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  • ...it was, after all, only the objectlessness of a murderous attack from the outlaws that made them so. There was scarcely a firearm of any kind in Mansfield, a
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  • ...vers named would be necessary to enable anyone to follow the doings of the outlaws and the police with proper understanding of the exploits of the former, and
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  • ...n in the Kelly district when the murders did take place, the career of the outlaws would probably have been much shorter than it eventually proved to be.
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  • ...elly district, who were known to be [[Sympathizers|sympathisers]] with the outlaws. In giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the Police Force of Victor
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  • ...ncluding [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy’s]] which so disastrously encountered the outlaws, were put upon their tracks. Superintendent Sadlier, however, wishing for m
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  • ...so far that the sergeant was reported to have kept up a brisk fire on the outlaws before he fell wounded by them, but Ned Kelly admitted that he gave Kennedy ...an eye witness of the tragedy unknown to M’Intyre, who saw only the four outlaws. Such, at any rate, seems the only explanation of the fact that a mysteriou
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  • ...on their men. They ascertained too, with considerable exactitude, what the outlaws’ movements had been after the murder of the police on October 26.
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  • ...at’s Castle]],’ resided the Byrnes and Sherritts, close friends of the outlaws, and though it was not certain at that time that Joe Byrne was one of them,
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  • This was not a hopeful beginning for the capture of the outlaws. Mr Sadlier says the noise of shod horses in that country was unavoidable, ...on, this is the house of the [[Anne and John Sherritt Snr|Sherritts]]. The outlaws are said to be here.’ He continued to give some instructions, when Mr Nic
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  • ...aching £8,000, offered by the Victorian Government for the capture of the outlaws. The interview with Sherritt being concluded, Captain Standish and Mr Sadli
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  • ...mmission, ‘that he was determined that his party should not overtake the outlaws,’ and that ‘what renders his action all the more reprehensible is the f
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  • == CHAPTER VIII - THE OUTLAWS LOST TO SIGHT == ...send him after the men he should have been leading upon the tracks of the outlaws. There were [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] at Wangaratta, one an old ma
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  • ...night air of the hills. Therefore, after this attempt to come up with the outlaws, he did not personally engage in the chase for some considerable time, but,
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  • ..., creating a sensation among the well disposed inhabitants and putting the outlaws on their guard. Consequently, party after party, having spent various times
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  • ...of them forty miles apart, from which places, as Williamson admitted, the outlaws could see the police coming; so the information was not of much value. The ...sociate of the Kellys, on October 29 had informed Inspector Green that the outlaws carried with them a small tent and about a month’s rations. He too mentio
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  • ...s Skillion]] was conveying food, either by herself or confederates, to the outlaws, and they tried hard to ascertain what became of the great bakings turned o
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  • ...een applied for by Mr Sadleir and Mr Nicolson for the work of pursuing the outlaws, but both of them assert that they had no word of expected danger to the ba ...trick Quin]], husband of Ned Kelly’s aunt, and himself a relative to the outlaws; and he claims to have given warning of an intention on their part to stick
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  • ...ds, apparently revealing a plan on behalf of certain persons to assist the outlaws in leaving the district and crossing the Murray into New South Wales. The o
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  • ...n flashed across his mind that the man who had accosted him was one of the outlaws, and as he jogged stationwards the idea that the destruction of the line wa
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  • ...e door and windows, close together, could be watched by one or more of the outlaws heavily armed with loaded rifle and revolvers. ...make others eat first in case the food should be poisoned. Only two of the outlaws sat down at one time while the others stood by with their revolvers in thei
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  • ...rough the wretch,’ but Mr [[Macauley|McCauley]], who had accompanied the outlaws to the cart, joined in urging him to bail up, and at last seeing the hopele There was not much sleep for the prisoners that night. One or two of the outlaws kept guard outside and Ned Kelly remained with them in the store, which was
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  • Still supposing the outlaws to be particularly ill mannered policemen - Ned Kelly had threatened to blo ...o raised an alarm would have his brains blown out. About half past two the outlaws went on to the railway line, and worked the destruction to the telegraph li
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  • ...ott to put the horse into his (Mr Scott’s) buggy, as, in addition to the outlaws’ conveyances, it would be wanted to accommodate the large household from ...one of the horses in Kelly’s vehicle fell, and a halt was made while the outlaws got out to put the horse on his feet and see to the harness, but without an
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  • ...thfull’s]] Creek to allow him to examine the wires, naturally caused the outlaws some apprehension. Ned Kelly called out to the others that a trainload of b
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  • ...woman, supposed then to be [[Kate Kelly|Kate Kelly]], being seen with the outlaws riding through the bush, and this gave colour to the belief that [[Steve Ha ...Dougall and the theft of the other watches were among the last acts of the outlaws before bidding their prisoners good-bye, after which, Dan Kelly and Steve H
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  • ...you would be wise to stay for these reasons, viz., three of those men (the outlaws) are upon grass fed horses and only one of them is shod. On the other hand ...ng that the Kellys were responsible, they also deemed it possible that the outlaws or their associates had broken them to stop news coming down as they rode n
