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  • ...his opinion, said he believed they were too cowardly to voluntarily accept death.
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  • ...of dying in fight, while he was a humiliated prisoner, with almost certain death in prospect. His wounds were dressed as well as possible, and for one night ...d ended in the only way possible, with a verdict of guilty and sentence of death against the outlaw, who was convicted on evidence largely contributed by hi
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  • ...[[Ned Kellys End|hanged]] in [[Melbourne Gaol|Melbourne Gaol]]. He met his death with a fair amount of courage, though he could not trust himself to make a
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  • | AARON SHERRITT'S DEATH
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  • ...of retributive disaster. And she had outlived the fate of one son, done to death by bullet and flame, and that of another - the idol of them all - perishing ...rave misdeeds, she has been spared - spared to a life that is but a living death, bowed down in agonising memories, and quite devoid of hope. It is all very
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  • '''THE DEATH OF KATE.''' ...him at the post-office with the news that Kate had died. . . Such an awful death, too! All alone, with no one to help her when she became delirious. Oh, the
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  • ...e to silver the cloud of gloom that mingles with the approaching shadow of death, weighs down her spirit in despair unto the earth. For her there is no hope
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  • This was the man who, hearing of his favourite sister’s awful death and the sad plight of her children, had quietly harnessed his horses and fa
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  • ...still on the mountains when we ask him what was the manner of his sister's death. For it had been reported in many places that she was not dead, but living
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  • ...etimes it eases my mind. But, no; the memory of it makes me miserable unto death-after all these years." ...onably as a grotesque incongruity, a stupid, banal outcry in the Valley of Death, whither this aged pilgrim is passing. If she would but exorcise the thing
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  • '''A NARRATIVE OF DEATH''' ...very weak. In time, however, she found speech to continue her narrative of death and desolation:-
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  • ...had determined to wreck the special train and to kill everyone who escaped death in the smash. They would surely have killed any police they met that night.
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  • ...r it. . . . She died not long after. . . . And it was her brothers's awful death that killed her! He was such a clever, quiet boy! . . . Oh dear!
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  • ...petites for the slaughter of those whom they had made their enemies to the death, whetted by their sharp and decisive defeat of the police in the Wombat Ran
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  • ...OF SHERRITT''' "I remember the NIGHT OF [[Aaron Sherritt|Sherritt's]] death as well as anything" said Mr Ward, "Four constables has been stat
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  • ...police had made themselves their enemies, and knew that it was war to the death, all they (the bushranger) should not be blamed because they had won a fair '''KENNEDY'S DEATH'''
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  • ...rmour|armour,]] thanks to which the Kelly outlaws were enabled to ward off death, dozens of them, was in no ?? knightly or handsome. ? in his simplicity, st
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  • ...so well guarded that it will never be permitted to leak out, even at their death. This is only one of the many superstitions that have been woven around the ...ho actually made that quaint, ponderous, but serviceable armor that turned death aside for the outlaws so often.
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  • ...er, laid hands upon their weapons, the issue at once became one of life or death on both sides. One thing is certain in connection with Kennedy's death - that is, that Ned Kelly, declaring that he was the bravest man he had eve
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  • ...g of Sherritt has long been justified beyond question. But the news of his death sent the public excitement on to fever heat. Because the public did not kno
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  • ...the thrill of horror with which the news of [[Aaron Sherritt|Sherritt]]'s death was received all through the southern State. People thought only of the one ...worth, and from there back to the [[Melbourne Gaol|Melbourne gaol]] to his death, of which more hereafter.
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  • ...e in the right eyeball. The bullet that went into the eye must have caused death almost instantaneously.
