== Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir ==
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After conferring with Mr Nicolson, I proceeded at once to Mansfield , some 40 miles distant. So great was the alarm on every side that the carriers on the roads halted on their journey, fearing lest they should run up against the Kellys; and each man I met was astonished that I should ride through the country without an escort, some of them imploring me to turn back. My answer to then was - ‘The Kellys are hundred miles away by this time.’