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  • ...arnt from people at Faithfull’s Creek, Mr Nicolson thought it likely the outlaws would be making. During that night nothing of them was heard or seen, and a
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  • ...ndish]] made Benalla his head quarters and directed operations against the outlaws with the assistance of Mr Hare. ...iends and to increase the loyalty and admiration of existing ones, for the outlaws, having no chance for personally spending the money, largely used it for di
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  • ..., spoke glibly of the disgrace incurred by the police in not capturing the outlaws off hand, and assured the public that had they control of affairs things wo
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  • ...istrict and out of it. A squatter sent word post haste to Benalla that the outlaws were shooting parrots near his garden, and this with many other statements
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  • ...ce of private people at that time would put their lives in danger from the outlaws, and that to call the police would necessitate taking them away from urgent
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  • ...lock up for the night. Mrs Divine, in her nightdress, was made to show the outlaws over the premises in case other men might be concealed there, and after Ned
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  • While the outlaws were in the office Mr [[Rankin|Rankin]] and Mr [[Samuel Gill|Gill]], two to
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  • For some hours after the bank had been robbed the outlaws held possession of the town, and though acting in some respects with appare
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  • ...tables of [[McDonnell's Railway Taven|McDougall]], an hotelkeeper, and the outlaws had completed their business in the town, the leader made a speech to the p
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  • ...unlikely to harm them - a large number of people who saw and heard of the outlaws frequently decided to let the police catch them as best they might without
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  • ...on, distrusted Sherritt and told Mr Hare that though the man could put the outlaws into his power he did not believe that for all the money in the world he wo
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  • ...he outlaws always passed on their way to the house. The police waited; the outlaws did not come, but Sherritt was confident that before long they would do so, ...heir comfortless camp. Fires were forbidden lest the smoke should give the outlaws warning, but all Mr Hare’s precautions against discovery were in vain. Th
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  • ...ne|Mrs Byrne]] had, except through him, no means of communicating with the outlaws, and that there was still hope of effecting a capture.
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  • ...existence of Mr Hare’s camp was from the very beginning a secret to the outlaws or their friends, though its exact position may have been unknown. The poli ...uncovered by any blanket and not wearing even a coat, and he asked if the outlaws possessed the same iron constitutions. According to Aaron, Ned Kelly had tw
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  • ...t [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrnes’]];, the forces engaged in hunting the outlaws were added to by the arrival from Queensland of a Queensland officer, Sub I ...’s refusal to employ them on certain occasions when reliable news of the outlaws had been obtained.
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  • ...e police acquainted with the character and sentiments towards them and the outlaws of people throughout the district. The service was certainly one of conside ...sed to help both sides, there was reason to suspect that they did help the outlaws at least as much as the police. Being paid by the latter for information fu
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  • ...professed to fall in with this plan and reported it to Mr Hare, but as the outlaws did not put in an appearance nothing came of it.
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  • ...several shots were fired, which were probably intended to warn any of the outlaws who might be hiding in the vicinity to defer their visit to their cousin ti
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  • ...uch of their time riding about the country in the supposed interest of the outlaws. After the break up of the watch party near her mother’s house, [[Catheri
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  • ...n the morning. The men were in high spirits at the prospect of meeting the outlaws, and cheerfully submitted to resting on the bare ground without a fire - an
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  • ...he would go to the North Eastern District and refuse to leave it until the outlaws were taken, dead or alive.
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  • ...still went out, but the general policy adopted was, while surrounding the outlaws with spies or agents, to lull them into a sense of false security by seldom
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  • ...lice in case of an attack, or occasion arising for a sudden pursuit of the outlaws. At [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]], [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]], [[Bright|Bright]],
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  • ...whereas under Mr Nicolson’s system they became as well qualified as the outlaws’ horses to stand hard work upon such feed as they could pick when hobbled ...Meanwhile Mr Nicolson waited patiently. He had reason to believe that the outlaws were greatly hampered by want of money, and that their friends were urging
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  • ...itt and one of his younger brothers, who was also in the confidence of the outlaws and had now begun to bring tales of them to the police. Joe Byrne, who was
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  • ...g to persuade Sherritt to join the gang as a scout. Shortly after this the outlaws apparently grew suspicious of Sherritt, for Dan Kelly called at the Sherrit ...ntly making purchases of stores in Benalla, which he believed were for the outlaws’ use, and which were paid for by Bank of New South Wales notes with an ea
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  • ...seased Stock Agent|diseased stock]]’ man - since this description of the outlaws was always used in correspondence with him, in his assumed character as an ...bullets at a range of ten yards. Also that a break out on the part of the outlaws might be very shortly expected.
