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== Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir ==

It will be seen from the above report how completely Mr Warner’s troopers fell into the ambush laid for them, by all congregating around the cart where it pulled up at the obstruction across the road, this bringing themselves under the close fire of their assailants. Mr Warner appears to have been ahead out of the zone of fire, but, as was shown later, the sergeant halted at or near the mia mia, endeavouring by signs to the driver to direct him towards another track. The lesson of this tragedy was not lost on the officers of the Government Gold Escort, for it became the invariable rule that on a signal from the advance guard, every man should halt in his place. It was not practicable therefore, in those days of short-range weapons, to ambush a line of troopers extending for two hundred yards or so.