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  • ...that Constable [[Thom|Thom]] would hardly be able to cope with these men. At the same time some of these offenders may commit themselves foolishly some
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  • ...horse stealers, but enjoyed by no means so evil a notoriety as the Kellys. At the time of the murder in the Wombat Ranges, near Mansfield, it was not kno ...ins of his locality as were the Kellys with the interminable ranges behind Greta, and Hart with the Warby Ranges. The fact that between them the bushrangers
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  • ...tance was of no consequence, and he hoped, perchance, to find Dan Kelly at home. The sergeant approved of Fitzpatrick’s expedition, but told him to be ca ...and studying the horse attentively, he recognized it. ‘Why, that is Dan Kelly’s mare,’ he said.
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  • ...particularly well treated, was desirous that he should bring his trackers home as soon as their services could be dispensed with. ...Mr Nicolson’s agents, and reestablished a party of [[Police at Sherritt home|four police]] in [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]]’s house. Aaron had bee
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  • “[[James Kelly|Jim]] does what he can for us. But he cannot do much. He’s a man, Jim. Th ...s more than 10 years ago that Jim one day found a telegram waiting for him at the post-office with the news that Kate had died. . . Such an awful death,
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  • He is to leave the chestnut at Greta, where he picks up another horse, and the new owner of the pony, beside her ...rse property, the only property of value in that region - and through bred at that! None of the boys of her acquaintance even had the privilege of occasi
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  • ...al rendezvous was eight miles away, in what was known as the [[Greta Swamp|Greta Swamp]]. ...belonged to-that does not matter now. But the owner was a man who believed Kelly's story of what happened on the afternoon of Fitzpatrick's disastrous visit
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  • DENIES INTERFERING WITH KATE KELLY Tall, stalwart, with thin brown hair and moustache, ex-Constable [[Fitzpatr ...down in history as the central police figure in an incident which sent the Kelly gang on their wild, reckless, lawless career. It was interesting to hear th
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  • ...said that he would not go, and I went into the hotel, and danced with Dan Kelly.
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  • == JOHN (RED) KELLY == [[John (Red) Kelly|John (Red) Kelly]], the father of Ned and Dan. was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. He was
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  • ...s resistance to four policemen and a bootmaker when trying to handcuff him at Benalla in 1877, seven years after the introduction of the infamous methods ...ut of sight. and on whose unsupported evidence three innocent persons, Mrs Kelly, Wm. [[William Williamson, Brickey|Williamson]], and Wm'''.''' [[William Sk
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  • ...s horse got away from the camp and was making its way home to Benalla. Ned Kelly recognised the horse and caught it with the intention of returning it to it ...cCormack went to the Greta Police Station and laid two charges against Ned Kelly. He charged Ned with having sent his wife an obscene note, and with having
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  • '''DAN KELLY''' ...law from the time he was 17 years of age till he was 19 years at his death at Glenrowan, he killed no one, he shot no one, offered violence to no neighbo
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  • ...innocence, and was, therefore, discharged. This discharge also cleared Dan Kelly. ...ation the Sergeant sent Constable [[Const Healey|Healey]] out on patrol to Greta on Sunday, April 14, with instructions to return to Benalla on Monday, 15th
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  • ...eep Dan out of the reach of the warrant which brought Fitzpatrick to their home. But Ned himself was "wanted" now for his participation in the Fi From their camp on Kelly's Creek, Joe Byrne on some occasions went to [[Mansfield|Mansfield]] provis
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  • ...he police party, under Senior-Constable Shoebridge, which had set out from Greta to look for the Kellys. ...e district. McIntyre said he would get Kennedy and Scanlan to surrender if Kelly would not shoot them, pleading that they could not be blamed for doing thei
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  • ...r [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] after that. Mr. [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] was in Benalla at the time, and there were five of us despatched to catch the Kellys. Sub-Ins ...Kelly reported that McIntyre had got clear away, and felt somewhat annoyed at Ned for refusing his suggestion to handcuff him. Ned agreed that McIntyre's
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  • ...partaking of a good meal, they related in detail what happened on Saturday at Stringybark Creek. After a few hours' rest both men and horses were refresh ...cleared, and shortly after midnight the Kellys left home, and made for the Greta Ranges . Here they camped during the next day, Monday (28/10/78).
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  • ...wo men reported by McIntyre as being with Ned and Dan Kelly were William [[Greta|King]] and Charles [[King River|Brown]].
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  • ...t of the Kellys.  Then, again, Supt CH Nicolson, who was in charge of the Kelly hunt, was in doubt, because Mr John Sadleir was superintendent in charge of Question— “Did Aaron Sherritt accompany you from the time you met him at Byrne’s house?”
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  • ...20 law-abiding citizens of their liberty, and destroyed the confidence of at least 80 per cent of the population in the Judiciary. ...ublic mind of the foolish and illegal action of the authorities in keeping Kelly sympathisers in gaol for three months may be gathered from the following in
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  • ...ble replied that that would be too risky, as they were also covered by Dan Kelly.
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  • == The Welcome Home == ...own prison cell at Jerilderie that he disliked to hear any evidence to the Kelly Gang and their visit to Jerilderie.  He afterwards went to West Australia,
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  • ...hat the Kellys were so successful in locking up the New South Wales police at Jerilderie and assuming control of the town. ...he [[Police Trackers|blackfellows]] in ordering the police to go first: “Kelly very soon now, you go catch ‘em.”
