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

Dr Fitchett, in his account of these events, when relating how Mr [[Wyatt|Wyatt]], PM, had seen the telegraph wires cut away near [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Younghusband’s station]] and informed Mr. Nicolson and myself of the fact later, has fallen into error. It was eight o’clock at night when Mr. Wyatt met Mr [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] and myself at the [[Benalla|Benalla]] railway station, and the Kellys had already got out of reach of immediate pursuit. I did not hear Mr Wyatt’s story at all, for in his excitement he shut me out of the room into which he took Nicolson. I could see, however, that something must have happened along the railway line, and made inquiry of passengers, and of the guard and driver of the train, but there was not one word of information to be had from them. This reticence was due to Mr Wyatt’s silly injunctions to the guard and others not to make known to anyone that the telegraph line had been interfered with. Mr Nicolson, who heard Mr Wyatt’s story, was not impressed by it, and one can scarcely be surprised at this, for the narrator must have been almost incoherent in the few moments that he had to tell his story, nor had Nicolson time to weigh it before the train continued on its way, bearing him and me to Albury on what at the time appeared a very important mission.

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