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  • ...tings of the '''KellyGang''', police records, the Royal [[Royal Commission|Commission]]'s papers, contemporary newspapers and letters and books including: | [[Royal Commission|Royal Commission]] Report
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  • [[#rc|Royal Commission Report]] , [[#of|Newspaper cuttings]] , [[#book|Books]] , other products Royal Commission Report
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  • '''Royal Commission Report''' see [[Royal Commission Index|index to the Royal Commission]] report
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  • | [[Royal Commission report day 9 page 3|rc1601]] | [[Royal Commission report day 9 page 3|rc1601]]
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  • == CHAPTER V - POLICE PREPARATIONS == ...much of it mountainous and uninhabited country; while the total number of police charged with the duty of keeping order therein did not exceed 120.
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  • ...ndignation in Wangaratta, where Sergeant Steele’s sterling services as a police officer were fully appreciated. ...t anyone aiding such outlaw, or withholding information about him from the police, should be liable to fifteen years’ imprisonment, provision which, if it
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  • ...afterwards have gone before a justice of the peace or some officer of the police and then to the best of his ability given full information respecting such
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  • At about eight o’clock, after having something to eat, the police party returned to Beechworth, sadly crestfallen and somewhat wearied by the The police reported these things to Inspector [[Brooke Smith|Brooke Smith]] on Novembe
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  • ...he mentioned that she would signal to them by hanging a white sheet, when police were about, on a sapling near her house, which could be seen from a great d ...ticular watch upon it, for which they were afterwards blamed by the Police Commission. It is probable, however, that the log was not then actually in use. The Ke
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  • ...n with the iron helmet when it was struck by the numerous bullets from the police rifles, which flattened themselves against it. As the bushranger was carrie ...the Government, as commented on by members of the [[Royal Commission|Royal Commission]] which enquired into the Kelly outbreak, questioned the payment of four gu
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  • ...e sympathy by representing himself and his family as the victims of wicked police oppression, which had forced him, against his will, to adopt a career of ro ...perannuation allowances of Captain Standish, Mr Hare, and Mr Nicolson. The Commission considered that the first named officers were principally to blame for the
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  • ...and in the district to any applicant who received a bad character from the police, and the knowledge that the mounted constables, by an adverse report, could Finally, new police stations were established at commanding points where mischief might be appr
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  • ...nd-and a very important part-is enclosed for the purposes of a yard to the police station. There is a gully running through one corner of this yard, and in t ...re in the belief that his heavy armour was invulnerable, fired away at the police so coolly that they might be excused for as they did, thinking that it was
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  • ...YS LOG''' continued The Commission reported that the administration of the police in the N.E. was generally unsatisfactory; that the Chief Commissioner, Capt ...s before they were, but for the indolence and incompetence of certain high police officials, and that Sergeant Steele should have caught the outlaws in Novem
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  • ...they were then at the other side of the Dividing Range. Several parties of police scoured the country, but without success. About nine miles from '''Moylen'' "Fresh bodies of police were obtained and the whole country was searched. We heard that the bushran
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  • ...;We had to shoot or be shot," was the way he put it. He said that the police had made themselves their enemies, and knew that it was war to the death, a The report of the [[Royal Commission Index|Royal Commission]] dealing with the Wombat tragedy says:
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  • ...is regard is furnished in the report of the [[Royal Commission Index|Royal Commission]] of inquiry into the circumstances of the Kelly outbreak, and in which the ...e opinions of Fitzpatrick, while the present (1881) Acting Commissioner of Police, Mr. [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]], writes a valedictory memo. on his papers, des
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  • ...ually encountered the bushrangers, which encounter proving so fatal to the police party, set the seal of outlawry on Ned Kelly and his associates and stirred ...as was known, the Kelly's were at that time in hiding. The conduct of the police all through this exciting and protracted man hunt, was in no sense praisewo
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  • ...old fashioned. Finally the Government invested in shot guns, and armed the police with these. Then began one of the greatest man hunts known in the history o ...e intended to do was what Power had donee befire - that is, to bail up the police and secure their firearms and ammunition.
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  • '''POLICE AGAIN PARALYSED''' ...hy rather than that of a general epidemic of fright and pusillanimity. The police authorities were beside themselves.
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  • ...ommission App 13-1|top]] '''e''' ''''''E'''''' '''[[Royal Commission|Royal Commission Report]]''' '''s''' ''''''S'''''' [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Recollections of a Victorian Police Office]] [[Category:John Sadlier]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:book]] [
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  • ...ommission App 13-1|top]] '''e''' ''''''E'''''' '''[[Royal Commission|Royal Commission Report]]''' '''s''' ''''''S'''''' [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Recollections of a Victorian Police Office]] [[Category:John Sadlier]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:book]] [
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  • ...the Government Service. I said I would prefer a cadetship in the Victorian police, as I was anxious to go in pursuit of bushrangers who were overrunning the ...parted from each other for many years, and in 1882 we were both appointed police magistrates for the colony of Victoria.
