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Almost every town had its own paper during the time of the '''KellyGang'''. They with the major Melbourne papers, The Age, The Argus, and The Herald reported the events of the '''KellyGang''' story and lots of local news. The police were present on a number of their activities.
Journalism could be a rough business ([[The Argus at KellyGang 11/6/1872|Argus11/6/72]])
Two or three gentlemen of the Melbourne press came to the Sebastopol [[Sebastopol Cavalcade|cavalcade]] with Ass Com Standish on [[ev78-10--4Mansfield Murders|6/11/1878]]. ([[Royal Commission report day 10 page 5|RC1769]])
The actions of the press influenced the way the police acted. Ass Com Nicolson told the Royal Commission, up to the time of the Euroa bank robbery that the police galloped around the country in large search parties because there was such an outcry, and concern about the police not doing anything. At that time it was no use attempting to confine the efforts of the police to secret work because they needed to make some demonstration because of public opinion. ([[Royal Commission report day 2 page 17|RC561]])
Sup Hare and his search party came across a newspaper that reported on the KellyGang had been left in the bush for the gang. ([[The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 9 page 3|FH]])
The newspapers published many reports ast to where the '''KellyGang''' might be and they reported each of the major events such as the Stingybark Creek murders, Euroa robbery, Jerilderie robbery and Glenrowan siege. [[The Age (63)|The Age]] ([[McWhirter|McWhirter]]), [[The Argus (56)|The Argus]] ([[Melvin|Melvin]]), The [[Daily Telegraph|Daily Telegraph]] ([[Allen|Allen]]) and The Sketcher ([[Carrington|Carrington]]) were present at the Glenrowan siege.
While the newspapers usually supported the police and authorities, they also reported many letters from members of the community.
The government warned the newspapers against making public the movements of the police. ([[The Argus at KellyGang 28/1/1879|Argus28/1/79]])
The newspaper accounts are a very important source of information about this story
== The Newspapers in the KellyGang story ==
[[Albury|Albury]]
- ''Albury Banner''
([[The Argus at KellyGang 13/6/1866|Argus13/6/66]])
([[The Argus at KellyGang 4/11/1878 (4)|Argus4/11/78]])
- ''Border Morning Mail''
- ''Border Post'' ([[The Argus at KellyGang 10/3/1879|Argus10/3/79]])
[[Alexandra|Alexandra]]
- ''[[The North Eastern Ensign|Alexandra]] Times''
-''[[The North Eastern Ensign|Alexandra]] and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express''
[[Beechworth|Beechworth]]
- ''Constitution''
([[The Argus at KellyGang 23/8/1866|Argus23/8/66]])
- ''[[Ovens and Murray Advertiser (13)|Ovens and Murray Advertiser]]''
[[Benalla|Benalla]]
-''[[Benalla Standard (2)|Benalla Standard]]''
-''[[The North Eastern Ensign (2)|The North Eastern Ensign]]'' ''''
([[The Argus at KellyGang 30/10/1878 (5)|Argus30/10/78]]) ''''
([[The Argus at KellyGang 22/4/1878|Argus22/4/78]])
( [[The Argus at KellyGang 5/5/1879|Argus5/5/79]] '')''
-''Benalla Ensign'' ([[The Argus at KellyGang 11/6/1872|Argus]])([[The Argus at KellyGang2/11/1878 (3)|Argus]])
[[Chiltern|Chiltern]]
- ''Chiltern Standard'' no copies
- ''Chiltern Valley Advertiser'' no c
''- Federal Standard'' ''([[The Argus at KellyGang 16/11/1878|Argus16/11/78]])''
''[[Corowa|Corowa]]''
- Free Press no copies
[[Deniliquin|Deniliquin]]
- ''Pastoral Times''
[[Echuca|Echuca]] ''''
- Echuca Advertiser ([[The Argus at KellyGang 7/5/1878 (2)|Argus]])
[[Euroa|Euroa]]
-''Echuca and Moama Advertiser''
- ''Riverine Herald''
([[The Argus at KellyGang 5/3/1879 (9)|Argus5/3/79]]) ''''
Cobur
- ''Godfrey's Creek Standard'' ''''
