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  • ...of Mr Hare, Mr Sadlier, and Mr Nicolson, who placed great reliance on the trackers, nor of the Kellys, who feared them more than all the other police in the d ...m and Captain Standish, with the result that much of the usefulness of the trackers was discounted by Captain Standish’s refusal to employ them on certain oc
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  • ...authorities wanted their trackers back, as they belonged to their force of native police, and the officer in charge was anxious to return also. I arranged wi
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  • ...nsland police|Queensland]] Government in forwarding a contingent of native trackers to Victoria to aid in the pursuit of the outlaws. We take this our approval “The Queensland contingent did good service, and your Commissioners trust the Victorian Gov
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  • Request for [[Police Trackers|Black Trackers]]. ...ge in the proceedings it was intended to track the outlaws down with black trackers.
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  • ...wn that help is near, that the, sound of a shot will bring assistance, the native bravery of the race will assert itself. No man cares about risking his life ...delusive, but a substantial improvement seems possible with regard to the trackers.
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  • THE QUEENSLAND NATIVE POLICE ...sland, supplies the following information respecting the [[Police Trackers|native police]] of that colony, a detachment of which is now employed in Victoria
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  • '''Trackers from Queensland''' One great use the native police were put to was that of making new tracks to the diggings, or of sho
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  • ...so skilled in bush craft as to be himself a match for a Myalla. Six black trackers accompany them, trained human sleuth hounds, who have served with O'Connor
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  • '''THE QUEENSLAND NATIVE POLICE''' ...ext heard of. A detachment of this able body of men arrived in Sydney from Queensland several weeks ago under the command of Mr. Inspector Stanhope [[O'Connor|O'
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  • ...estoration to Queensland of the detachment of Queensland [[Police Trackers|native police]], who, under the leadership of Lieutenant [[O'Connor|O’Connor]], ...mitted if once the gang feel sure they have only to deal with the ordinary trackers the Victorian Government can command. Most people resident in the bush are
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  • ...eparted to day. Mr Ramsay telegraphed last week to the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] Chief Secretary, asking that they might be allowed to stop some short tim ...gram last night, authorising you to detain [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and the native troopers, and feel bound to say that, although O’Connor has never officia
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  • ...they were to have departed to-day. Mr Ramsay telegraphed last week to the Queensland Chief Secretary, asking that they might be allowed to stop some short time ...to your telegram last night, authorising you to detain O’Connor and the native troopers, and feel bound to say that, although O’Connor has never officia
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  • ...large body of police accompanied by the black trackers from the Queensland native police, was sent to Euroa, which township had been quite unprotected prior
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  • ...ho were at this time aided by a body of black trackers from the Queensland native police, under the direction of Sub-inspector [[O'Connor|O’Connor]].  Alt
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  • ...high appreciation of the conduct and services of the police force, both of Queensland and Victoria, who by their steadiness and courage seconded my efforts and c ...appointed to decide to whom it is to be paid, and that the constables and trackers who were engaged at the destruction of the gang will be allowed to partake
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  • ...ers were removed on the 25th June. The outlaws believing they had left for Queensland, showed out on the 26th.On the 28th the gang was destroyed, and its leader
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  • ...vernment for an [[Royal Commission|inquiry]] into the conduct of the black trackers under his command here in connexion with the pursuit and capture of the Kel
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  • ...gain appeal to you to grant me the inquiry, for which I have returned from Queensland. Sub-Inspector of Queensland Police
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  • ...nsland native police officer, whose services, together with six aboriginal trackers, had been secured by the Victorian Government, against the recommendation,
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  • ...ecessaries, such as blankets and food, and that Corporal Sambo, one of the trackers, was ill. Had to send Sambo to Benalla on March 15. He died of congestion o ...Hare was in charge. Mr Hare told me, after observing the efficiency of the trackers, that we ought not to go out except on the best information, as something i
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  • ...ered by the Government to be the best man available to take command of the trackers. It has also been determined to considerably strengthen the force in the No ...Government doing so on the ground that the services of Mr O'Connor and the trackers, lent by it to our Government, have not been sufficiently recognised. It is
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  • ...or, and he was at the top of the list for promotion. Came to Victoria with trackers in consequence of an application made by the Victorian Government, and here ...ut. Captain Standish once asked one of his own officers to take one of the trackers from his command.