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  • ...d not escape, at any rate through any fault of the weapon. I fulfilled the commission accordingly. Intending to camp out most of the time, we laid in a stock of ...Hare]] [[Category:December 1804]] [[Category:Recollections of a Victorian Police Office]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:book]] [[Cat
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  • ...nd of the Kelly gang lying in wait at the station for the special train of police. He said a special train was behind him, and he would go on to the station ...nd wife had a terrible fright through Mr Rawlings, who had accompanied the police, coming down to the school. They thought that he was Ned Kelly when he aske
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  • ...overnment had expired, Captain Standish telegraphed to the commissioner of Police at Brisbane, and requested that they might be allowed to remain, but that p ...ecretary again consulted, and it was then arranged that a reinforcement of police should be despatched, and an ample supply of ammunition was ordered to be s
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  • The members of the police force originated from similar stock, and, as upholders of the law, their di ...agrarian offence (but not assault or murder as falsely stated by the Royal Commission after Ned Kelly's execution). With jury packing reduced to a fine art, the
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  • ...casion Ned had to pay £3 Is., which covered the fine, costs and damage to police uniforms. ...r officer at Lancefield declared that Fitzpatrick was not fit to be in the police force and could not be trusted out of sight. and on whose unsupported evide
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  • ...rejoicing at his escape. Bruised and defeated McCormack went to the Greta Police Station and laid two charges against Ned Kelly. He charged Ned with having This was the first win for the Assistant Chief Commissioner of Police, Supt C H [[Nicolson|Nicolson]], who played for the forfeiture of Ned Kelly
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  • ...general public have been led, through the vicious misrepresentation by the police, to regard him as a treacherous and bloodthirsty scoundrel. This misreprese ...evidence on oath before the [[Royal Commission report day 34 page 6|Royal Commission]] on the 29th June, 1881 , as follows:-
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  • ...a, gave evidence before the [[Royal Commission report day 14 page 15|Royal Commission]] on 9th June, 1881, as follows:- ...n was a great mistake''''''at the time." This clearly proves that the police knew that the horse stealing in the Kelly Country was not done by the Kelly
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  • ...d to the police that his horse had been stolen by some person unknown. The police made inquiries, and ascertained that two youths were seen in the vicinity w ...But as Fitzpatrick had not yet returned from a visit to [[Cashel|Cashel]] police station the Sergeant sent Constable [[Const Healey|Healey]] out on patrol t
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  • By the [[Royal Commission report day 23 page 2|Commission]].-"What was the charge on which they were arrested?" -"For By the Commission.-"Had Mrs Kelly an infant with her when you arrested her?"
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  • ...to inquire into the cause of the Kelly outbreak and the management of the police during the pursuit. It is noticeable that Fitzpatrick swore to the followin "On April 16 I was called to the police barracks Benalla, to see Constable Fitzpatrick. Examined his left wrist, fo
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  • ...on enter the house after him (Fitzpatrick). When closely questioned by the Commission as to how Williamson, not having entered the house, could come out of the b ...he following charges: "That he (Fitzpatrick) was not fit to be in the Police Force., that he associated with the lowest persons in Lancefield, that he c
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  • ...mphasis on the atrocious crime of aiding and abetting in the shooting of a police constable, and added: "If your son Ned were here I would make an examp ...headquarters were at that time at Benalla, when giving evidence before the Commission, said:- "I thought the sentence upon that old woman, Mrs Kelly, a very
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  • ...t CC of police; and Supt J Sadleir went to Beechworth, and with a party of police and civilians, all mounted, and numbering about fifty, intended to sneak no ...said, ‘Keep them together.’ That is how I occupied myself.” ([[Royal Commission report day 2 page 5|RC388]])
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  • ...countryside.  Captain Standish, who was over all as Chief Commissioner of Police, was in doubt as to his position in this big failure, because Supt CH Nicol ...the first to speak to Aaron Sherritt.  I am pretty sure of it.”([[Royal Commission report day 10 page 6|RC1784]])
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  • ...nd in order to do so the Government, at the suggestion of the heads of the Police Department, violated one of the most cherished principles of civilised nati ...e all acted together, Captain Standish, myself, and Mr Sadleir.  ([[Royal Commission report day 6 page 3|RC1263]]) 
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  • ...police would not dare put a hand on his young friend, Mr D Wall. ([[Royal Commission report day 6 page 3|RC1270]]) ...yrne was riding a magnificent grey horse, and the other a bay.” ([[Royal Commission report day 6 page 4|RC1271]])
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  • == Chivalry of the Police == ...ficiently demoralised to attack her.  The age of chivalry, as far as this police party was concerned, had gone.
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  • ...to be an outlaw) and his accomplices information tending to facilitate the commission by them of further crimes, contrary to the provisions of the [[Felons Appre ...d not have done much, as for four months before I was taken (arrested) the police had their eyes on me.”
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  • ...ased, that the Kellys were so successful in locking up the New South Wales police at Jerilderie and assuming control of the town. ...e Kellys actually arrested the police, locked them up, and, by donning the police uniform, made themselves responsible for order in the town.
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  • ...e passed, and that was all.  What further inquiry could be made? ([[Royal Commission report day 48 page 18|RC16610]]) Question by Superintendent Nicolson—Could you not have used the police to ascertain for you who had lambs running about in that quarter?—Certain
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  • This letter was responsible for diverting the attention of the heads of the police force at Benalla to Albury while the Kellys entertained the Euroa bank mana ...April, 1879, I was employed by Mr Hare as a scout and guide to assist the police in the pursuit of the Kellys, at the rate of £1 per day.
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  • ...t would appear a wise policy that Mr Nicolson should remain at the Benalla police barracks, so as to be on hand when the outlaws would come in to give themse ...d’s Faithful Creek station, near Euroa.  This was the end of Quinn as a police spy.
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  • ...llys were at Urana, New South Wales, and at Rutherglen, in Victoria.  The police were very much hampered by the numerous wild reports of the imaginary appea ...bo, Troopers Hero, Johnny, Jimmy, Barney and Jack—arrived at the Benalla police barracks, which were to be their headquarters while tracking the outlaws.
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  • ...p a bait here and there and let any animal that liked pick it up. ([[Royal Commission report day 7 page 1|RC1369]]) Question.—What you want to convey to the Commission is this: That the Kellys were so supported by the sympathisers and actually
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  • ...ults of these quarrels increased the public contempt for the valour of the police. ...ays the favourite game played by school children was “the Kellys and the police,” and it happened that the Kellys invariably won.
