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  • ...ure of the district and the people imposed a most formidable task upon the police in pursuit of the bushrangers. ...vening, found the township in a great state of excitement. Two other small police parties in addition to Kennedy’s were at that time absent from their stat
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  • ...Kellys, who doubtless were perfectly acquainted with the movements of the police, had deliberately planned to surround the camp by Stringy Bark Creek, and m
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  • ...ut the later most of the people did not know, and conversation between the police and an inhabitant of the locality was in any case natural enough. ...nable to argument. She probably was not impressed with the capacity of the police for effecting a capture, and her answer was, ‘He has made his bed, let hi
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  • ...t the Kellys were being provisioned and interviewed almost in sight of the police, the officers felt themselves compelled to suffer these things, and to rema
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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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  • ...e with the treasure strapped upon it. When the gang were fired upon by the police, the pack horse, Aaron said, would be certain to break away. The obviously
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  • ...e as to where the funeral was to be. In his turn he asked what brought the police. Mr Hare told him the tracker had followed his tracks, and Nolan expressed
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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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  • ...es. This agent - usually known among the police as ‘the [[Diseased Stock Agent|diseased stock]]’ man - since this description of the outlaws was always ...omley]] [[Category:December 1817]] [[Category:Recollections of a Victorian Police Office]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:book]] [[C
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  • "I dressed and went down town, and found police installed in the telegraph office, and the whole town violently excited. Si ...ering what was going to happen. The horsemen proved to be Mr Powell, stock agent, and a groom from the [[Royal Mail Hotel|Royal Hotel]], Jerilderie, who cam
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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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  • ...ey generally tie up their horses.” I had previously been told by another agent of this clump of trees, where marks of horses having been tied up were to b ...eman. These people appear to know the difference between the footprints of police and other persons. However, the old woman could not be convinced she was wr
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  • ...able not to interfere with the women. During the time I and several of the police were going up every Friday night to Beechworth to apply for the remand of t ...rking at them until the women came up. It appeared as if the dogs knew the police were their natural enemies. At first I used to make one of my men in the se
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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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  • ...son]] decided to alter the plan of campaign.  Supt Hare rushed parties of police around on any rumour, and had his men and horses worn out after their retur ...e number of men in the camp.  The Kellys would have annihilated the whole police party if they had been even one per cent as bloodthirsty as the daily paper
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  • ...le, and, failing to do so, to place him and his team into the hands of the police.
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  • ...arcus '''Brownrigg''', RN, and the clerk of petty session and Crown land's agent is '''E Brown,''' Esq. As if in mockery there is a miserable building in th
    6 KB (997 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...Esq., is the police magistrate; he also undertakes the duty of Crown Lands agent. The best thing about Moama is the Public School; for the inhabitants have
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  • ...een carried by the late Chief Secretary. Some months ago a Mr Tilt was the agent and sub-editor of a newspaper called the ''[[Newspapers|Mansfield Independe ...as it may, Tilt was cut in the forehead, and sought tho assistance of the police.
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  • Mr William Chadwick has been appointed licensing agent for lands at Eldorado, vice Mr JR Crone, relieved, and Mr T Smallman, at Ch The only case in, the Wangaratta Police: Court on Monday was, William Clancy v M Hayward, tried before the Mayor, i
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  • At the police court, the first case was the children (three little girls), of Mrs Jones, Mrs Mann, wife of Mr Mann, stock agent, while on a visit to her friends at Woodford, tripped and fell, and sustain
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  • Cross examined -I said to the police that I believed the letter was written by Lynch, as the handwriting was sim '''Robert George Duff''', agent, residing at [[Maindample|Maindample]] park, near Mansfield, deposed, -I ha
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  • ...ceed to Benalla up to the period of the Kelly gang being surrounded by the police at [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] on the [[ev80-06-28Glenrowan|27th June]]. ...mes McCulloch. Ten years having elapsed since then, and my position in the police force being still the same, I did not see any advantage to be gained by bei
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  • ...ork for me or have anything to do with me, although he had accompanied the police from Beechworth the previous day for the purpose of having an interview wit ...ted off two or three parties of men who had been specially taken on in the police force, in consequence of their knowledge of the country and the outlaws, an
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  • ...dern army, the heliograph of Mr Henry Mance is certainly the most valuable agent for military signalling purposes. A pair of heliographs having been made to ...ing the fight with the Kelly gang Mr Cheshire volunteered to accompany the police party from Beechworth in search of the gang, and with the assistance of Mr
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  • ...rved portion of the court she was accompanied by Dick Hart, but the '''''' police refused to allow him in with her.''' ''' There is no truth whatever in the
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  • ...y last night, two men, named respectively [[John McElroy|George McElroy]], agent, and Michael Dwyer, labourer, refused to move on when requested, and were c ...bout 50, were brought on the reserve, and effectually kept it clear.  The police were under the command of Superintendent [[Winch|Winch]] and Inspectors [[I
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' '''CH [[Nicolson|Nicolson]]''' , acting chief commissioner of police, continued his evidence. He put in a private letter dated Benalla, 19th Nov
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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 ...old me the organisation of the secret cave party was known in the Richmond Police Depot, and was no secret at all. Remonstrated with him, and told him it was
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  • ...r for Moira, brought the comments of The Argus upon his appointment to the Police Commission before the Assembly yesterday evening Mr Hall differs in toto fr At the sitting of the Police Commission yesterday, Mr Nicolson, acting chief commissioner, resumed and c
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...another friend left." 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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  • 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''' ...h good to me. There were a few letters from the "diseased stock" agent. There is one produced dated 13th July, that I did not see. There were othe
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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." 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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  • ...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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  • ...at the Glenrowan Hotel, and be asks for compensation. Mr Wilson, a police agent and Mr Rawlins, who assisted as a volunteer at Glenrowan, aver that, under
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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 ...ublic. Perhaps it was intended that the matter should be dealt with by the Police Commission, and, if so, we trust that the commission will not lose sight of
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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 "GVS." brand. Witness, who was one
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  • ...O'Connor]] for promotion over the heads of many compe tent officers in the police force," was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday by Acting Chief Commissioner of Police to the
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  • ...Witness had received information from a secret agent. It was from a secret agent that he learnt that the outlaws were seen, or believed to be seen, at a tim ...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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  • ...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 .... Witness told him he had no faith in Aaron Sherritt – that was the only agent in whom witness had no confidence.
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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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  • ...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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  • The Police Commission was occupied yesterday hearing Superintendent '''[[Sadleir|Sadle '''POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...ng charge of the pursuit, very large reductions were made in the number of police stationed in the district, and in the amount allowed for expenditure in con ...outlaws into a false sense of security, to induce them to believe that the police were utterly at fault in every attempt to trace their whereabouts, to surro
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  • '''POLICE OFFICERS AND THE ROYAL COMMISSION''' ...icers of the police force to the charges brought against them by the Royal Police Commission.
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' Sir, – If it is a fact that the secretary of the Police [[Royal Commission|Commission]] has been instructed to collate the evidence
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