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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...reference to petty grievances under which past and present members of the police force believed they suffered, but some general suggestions were made as to
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  • ...hands, his whereabouts and antecedents are not supposed to be known to the police. Should he be found lacking in industry proving false to his employers or a ...tectives remained in the hotel by arrangement awaiting the signal of their agent. 5 That the house selected from winch to watch the bank premises, the numbe
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  • 273 Do you remember an agent, whom I obtained, coming and meeting me with you privately?- Yes. ...by the party named, and the result of that was that it was decided by the police to take action on that evidence, and when the horses were saddled when Mr.
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  • ...can be done. [ The Chairman requested that that might be done.] I sent the police out to enquire into those matters, and the enquiry was very actively prosec ...the men, and I believe they corresponded exactly with the description the police gave. One of them described was the footstep of a man with a very small boo
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  • ...nrowan Hotel]]?- Yes, vicinity-but not immediate vicinity. I had a man, an agent, by the Glenrowan Hotel, watching it; and he was reporting to me from time ...ious riotous conduct going on at this public house, and suggested that the police should take some steps about it.
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  • ...any rate, I was quite satisfied, after the search we made, and seeing this agent was wrong in this instance, that these (the outlaws) men were gone from the
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  • ...ad about that a large quantity of those notes were circulated in [[Benalla Police Station|Benalla]]; and therefore I should like you to be ready?- I may say, 830 Was it reported to you by any agent, or officer, or policeman that the Kellys were in the habit of getting supp
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  • 944 Were you at that time recognized Assistant Commissioner of Police?- Yes, I was. Mr. Ramsay listened to me very attentively throughout, and th 951 That letter is dated May 20th (the one about the [[Diseased Stock Agent|diseased stock]]); can you say from memory whether that was in your possess
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  • ...s in which Captain Standish ordered you to discontinue the employing as an agent?- Any letters on that subject are amongst the bundle that have come down fr ...and]] police; and at the time when I applied for this enquiry I was in the police, and had no intention of leaving.
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  • ...he was not to employ such and such a person, or not to put police here or police there, until I often wondered Mr. Nicolson did not pitch the whole thing up ...and to the Victorian Government's. Captain Standish asked the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] Government for my men to remain without me, and without lettin
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  • ...urse of proceeding was, and that amongst the list you gave the name of the agent whom you had employed, who wrote subsequently about the [[Kelly's Armour|ar ...Phillips had been acting in town as orderly to the Chief Commissioner of Police. He was removed from that duty, and a vacancy having occurred in the Benall
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  • Chief Commissioner of Police. ...getting some money from the Government when you were last up here.” This agent had been working for me previous to Mr. Nicolson's coming to the district.
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  • ...not much service to me. I now go to the letters on the “[[Diseased Stock Agent|diseased stock]].” Amongst the letters in the office handed over to me by ...y are there still I do not know. There were also some letters from another agent that Mr. Nicolson wanted to take away when he left, and I begged him to lea
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  • ...ed off two or three parties of men, who had been taken on specially in the police force in consequence of their knowledge of the country and the outlaws. ...ch parties were the two very places the outlaws came to. Unfortunately the police at Sherritt's behaved as they did; and if the other party had not been remo
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  • ...member whether I had paid him anything ever; at any rate he was not a paid agent on day wages. ...ay they were well able to tell their friends when special trains left with police along the line of railway.
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  • ...n died. This was in recognition of the assistance that the family gave the police. Their service was short lived and in a short time they were dismissed and Was James Wallace a police agent?
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  • ...old me the organization of the secret cave party was known in the Richmond Police Depot and was no secret at all.” I told Captain Standish that I had been ...men on and four off, under such circumstances, and not get it known to the police generally.
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  • ...>[[#rc1624|1624]]</span> ''By the Commission.'' —Did you ever have as an agent who received money in your service a state school teacher?— I had nothing ...ool teacher, because on the next occasion we shall have nowhere to get our agent from. I am prepared to answer the questions, but I have other reasons in my
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  • ...Standish (I find I have the letter), on the 29th August, to send a private agent into that country, and he approved of it—his approval came accidentally t <span id="rc1756">[[#rc1756|1756]]</span> By a private agent do you mean one of the detectives?— No. As I have said, on returning to B
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  • ...g proposals to [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]], asking him to assist the police?— I do not recollect, ...nty people might have done it without my hearing it, because I remember my agent was in the scrub above the house, and once or twice I had to go to him.
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  • ...those rumors or confidential communications?— No; those are through the police; there is no secret about them. ...it was reported they were there. It is information picked up by different police at those places.
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  • ...oke Smith|Brooke Smith]] and some other police, and the horses found—the police horses—first one and then another. <span id="rc1876">[[#rc1876|1876]]</span> Who, the [[Police Trackers|trackers]]?— Yes.
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  • ...on the 1st December 1852 ?— Yes, I received pay from that day. We had an agent, his name is immaterial—we had two agents—two men who promised to work ...That was as early as the middle of November, the 11th November. The first agent kept us well informed of what was going on about the Kelly's hold. The only
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  • ...ing conveyed there from the [[Margaret Skillion|Skillian]]'s house?— The police at [[Greta|Greta]], I suppose, were put in possession of that information. <span id="rc1951">[[#rc1951|1951]]</span> Will you name the police officer in charge at Greta?— I cannot, for they were constantly changed.