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  • ...out.  Men were seen moving about.  In making a hasty retreat, one of the police, Constable Graham, tripped over a log and dropped his rifle, which he did n ...ry Act Constable Alex  [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] was transferred to the police depot, and from there he was sent to Lancefield, where he was under Senior-
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  • ...ed by the policy pursued by Supt [[Nicolson|Nicolson]], and as long as the police kept out of their way no one in the district was hurt.  It was the general ...to Queensland to secure about half a dozen blacktrackers for the Victorian police force.  Mr O’Connor and his “boys” left Benalla for Melbourne on Fri
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  • ...afterwards have gone before a justice of the peace or some officer of the police force and then to the best of his ability given full information respecting 7        Any justice of the peace or officer of the police force having reasonable cause to suspect that an outlaw or accused person s
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  • ...alled forty policemen.  In the opinion of the Kellys, the attitude of the police change from savage cruelty to arrant cowardice.  Dan and Joe took up their ..., and he fired a second shot at Aaron, and he fell on the floor. ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 20|RC13386]])
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  • ...nd soon after that to look for bushes to set fire to the place.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 21|RC13395]]) ...ained inside till daylight.  The first time I went into the room the men (police) appeared as if they were bustling about looking for their firearms, and th
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  • ...’s door and asking the way the night Aaron Sherritt was shot.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 8|RC13120]]) ...he never began to do it while I was there.  Byrne did not say there were police in the house; always two men he wanted out. 
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  • ...ignation having been accepted—be dismissed from the service.” ([[Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 October 1881|RC]]) The evidence of these four men was not believed by the Royal Commission, but if either of them gave similar evidence against the Kellys the evidenc
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  • ...the flashes made by the firing of the police at the hotel, which they (the police) knew was full of innocent men, women and children.  One of these four sho ...e a single shot until Ned was wounded, which was the third volley from the police
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  • ...arms.’ It came from a policeman close behind Sergeant Steele.  ([[Royal Commission report day 27 page 4|RC10636]]) ...a second time, when I got into the yard and found how I was treated by the police.  I thought my life was in danger.  I knew it was in danger.  I knew it
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  • ...The senior constable took two, and the others went by themselves. ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 9|RC11145]]) ...“That is a woman and children” — something to that effect? ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 15|RC11318]])
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  • ...came in a few minutes after himself.  When I went on the ground ([[Royal Commission report day 20 page 8|RC7607]]) ...(Mrs Jones) said.  That would be two o’clock, about an hour before the police arrived.
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  • By the Commission.—That was hot work.—Hot work! You would not like to be there, I can tel Question by Commission — At the time that Steele, you say, was firing upon you, and your wife es
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  • ...more important than the green sash referred to, is the confiscation by the police officials of the four suits of armour used by the members of the Kelly Gang Mr Thomas [[Carrington|Carrington]], before the Royal Commission, was sworn and examined: —
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  • ...could have come up to this side and rushed round simultaneously. ([[Royal Commission report day 26 page 4|RC10090]]) ...ly’s armour on the platform.  If it was good enough for him to face the police with, surely someone could have put it on and have gone in, besides with th
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  • ...Rev Dean [[Matthew Gibney|Gibney]] gave evidence on oath before the Royal Commission on June 28, 1881, as follows: - ...Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Australia. ([[Royal Commission report day 33 page 1|RC12290]])
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  • Question — Did they (police) seem to be under any control? — I could not say that they were guided by ...use or not, but the reason of that was that sometimes, in my position, the police were above and beyond the house, and I could not really say then whence the
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  • ...back of the house, that was the nearest way then, and I called out to the police that the men were all dead inside. Question — Did they (the police) rush to the building then? — There came two or three running up very soo
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  • ...time in the press different remarks about casting censure upon the Police Commission - that they had not given me any portion of the reward. Now I wish to make Question — This is not the Commission that allocated the reward? — Indeed!
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  • ...led up with him who knew where he was and ran and took him out.”([[Royal Commission report day 33 page 5|RC12346]]) ...I saw the others running to the other side, I suppose I called out to the police. They were on my right hand as I went up. After I came out I turned to them
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  • ...ent Miss Kelly to go on now and ask if she might go to the house. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 1|RC12774]]) ...he witness) — You sent on the sister to Mr Sadleir, and I think what the Commission have to do is to ask how long before the fire was it she went to Mr Sadleir
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  • ...my opinions as, I might call myself, a '''post factum''' witness. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 2|RC12788]]) Question by the Commission — '''We have it in evidence from Mr Hare’s official report''' that ther
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  • Question by the Commission — What was the magisterial finding on the case of Cherry? Supt. Sadleir — Shot by the police in the execution of their duty.
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  • [[The Last of the Bushrangers page 1|Hare]] [[Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Table of Contents|Sadleir]] [[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bu ...Hugh Stewart, Constable Skehan, Lawrence Kirwin (police spy), BC Williams (police spy), Constable Faulkiner, Constable McIntyre, Mr Laing, SM, Wangaratta; Mr
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  • ...who were trying to escape from Mrs Jones’ hotel at Glenrowan. The Royal Commission, on the other hand, recommended that Sergeant Steele be reduced to the rank ...mmission recommended that Supt Hare should, therefore, be retired from the police force on pension.
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  • == Royal Commission’s Report == ...armed and mounted; and that a grave error was committed in abolishing the police station at Glenmore, and in reducing the strength of the stations at Stanle
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  • “That the constables who formed [[Police at Sherritt home|hut party]] the night of Aaron Sherritt’s murder, viz., ...lly|Senior Constables Kelly]] and [[Johnston|Johnston]] cancelled, and the Commission recommend these members of the force to the favourable consideration of the
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  • ...ot sign the report because he had to give evidence as a witness before the Commission. ...sted and thrown into gaol for over three months because they looked at the police or watched them. Now, what would have happened to Messrs Longmore, Hall, Fi
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  • ...deliberate nature. Since Bracken's retirement from the force he has been a police pensioner, receiving, in addition to his retiring allowance, an annual grat ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • At the police court to-day, before Captain Burrowes, PM, and Mr C H Morris, JP, Michael M ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...en coves was shot dead through the window. They wanted to have a go at the police, so we gave them rifles, revolvers, and powder and shot. The firing where t ...a trap and had to get out of it. We had with us, as we often had, traps' (police) uniforms and troopers' caps, and we put them on. We looked policemen in di
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  • {{Full Text}}VICTORIAN POLICE COMMISSION ...is "evidence" consisted in the main of adverse comments upon the commission's methods and his criticisms were chiefly directed at the manner in which t
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  • ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • POLICE VETERAN'S STORY ...nd notorious criminals known to Victorian history; and he continued in the police force until 1896. His book therefore may be accepted as authentic history.
