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  • == Importance of Const Hugh Bracken (2228) == "12. That the Commission approve of the action taken by Constable Bracken when imprisoned by the '''KellyGang''' in Mrs Jones's hotel, at Glenrowan,
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  • Then Constable Bracken rushed up saying the Gang were in Mrs Jones and for God’s sake surround t
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  • ...d beyond was a forest of stringy bark and other gum trees rising above the bracken and undergrowth, and shutting in the view of either side. The police tent w
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  • ...gress through the scrub and forest, where huge fallen trees half hidden in bracken and undergrowth barred the way, was painful and difficult. Resting for a ti
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  • ...the door and broke it in. One of his party, Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], tried to go first in the rush into the dwelling, but Mr Nicolson, resent
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  • ...ke his (Curnow’s) brother in law, Dave Mortimer, to the barracks to call Bracken out, since the constable would know his voice and come unsuspectingly into ...in progress and everything appeared to be going merrily. During the dance Bracken, who had observed where the key of the door was placed on the mantelpiece,
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  • ...ce and moralising to some of the civilians, turned to [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] and began to address him on the wickedness and laziness of a constable’ ...saying, ‘The train is coming.’ Ned Kelly went out to join the others; Bracken seized the opportunity to escape, locking the door behind him when he went
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  • ...t Mr [[Hare|Hare]] to go quickly to the hotel. It was [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], who had just escaped, and he told of the presence of the outlaws, saying
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  • ...ted gave a warning to lie close upon the floor if firing came. Altogether, Bracken’s is the only name in the Victorian police force which derived any added
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  • ...eturn to his house. Up to this time, while Curnow and [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] had won credit for themselves, the police had done nothing in particular
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  • We met Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] on the way. He was galloping along the railway line. ...|Hare]], who got shot in the hand, is dead. Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], who so pluckily escaped from the Glenrowan Inn and told us what was doin
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  • ...on the ground and unarmed. And he said that Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] thereupon caught up his gun and declared that he would shoot any man who ...bravery all through the fight. When Ned Kelly was captured he appealed to Bracken to save him, saying, "I once saved you, you know."
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  • ...directions, all supposed to be by the gang, Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], who was in charge at Glenrowan, reported that the four men who had been
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  • == Constable Bracken Bailed Up == ...ho wanted him. The object in getting Reynolds to call [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], was to prevent the constable from recognizing the outlaw's voice, so the
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  • ...ioned there, might see us, and would be able to give an alarm. I knew that Bracken had been stationed at Greta, and felt sure that he would recognize Ned Kell ...ing, Ned Kelly said that he would go down to the police barracks and bring Bracken, and Reynolds, the postmaster, up to Jones's. I laughed and said to him tha
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  • == Going for Bracken == ...and asked if he would allow me to take my party home when he went down for Bracken; and I assured him that he had no cause for fearing me, as I was with him h
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  • == Bracken Captured == ...ich he kept hold of, saying, 'I can't trust you with the bridle, Bracken.' Bracken said to Ned Kelly that had he not been ill in bed all day he (Kelly) would
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  • ...ard him calling out my name. I said, "Who is it?" He replied, “Bracken. Go quickly over to Mrs Jones's, the outlaws are all there, and if you don' ...nts. Two or three children were shot. There was a general cry to lie down, Bracken, with great forethought, before he left the house, having told them to do s
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  • Just before Superintendent Hare was wounded, Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], the local policeman, who had been made prisoner in the hotel, courageous
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  • ...d rode the ten miles in a surprisingly short space of time. The conduct of Bracken, and the promptitude of the Wangaratta police, is to be highly commended. J
    6 KB (1,135 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...ed [[McAuliffe|M'Auliffe]] came, Superintendent Sadleir directed Constable Bracken to arrest them as Kelly sympathizers. They were accordingly handcuffed, and
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  • The statement of Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] is to the effect that the first intimation of the presence of the gang at
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  • ...he having gone for [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]]. He returned to us with Bracken. He kept us waiting there about an hour and a half. Byrne at that time was
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  • ...t the sudden escape of the gang. When we left the station we met constable Bracken, who told us that the gang were at Jones's. He, I believe, jumped on one of
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  • ...Sherritt's Doom-The Beginning of the End-Glenrowan -Sticking up the Hotel-Bracken's Escape-The Police on the Alert-A Dangerous Journey-Mr. Curnow's Adventure
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  • Bracken's Escape
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  • ...the Glenrowan program, and the third was when Dan suggested that Constable Bracken should be handcuffed to the sofa in Mrs. Jones' Hotel. While their mother h
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  • ...hough he was only ninteen years old when he died at Glenrowan.  Constable Bracken, who had been arrested by the Kellys at Glenrowan, said that the four bushr
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  • ...down to the police barracks to “arrest” Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]].  The police barracks were situated a mile from Glenrowan towards Benall ...acken obeyed and Ned took charge of Bracken’s gun, revolver and horse.  Bracken was ordered to mount the horse, which Ned, riding his own horse, led by a h
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  • ...d already given orders to unload the horses, but on hearing from Constable Bracken that the Kellys were in Jones’ hotel, and that the place was full of peop Before Constable Bracken left the hotel he told the civilians held up there to lie flat on the floor
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  • ....  I was there when the police came.  I was still there when he went for Bracken between nine and ten o’clock on Sunday night.  They took him prisoner al ...outside).  There was no light in the house.  We were all frightened, and Bracken told us to lie down on the floor as flat as we could before he went away. 
