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  • ...ough a series of spectacular events that ended after a 2 year chase by the police with the siege at Glenrowan. The main members of the KellyGang were [[Ned K ...llyGang''' and its supporters '''''' and this '''colour''' to identify the police and those who supported authority. Both sides are important to this story.
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  • ...the country towns was full of it, while there was immense activity in the police department, which despatched heavy reinforcements of constabulary to every ...seek his horse at Peechelba, a station he had stuck up upon the New South Wales border.
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  • ...near them. However, their communications with each other are known to the police. Until the gang referred to is rooted out of this neighbourhood, one of the
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  • ...exactitude, what the outlaws’ movements had been after the murder of the police on October 26.
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  • ...y appear to have made strenuous attempts to cross the river into New South Wales. At [[bungowannah|Bungowunnah]] wharf, on the Victorian side, they found a ...ne. Mr [[Brooke Smith|Brooke Smith]] who was in charge of a large party of police at Wangaratta took no action, and Sergeant Steele was under orders to proce
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  • ...f the banks that there was likelihood of a raid being made upon them. More police had been applied for by Mr Sadleir and Mr Nicolson for the work of pursuing ...m that the gang was about to make another attempt to escape into New South Wales. Among the men who gave Mr Nicolson real or fanciful accounts of what the K
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  • ...is this-‘Any work to be had?’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Where?’ On the New South Wales side one shall meet you. I will have a boat ready. There must not be any ho ...to take place, and he also sent notice to the [[NSW police|New South Wales police]].
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  • ...rthward to [[Albury|Albury]], whence it could go to Denilquin in New South Wales , and southward by another line to Melbourne. ...d.’ Later on, after some scruples as to whether he should interfere with police plans, Mr Wyatt, who remained at Benalla, wired to Captain [[Standish|Stand
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  • ...inions and wishes of Mr Hare, very readily fell in with this view, and the police party departed under the leadership of Senior Constable [[Johnston|Johnson] From this day there began a new regime in the Kelly pursuit, Mr Nicolson going to Melbourne to take the Chi
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  • ...d to be Byrne and Dan Kelly had been seen riding towards the Murray, and a police party was sent up the river to watch a crossing place where a chain of hill
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  • ...lace in the hope of intercepting the Kellys on their return from New South Wales. ...r horses comfortable in the police stables, after which they went into the police station to take up their quarters for the night.
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  • ...e the town extra protection against the Kelly gang. On their return to the police station Richards was reincarcerated, and the bushrangers, making Mrs Devine ...ay morning Joe Byrne, in uniform, took two of the horses to be shod by the police farrier, who did the work but apparently was rendered somewhat suspicious b
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  • ...d to the saddle. He himself was next to leave, and led with him one of the police horses. Dan Kelly and Steve Hart departed last, and, before they took leave
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  • Police parties sent out with all possible despatch on receipt of the news from Jer ...r of people who saw and heard of the outlaws frequently decided to let the police catch them as best they might without taking any part in the game.
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  • ...ber by young Sherritt was a threatening letter to Detective Ward and other police, warning them of mischief to happen before the end of the month, and at the
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  • ...ious letters and putting up in different places certain caricatures of the police, and also mentioned that he and Ned were discussing rival plans for stickin ...party and another more modern make of rifle taken from the New South Wales police at Jerilderie. The train in which Lloyd and Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillio
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  • ...d sore, she showed courage that should have shamed both the Kellys and the police. . . .That is her picture-that one on the wall near the dark frame. . . . T "She wanted to defy the Kellys and the police wanted us all to run out of the house to some place of safety. When they ca
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  • "Two days later the Bank of New South Wales at Jerilderie was stuck up and cleaned out. ...pay them all with Government cheques. Of course, they daren't go near the police. I used to do very well out of both parties. Business was good and brisk, f
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  • ...to execution. The idea was a most promising one. It was that the New South Wales [[Horse and Cattle stealing|robbers]] should steal in their own State and t ...ak. There is the same fear amongst stock-owners to-day. Well the New South Wales thieves used to drive the horses and cattle to [[Howlong (2)|Howlong]]. Tha
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  • ...worthy exploits of the Kellys was the sticking up of the Bank of New South Wales at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]]. That event is still fresh in the mind of Mr P ...cut off the telegraph wires and looted the branch of the Bank of New South Wales. At that time I was a telegraphist at Deniliquin, and it was one of my duti
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  • ...d vases, &c., to assure himself, then the whole party watched from the police station the congregation assembling and dispersing. It was customary for Fa ...s Ned Kelly and Byrne returned to town, and entering the Bank of New South Wales they covered the teller, Mr Lyving, demanding the keys of the safe. Lyving
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  • ...e opinions of Fitzpatrick, while the present (1881) Acting Commissioner of Police, Mr. [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]], writes a valedictory memo. on his papers, des Wholesale depredations by members of the gang and their friends, which the police were powerless to prevent or punish, and which the owners of the stolen pro
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  • ...bushranging life he should be at once offered a bonus to enter the mounted police force, for which such men are presuminently qualified; falling which, he wo ...given practical demonstration of their acceptance of the position. All the police reports concerning the happenings of these earlier times allege that the me
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  • ...and pounds were offered for the capture of the four outlaws. The New South Wales Government offered another thousand pounds a head of their apprehension. ...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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  • '''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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  • '''POLICE AGAIN PARALYSED''' ...d a few words that she had with Sherritt, consequent upon a discovery that police were in the neighbourhood, provoked the treacherous scoundrel to the fearfu