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  • ...myself, which was not correct. I objected to a permanent separation of the trackers. Fancied he wanted them separated in order to show that my services were no ...nder that of inspector, and would not have taken that if it related to the trackers only. Stipulated it should be an ordinary inspectorship, and a permanent on
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  • ...recommendations as have reference to Mr. Inspector O'Connor and the black trackers under him, as in the projected reorganisation of the police arrangements fo ...on of the Victorian police authorities for the temporary service of native trackers to assist in the pursuit of the outlaws, it was due to Mr. O'Connor that he
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  • ...he North-Eastern District should have led to unpleasant complications. The Queensland contingent did good service, and your commissioners trust that the Victoria
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  • ...e Chief Secretary, as the late officer in command of the Queensland native trackers, and a witness who was examined by the Police Commission He says:-
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  • ...ot consent to him going out alone, but sent Mr. Sadleir with him. No doubt trackers can be utilized in following the traces of men on foot, but for this kind o
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  • ...a]] bank robbery, and our pursuit of them failed through want of efficient trackers, even although the tracks were recent. ...laws on their return, but, as at Euroa, in the absence of efficient native trackers, without effect. Although reports did come in of the re-appearance of indiv
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  • ...What were you formerly?- Formerly Sub-Inspector of the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] police; and at the time when I applied for this enquiry I was in the poli 1068 You have left the Queensland police now?- I have. I met Captain [[Standish|Standish]] in [[Albury|Albury
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  • ...on the part of the Victorian police towards Mr. O'Connor and his party of trackers. It appears that the greatest cordiality invariably prevailed between the t
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  • ...ad charge of the troop that came across, and that you were an officer from Queensland . ...her?— You would be sent by the Chief Commissioner of [[Queensland police|Queensland]] , and might be sent without being a volunteer.
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  • ...pector Montfort, that during the period I have been in charge of the above trackers and on all occasions when out with them in search of offenders and otherwis ...than Inps O'Connor's, "if any other person told one of Mr. O'Connor's trackers to do this, that, or the other, or gave him any instructions at all, he wou
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  • ...m, and he said if any other person told one of Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]]'s trackers to do this, that, or the other, or gave him any instructions at all, he wou <span id="rc11019">[[#rc11019|11019]]</span> Do you think that if the present trackers at Benalla were under the management of Mr. O'Connor that they would rather
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  • ...e was a Sun Inspector of native police in Queensland. He explained how the native police system worked there. In mid June it was decided that the Queensland trackers would return home. The Royal Commission examined the politics surrounding t
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  • ...f the date of the first order directing your return to [[Queensland police|Queensland]]?— The first positive order to return, I believe, I got from Captain [[S ...ained the authority of the Government to engage the services of four other trackers, and I am on the look-out for them both here and in N.S.Wales. Their pay wi
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  • ...on]]—he asked for two to remain?— He said he had communicated with the Queensland Government, and they had eventually allowed him to keep Moses; but Captain ...ed if they consent to join our police. Moses was in our employ, but joined Queensland police on death of Sambo. It would be a great convenience to us to have two
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  • ...— Arising out of the question as to whether your [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] are considered more efficient in small detachments or singly for tracking ...ing—that they are really enemies in their own country, and very often in Queensland it results in murder.
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  • ...e this opportunity of expressing our approval of the services of the black trackers as a body, and deeply regret that any misunderstanding amongst the officers The Queensland contingent did good service, and your Commissioners trust the Victorian Gov
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  • | '''The Queensland Trackers''' .... Problems over the size of search parties and the clothing for the native trackers. Deathof Corporal Sambo.
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  • ...he North-Eastern district should have led to unpleasant complications. The Queensland contingent did good service, and your Commissioners trust that the Victoria
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  • '''XI.-THE''' '''QUEENSLAND''' '''TRACKERS''' ...and consideration. While Captain Standish entertained this opinion of the trackers, it must be noticed that Mr. Hare, Mr. Sadleir and other competent authorit
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  • ...high appreciation of the conduct and services of the police force, both of Queensland and Victoria, who by their steadiness and courage seconded my efforts and c ...appointed to decide to whom it is to be paid, and that the constables and trackers who were engaged at the destruction of the gang will be allowed to partake
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  • '''THE''' '''QUEENSLAND''' '''BLACK TRACKERS''' ...Chief Commissioner, who was with us in Benalla, agreed, and a party of six native troopers, with a white officer, Sub Inspector Stanhope O’Connor, and a su
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  • | The Queensland Black Trackers How the Black Trackers Worked
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  • == I was the leader of the aboriginal trackers from Queensland in the hunt for the KellyGang == ...e Jerilderie robbery there was a move to have Queensland aboriginal police trackers in the hunt for the '''KellyGang'''.
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  • ...arrests]] sympathizers , [[#Jer|Jerilderie Robbery]] , [[#track|Arrival of trackers]] , Autum 1879 , Standish &amp; Hare replaced by Nicolson , Spring 1879 Ear '''Trackers'''
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  • North Queensland Photograph A number of very good [[Police Trackers|trackers]] came from the Cooktown area ([[The Argus at KellyGang 13/3/1879|Argus13/3
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  • - the permanent employment of [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] as an auxiliary branch of the police service ...eensland Government in forwarding a contingent of [[Police Trackers|native trackers]] to Victoria
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  • ...sort of ambush. The trackers were not trained police. Many of the original trackers came from [[Coranderrk|Coranderrk]] aboriginal reserve. ...aboriginal police troopers under Insp [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] came down from Queensland to assist the Victorian police to track down the '''KellyGang'''. It would
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  • ...[[Const Broderick|Broderick]] and some local aboriginal [[Police Trackers|trackers]]. [[Hunt|Hunt]] from the Argus accompanied Brrok Smith. ...very slow, and did not appear to like to go into the scrub at all, the two trackers we had. We turned back the same line as we had gone, just came straight bac
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