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  • ...anguinary son.’ There upon he determined on one more effort to catch the outlaws in that neighbourhood, and arranged that a party of police should be sent t ...y. He was told that the public were growing more and more indignant at the outlaws’ long unchecked career, and, with carte blanche in everything, he went up
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  • ...Melbourne, for Mr Hare considered that while they remained at Benalla the outlaws would be afraid to come into the open, and the Queensland Government, which ...number to watch the Harts’ house near Wangaratta. He was aware that the outlaws were now almost entirely dependent for supplies upon their blood relations
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  • Strangely enough the outlaws do not seem to have known that there were police in the house. [[Joe Byrne| ...and so would they - for while women were in the room they trusted that the outlaws would not fire through the weatherboard walls. Mrs Barry, indeed, begged th
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  • ...news of Sherritt’s murder reached Mr [[Hare|Hare]] at Benalla. Since the outlaws had broken out once more they needed no longer to be encouraged by the blac
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  • ...e bar was not kept closed, and a good feal of liquor was consumed, but the outlaws, on the whole, were temperate. Hart in the morning drank too much, but the
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  • ...ow assured Kelly that there was no need to distrust him as he was with the outlaws heart and soul, to which Kelly replied, ‘Yes; I know that, and I can see ...him to go to bed, and warning him significantly not to dream too loud. The outlaws and their prisoners rode away to the hotel, where a dance was in progress a
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  • ...d now the test of its usefulness had come. Trembling with anxiety lest the outlaws should shoot him down and frustrate his scheme, or that the engine driver w
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  • ...eat distress. Only a few minutes before, her husband had been taken by the outlaws to the hotel. With some others they had kept him confined in his own house
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  • ...racken|Bracken]], who had just escaped, and he told of the presence of the outlaws, saying unless they were attacked immediately they would be gone. Mr Hare d
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  • ...g train, and all chance of escape was gone, for, with the door locked, the outlaws went to don their armour, and, later, the people dared not venture out in t
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  • ...choolmaster went to bed, telling the others to do the same, so that if the outlaws came they should have no proof against him of having warned the police. Whe ...cked in this bold design by a mere shot in the wrist. The odds against the outlaws were four to one. With the exception of himself, not a man of his force was
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  • ...the scene, so that forces were ample to checkmate any possible move by the outlaws. It was daylight, or almost daylight, when the Reardon family made their se
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  • ...uge headpieces quilted inside, probably by the Kelly’s sisters, gave the outlaws comparative safety on the head, chest, back, and sides which it covered, it ...e fight these horses were discovered by the police and shot to prevent the outlaws’ escape. They, however, could scarcely have known this, and the three oth
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  • ...good cause to refrain from pouring volleys into the hotel and shooting the outlaws without danger to police and private citizens. ...nd though shots came seldom, if ever, from the building, it was feared the outlaws might yet escape if they remained uncaptured when darkness came on. Mr Sadl
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  • ...ungled, with much resultant misery to innocent people. Still, three of the outlaws were dead, the fourth was wounded and awaiting his trial. The pestilent Kel
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  • ...llowed by intense excitement and eager expectation when news came that the outlaws were surrounded at Glenrowan. Excitement gave place to relief as hope was c
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  • | THE OUTLAWS' LOST TO SIGHT
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  • ...ity to popular prejudice and thereafter to custom - to the memories of the outlaws themselves and the names of all - who were associated with them, no matter ...n the meantime let that which may be said in the favour of these notorious outlaws, and for the amelioration of the unhappy lot of those who were principally
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  • But it is not long before the outlaws' mother is able to realize that the intruders at her hearth wish to show he
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  • ...tle children, is this a life for any woman?” continued the mother of the outlaws, sadly. “Is this a fit reward for being a mother? There’s no justice in
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  • ...table resolution beneath that weak and wan exterior, and the mother of the outlaws forced back the welling tears and proceeded, in almost even tones:—
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  • ...ably grub holes, of cent boring. But the driver stoutly persisted that the outlaws had riddled most of the trees along that road-for practice as they rode alo
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  • ...s of certain of their progenitors; and they affirm, emphatically, that the outlaws were brave, capable men, deeply affectionate to their relatives, faithful t
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  • ...ain high police officials, and that Sergeant Steele should have caught the outlaws in November 1878, when he knew that they had just passed under the One Mile ...ppears some ground for the opinion, held at least to some extent, that the outlaws were better men than their pursuers-their crimes, of course, apart.
