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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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  • | POLICE AGAIN PARALYSED | POLICE AGAIN PARALYSED
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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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  • ...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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