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  • ...ults of these quarrels increased the public contempt for the valour of the police. ...ays the favourite game played by school children was “the Kellys and the police,” and it happened that the Kellys invariably won.
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  • ...out.  Men were seen moving about.  In making a hasty retreat, one of the police, Constable Graham, tripped over a log and dropped his rifle, which he did n ...ry Act Constable Alex  [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] was transferred to the police depot, and from there he was sent to Lancefield, where he was under Senior-
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  • ...ed by the policy pursued by Supt [[Nicolson|Nicolson]], and as long as the police kept out of their way no one in the district was hurt.  It was the general ...to Queensland to secure about half a dozen blacktrackers for the Victorian police force.  Mr O’Connor and his “boys” left Benalla for Melbourne on Fri
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  • ...afterwards have gone before a justice of the peace or some officer of the police force and then to the best of his ability given full information respecting 7        Any justice of the peace or officer of the police force having reasonable cause to suspect that an outlaw or accused person s
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  • ...alled forty policemen.  In the opinion of the Kellys, the attitude of the police change from savage cruelty to arrant cowardice.  Dan and Joe took up their ..., and he fired a second shot at Aaron, and he fell on the floor. ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 20|RC13386]])
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  • ...nd soon after that to look for bushes to set fire to the place.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 21|RC13395]]) ...ained inside till daylight.  The first time I went into the room the men (police) appeared as if they were bustling about looking for their firearms, and th
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  • ...’s door and asking the way the night Aaron Sherritt was shot.  ([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 8|RC13120]]) ...he never began to do it while I was there.  Byrne did not say there were police in the house; always two men he wanted out. 
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  • ...ignation having been accepted—be dismissed from the service.” ([[Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 October 1881|RC]]) The evidence of these four men was not believed by the Royal Commission, but if either of them gave similar evidence against the Kellys the evidenc
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  • ...the flashes made by the firing of the police at the hotel, which they (the police) knew was full of innocent men, women and children.  One of these four sho ...e a single shot until Ned was wounded, which was the third volley from the police
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  • ...arms.’ It came from a policeman close behind Sergeant Steele.  ([[Royal Commission report day 27 page 4|RC10636]]) ...a second time, when I got into the yard and found how I was treated by the police.  I thought my life was in danger.  I knew it was in danger.  I knew it
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  • ...The senior constable took two, and the others went by themselves. ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 9|RC11145]]) ...“That is a woman and children” — something to that effect? ([[Royal Commission report day 28 page 15|RC11318]])
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  • ...came in a few minutes after himself.  When I went on the ground ([[Royal Commission report day 20 page 8|RC7607]]) ...(Mrs Jones) said.  That would be two o’clock, about an hour before the police arrived.
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  • By the Commission.—That was hot work.—Hot work! You would not like to be there, I can tel Question by Commission — At the time that Steele, you say, was firing upon you, and your wife es
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  • ...more important than the green sash referred to, is the confiscation by the police officials of the four suits of armour used by the members of the Kelly Gang Mr Thomas [[Carrington|Carrington]], before the Royal Commission, was sworn and examined: —
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  • ...could have come up to this side and rushed round simultaneously. ([[Royal Commission report day 26 page 4|RC10090]]) ...ly’s armour on the platform.  If it was good enough for him to face the police with, surely someone could have put it on and have gone in, besides with th
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  • ...Rev Dean [[Matthew Gibney|Gibney]] gave evidence on oath before the Royal Commission on June 28, 1881, as follows: - ...Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Australia. ([[Royal Commission report day 33 page 1|RC12290]])
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  • Question — Did they (police) seem to be under any control? — I could not say that they were guided by ...use or not, but the reason of that was that sometimes, in my position, the police were above and beyond the house, and I could not really say then whence the
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  • ...back of the house, that was the nearest way then, and I called out to the police that the men were all dead inside. Question — Did they (the police) rush to the building then? — There came two or three running up very soo
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  • ...time in the press different remarks about casting censure upon the Police Commission - that they had not given me any portion of the reward. Now I wish to make Question — This is not the Commission that allocated the reward? — Indeed!
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  • ...led up with him who knew where he was and ran and took him out.”([[Royal Commission report day 33 page 5|RC12346]]) ...I saw the others running to the other side, I suppose I called out to the police. They were on my right hand as I went up. After I came out I turned to them
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  • ...ent Miss Kelly to go on now and ask if she might go to the house. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 1|RC12774]]) ...he witness) — You sent on the sister to Mr Sadleir, and I think what the Commission have to do is to ask how long before the fire was it she went to Mr Sadleir
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  • ...my opinions as, I might call myself, a '''post factum''' witness. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 2|RC12788]]) Question by the Commission — '''We have it in evidence from Mr Hare’s official report''' that ther
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  • Question by the Commission — What was the magisterial finding on the case of Cherry? Supt. Sadleir — Shot by the police in the execution of their duty.
