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  == Police Search Parties == == Importance of Police Search Parties ==
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 2
  ...in addition to Kennedy’s were at that time absent from their stations in search of the Kellys, and considerable anxiety was felt lest they should have suff ...ereabouts, and it was owing to information supplied by him that the search parties, including [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy’s]] which so disastrously encountered th
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 6 page 1
  ...een idle. From Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth [[Police Search Parties|parties]] were immediately sent out in pursuit of the outlaws, but even then it was
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 7 page 1
  ...from a ride to some out lying places in the hills to give instructions to parties of police, and on his arrival in [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] at half past ten ...t of Beechworth the cavalcade was still further augmented. Both the search parties with whom Mr Sadlier had endeavoured to communicate had received his messag
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 2
  ...s, but all the North Eastern District was parcelled out into areas whereon parties of police varying in number from six to nine were constantly on the move, s With many of these parties Mr Nicolson went in person, and for a man of his age the work was most ardu
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 3
  Describing his general experience of the [[Police Search Parties|search party]] work, Mr [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] spoke as follows: ‘After travellin
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 9 page 1
  ...police nothing authentic was reported, and the time was devoted to search parties on no particular information, such as Mr Nicolson described. The prisoner [ ...racks yard at Benalla just after Mr Nicolson and party had returned from a search expedition in the direction of Mansfield, and asserted that he had very imp
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 3
  ...ter them except upon the most definite and reliable information. The vague search, he had found, broke down the strength of troopers and horses and made the
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 1
  ...of senior constable, in order to give them authority to command the search parties which were everywhere organised for the use when they should be wanted.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 15 page 2
  ...refuse to act upon their information, and accordingly two or three search parties were sent out without discovering the Kellys, or any trace of them. Other t
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 16 page 1
  ...gn were changed. On information considered reliable and sufficiently fresh parties still went out, but the general policy adopted was, while surrounding the o
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• Cookson, 05 09 1911 3
  ...r of fact, they were then at the other side of the Dividing Range. Several parties of police scoured the country, but without success. About nine miles from '
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• Cookson, 06 09 1911 1
  ...f October Superintendent Sadleir issued final orders to guide parties. Two parties were to start simultaneously-one, consisting of Sergeant Kennedy and Consta
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• Cookson, 09 09 1911 1
  ...en, were sent to scour the fastnesses of the mountain ranges. One of these parties was in charge of Sergeant Kennedy. This party it was that actually encounte
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 2
  ...ion during the night to the Warby Ranges , at the back of Hart's place; if parties of police were sent there, they would move over to Byrne's friends. In this == Search party ==
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 4
  ...to say in which direction they would fly. One of the parties organized to search for the offenders found, within a few miles of the spot where the murdets w
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 5
  ...bleeding horse with signs of having recently been ridden, he threw up the search and made all his men return back to Wangaratta to show he had found the hor Search parties were kept up all over the district, men sleeping out, or I should say stayi
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 8
  ...setting the police at open defiance. They were galloping round the search parties, watching the movements of the police and insulting the men. With the sanct ...e were their natural enemies. At first I used to make one of my men in the search party carry a lot of poisoned baits, and every now and then drop a bait in
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 9 page 1
  ...n the move. My object was to harass the outlaws as much as possible. I had parties of men out in every direction, going all day, and watching for fires at nig ...in the afternoon we passed a hut. Of course every one, knowing we were in search of the Kellys, came out to see us. One of my men drew my attention to a man
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 1
  ...I felt sure, sooner or later, one of the different parties who were out in search of them would drop across them, as the outlaws had always to be on the aler ...e were on a flat at the back of Warby's Ranges, and after lunch started to search a range in the mountains, leaving our packs at the camp, and a man in charg
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 2
  ...a [[Police Tactics|different system]] to mine. He did away with all search parties, and depended entirely on agents, thinking he might lead the outlaws to bel
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 14 page 3
  ...they would ride by night only, and lie in the thick scrub during the day. Parties of police were sent out to watch the different crossing places directly we ...had been spent; whereas if the salaries and wages of those engaged in the search had been included in this estimate, the cost would have been over £115,000