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  • '''DEATH OF POLICE OFFICER''' Ex-Sergeant James [[Whelan|Whelan]], who was associated with the Victorian police in the days of the Kelly gang, died at his residence, Hawthorn, on Saturday
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  • ...the King River district. Constable McIntyre alone escaped. He informed the Police at Mansfield , and Sub-Inspector Pewtress took charge of a search Party, bu ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...Throughout his career Mr Sadleir was an efficient and exemplary officer of police, with a high sense of duty. ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...rain. Mr Curnow told what he knew to the officer in charge of the party of police, and no time was lost in surrounding the Glenrowan Hotel. A desperate fight ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • Three Police Officers Shot. During the absence of the other members of the gang at Euroa, Mr Wyatt, police magistrate, arrived on the train with a line repairer named Watt, and disco
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  • ...ged 79 years, whose funeral took place to-day. Mr Devine was a sergeant of police in February, 1879 when Ned Kelly, Dan Kelly, Steve Hart, and Joe Byrne ente ...ilderie trooper's horses, on which they carried their plunder, leaving the police locked up.
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  • Mr Lee intends to hand the skull to the police for the medical school at the University. As it was found that the crowd wa ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...nd he was shot in the leg and captured. Finally the hotel was fired by the police, and the three remaining outlaws who had armour also, perished. Request for [[Police Trackers|Black Trackers]].
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  • ...ith bullet holes. At half past 5 o'clock in the afternoon, H Morris of the Police department "begs to report for the information of the Honourable Chief ...ws Ned Kelly shot in leg and taken alive on railway platform Glenrowan. No police shot. Other members gang still in public house. Surrounded Ned Kelly, armed
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  • ...apture the Kelly gang in 1880. He was aged 82 years. Before he entered the police force he was an overseer for Captain Charles ?atton at Clear Creek Station, ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...d Kelly is said to have told his story staling that he was harassed by the police. From Jerilderie Mr Living went to Ararat and Malmsbury and then carne to W ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...isoned by the bush- rangers had escaped from the hotel it was fired by the police, and in the ashes were found the charred remains of Dan Kelly and Steve Har ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...Mansfield into certain charges made against Mr Reid, the superintendent of police. Some of the circumstances of the case are curious, and deserving of notice ...as it may, Tilt was cut in the forehead, and sought tho assistance of the police.
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  • ...oth under the authority of the Board of Land and Works, and by virtue of a commission issued by the Governor, appointing it to inquire into certain violations of
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  • ...ed by the act, has removed from their offices the County Court judges, the police magistrates and wardens, the coroners and Crown prosecutors, and a large nu '''[[Royal Commission|Royal Commission Report]]'''<br />
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  • ...ht that at last there was a chance of the gang, who had so long eluded the police being brought to book. Both here and at Benalla the excitement yesterday wa ...f further crimes, or who shall aid or assist them in their escape from the police shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period no
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  • ...abling the Kellys to defy capture, and had this not been done, and had the police been better handled, the men sought for would probably, ere this, have been ...to Edward Kelly and his accomplices, information tending to facilitate the commission by them of further crime.&quot; Their names are-[[Jimmy Quinn|James Quin]],
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  • ...Mr J J B Bowman, instructed by Superintendent Sadleir, prosecuted for the police. ...er remand on the ground that they could not be further remanded unless the police proved the absence of witnesses or other reasonable cause.
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  • ...interests of justice and was not bound by an agreement entered into by the police authorities and the prisoners' solicitors. The prisoners were therefore rem ...nt, and he saw in Court Mr [[Brooke Smith|Brooke Smith]], the inspector of police in charge of the district. Why did he not prosecute? He would ask his worsh
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  • ..., that under the circumstances of the case, it appeared impossible for the police to obtain the witnesses they required, and their absence had been reasonabl The '''Police Magistrate'''. - That is a matter that rests with the police. I do not pledge myself to any particular course.
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  • ...uld have been put to motion without due consideration. We believe that the police were perfectly justified in making the arrests they did, and we say this ha
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  • ...the fifth time remanded without any evidence being brought forward by the police. Mr Zincke expressed his intention of taking the case to the Supreme Court
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  • ...as anything else than a direct challenge to our police to attempt what the police of Victoria have failed to accomplish. ...athy and shelter. It was supposed, however, at one time, that the Victoria police force was an example of organisation and efficiency. When the new system wa
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  • ...the great difficulty of obtaining evidence against them, on account of the police being away in the ranges and the civilians being really afraid to come forw ...d that some of them, in the ? of society and to further the efforts of the police to capture the four men who have defied authority by – been guilty of a f
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  • ...ith impunity and defy detection, and whilst we unhesitatingly say that the police have been badly handled and that they have proved themselves unable to grap ...rces at their command it is not to us a wonderful thing that so far as the police are concerned they have managed to evade their pursuers. The raids at Euroa
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  • == BEECHWORTH POLICE COURT == ...rds Kelly, a proclaimed outlaw, and his associates, tending to further the commission by them of further crime.
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  • ...o be an outlaw, and his accomplices, information tending to facilitate the commission by them of further crime, contrary to the provisions of the Felons Apprehen ...JP, on the charge mentioned in the warrant, and was, on the application of Police Superintendent Sadleir, remanded to the Petty Sessions at Beechworth on the
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  • ...to Edward Kelly and his accomplices information tending to facilitate the commission by them of further crime, as is alleged against me, and further that during ...as no reason given for this remand, it was mere caprice on the part of the police magistrate.
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  • ...y of his accomplices information tending, or with intent to facilitate the commission by him of further crime, he shall be guilty of felony.
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  • ...ght before Captain Standish and M B McBain JPs charged with assaulting the police and damaging their clothes. They were fined 5s each for damaging the clothe '''BEECHWORTH POLICE COURT'''
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  • ...It was thought that it would take place at daylight this morning, and the police were on the alert all night. The pugilists and their friends are still in t '''THE ROYAL COMMISSION LANDS INQUIRY'''
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  • ...ontaining the Governor's commission and instructions, and also the dormant commission appointing the Chief Justice or the senior judge for the time being of the ...a check on the lawless characters of the neighbourhood, and to enable the police to be in proximity to the supposed retreat of the Kelly gang.