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  • ...er matter. you employed another man to see about it?— Yes. I see by this agent's last letter of the 11th, he was finishing his employment with us then, so ...to the possession of the police. It was forwarded to me by a member of the police force. It was to this effect. It was to a near blood relation of the [[Kell
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  • ''Mr. [[Nicolson|Ncolson]]'' . —The Acting Chief Commissioner of Police received a note from the Secretary of the Commission asking, amongst other ...e Commission's instructions were to ascertain what steps were taken by the police from the 31st October to say the 14th November in the matter of the informa
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  • ...0s. a day, and they provided their own horses and their own provisions. An agent named on that list, “Sherrington,” offered himself to Captain Standish, ...e. It was too stale to make any use of it, but at my suggestion a party of police were put at some crossings on the [[Kilfera|Kilfera Creek]].
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  • .... —I said that the people going to their work would have seen the native police, and as there was a network of friends there, we knew [[KellyGang|Kellys]] ..., how far would that be from the locality indicated by the [[Police Agents|agent]] “Foot” from the place you were to meet them?— Not knowing the place
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  • 2544 I suppose that information caused you to send out that [[Police at Sherritt home|watch party]] to Sherritt's hut?— I am afraid to speak w ...span> Did Mr. Nicolson say, “There are certain parties in the pay of the police, you kind better communicate to them what you intend to do in the future”
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  • <span id="rc2663">[[#rc2663|2663]]</span> This man, “[[Diseased Stock Agent|Diseased Stock]],” had been in the employ of Mr. [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] fo ...Mr. Nicolson?— I know this man was in communication with the officers of police before Mr. Nicolson came up a second time.
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  • Mr Wyatt was the police magistrate who travelled down to Euroa on the day of the robbery and saw th After the Euroa robbery Wyatt spent sometime discussing the nature of police / telegraph co operation; could things have been done better?
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  • <span id="rc2960">[[#rc2960|2960]]</span> Have the police been unable to obtain any reliable information since the capture at [[Glenr ...g to send down a report, and can show whether steps have been taken by the police to ascertain all the information it is possible to obtain, so that in the e
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  • ...t altering the brands that even when the brands are being described to the police, as I have seen at Benalla, it is not until you have shaved closely that yo ...The letter that Mr. Nicolson put in evidence from the “[[Diseased Stock Agent|diseased stock]]” man, was that one of the three letters you sent down to
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  • 'Shot by the police in the execution of their duty.' Who did this verdict apply to? What happened to the police agents when Hare took over from Nicolson?
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  • ...on that that they may desire. The information as to the steps taken by the police will necessarily be incomplete, as I have explained in the foot-note to the ...?— You will see in the previous report, October the 16th, that we had an agent employed as scout in that very locality.
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  • ...ommenced laughing; so the coachdriver said, “I have seen a party of your police down on the road to Shepparton, who are camped close to the road.” They w ...pan> Did you know that Sherritt was employed by the police, as an [[agents|agent]]?— No; I never saw him till I went out that night.
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  • Const Barry thought that Aaron Sherritt was careless and not a good agent. He had his own explanation for his death. Barry was one of the original party of police at Glenrowan. He described arriving at the station, first shots, Hare shot
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  • ...onstantly?— Nothing further than that we were continually going out on [[Police Search Parties|search parties]]. ...ade the remark to me, “I know that dog,” referring to the man with the police who had his face blackened.
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  • ...a matter of opinion. Arrangements were altered in regard to the duty of [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] from time to time. I have some notes as to ...— Well, that they were seen coming to the house that was watched by this agent.
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  • <span id="rc8938">[[#rc8938|8938]]</span> Have you seen the agent recently?— No, not since just before Mr. [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] left the d ...eard from any of them that they declined giving further information to the police?— No, I did not. I heard a great deal of talk about it.
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  • ...d in view?— Well, it seemed as though it were intended that one party of police should catch the Kellys and no other. ...two of the gang were said to have been seen more recently by that private agent you spoke of?— No; I do not think it was a bit more reliable.
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  • ...yed to watch –– house?— I never told you I had no confidence in that agent. I might have related the circumstance. ...ghborhood and see this man, and he was actually an agent, and his being an agent was nearly discovered at the time, through my not knowing it, and it might
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  • ...c9632">[[#rc9632|9632]]</span> Did you know the “diseased stock [[agents|agent]]”?— The only one I knew was Aaron Sherritt, and another young man who ...rc9635|9635]]</span> As a rule you consider the agents were misleading the police?— I do.
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  • <span id="rc11077">[[#rc11077|11077]]</span> Were you out in any of the [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] after the Kellys?— Yes. ...ed Kelly|Ned Kelly]], he said that he would never be taken, not by all the police in Victoria; they would never get him. That is the way he would be talking.
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  • ...509]]</span> ''By the Commission''— What are you?— Senior-constable of police, stationed at [[Beechworth|Beechworth]]. <span id="rc13516">[[#rc13516|13516]]</span> What number was in your [[Police Search Parties|search party]]?— I think eight and myself.
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  • ...ght.” He requested me to go and see if there was a letter for him at the police station. I took the letter down to him; he opened it. He then said, “Ward ...rict altogether. On Saturday he forwarded a man from Benalla to me— “[[Police Agents|Renwick]],” giving me instructions what I was to do with him. I ac
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  • ...formation about that?— None. I advised him to hand over the watch to the police for the sake of the widow. ...itt talked of at that time?— He told me he was then in the employ of the police. I might simplify matters considerably by saying that when I was young I us
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  • Ass Com Nicolson did not want James Wallace's evidence to be reported by the police. Wallace was examined about a letter where he spoke of Aaron Sherritt as &q Was Aaron Sherritt a police agent or a double agent?
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  • ...14705]]</span> What were you at the time you were the correspondent of the police?— I was following my usual occupation of State school teacher. 14711 Were you aware that Sherritt was a paid agent of the police?— From his own statements.
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  • ...if [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron]] was there he would make us go and fight the—police. ...e Chinese camp, where I believe they purchased some things. I informed the police the next morning.
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