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• Archibald M'Phee's report 18/12/1880
  ...h]] Operator [[Benalla|Benalla]]. He informed me that Mr Stephens (Station Master) required me on duty as soon as possible. On reporting myself ready for dut ...a start we went along all right till within a mile and a half of Glenrowan station when I noticed a reddish light ahead. My first impression was that the ligh
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 8
  ...insulators with their revolvers. Mr [[Jefferson|Jefferson]], the telegraph master, was told that if he repaired the line before next day he would be visited ...abitants were able to breathe freely. It is to the credit of the telegraph master, Mr Jefferson, that undeterred by the Kellys’ threats he immediately set
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 3
  ...t nine o’clock in the evening the outlaws were about to go to the police station to capture Bracken, the constable already referred to. Curnow had heard Ned
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 7 page 4
  ...Kelly broke the insulators with his revolver. Ned Kelly told the telegraph master, Mr [[Jefferson|Jefferson]], that if he attempted to mend the wires before ...ook Constable Richards from amongst the prisoners and walked to the police station.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 3
  ...g bargains about the price of each animal, so as to lead the people of the station to believe that it was a genuine sale. At last they would agree to a price, ...f the party used to act as the master, and the others as his servants; the master always going ahead and making arrange. meets where the horses were to be pa
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 8
  ...ked him if he could tell in any way whether the line was open between that station and Beechworth, as there was no telegraph office at Tarrawingee. The operat ...immediately sent to me in breathless haste to come quickly to the railway station. I pretended to be very much surprised, but, of course, Aaron did not recog
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 10
  ...d Kelly, then spoke to one another, and Kelly took Alec Reynolds, the post master's son, and Mr E Reynolds, and passed with them into [[Reynolds|Reynolds]]' ...leaving the outlaws and their captives ready to start back to the railway station. As soon as we were out of hearing of the outlaws, I announced to my wife a
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 11 page 1
  ...d come with me from Benalla in our special, to accompany me to the station master's house, leaving all the men on the platform, telling them to keep a sharp ...t the Kellys had been there ten minutes ago and had taken away the station-master, and ordered our horses to be taken out of the train as quickly as possible
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 3
  ...of about a quarter of an hour Superintendent [[Hare|Hare]] approached the station and stated that he had been wounded in the wrist. The wound was a very bad ...ng a baby only a few months old in her arms, and she eventually ran to the station, where she received every kindness from the persons there assembled. She wa
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 1 (2)
  ...a knock came to my door, at the gatehouse, within one hundred yards of the station, on the Melbourne side. I jumped up, and thinking it was some one wanting t ...do it. This was in the little back shed used as a store room, between the station and the gatehouse. The tools were thrown out, and in the meantime Reardon a
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/12/1931 (2)
  ...morning. Have taken steps to have him quietly removed from North Melbourne station to avoid mob which is sure to collect at Spencer street . Mr Hare also left ...ecautions you would wish me to take please advise – CS Stephens, station master at Benalla.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 23/8/1866
  ...pretty oil paintings, representing Australian life, a bush hotel, a cattle station, &c. A case of eggs of native birds, exhibited by Mr H Morres, follows. ...ution of the bordering of this exhibit is by Mr M'Longhlin, a local school-master, and very well done. Some first-rate carriage harness, by Collier and Lawre
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• Alexandra Times at KellyGang 30/10/1868
  ...hotels are both peculiar in their way, the one, in addition to being post master, is electoral registrar knows all the district well, and is good-natured an
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• Alexandra Times at KellyGang 3/11/1868
  ...a populous district, it is not improbable that the, present unremunerative station at Jamieson will be discontinued. ...a limited number of pupils, and we have no doubt that the abilities of the master will succeed in training "Young Australia" how to shoot in the ri
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (4)
  ...Jingellac|Jingellic]], in Victoria, and opposite to Mr. Smithwick's is the station referred to. Mr M'Kenzie's house is surrounded with trees with a good garde ...lmo'''. This in a valuable property about sixty miles above Albury. From a station it has merged into an estate of upwards of 4000 acres of freehold, consisti
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 13/4/1872 (2)
  ...ears. The building is of brick, and has a very pleasing exterior. The head master is Mr '''C Hockins''', and he has three assistants, viz. : Messrs. '''Richa ...at a large expense, are next to the School of Arts. Albury is a repeating station for Victorian messages, and besides messengers and assistants two managers
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (3)
  ...stance system was set at defiance, confusion reigned, and in the Babel the master was not Die least noisy of the lot. To my mind the method of imparting inst ...ght "fares," is a Melbourne arrangement, and for the trip to the station cabby charged 2s all round, which further exorbitant charge did not improve
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 13/7/1872
  ...ing staff includes Mr P '''Durie''', head master, Miss '''Galloway''', and Master James '''Daley.''' The proficiency of the pupils in grammar, arithmetic, ge ...Further still is the extensive store of G '''Forsyth''' and Co., stock and station agents. Passing another hotel we reach the bridge.