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  • ...overnment had expired, Captain Standish telegraphed to the commissioner of Police at Brisbane , and requested that they might be allowed to remain, but that ...ecretary again consulted, and it was then arranged that a reinforcement of police should be despatched, and an ample supply of ammunition was ordered to be s
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  • ...the constabulary force requires reorganisation. We presume that an [[Royal Commission|official inquiry]] will be at once ordered into the conduct of the four men ..., if for no other purpose, to furnish rules for the future guidance of the police in similar circumstances. Speaking generally, we submit that events have sh
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  • ...nabled him for nearly two years to set at defiance the whole powers of the police force, backed by an unlimited supply of money.  We presume that the Govern ...are equal to an act of incendiarism or taking up a rail; and even now the police must be incessant in their vigilance to prevent such dastardly acts. 
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  • ...beries, the murder of Aaron Sherritt at the Woolshed and resistance of the police at Glenrowan; together with a long catalogue of minor charges, which are mo ...matter, together with the consideration of the general organization of the police force.
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  • ...ome public writers, now go so far as to declare that nothing is due to the police for their conduct at Glenrowan, except reprobation and contempt.M'''r [[Har ...wonderful faith in the credulity of his readers.The indictment against the police is a heavy one.It is also rather volumnous and contradictory; but we may se
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  • ...al animal vices, and which with an adverse facial angle prompts him to the commission of vicious, brutal acts of outrage and aggressiveness. He has large organs '''GLENROWAN AND POLICE ORGANISATION'''
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  • ...the country. He ran considerable risk in serving out the ammunition to the police, and I feel very grateful to him for his personal services to me. ...I suggested that some native trackers should be provided from [[Queensland police|Queensland]] for our own force. I said also it was a general belief that th
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  • ...has made a further application to the Victorian Government for an [[Royal Commission|inquiry]] into the conduct of the black trackers under his command here in
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  • ...isoner’s sister, but that the Lands department on the application of the police, had refused to grant the title to the land. ...ments|Government &amp; other documents]] '''[[Royal Commission Index|Royal Commission Report]]''' ''''''
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  • ...ugh an appointment was made to meet me at my place, it was not kept by the police.  ...head of the King River.  I said ‘Yes,’ and afterwards accompanied the police to the place desired, but could not see the spot in question for a bush fir
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  • '''THE POLICE AND THE KELLY GANG''' ...).  I have vainly [[Royal Commission|inquiry]] into, or amendment of, the police administration in these respects.  Other representatives of the people hav
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  • ...e mayor has been given, and the approaches to the block will be guarded by police.  The members of the University will move in procession from the quadrangl ...arranged to appoint a royal commission, and Mr Berry then gave way.  The commission will not be appointed, however, until the trials arising out of the Kelly o
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  • ...Commission about to be appointed -C H [[Nicolson|NICOLSON]], Acting C C of Police&quot;. ...ent discussion. The Government would at the very earliest date appoint the commission, and only take such time as would enable them to appoint a proper one.
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  • The board to [[Royal Commission|inquiry]] into the management of the police force particularly with reference to the Kelly outbreak, has been appointed ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • '''MR J H GRAVES, MLA, AND THE POLICE''' ...state that 1 (J H Graves) have made serious and bitter charges against the police and against particular officers. These statements I say are incorrect. May
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  • ...idual in the community would have dreamed of, is, we submit, unfair to the police. ...t would, we contend, be as decent to put one of the police officers on the commission as it is to nominate a gentleman who will practically hold a brief for - or
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  • ...y to prove injurious to the public interest or depreciate the value of the commission's report. ...to summon Mr Nicolson, Mr Hare, and Mr O'Connor to attend a meeting of the commission to be held at 11 o'clock next Friday at the Treasury.
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  • ...ield Guardian|Hall]], MLA, has been added to the [[Royal Commission|Police Commission]]. ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • ...moned to attend, viz, Captain Standish Mr Nicolson, acting commissioner of police, Superintendent Hare, and Sub inspector O'Connor.  Probably the evidence o == [[Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 18 March 1881|The Minutes of the Commission]] ==
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  • '''THE POLICE BOARD''' Sir,-The latest addition to the Police
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  • ...gs should not be open to the press for though the full details of what the police have been doing should be known to the Government, it would be obviously co Chief Commissioner of Police The Hon. the Chief Secretary
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  • ...ghtly esteemed, and to injure me seriously in my position as an officer of police. I submit that my voluntary action in proceeding to Glenrowan on the night Sub-Inspector of Queensland Police
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  • ...ithdraw some remarks of his attacking Mr O'Connor's private character. The commission meet again at 11 am to-day. '''THE POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...our of the outlaws being likely to be anywhere without at once sending out police either to find them or ascertain the truth of the reports. Was ably seconde ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • ...or the position. Mr Nicolson at that time was inspecting superintendent of police, with the honorary title of assistant-commissioner. That latter title was c ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • ...nds to take away the remains. Mr Curnow undoubtedly saved the lives of the police, and put us on the track of the Kellys. This concludes my statement, but I ...rs. Mr Nicolson's duty, as inspecting superintendent, was to visit country police stations and report on them. The officers next in rank to Mr Nicolson were
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  • ...mmissioner, who was examined at great length respecting the conduct of the police in connexion with the Kellys. The witness denied several of the statements THE POLICE COMMISSION
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  • ...uroa, and wished them to send me two black trackers. Also indicated to the police there which way I thought they should move. ...me wasted at the station, owing to a person who was not connected with the police. Selected a groom named Stevens as a guide, and followed the tracks of the
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...t paid for their services. He had been a member of more than one board and commission and had never received a penny for such services.