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  • TRIAL AND DEATH OF NED KELLY ...t would have been different. He said; "For my own part, I do not fear death. But on account of my poor mother, who is in prison now on an unjust charge
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  • ...n that [[Ned Kellys Trial|dramatic scene]], the passing of the sentence of death, was enacted in the Criminal Court. Amongst them are Mr Edmund Duggan and M ...al scene. Mr Justice Barry put on the black cap and pronounced sentence of death. The court was intensely silent. Two women - one of them was Kate Kelly - s
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  • ...ousand cuts" of the Chinese as a lingering, but not humorous, mode of death. As it happened, as he spoke he was carving a fine plump turkey, and I have
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  • ...his former caution to me not to attempt to escape under penalty of sudden death. The leader then dismounted, handing his bridle over to his brother, who to
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  • ...easons - weighty, cogent, unanswerable - for the unanimous belief in their death - reasons which it is not necessary to mention. But the suggestion actually
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  • | A NARRATIVE OF DEATH [[Cookson, 01_09_1911_4|....]]
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  • KENNEDY'S DEATH [[Cookson, 06_09_1911_1|....]]
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  • TRIAL AND DEATH OF NED KELLY
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  • ...disturbed, because Mrs. Mackay was so ill that any fright might cause her death.
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  • ...l that remained of the missing owner of the store. A verdict of accidental death was recorded, the friends of the deceased procured a coffin, and Jemmy bein
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  • == Death Of Brooks == ...wards the front. This skull was kept as a memento by the coroner until his death, when his widow sent it to me, and I now have it in my den.
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  • ...to every act. We had a very limited number of men, and they were worked to death, but there were no complaints even when working for sixteen hours a day! Th
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  • ...rty of police in the Wombat Ranges, in October 1878, until the capture and death of the bushrangers at Glenrowan, in June 1880, are still too fresh in the m
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  • ...e first persons to be shot, and they themselves would also suffer the same death. The outlaws then made themselves as comfortable as they could, leaving one
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  • ...e train, surely ought to have had a good effect on the men who were facing death in the execution of their duty. Seeing the wound, the ladies implored Mr Ha ...ed to the back of the building, where he gradually sank and died a painful death. This fact at the time was unknown to the police.
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  • ...ies. I don't care what people say about Sergeant [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy]]'s death. I have made my statement as to it, and if they don't believe me I can't he
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  • ...years. He did not know from his personal knowledge how his son came by his death. ...f his brother, but did not know from personal knowledge how he came by his death.
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  • ...1880-The Start-The Journey-A Timely Warning-The '''KellyGang''' surprised-Death of Byrne-Capture of Ned Kelly-His Statement-The Prisoners released-Renewal
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  • Death of Byrne
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  • Although the sentence was for only six months, it proved to be a Death Sentence. Such was the treatment to which John Kelly was subjected in [[Kil Shortly after her husband's death, [[Mrs Ellen Kelly|Mrs Kelly]], with her eight orphans, left Avenel for Gre
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  • Shortly before her death, [[Mrs Ellen Kelly|Mrs Kelly]]'s name was entered at the Wangaratta Hospita ...eted out to his father by the authorities at home and abroad. His father's death from prison treatment after serving a sentence of only six months on a ''&q
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  • ...an outlaw from the time he was 17 years of age till he was 19 years at his death at Glenrowan, he killed no one, he shot no one, offered violence to no neig
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  • ...him. If left alive Kennedy would, Kelly said, be left to a slow, torturing death at the mercy of ants, flies, and the packs of dingoes, which were fairly nu
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  • ...t;conditions" with regard to the protection of Kennedy from injury or death should Wright discover him alive. It was arranged that Wright should go at ...veral wounds, caused by each charge of swandrops, had been inflicted after death.
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  • After the death of Kennedy, Ned Kelly covered the body with the victim’s cloak and rejoin
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  • ...reports of bullets having been fired into the bodies of the Troopers after death is false and the Coroner should he consulted. I have no intention of asking
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  • ...position of racecourse detective.  He remained in this position up to his death in 1927.
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  • ...most disparaging terms. On one occasion Captain Standish, referring to the death of the Hon John Thomas Smith, said, “Now Mr Nicolson’s billet as Assist
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