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  • [[The Last of the Bushrangers page 1|Hare]] [[Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Table of Contents|Sadleir]] [[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bu ...Hugh Stewart, Constable Skehan, Lawrence Kirwin (police spy), BC Williams (police spy), Constable Faulkiner, Constable McIntyre, Mr Laing, SM, Wangaratta; Mr
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  • ...who were trying to escape from Mrs Jones’ hotel at Glenrowan. The Royal Commission, on the other hand, recommended that Sergeant Steele be reduced to the rank ...mmission recommended that Supt Hare should, therefore, be retired from the police force on pension.
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  • == Royal Commission’s Report == ...armed and mounted; and that a grave error was committed in abolishing the police station at Glenmore, and in reducing the strength of the stations at Stanle
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  • “That the constables who formed [[Police at Sherritt home|hut party]] the night of Aaron Sherritt’s murder, viz., ...lly|Senior Constables Kelly]] and [[Johnston|Johnston]] cancelled, and the Commission recommend these members of the force to the favourable consideration of the
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  • ...ot sign the report because he had to give evidence as a witness before the Commission. ...sted and thrown into gaol for over three months because they looked at the police or watched them. Now, what would have happened to Messrs Longmore, Hall, Fi
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  • ...deliberate nature. Since Bracken's retirement from the force he has been a police pensioner, receiving, in addition to his retiring allowance, an annual grat ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • At the police court to-day, before Captain Burrowes, PM, and Mr C H Morris, JP, Michael M ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...en coves was shot dead through the window. They wanted to have a go at the police, so we gave them rifles, revolvers, and powder and shot. The firing where t ...a trap and had to get out of it. We had with us, as we often had, traps' (police) uniforms and troopers' caps, and we put them on. We looked policemen in di
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  • ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • {{Full Text}}VICTORIAN POLICE COMMISSION ...is "evidence" consisted in the main of adverse comments upon the commission's methods and his criticisms were chiefly directed at the manner in which t
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  • ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • POLICE VETERAN'S STORY ...nd notorious criminals known to Victorian history; and he continued in the police force until 1896. His book therefore may be accepted as authentic history.
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  • '''DEATH OF POLICE OFFICER''' Ex-Sergeant James [[Whelan|Whelan]], who was associated with the Victorian police in the days of the Kelly gang, died at his residence, Hawthorn, on Saturday
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  • ...the King River district. Constable McIntyre alone escaped. He informed the Police at Mansfield , and Sub-Inspector Pewtress took charge of a search Party, bu ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...Throughout his career Mr Sadleir was an efficient and exemplary officer of police, with a high sense of duty. ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...rain. Mr Curnow told what he knew to the officer in charge of the party of police, and no time was lost in surrounding the Glenrowan Hotel. A desperate fight ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • Three Police Officers Shot. During the absence of the other members of the gang at Euroa, Mr Wyatt, police magistrate, arrived on the train with a line repairer named Watt, and disco
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  • ...ged 79 years, whose funeral took place to-day. Mr Devine was a sergeant of police in February, 1879 when Ned Kelly, Dan Kelly, Steve Hart, and Joe Byrne ente ...ilderie trooper's horses, on which they carried their plunder, leaving the police locked up.
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  • Mr Lee intends to hand the skull to the police for the medical school at the University. As it was found that the crowd wa ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...nd he was shot in the leg and captured. Finally the hotel was fired by the police, and the three remaining outlaws who had armour also, perished. Request for [[Police Trackers|Black Trackers]].
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  • ...ith bullet holes. At half past 5 o'clock in the afternoon, H Morris of the Police department "begs to report for the information of the Honourable Chief ...ws Ned Kelly shot in leg and taken alive on railway platform Glenrowan. No police shot. Other members gang still in public house. Surrounded Ned Kelly, armed
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  • ...apture the Kelly gang in 1880. He was aged 82 years. Before he entered the police force he was an overseer for Captain Charles ?atton at Clear Creek Station, ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...d Kelly is said to have told his story staling that he was harassed by the police. From Jerilderie Mr Living went to Ararat and Malmsbury and then carne to W ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...isoned by the bush- rangers had escaped from the hotel it was fired by the police, and in the ashes were found the charred remains of Dan Kelly and Steve Har ...tory]] [[Category:Royal Commission into the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:police commission]]
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  • ...Mansfield into certain charges made against Mr Reid, the superintendent of police. Some of the circumstances of the case are curious, and deserving of notice ...as it may, Tilt was cut in the forehead, and sought tho assistance of the police.
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