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  • ...n, the quietude of the police was noted, and some people believed that the police were afraid of the out- laws. This was towards the end of 1879. On Septembe ...y raid, and felt quite capable of doing so. Succeeded in that. Experienced police officers must have known that going out at night with mounted men on vague
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  • ...t out there. Met my agent and Aaron Sherritt, who had been employed by the police before I went up. Proceeded through the bush, guided by Sherritt, so as to To the COMMISSION – At the time of the Jerilderie robbery I was in Melbourne. Captain Stand
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  • [[Royal Commission|Royal commissions]] and boards have their uses in the body politic. It foll ...Parliamentary tail. The inquiry was so conducted by the chairman that the commission and its proceedings became a laughing stock. As was to be inferred, the rep
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  • '''INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF THE POLICE FORCE''' ...or business tact as might be supposed to be requisite in the members of a commission appointed to conduct an investigation of this sort, and although it is too
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  • ...ing Mr Hall differs in toto from the opinion that he should not sit on the commission, and declares that he is a competent and unprejudiced member. ...lections on the late chief commissioner's official ability and energy. The commission adjourned until 11 o'clock this morning.
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  • ...ctive police. Was then in constant correspondence with the New South Wales police [Witness undertook to get a return of the duration of the career of several ...he Beechworth district in 1877, and the Greta station. That was before the police murders.  [Witness read his report, in which he stated he had visited &quo
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  • ...s out on our first trip. I was first sworn in as a member of the Victorian police force. We left Benalla in the morning of the 11th with Superintendent Sadle ...a party of   constables could not catch him up. In Queensland the native police have to deal with white criminals as well as blacks. I have myself travelle
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...another friend left.&quot; Captain Standish never went out with a party of police while I was with him at Benalla. He went to Melbourne several times, but ne
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  • ...to the plat- form and stopped there. Several volleys had been fired by the police when I was told there were prisoners in the kitchen. Mr Sadleir, after that ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • ...eleased. The prisoners were in the kitchen. Shots were exchanged after the police knew the prisoners were in the kitchen, which was a distinct building, sepa ...not to fire at the kitchen. Senior-constable Kelly went round to tell the police that. Did not order him to do so. At such a time of excitement, one cannot
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  • THE POLICE COMMISSION ...e heard at a long distance. Kate Kelly was at this house that morning. The police left. Believe the signals given prevented the outlaws from visiting the hou
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...Mrs Hart's house, near Wangaratta; and I also placed four men at Glenrowan police station. These three parties were ordered never to leave the houses during
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  • ...he district, that his mother and sisters had seen them. He approved of the police party being in his house, saying no one knew they were there, and that only ...he house was a few yards from the main road, and not fenced in. One of the police came to speak to me. Asked where Armstrong was, and the man replied he was
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  • ...n out of the train. Was standing on the platform amongst the reporters and police, and five or six horses had been taken out. Bracken then appeared on the pl ...man say &quot;Fire away, you —s, you can do us no harm.&quot; One of the police (Gascoigne) called out &quot;That is Ned Kelly's voice.” Suddenly the fir
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  • ...dent Hare – Mr O'Connor stated in his evidence that he called out to the police to cease firing as there were prisoners in the hotel. Don't deny he did so ...I called out, “Cease firing.&quot; With regard to the occasion when the police party watched Mrs. Byrne's house, they had information that a grey horse wa
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  • ...of notes, about £30 or £40, was once paid into a bank at Wangaratta. The police got information, and telegraphed to Sydney to ascertain if the notes, of wh ...rs to her head. It was difficult to conceal the search parties by day. The police must leave peculiar tracks. They were always found. With regard to the Glen
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...cer in charge of the detectives. In 1870 Mr Nicolson's name appears in the Police Gazette under Mr Winch's and in 1872 above it. Know of no other cause excep
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  • ...pressing his regret that I was wounded, and stating that for some time the police there were unfortunately left without a leader until Mr Sadleir's arrival. ...That was done three months before he relieved me. He also read a return of police expenditure in connexion with the Kelly business. When Captain Standish and
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  • '''POLICE COMMISSION''' ...ehand all the subjects that Mr Sadleir would refer to in his evidence. The commission adjourned until Tuesday, and Mr Sadleir was requested in the meantime to re
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  • ..., who was murdered by the Kelly gang while he was in the employment of the police force, is to receive a pension from the Government of 10s per week ...]]''' and Mr '''[[Wyatt|Wyatt]]''' PM were both examined before the police commission yesterday. Neither of them finished his evidence.
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  • ...ey in the Imperial service. A further distribution has been made among the police and others who, under Superintendents Hare, Sadleir, and Sergeant Steele, t '''ROYAL COMMISSION'''
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  • ...ate in the reward were received, and that the acting chief commissioner of police reported each claim, either personally or through the officer be considered ...he best thanks of the community, for the able assistance they afforded the police under circumstances of considerable danger. Had these gentlemen preferred c
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  • ...£115 to £42. &quot;Hero,&quot; &quot;Spider,&quot; and the other black [[Police Trackers|trackers]], are allotted £50 each, to be handed to the Government ...e the thanks of the community for the able assistance they rendered to the police under circumstances of considerable danger, and had they put in claims, the
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  • The recommendations of the Police [[Reward|Reward Board]] are not, apparently, regarded as altogether satisfa ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:reward board]]
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' The Police Commission met again on Wednesday at the Treasury. There were present Messrs. Longmore
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  • ...arrested under Captain Standish's order. Witness had never heard that the police of the district were very anxious to be led by Mr Hare. Witness was not awa ...for ammunition of a certain sort, and information was at once given to the police.
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  • At this stage the commission adjourned until 11 am next day. ...colson. (One of the documents was read. It gave minute instructions to the police at the particular stations to which it referred as to how they should proce
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  • ...hem all that it was not time to rush. The people on the platform urged the police to rush, and laughed at them for not doing so. This made the men somewhat u ...at he was off the ground at the time of the Glenrowan affray, and that the police were out of his control. He gave that a most emphatic denial, and could onl
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  • ...such as to give no just cause for dissatisfaction, or at a future time the police may experience a difficulty in finding agents for services involving, dange ...ould be dealt with by the Police Commission, and, if so, we trust that the commission will not lose sight of it. 