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  • These spies also reported that the outlaws were starved out, and that Dan Kelly was seen somewhere, and that he was very thin and starved-looking.  Mr Nic ...ow enjoyed from pursuit, and settled down in their [[Kelly Home|old home]] at Eleven-Mile Creek.  They put a ceiling of bark in the house, and the four
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  • So quietly did the Kellys live at their old home that the general opinion of the public and some of the police was that the ...to get some kind of [[Kelly's Armour|covering]] that would resist a bullet at the close range of ten yards.  They had heard that an India rubber coat wo
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  • ...ady secured and left by train that afternoon for Benalla.  He disembarked at Benalla, and that night the ammunition was handed over to the outlaws. ...them to return, just as the police were doing at Rosier’s.  They stayed at another hotel.  Next morning the police came to Rosier’s and planted the
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  • ...write a report in 1877 suggesting that the Kellys should be rooted out of Greta than to arrest them now that they offered armed resistance.  He had no scr ...s]].  Mr HM [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]], who shortly after the capture of Ned Kelly succeeded Captain Standish as Chief Commissioner of Police, had already bee
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  • == Sunday at Glenrowan == ...nor, his wife and her sister and a number of press representatives arrived at Benalla about 1 o’clock on Monday morning, June 28, 1880.
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  • ...committed a serious outrage upon Constable [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] at Greta, near Benalla. ...again fired and shot him in the wrist. Skillian also presented a revolver at him. Fitzpatrick was then overpowered and disarmed of his own revolver, but
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  • '''THE GRETA OUTRAGE''' ...Ellen Kelly|Ellen Kelly]] on remand, were charged with aiding and abetting at murder.
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  • ...of such a character as to show that four most un- scrupulous ruffians are at large in the colony, and that no effort must be spared to secure them immed ...d bring home dead bodies. The bushrangers are supposed to be the notorious Kelly's party, for whom the constables were in search.  
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 30/10/1878 (4)|see previous]] ...t surpasses belief. They lived on the Eleven-mile-Creek between Winton and Greta, and there can be no doubt made a living by horse-stealing and theft genera
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 31/10/1878 (2)|see previous]] ...ed off. The ranges are full of secret fastnesses, known only to a few like Kelly, who have been reared amongst them.
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 17/12/1878|see previous]] ...fter the robbery was committed, the sister stationed at Delatite proceeded home. It is believed that the gang is now broken up, and that whilst the two Kel
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  • ...o the Attorney General for his consideration. The terrible threats made by Kelly to tear up rails and sacrifice life on the North Eastern Railway, were note The determination not to publish the [[Cameron Letter|letter]] in existence at present will be adhered to, but Mr Cameron has felt justified in supplying
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  • [[The Argus at KellyGang 20/1/1879|see previous]] ...evidence that the prisoner was one of the most active confederates of the Kelly gang.
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  • == THE KELLY RAID == ...Victorian police are utterly incapable to cope with them. After the murder at Stringl Bark Creek, when the four ruffians, who committed a brutal and most
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  • ([[Illustrated Australian News at KellyGang 8/5/1880 (2)|see next]]) '''UNVEILING THE MONUMENT TO THE POLICE AT MANSFIELD'''
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  • == [[Ned Kelly|NED KELLY]]'S STATEMENTS == ...Inspector Sadleir. –‘You wanted then to kill the people on the train? Kelly.- ‘Yes, of course I did; God help them, but they would have got shot all
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  • ...that we had to lie on our sides, and lay in tat position until we came out at about 10 o’clock . Those next the door led the way, and we were prompted ...hers I don’t remember. I made several attempts to escape from the hotel. At daybreak this (Monday) morning I came out with my infant child, and got ref
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  • ...s Jones’s Hotel. On the east rise the Greta Ranges , and the township of Greta is only four miles away. ...sharpest part of the curve and at the foot of the incline, and it was just at this point that the rails were torn up. Had the special train continued its
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  • ...im half an hour since. There is a deal of ill blood stirring, and I cannot at present reduce the strength of the force stationed here. ...be mentioned that there was no intention on the part of the authorities to at present remove any of the police from the neighbourhood, even prior to the
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  • ...t, and swears that he will head another and stronger gang than that of Ned Kelly and take to the bush. ...st on [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt's]] remains was resumed this morning at the Vine Hotel, Beechworth. The depositions previously taken having been re
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  • [[Reardon|Reardon]], the line repairer, who was ordered by Kelly to take the rails up, gives the following narrative:- ...gly. I then commenced hammering at them, making a great clanking noise. He at once interfered, and said he would not stand that. The rails and sleepers w
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  • THE KELLY TRAGEDY ...the capture of the four members of the gang (the bodies of Hart and Daniel Kelly being almost entirely consumed by fire), we from time to time during the da
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  • ...Mr. Wilson's stations on the Upper Darling in New South Wales. He arrived at Glenrowan just before the fight commenced, and has a great deal to say abou ...the Kellys could not have been taken without firing the house. He laughed at the idea, and thought the police ought to have had a deliberate fight for i
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  • ...honesty and integrity. In the year 1865 he removed to a squatting station at the head of the King River, and four years after this he died. It was on th ...fter the expiration of his sentence he recovered to Donnybrook, and it was at this place he first met James Quinn.
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  • ...Harry Power, who for many years in the district which this gang made their home bade defiance to the police. ...rge and making depredating excursions to many other stations, the loss was at once set down to him. A party was organised, and set out in pursuit. The tr
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  • ...ging out a man named Cherry in a dying state, and the body of Byrne—Dan. Kelly and Hart being dead and their bodies almost consumed. ...id come by the information, and took the risk of earning the hatred of the Kelly gang by doing it in the interests of humanity. His house stands quite close
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