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 14/9/1872 (2)
  ...e up. Mr '''R S Arnott''' performs the double duties of post and telegraph master. ...e kept. Messrs. Blewett and Co., the spirited proprietors, are also Stock, Station, and Commission Agents and auctioneers.
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 14/9/1872 (3)
  ...travels regularly between Hay [[Echuca|Echuca]]; Captain Rîandall is the master of the Pearl, and also owner of another boat, the Corowa. It may be of impo ...utiful pair of white or very light grey buggy horses. Mr Derepas of Kulkie station obtained the champion prize for the best thoroughbred stallion. He exhibite
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/11/1872
  ...atefully remembered. With the good fresh little hack lent me, I got to the station in good time that night. ...these was (1), Royalist, a red, 3 years, a fine square built beast; sire, Master of Athelstane, dam Grizzle Royal  (2), Harlequin, a roan, 3 years, by Coun
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/12/1878 (9)
  ...d occurred. Owing to the prompt action of Mr [[Euroa|Gorman]], the station master at Euroa, the telegraph line was repaired and communication restored with B
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• Sydney Morning Herald (20)
  ...rd. The Kellys arrested a line repairer named Watts as he was going to the station for maintenance. They also imprisoned four railway repairers who came to wo ...e place. Although after bank hours the bank doors were open as the station master was frequently in the habit of getting drafts from Melbourne late in the da
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• The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 14/12/1878 (2)
  ...situated in the busiest part of [[Euroa|town]], 50 yards from the railway station, and 20 [[Charles De Boos' Seven Creeks hotel|Mr C L]] ...tion-master and constable to start at once on horseback for Faithful Creek Station. He was then to obtain there the latest news of their proceedings, and meet
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• The Argus at KellyGang 11/2/1879 (2)
  ...ey collected a whole room full, and then came over and stuck the telegraph master up and made him stop the lines, which he did by disconnecting the wires. Th ...nd they were kept there till 7 pm. The gang then started towards Wanamurra station, and nothing has been seen of them since. They had a room full of people st
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• Sydney Morning Herald (24)
  ...the Superintendent of [[Telegraph|Telegraph]] from the [[Jefferson|station master]] at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]], was forwarded to us last night:- ...al. They took arms ammunition saddle and horses from the Jerilderie police station. The superintendent at [[Deniliquin|Deniliquin]] was absent at Hay and the
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/2/1879 (2)
  ...who were leading two pack-horses. It is reported they stuck up Wannamurra station, and threatened to burn it down, but afterwards started in the direction of
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• The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 15/2/1879
  ...ased at 7 pm, and told not to touch the wire till morning; but the station master did so, and fixed a wire along the fence. ...ey collected a whole room full, and then come over and stuck the telegraph-master up and made him stop the lines, which he did by disconnecting the wires. Th
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• The Argus at KellyGang 21/11/1879
  ...iving. He states: -At about 1 o'clock on Saturday I called at Wantabadgery station on business, slung up my horse at the fence, and walked towards the house. ...nted, but you again ordered us away, as if we were dogs. Now, however I am master here, and you will have to do as I direct." He also abused the oversee
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• The Age (3)
  ...n the hotel, courageously made his escape, and running towards the railway station, quickly spread the information that the Kellys, with about forty prisoners ...of about a quarter of an hour Superintendent [[Hare|Hare]] approached the station and stated that he had been wounded in the wrist. The wound was a very bad
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• The Age (7)
  ...a knock came to my door, at the gatehouse, within one hundred yards of the station, on the Melbourne side. I jumped up, and thinking it was some one wanting t ...do it. This was in the little back shed used as a store room, between the station and the gatehouse. The tools were thrown out, and in the meantime Reardon a
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• The Age (8)
  ...was uninjured. One of the police very nearly shot me, but I said 'Station-master' when he challenged me. I forgot to mention that during Sunday afternoon St ...stopping at Glenrowan with Mr [[Reynolds|Reynolds]]. I came to the raiIway station about eight o'clock on Sunday night with Mr Reynolds to ask about his littl
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• The Argus (8)
  ...Of course I was ne of the police very nearly shot me, but I said 'Station-master' when he challenged as I passed through . me. I omitted forgot to state men
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• The Argus (12)
  ...being signalled. They had to watch and wait to keep guard over the station master, and scrutinise his face with an intention of ‘blowing out his brains’
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/6/1880
  ...up beyond Glenrowan, and threatened to blow out the brains of the station master if he ventured to signal the special. The train, however, did not proceed b
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• The Argus (13)
  ...r the train to push on. Accordingly, we followed the pilot up to Glenrowan station, and disembarked. ...up beyond Glenrowan, and threatened to blow out the brains of the station master if he ventured to signal the special.