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  • ...been made known by the publication of the evidence taken before the police commission. ...ties to think it necessary to be prepared for any emergency. The number of police in the district has been very considerably reduced, the men having been sen
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  • THE POLICE AWARDS ...elly awards]] and that until he received a progress report from the police commission now sitting, he did not intend to take any action in the matter. He also wi
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  • ...were not accustomed were given to them. The witness did not think that the police could with safety have ventured from the hut while the outlaws were in the '''THE POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...out. Witness considered Sherritt a good man, and that he was honest to the police. The four constables had arms to which they were unused, but they did not c ...e prepared to fire at the outlaws when they should catch sight of them.The police never got under the bed. Constable Alexander was the first to go out in the
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...their conduct in connexion with the search after the Kellys, and that the commission had not sent in a report.
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  • ...strong asked a Chinaman who was passing to take a letter to the Beechworth police station. The Chinaman agreed, but returned shortly, saying he would not go. ...e complainant was informed that he must protect himself, as it was all the police could do there to look out for themselves. There are six constables at Glen
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' This commission resumed its sittings last Tuesday, but the evidence taken has not been of v
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...r examined. He stated that Sherritt was not armed when Byrne shot him. The police in the house usually got into the bedroom when strangers approached the hou
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...ce saddles and bridles. Was not aware that one of the horses ridden by the police was well known as bearing the &quot;GVS.&quot; brand. Witness, who was one
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...h would enable the officer in question to give valuable information to the commission.
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  • ...ard to the Glonrowan affair. In order to obtain some idea of the place the commission contemplate visiting Glenrowan to day. They will return to Melbourne to nig ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • ...t persons to come out until half past 9 o'clock on the Monday morning. The commission sits in Melbourne to morrow. '''THE POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...of bushrangers but would give any information be had on that point to the commission privately. Not more than three trackers ought to be with a party. They are The CHAIRMAN - According to the police regulations Mr O'Connor's appointment ought to have been made by the Govern
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  • ...re drinking freely. Did not look on Mr O'Connor as an officer of Victorian police. The commission intimated that they purposed examining Mr Johnston and other witnesses call
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  • ...st requests was that his sisters should make full statements as to how the police had treated them. ...d not tell him where my brothers were, and he pulled out his revolver. The police used to come here and pull the things about. Mr Brook Smith was one of them
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  • ...recently appeared in a contemporary professing to give the opinion of the commission regarding his conduct, and stated that it was most unfair and prejudiced hi ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • ...|O'Connor]] for promotion over the heads of many competent officers in the police force.&quot; THE POLICE COMMISSION
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  • ...e absence of orders, and were moving about. Witness did not think that the police could have got near the chimneys at either end of the building with safety. ...Mrs Jones's hotel at Glenrowan come out, and called out who they were, the police would not have prevented them from leaving the place at any time. But they
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  • The commission adjourned until 11 a.m. next day. ...'Connor had refused to go round and see to stationing the party. The Greta police were now stationed in Mrs O'Brien's public-house. There were no other quart
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  • ...O'Connor]] for promotion over the heads of many compe tent officers in the police force,&quot; was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday by Acting Chief Commissioner of Police to the
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  • Mr GRAVES remarked that M'Intyre was under full pay as a member of the police force. ...ore taking fresh action. He had been in hope that the report of the police commission, which was investigating a cognate subject, would have been forthcoming in
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...uestion of the distribution of the rewards. He desired to know whether the commission could deal with the rewards.
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  • ...a great difficulty in getting agents in the future. The proceedings of the commission were so much talked about that the names of the agents were known and he fe ...laws in any portion of the district ought to have been communicated to the police in other localities, so that if the outlaws were disturbed and had to shift
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  • ...c interests. From what has since transpired we are led to believe that the commission will be asked to reconsider the matter. '''THE POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...is wounds indicated, that he had been shot in the early morning. The other police had been on the ground two or three hours before witness, but he believed t ...e can't fire at the hotel, then, because of the innocent people.&quot; The police on the Benalla side of the hotel were then firing into it. Messrs. Sadleir
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  • ...reflection on the officers. We believe that the majority of the men in the police force have sufficient self respect and regard for the obligations of an oat ...as been given in this way to a witness's story. It now looks as though the commission had resolved to allow no further interference of this kind, and had made up
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  • ...outlaws and the police now, and the former would be inclined to shoot the police if they had the chance. The condition of the district was not satisfactory. ...ould be removed from the district. Good bushmen and horsemen were the best police for the district. Melbourne footmen were not of much use. Witness described
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  • ...nor|O'Connor]], whom the Government wish to appoint to an inspectorship of police in the North Eastern district. No progress report on that point has been se ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • The Police Board resumed their sittings yesterday, at the old Treasury building Mr T C '''THE POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...platform. Mr Sadleir with reinforcements from Benalla, and the Wangaratta police arrived between 5 and 6, and Mr Sadleir then took command. Saw Mr Sadleir g ...vices, but had I understood that you were then an officer of the Victorian police force, I would have held that you ought to have taken a more active part in
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...fight the police. She went out into the yard and screamed for mercy to the police. Heard Sergeant Steele say to the prisoners &quot;Put up your hands or I'll
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...at things were serious in the district. It was not correct to say that the police were unprepared for another out- break. (Witness was further examined with
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' The Police Commission met again to-day, at the Treasury buildings, the members present being Mess
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  • ...h fresh matter of interest. Mr O'Connor was also further examined, and the commission adjourned till this morning. ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • ...ity of appointing Mr [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] to the position of inspector of police in the North- eastern district. They will probably proceed to draw up a pro '''THE POLICE COMMISSION AND THE KELLY COUNTRY'''
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  • ...dea to the Police Commission inquiry, but he says &quot;no one, except the police, believes that there is any likelihood of a second Kelly gang ” arising. '''THE POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...at Glenrowan being a safe one, a tracker was wounded alongside of me. The Police department have refused to pay the bill of the doctor who attended to that The commission adjourned until 11 o'clock next morning.
