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  • ...his opinion, said he believed they were too cowardly to voluntarily accept death.
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  • ...of dying in fight, while he was a humiliated prisoner, with almost certain death in prospect. His wounds were dressed as well as possible, and for one night ...d ended in the only way possible, with a verdict of guilty and sentence of death against the outlaw, who was convicted on evidence largely contributed by hi
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  • ...[[Ned Kellys End|hanged]] in [[Melbourne Gaol|Melbourne Gaol]]. He met his death with a fair amount of courage, though he could not trust himself to make a
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  • | AARON SHERRITT'S DEATH
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  • ...of retributive disaster. And she had outlived the fate of one son, done to death by bullet and flame, and that of another - the idol of them all - perishing ...rave misdeeds, she has been spared - spared to a life that is but a living death, bowed down in agonising memories, and quite devoid of hope. It is all very
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  • '''THE DEATH OF KATE.''' ...him at the post-office with the news that Kate had died. . . Such an awful death, too! All alone, with no one to help her when she became delirious. Oh, the
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  • ...e to silver the cloud of gloom that mingles with the approaching shadow of death, weighs down her spirit in despair unto the earth. For her there is no hope
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  • This was the man who, hearing of his favourite sister’s awful death and the sad plight of her children, had quietly harnessed his horses and fa
    4 KB (733 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...still on the mountains when we ask him what was the manner of his sister's death. For it had been reported in many places that she was not dead, but living
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  • ...etimes it eases my mind. But, no; the memory of it makes me miserable unto death-after all these years." ...onably as a grotesque incongruity, a stupid, banal outcry in the Valley of Death, whither this aged pilgrim is passing. If she would but exorcise the thing
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  • '''A NARRATIVE OF DEATH''' ...very weak. In time, however, she found speech to continue her narrative of death and desolation:-
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  • ...had determined to wreck the special train and to kill everyone who escaped death in the smash. They would surely have killed any police they met that night.
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  • ...r it. . . . She died not long after. . . . And it was her brothers's awful death that killed her! He was such a clever, quiet boy! . . . Oh dear!
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  • ...petites for the slaughter of those whom they had made their enemies to the death, whetted by their sharp and decisive defeat of the police in the Wombat Ran
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  • ...OF SHERRITT''' "I remember the NIGHT OF [[Aaron Sherritt|Sherritt's]] death as well as anything" said Mr Ward, "Four constables has been stat
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  • ...police had made themselves their enemies, and knew that it was war to the death, all they (the bushranger) should not be blamed because they had won a fair '''KENNEDY'S DEATH'''
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  • ...rmour|armour,]] thanks to which the Kelly outlaws were enabled to ward off death, dozens of them, was in no ?? knightly or handsome. ? in his simplicity, st
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  • ...so well guarded that it will never be permitted to leak out, even at their death. This is only one of the many superstitions that have been woven around the ...ho actually made that quaint, ponderous, but serviceable armor that turned death aside for the outlaws so often.
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  • ...er, laid hands upon their weapons, the issue at once became one of life or death on both sides. One thing is certain in connection with Kennedy's death - that is, that Ned Kelly, declaring that he was the bravest man he had eve
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  • ...g of Sherritt has long been justified beyond question. But the news of his death sent the public excitement on to fever heat. Because the public did not kno
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