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• Herald (8)
  ...early on Sunday morning, was Mr [[Thomas Curnow|Curnow]], the State school master at Glenrowan. It will be remembered that he ran down the line, stopped the ...and [[Steve Hart|Steve Hart]] were laid out on the platform at the Railway station. [[Kate Kelly|Kate Kelly]] and [[Margaret Skillion|Mrs Skillion]] were ther
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• The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (4)
  ...y the Kellys a mile beyond Glenrowan. Train and pilot went up to Glenrowan station. I jumped out of train, and went to stationmaster’s house. The wife told ...he tools out of the chest, which lay in a back shed tool house between the station and the crossing Soon afterwards Ned and two of the repairers, Reardon and
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• Sydney Morning Herald (33)
  ...ffice, and State school of Glenrowan are about a mile south of the railway station, and the same side as Jones's hotel. On the east rise the Greta Ranges and The place where the rails were pulled up is exactly half a mile beyond the station, and not a mile and a half as at first reported. It was chosen with diaboli
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• Sydney Morning Herald (34)
  ...sted them to get into their buggy, and then accompanied them to the police station, where Kelly told them to go home and get into bed, and to remain quiet, ot ...as secured, and the locale of the gang discovered. Next door to the police station is the post-office of Glenrowan, and on the Sunday night Mr Reynolds, the p
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• The Age (14)
  ...s removed from Richmond yesterday afternoon and he left the Spencer street station for Sunbury at twenty five minutes to four. He will remain the guest of Mr Mr [[Thomas Curnow|Curnow]], who was the school master at Glenrowan and through whose instrumentality the special train which was
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• Herald (23)
  ...f 1869 some horses were suddenly missed from [[Mount Battery|Mount Battery Station]], near Mansfield , then owned by Mr John P. Rowe; and as Power was at larg ...cealed hard by, rode off to the King River again. They got on to Quinn’s station and camped there.
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• The Age (26)
  ...ilence ensued during which Mr [[Stanistreet (2)|Stainstreet]], the station master, left the hotel. He walked boldly from the building and declared who he was ...shots were fired until they had given their names and had passed on to the station. They were questioned as to the position of Dan Kelly and Hart, and all sto
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• Sydney Morning Herald (37)
  ...to platelayers. Ned Kelly then went to Reardon's house, a platelayer, the master's household being kept in custody by Hart. Tools were obtained for wresting
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• Sydney Morning Herald (38)
  The station master said:— "Ned Kelly, speaking to Hart, said, "Watch his countenan ...shot by the police, but he saved himself by proclaiming he was the station-master. He then reported that the gang were in the house, and that the shots of th
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• Sydney Morning Herald (39)
  ...sted them to get into their buggy, and then accompanied them to the police station, where Kelly told them to go home and get into bed, and to remain quiet, ot
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• Sydney Morning Herald (40)
  ...hen demanded that the station-master should pull up the rails. The station-master said he knew nothing about that business, that was only known to platelayer ...gnal to stop the train; some twenty persons were imprisoned in the station-master's house, and there with others were marched over to Jones's hotel.
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• Sydney Morning Herald (41)
  ...re put up at Jones's hotel, and they themselves were lodged in the station-master's house. ...sted them to get into their buggy, and then accompanied them to the police station, where Kelly told them to go home and get into bed, and to remain quiet, ot
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• The Argus (41)
  ...or me there, and a memo. to the same effect had been sent to the telegraph master. I lost no time in going there, and received a message from Beechworth that ...event of Mr O'Connor not consenting to return. I told Mr Stephens, station master, that a special was to leave town at ten o'clock, and that I wished the eng
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• The Argus at KellyGang 21/7/80 (2)
  ...went with him to the railway gate-house, where Mr Stanistreet, the station-master, lived.  When we reached there, we found Mrs Stanistreet in tears, and on ...evolver again and put it in my pocket, and asked Mr Hare to go down to the station-house, and I would go down and attend to his wounds.  At this moment we he
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