After the Mansfield Murders and the escape north AssCom [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] sent out a search party to look for the '''KellyGang''' under Sergeant Harker of Wodonga up into the country about the Rats Castle. ([[Royal Commission report 24/3/1881|RC357]])
Sgt [[Steele|Steele]] also lead a party to the area on 2/11/1878. ([[Royal Commission report 31/5/1881|RC8856]]) ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 6 page 2|CHC]])
Sup [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] noted '.The instructions under which I noted in sending [[Steele|Steele]] to Beechworth and Rats' Castle were received from Mr. Nicolson, who was then on the only certain clue of the Kellys. In fact it was absolutely certain that they had been at [[Gideon Margery|Margery]]'s, and it was so important that police should be placed so as to intercept their probable route from Margery's back to their old haunts, that unless the information at Wangaratta were of a much more positive character, I should not have felt justified in stopping Sergeant Steele's party.' ([[Royal Commission report day 49 page 3|RC16665]])
Reports that the KellyGang was in the Rats Castle area.([[The Argus at KellyGang 4/11/1878 (4)|Argus4/11/78]]) Power and other outlaws used the Rats Castle. ([[The Argus at KellyGang 4/11/1878 (4)|Argus4/11/78]]) ([[The Argus at KellyGang 7/11/1878|Argus7/11/78]])([[Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 7/11/1878|Kilmore7/11/1878]])
See [[Sebastopol Cavalcade|Sebastopol Cavalcade]] and ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 7 page 1|CHC]]) ([[The Argus at KellyGang 12/12/1878 (10)|Argus12/12/78]])
Police found out about '''KellyGang''' camp in Rats Castle in July 1879
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