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  • ...ld down.  Steele was about to shoot him with his revolver, when Constable Bracken prevented him.  Steele seemed thirsting for blood—someone’s blood.  O
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  • ...prisoners confined at the house when they went to it at the first moment. Bracken, when he came down to tell about the Kellys, told them also that they had a
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  • [[Const Hugh Bracken|Const Bracken]] ...as Curnow|Thomas Curnow]], schoolmaster; Senior constable Kelly; Constable Bracken; Sergeant Steele; Mr Jesse Dowsett, railway guard; and Senior constable Joh
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  • ...e Commission approve of the action taken by Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] when imprisoned by the Kelly gang in Mrs Jones’ hotel at Glenrowan, and
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  • ...h his head, the suicide evidently being of a most deliberate nature. Since Bracken's retirement from the force he has been a police pensioner, receiving, in a
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  • ...ately ordered everybody out of the train, and at the same moment Constable Bracken ran up and said that he had escaped from Jones's public-house, and "fo
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  • ...mmediately ordered to leave the train, when Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] appeared on the scene exclaiming, “I have just escaped from Jones’s p ...alighted to make inquiries. He had not proceeded far when he met Constable Bracken, stationed at Glenrowan, who had been made a prisoner by the Kelly’s, but
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  • ...ust before Superintendent Hare was wounded, Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], the local policeman, who had been made prisoner in the hotel, courageous
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  • ...d rode the ten miles in a surprisingly short space of time. The conduct of Bracken, and the promptitude of the Wangaratta police, is to be highly commended. J
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  • ...Superintendent [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] directed Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] to arrest them as Kelly sympathizers. They were accordingly handcuffed, a
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  • The statement of Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] is to the effect that the first intimation of the presence of the gang at
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  • ...he having gone for [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]]. He returned to us with Bracken. He kept us waiting there about an hour and a half. Byrne at that time was
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  • ...f the gang. When we left the station we met constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], who told us that the gang were at Jones's. He, I believe, jumped on one
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  • ...e's statement , Statement by Charles Rawlins , Statement of Constable Hugh Bracken , Statement of Rev. M Gibney , Statement by Senior Constable Kelly , The mu No sooner were we out of the train, than Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], the local policeman, rushed into our midst, and stated with an amount of
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  • == STATEMENT OF CONSTABLE HUGH [[Const Hugh Bracken|BRACKEN]] ==
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  • ...vent escape on them. When he left the train Constable [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], who had just escaped from the hotel, told us the gang were all inside. H
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  • ...e's statement , Statement by Charles Rawlins , Statement of Constable Hugh Bracken , Statement of Rev. M Gibney , Statement by Senior Constable Kelly , The mu No sooner were we out of the train, than Constable Bracken, the local policeman, rushed into our midst, and stated with an amount of e
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  • ...us were afraid. In the afternoon he rode off to find [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]], the constable, as he wanted his horse, and brought him back. We were the HEARD THE WHISTLE OF THE ENGINE, and just and then Dan said, “That _____ Bracken has gone.” Ned called out to them to stand by the front of the house and
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  • ...obert Gibbon;s Statement]] , [[The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (5)|Constable Bracken's Statement]] , [[The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (5)|Mr Rawlins Statement]]
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