |
Kennedy's body arrived in Mansfield
A post mortem was held into death of Sgt Kennedy (Age)(Argus) Felons Apprehension Act passed |
| Ward | Det Ward at Mt Blowhard | ||
| Sadleir | Barnawartha | Sadleir's report from Barnawatha on the hunt for the KellyGang. | |
| BrookeSmith | Wangaratta | Insp Brooke Smith arrived in Wangaratta | |
| Sgt Steele | Benalla | Sgt Steele arrived back in Benalla after a search party | |
| 2/11/78sa | KellyGang | The KellyGang visited the Sherritt family including Aaron Sherritt
Nicolson saw Margery at Murray Flats, near Baumgarten's.(Argus) | |
| Wangaratta | Insp Brooke Smith was in Wangaratta
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| KellyGang passed through Wangaratta | |||
| 3/11/78su | KellyGang | Wangaratta | Early in morning the KellyGang passed through Everton and under the railway bridge in Wangaratta and on to the Warby Ranges. |
|
Twomey |
Delaney boys report the citing, Laing told Benalla about it. Not followed up
Const Twomey confirmed Delaney's citing, lack of response Brooke Smith | ||
| Faulkiner | Mansfield | Const Faulkiner's serach party, from Wangaratta, arrived at Mansfield
SConst Kelly's search party from Greta? arrived Mansfield | |
| Faulkiner & Kelly arrived Benalla | |||
| 4/11/78mo | Wangaratta | Alexander arrived at Wangaratta (Age)(Argus) | |
| 12.15am | Wangaratta | Const Faulkiner hears about KellyGang going to Warby Ranges at Wangaratta | |
| 2am | Steele | Const Twomey told Sgt Steele about the citing of the KellyGang on 3/11 | |
| 5.45am | Brook Smith | Const Twomey told Insp Brooke Smith about the citing on 3/11 | |
| Consts Twomey & Hayes confirm citing with Brooke Smith | |||
| 5/11/78tu | Ward | Oxley | report of 4 men at One mile Creek Bridge on Ovens, arrived at Oxley (Age)(Argus) |
| police got report that the KellyGang had visited the Sherritt's | |||
| 6/11/78we | Faulkiner | Faulkiner+ caught train to Beechworth, search hills towards Yackandandah | |
| Sadleir | Everton | Sadleir caught train to Everton thence to Taylor's Gap | |
| Search in the Warby Ranges | |||
| 2.30pm | BrookSmith | Brook Smith and Kennedy took search parties to Yarrawonga and Lake Rowan | |
| Faulkiner+ search hills towards The Gap and the Warby Ranges. | |||
| 8pm | Standish | Benalla | Standish went to Benalla to talk to Nicolson(Argus7/11/78) |
| 10.30pm | Sadleir | Beechworth | Sadlier and SConst James came into Beechworth |
| Sebastopol Cavalcade | |||
| 7/11/78th | Nicolson | The morning of the Sebastopol cavalcade (Age)(Argus) | |
| 1.3am
3am |
police train left Benalla for Beechworth[[../people/peN_P/nicolsonPAC.html|../people/peN_P/nicolsonPAC.html]]
Nicolson & Standish, 9 const & a tracker arrived at Beechworth | ||
| 4am | police party left from Beechworth railway station | ||
| 8/11/78fr | BrookSmith | Wangaratta | Brook Smith and party including Johnson returned to Wangaratta.(Argus) |
| KellyGang | Glenrowan
Mansfield |
KellyGang met the train at Glenrowan
Walter Lynch's commital for sending threatening letter to Monk. | |
| 9/11/-8sa | Johnson | WarbyRange | Johnson took search party out, follow tracks of KellyGang. Brook Smith not arrive (Age)(Argus) |
| Nicolson | Fern Hills | Nicolson was at Fern Hills. | |
| 10/11/78su | WarbyRange | Police found pack horse B87 in Warby Ranges.
Johnson's party back in Warby Ranges | |
| Nicolson | Greta | Nicolson, SConst Strachan and Det Ward met possible agent at Greta | |
| 11/11/78mo | KellyGang | Glenrowan | KellyGang were last seen crossing the railway at Glenrowan heading for Greta (Argus) |
| Brooke Smith
Lynch |
WarbyRange | Insp Brooke Smith+ came back to Wangaratta from Warby Ranges, back8pm
Walter Lynch arrested; sending threatening letter to Monk. | |
| Last day for the KellyGang to turn themselves in under the Felons Appreh Act | |||
| 12/11/78tu | Nicolson | WarbyRange | Nicolson, Brooke Smith+ led search party from Wangaratta to Warby Ranges (Argus) |
| Steele | Wangaratta | Sgt Steele+ led search party from Wangaratta to Warby Ranges | |
| Sadleir | Benalla | Sup Sadleir+ led search party from Benalla to Warby Ranges | |
| Johnson | Const Johnson left Wangaratta in disgust | ||
| 13/11/78we | (Argus) | ||
| 14/11/78th | (Argus) | ||
| 15/11/78fr | Williamson | Brickey Williamson made a statement while in Pentridge Prison against the KellyGang.
Proclarmation declaring KellyGang outlaws read in Mansfield. (Argus) | |
| Governor | The Governor proclaimed KellyGang outlaws by the Felons Apprehension Act | ||
| 16/11/78sa | (Argus) | ||
| 17/11/78su | |||
| 18/11/78mo | Barry | Const Barry arrived at Benalla to join the hunt (Argus) | |
| 19/11/78tu | (Argus) | ||
| 20/11/78we | |||
| 21/11/78th | (Argus) | ||
| 22/11/78fr | |||
| 23/11/78sa | (Argus) | ||
| 24/11/78su
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Ward
Wild Wright |
Mansfield |
Det Ward visit agent on Black Range, Upper King.
Wild Wright used threatening language against Const Allwood |
| 26/11/78tu | Threat to banks noted (Argus) | ||
| 27/11/78we | (Argus) | ||
| 28/11/78th | Ward | Det Ward recovered two horses of police shot at Stringy Bark Creek. (Argus) | |
| 29/11/78fr | Nicolson | Nicolson telegraphed -threat to Seymour bank (Argus) | |
| 30/11/78sa | (Argus) | ||
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