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  • ...but as to the charges he has made against Captain Standibh and others. The commission adjourned until next Tuesday. '''THE POLICE COMMISSION '''
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...ave evidence as to a claim for compensation for assistance rendered to the police put in by a previous witness named Jacob Wilson.  
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  • ...s again, and they learned that the chestnut horse which was taken from the police at the Wombat had been found on these ranges. Went then to Wangaratta, and ...calculated to keep the Kellys on the move. The present system by which the police had to travel throughout their district was good inasmuch as it enabled the
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  • ...ly, giving an account of your proceedings during the encounter between the police and the outlaws as Glenrowan on the 27th June ult., and I regret exceedingl ...tegory:1881]] [[Category:Joe Byrne]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]]
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  • ...t of this portion of the affair is very different. It runs thus:-&quot;The police and the gang blazed away at each other in the darkness furiously. It lasted ...course, which hardly seems to have been requisite when so large a body of police were present.
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' The Commission decided that Mr [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] could not be regarded as a mere witness
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' .... Sadleir until after the hotel was set on fire. It was quite possible the police might have been acting under definite orders without his knowing it. Was pr
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' The Police Commission sat here to-day at the court-house, the members present being Mr Longmore (
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  • ...house of [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]], and also to the cave where the police were concealed when watching the outlaws. A start was made shortly after 9 ...he chairman and two others proceeded on horseback to the cave in which the police watch- parties lay concealed, those who remained behind paid a visit to Mrs
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...Mr Longmore (chairman), Mr Anderson, and Mr Gibb. Several officers of the police were also present.
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' The commission met on Thursday at Parliament-house. There were present – Messrs Longmore
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...of the commission, and he thought it better to resign his position on the commission.
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  • The Police Commission yesterday took further evidence of '''[[John Sherritt Jnr|John Sherritt]],' ...had deemed it necessary to remove him from the North eastern district. The commission adjourned until Tuesday.
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' Superintendent '''[[Sadleir|Sadleir]]''' called the attention of the commission to a statement in acting chief-commissioner Chomley's evidence, taken with
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  • ...lly affair, and was examined at some length as to his own knowledge of the police tactics in the pursuit of the gang. John Sherritt's cross examination was c THE POLICE COMMISSION
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  • ...ng under the notice of the Chief Secretary the present helplessness of the police force to capture the Kellys. In my opinion, those men that are hired at a h ...r- take the first search for the Kellys. Until Mr Sadleir took charge, the police in the district were in a very disorganised state, and for this Mr Nicolson
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  • ...will be remembered that William Sherritt was dismissed from the Victorian police for misconduct. ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...l be heard. So soon as this branch of the inquiry has been disposed of the commission will proceed with the consideration of recommendations for the future manag ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...the evidence up to date, and having been taken into the confidence of the Commission so far, the public has a right to demand that it should hear the case unto ...efore his colleagues as a witness. Still more extraordinary is it that the Commission should receive from his hands as evidence a batch of anonymous statements.
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  • ...hatic denials. He was cross-examined by Messers Nicolson and Hare, and the commission then adjourned until to-day at 11 o'clock . '''POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...] before the Police Commission was continued yesterday, and concluded. The commission adjourned until to-day, when Mr Sadleir's closing statement will be heard, '''POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...d that the letter signed &quot;Connor,&quot; which was produced before the commission by Mr Graves, and on which he relied for his reflections on the efficiency The commission then adjourned for lunch. On reassembling, Captain Standish's examination w
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  • At the sitting ol the Police Commission yesterday Mr, [[Hare|Hare]] made his closing statement, and was cross-exami '''POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...o shoot each other if surrounded at any time, sooner than surrender to the police.’ And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same t ...ntil he was knocked up, and had to he carried from the bush to the nearest police station. Eleven months afterwards he was ordered up to the North- eastern d
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  • ...fly cross-examined by Messrs Nicolson and Hare, and also by members of the commission. To-day Mr Nicolson's state ment will be heard. '''POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...to go with him to Albury, so that he might confer with the New South Wales police officer. ...m Wodonga on the morning of the 11th December. Witness took the Wangaratta police to Lake Rowan , moving along the foot of the Warby Ranges. A sharp lookout
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  • ...ging for preventing any further outbreak, and advised the establishment of police stations at the Wombat, Fern-Hills, Greta, Black hills, and other places. ...g on the agents, but they were frightened by the evidence given before the commission. At last only two of them were left, and one day one of them came rushing i
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  • '''POLICE COMMISSION''' ...work for that officer. The man's reason for refusing to work was that the police owed him £20, and would not pay him. He refused to work for witness at fir
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  • ...ithout delay. As to the instructions sent to Mansfield which prevented the police there from taking certain action, he held that the officer at Mansfield, on ...subdue his fears had to get his likeness taken and circulated amongst the police so that they might know him and refrain from injuring him if he were ever i
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  • At the sitting of the Police Commission yesterday, the cross-examination of Mr [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] was concluded. '''POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • .... Mrs Nicolson was not far away, and was ready to be called at once if the commission desired her evidence. ...ut Mr Hare seems to forget that one of the charges always made against the police officers was that they were cock-fighters, coursers, rat-pitters, and such
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  • ...eld relating to the pursuit, and to describe minutely the movements of the police for almost a month previously. Mr Hare interrupted him, and said, 'I don't ...out without witness, and found one of the horses stolen from the Mansfield police.
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' The commission held a private sitting in the afternoon to consider the nature of a second
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  • At the local police court to-day, before Mr Foster, PM, [[James Kelly|James Kelly]], a brother ...t Kelly of having unlawful weapons in his possession was with drawn by the police.
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION AND THE STATE OF THE FORCE''' ...split, and mended at the ends with large iron screw nails. It spoke of the police mess as being economical, and affording an enviable degree of comfort. The
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  • '''POLICE COMMISSION''' ...have been informed that Mr Crawford told Mr Hare that what I stated to the commission was perfectly true. If so, by referring to Mr Hare, my statement can be cor
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