Hay
- ''Hay Standard''
[[Kilmore|Kilmore]] ''''
- Kilmore Free Press
[[Kyneton|Kyneton]]
- ''Kyneton Observer''
[[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]]
- ''Jerilderie Gazette''
- ''[[William Elliott|Jerilderie Herald]]''
[[Mansfield|Mansfield]]
''- [[../../documents/Newspapers/D_MansfieldGuar.html|Mansfield Guardian]]''
- ''[[Alexandra Times at KellyGang 10/2/1871|Mansfield Independen]]''t
[[Melbourne|Melbourne]]
- ''[[The Age (63)|The Age]]''
- ''[[The Argus (56)|The Argus]]''
- The Australasian
- [[The Australasian Sketcher|The Australasian Sketcher]]
- [[Daily Telegraph|Daily Telegraph]]
- [[The Herald|The Herald]]
- [[The Illustrated Australian Newsr|Illustrated Australian]] News
- Leader
- Pastrol Times
- Melbourne Punch
- ''Weekly Times''
[[Rutherglen|Rutherglen]]
- ''Murray Gazette''
- ''[[Rutherglen and Wahgunyah News|Rutherglen and Wahgunyah News]]''
[[Seymour|Seymour]] ''''
- Seymour Express
[[Shepparton|Shepparton]] ''''
- Shepparton News
[[Sydney|Sydney]] ''''
-Syndney Daily Telegraph
- [[Sydney Morning Herald (54)|Sydney Morning Herald]]
- The Sun
Wahgunyah
''''[[Rutherglen and Wahgunyah News|Rutherglen and Wahgunyah News]]'''' ([[The Argus at KellyGang 10/3/1879|Argus10/3/79]])
[[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] ''''
- Wangaratta News
- [[Wangaratta Despatch|Wangaratta Despatch]]
- ''Wangaratta Star'' July 1872-Dec1874 '''George S Searle'''
[[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]]
- ''Hume Times''
- Wodonga Herald
'''Woods Point'''
-''Wood's Point Times and Mountaineer'' -1868
- ''Woods Point Miner''
''Goulburn Valley Advocate'' ([[The Argus at KellyGang 13/12/1878 (5)|Argus13/12/78]]) ''''
Jamieson Chronicle ([[The Argus at KellyGang 16/11/1878|Argus16/11/78]]) ''''
''Ovens Spectator'' ([[The Argus at KellyGang 31/5/1871|Argus31/5/71]]) ''''
'''.'''
== Newspaper reports of the KellyGang story ==
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'''Fitzpatrick incident'''
[[1/1/1878-10/4/1878 Events|15/04/1878]]
'''Trial of Mrs Kelly'''
[[ev78-10--4Mansfield Murders|12/10/1878]]
'''Deaths at Stringybark Creek'''
[[The Age 28/10/78|28/10/1878]] The Age
'''Euroa Robbery'''
[[Sydney Morning Herald (20)|12/12/1878 Sydney]] Morning Herald
'''Ned Kelly's committal hearing'''
[[The Age (28)|/ 8/1880]] Age
'''Ned Kelly's Trial'''
[[The Age (48)|16/10/1880]] The Age
'''Ned Kelly's execution'''
[[The Age (58)|/11/1880]] The Age
'''Call for a Royal Commission'''
. '''Jerrilderie Robbery'''
[[Sydney Morning Herald (24)|11/ 2/1879 Sydney]] Morning Herald
'''Death of Aaron Sherritt'''
[[The Argus|28/ 6/1880]] The Argus
'''Glenrowan Siege'''
[[The Argus (13)|29/ 6/1880]] The Argus
== The Royal Commission ==
Commissioner [[Standish|Standish]] recommended that the proceedings of the [[Royal Commission|Royal Commision]] should not be open to the press, for though the full details of what the police have been doing should be known to the Government, it would be obviously contrary to public policy that they should he published for general information.
The Royal Commission stated its position in the following words, " I suppose you are aware that all the members on this Board are more or less identified with the public, Members of Parliament, or otherwise; that they receive no remuneration; that they have been severely criticised on this Board; and do you think it would be fair to them that the press should not be present"([[Royal Commission report day 1 page 15|RC147]])
Ass Com [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] did not want James [[James Wallace|Wallace]]'s evidence published ([[Royal Commission report day 41 page 14|RC14515]])
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