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  • ...ars ago was, for some time, the most-talked-of individual in the Victorian police force in connection with the greatest of Australian bush romances. ...e State. Ex-Constable Fitzpatrick is handed down in history as the central police figure in an incident which sent the Kelly gang on their wild, reckless, la
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  • == New South Wales Customs == ...trees, and at nine o'clock in the morning got introduced to the New South Wales Customs officer, who was dressed up in gold lace and buttons from head to f
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  • ...y long search was made, but no trace of the outlaws could be obtained. The police were sent in every direction, trying to find out some tidings of the outlaw .... The messenger who conveyed the information was told to go and inform the police as fast as his horse could carry him. The officer in charge of the district
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  • ...ine|Devine]] and [[Const Richards|Richards]], and a telegraph station. The police station is situated some little distance outside the township. ...Kelly went into the police station, secured all the arms belonging to the police, made the constable's wife and family go into one room, and placed Steve Ha
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  • ...h, and said, “Mr Jarleton, we are stuck up, the Kellys are here, and the police are also stuck up.” Byrne then brought over Dan Kelly, and left him in th ...Hare]] [[Category:December 1807]] [[Category:Recollections of a Victorian Police Office]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:book]] [[Cat
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  • ...put it. After this, convictions were frequent, and, says Kelly, "The police became a nuisance to the family." At one period of his life Kelly desc ...it would be quite improper to have it published, but he admitted that the police were not in any way the aggressors at the Wombat, but were surprised and sh
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  • ...o [[EI Dorado|Eldorado]], which was beyond Woolshed where I had a party of police stationed. As the detective was well known in the locality, and I was not, ...Hare]] [[Category:December 1808]] [[Category:Recollections of a Victorian Police Office]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:book]] [[Cat
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  • ...off towards Melbourne , and the seller appear to return back to New South Wales. If by chance any of the horses were claimed by their owners, the receipt w ...irl, marry her, leave all his old associates, and begin life again amongst new people. He agreed with all I said, and turned round apd said to me, "M
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  • ...eared to be every likelihood that, if the fight was continued, some of the police might be seriously injured, the [[Chief Secretary|Chief Secretary]] instruc ...ir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Government of [[Govenment of NSW|New South Wales]], telegraphed to the Victorian Government, expressing the great satisfacti
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  • ...nce, it was little use their being required to do so, because if the white police preceded them and effaced the tracks, they could not do their work. ...rd|reward]] of £8000 offered by the Governments of Victoria and New South Wales. For it was notified on the 20th of April that the reward would be withdraw
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  • ...months. My wound was more serious than I thought. To use the words of the Police Commission—"In the very first volley Superintendent Hare received a ...f his writings fell into our hands. They were chiefly directed against the police. Aaron Sherritt told me that when they contemplated committing a robbery, s
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  • ...r-At the Buckland River Station-"Billy the Puntman"-In Charge of new Rushes-Border Difficulties on the Murray ...eak-Search Party organized-Murder of Kennedy-M'Intyre's Escape -Arming the Police-Tracking the Gang-Close on
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  • | Lieutenant in Victorian Police In Charge of new Rushes
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  • ...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 '' ''This admits police persecution in the form of Loaded Dice, and could be admitted only behind c
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  • ...istrict for me and a man named Newman, who had escaped from the Wangaratta police for months before April 15, 1878 I heard how the police used to be blowing that they would shoot me first and then cry surrender. H
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  • ...he would kick his —.  Joe Ryan replied if he had the handcuffs off the police would not dare put a hand on his young friend, Mr D Wall. ([[Royal Commissi ...were going across the Murray, and intended going to Goulburn, in New South Wales, where the Kelly’s had a cousin.  He said they urged him to go for a lon
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  • ...Victorian police to capture the Kellys.  If the Kellys were in New South Wales, they said, they would soon have them in the prison cell.  This was the us ...the two colonies, and the Kellys did not disturb them.  They allowed the police to rest in peace.  They heard of a crossing at [[Burramine|Burramine]], wh
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  • ...eak.  Ned took particular notice of the position of the Bank of New South Wales and [[Royal Mail Hotel|Cox’s Royal Hotel]].  The bank and the hotel were ...o one wanted police help that day, but if anything had cropped up the four new constables were prepared to attend to it in an effective and intelligent fa
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  • ...Mr Living did not carry out his promise, but he handed the document to the police instead, and it was published in a very distorted and mutilated form after ...told them of the way in which he and his family had been persecuted by the police, and how he himself had been sentenced to fifteen years by Judge Barry befo
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  • ...wn to their camp.  The outlaws were anxious not to disturb or terrify the police, who were watching the crossings over the Murray. ...ses and themselves safely across the Murray, while the police of New South Wales and Victoria watched the public highways and bridges to intercept them.  B
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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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  • ...Nicolson) spoke of it, and since you recommended them to be taken into the police force.  Was it not your duty to make inquiries about this matter of sheep 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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  • ...000, or £1000 for each of the outlaws.  The [[Govenment of NSW|New South Wales Government]] also offered £4000 reward for the outlaws, alive or dead.  T ...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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  • ...ad seen the police about lately.  The reply was no, they had not seen any police in that quarter.  The two young men were Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly.  They k ...ellys, would not assist the police, even with the £8000 inducement.  The police, after a few common place remarks, turned back to report at Benalla.  The
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