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  • ...ly. The police were suspicious of me, because they believed I assisted the outlaws. I did not. The Kellys halted [[Jones' Glenrowan Inn|me]] because they beli
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  • ...and no one knew who would be the next to fall. The bullets were doing the outlaws no harm at all. They were only hurting us. The police might have rushed the
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  • ...belongs the distinction of having brought down the chief of the notorious outlaws during the night fighting at [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]]. Steele had been one o Of course, the pursuit and capture of the outlaws was the principle task undertaken by Sergeant Steele in all his long servic
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  • ...that calamity. Mr [[Thomas Curnow|Curnow]], the schoolmaster, knew of the outlaws' dreadful intentions. Taking his life in his hands he left the inn in which ...ht. There are none in that region who have any sympathy with the notorious outlaws or their fate. To the people there the whole story of the gang and its expl
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  • '''PLAYING AT OUTLAWS'''
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  • This was the Patrick Allen who, during the long search for the outlaws after the Wombat murders, supplied the police with stores and necessaries. ...st Dan Kelly at the homestead was the primary cause of the Kellys becoming outlaws.
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  • ...with. It had belonged to poor [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy]], who was shot by the outlaws in the Wombat Ranges.
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  • ...f the police during the last 12 months or so of their campaign against the outlaws. Every payment out on account of the Government to those in the pay of the ...g shot dead at a time when he was playing the part of a friend to both the outlaws and the police-and, it is to be feared, betraying both.
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  • ...- "It was doubtless a most fortunate thing that Aaron was shot by the outlaws; it was impossible to reclaim him and the Government could not have assiste
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  • OUTLAWS VERSION OF THE ENCOUNTER ...quot; The blackest of all the crimes charged against the [[KellyGang|Kelly outlaws]] was that of the murder of the brave [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy]] and his compa
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  • ...ssed muster in the lists of Ashby. But, such as it was, it ? its turn. The outlaws doubtless had a keen eye to their personal safety when they ordered it. But
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  • ...rmour|armor]] is unknown to any save one or two intimate associates of the outlaws, and that the secret is so well guarded that it will never be permitted to ...the plates; that the armor was made by a Government farrier what time the outlaws stood over him with pistols and threats; that an agent of the Kellys got th
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  • ...d them to the manager, Mr Tarieton, who was then having a bath. One of the outlaws waited on Mr Tarieton in the bathroom, and, under threats, obtained possess Of whom Ex-Superintendent Hare, in his somewhat one-sided history of the outlaws says:- "Kate Kelly, no doubt, was a loyal sister to her brothers, and
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  • .... The alleged severity of the punishment inflicted upon the mother of the outlaws has been the subject of comment in the course of the inquiry, and Captain S
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  • '''EARLY HISTORY OF THE OUTLAWS'''
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  • '''"WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN"''' Whilst the four outlaws were at large the Mr Foster, blacksmith, of Forbes, who ? believed by some In the light of the unfortunate events that sent the [[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] outlaws to the bush, the wisdom in the concluding sentence of the second prize sugg
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  • ...LY WITHOUT A FATHER''' [[John King / Kelly|John Kelly]], the father of the outlaws died in 1865. [[Ned Kelly|Ned]] being then only 11 years old, and Dan only
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  • ...amounting to four thousand pounds were offered for the capture of the four outlaws. The New South Wales Government offered another thousand pounds a head of t ...s with their rifles-a piece of folly which must of necessity have kept the outlaws well apprised of their movements and promity.
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  • ...efence. M'Intyre surrendered at once. Lonergan made for a tree. Two of the outlaws' rifles cracked as he ran, and he fell dead in his tracks. ...efend themselves. Always throughout the whole of the defence raised by the outlaws there rings the one note of the intolerable injustice of their mother's sen
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  • ...ous popular outcry for the adoption of most strenous measures to bring the outlaws into subjection and to avenge the men who had been slain. But the police fo The outlaws at that time wanted both fire arms and horses. The police were well supplie
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  • ...itors were intercepted and stuck up. During their stay at this station the outlaws candidly informed their prisoners that they were going to stick up the bank ...take it under any consideration, and very soon afterwards the four of the outlaws left.
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  • ...s were rushed to various places in the hope of their encountering the bold outlaws. But they were too hampered by red tape to do any good. Everything thing ha ...file were tired out, and one officer in charge had to be relieved. But the outlaws pursued their journey homeward in tranquillity; no one interrupting.
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  • ...guard over Mrs [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Byrne's]] house, in the hope that the outlaws would visit it for several nights. Another party watched one of the Kellys ...rustrated by the courage and devotion of the schoolmaster, Curnow, how the outlaws made their last stand in the Glenrowan Inn, and all but one perished misera
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