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (34)
  ...sed to go out and get the horses.  Each man had his own work to do in the search party, and directly I called them in the morning the two used to go and cat Supt Hare’s evidence gives the impression that the police parties were as cumbersome as a travelling circus, with all the packing up that had
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (44)
  (2)          That I acted as scout or guide for different parties of police for thirteen days and received in payment therefor the sum of thi ...e Wombat.  There were floods in the King River, which interfered with the search I was directed to make.  I returned to Wangaratta and saw Mr Nicolson and
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (50)
  ...olson|Nicolson]] decided to alter the plan of campaign.  Supt Hare rushed parties of police around on any rumour, and had his men and horses worn out after t ...ers]] when following them.  On one occasion they saw a party of police in search of them.  Supt Hare was in charge, but he had no blacktrackers.  The poli
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (53)
  ...from Melbourne and stabled him in Cobb & Co.’s stables.  When their search of the train failed, the police, feeling somewhat ashamed, told the cousin ...u.” She then recognised the spokesman to be Ned Kelly.  Although police parties were for a time constantly watching the homes of Joe Byrne, Steve Hart and
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (89)
  ...tory, either as regards the number and distribution of the [[Police Search Parties|constabulary]], or the manner in which they were armed and mounted; and tha
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (2)
  ...and one of the most exciting races on record took place between the rival parties, viz., the original holders and the jumpers. Though most of the diggers had ...d standing outside the tent door all day, and at last attracted attention. Search was made, but without avail. The Government then offered a reward for the p
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/10/1878 (2)
  ...patches, but Meehan has not yet arrived here. Have sent two mounted men in search of him, and to report to Mansfield . Please send six armed men, with horses ...ers were understood to be in concealment where Power once hid himself. Two parties of police were secretly despatched last week-one from Greta, consisting of
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• The Age 31/10/78 (2)
  ...rict, and there was a great scare there. Two brothers-in-law of the guilty parties had been arrested, and thought that the Chief Commissioner had taken such s ...were all well armed, and one of the parties was already in the district in search of the men. In addition to that there was volunteering going on which was p
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/10/1878 (2)
  Up to the present time the search for Sergeant [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy]] has been confined to the immediate vic '''SEARCH PARTY'''
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/10/1878 (3)
  '''SEARCH PARTY Continued''' ...rs on that day, they must have got far beyond any point yet reached by the search party. It is melancholy to think how the last three days have been utterly
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• Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 26/9/1878 (2)
  ...e Mansfield district, despatched four constables to Stringy Bark Creek, to search for and arrest Edward Kelly. The party consisted of Sergeant Kennedy, and C At Mansfield the greatest excitement was caused by the news, and parties of volunteers and all the available police at once set out for the scene of
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• Age 1/11/78 (2)
  ...e legal steps rendered necessary well at once be taken. In prosecuting the search for the wretches no expense will be spared, and the Government will endeavo ...o be brought in about three o'clock this afternoon. The men who are out in search for the bushrangers have not sufficient arms. Are there none to spare in Me
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• The Argus at KellyGang2/11/1878 (2)
  ...road, from Mansfield, with some particulars as the action of Thursday’s search party, of which he was one. Unfortunately he was not present in the camp wh '''POLICE SEARCH PARTY'''
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• The Argus at KellyGang2/11/1878 (3)
  ...troopers left here at daylight this morning. No news has arrived from any search party. It has been raining heavily all day. ...have been interested by the constant arrival of bodies of [[Police Search Parties|police]] to join in the pursuit, strengthen the protection at the smaller t
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• The Argus at KellyGang 5/11/1878 (4)
  On the way up the King, near Hedi, one of the police parties fell in with John Quinn, uncle of Edward Kelly, and a man named [[Bungamara ...sional for the benefit of an out-station hand, and not the Kellys. The two parties of police by this time had become consolidated into one, and numbered 11. T
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/11/1878 (2)
  ...g the township they learned that a party exactly like the men they were in search of had passed through a little in advance on them. They followed on, and ma ...y the police felt that they were still upon strong indications. Some fresh parties of troopers will be sent out from here to-morrow.  
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• The Argus at KellyGang 7/11/1878
  ...to the inadequate armament of the police parties who have been sent out in search of the outlaws. ...g was done by Edward Kelly. It was in the vicinity of Barnawartha that the search had to be suspended on account of darkness, and in the township the police
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• The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 9/11/1878 (2)
  ...y the police felt that they were still upon strong indications. Some fresh parties of troopers will be sent out from here to-morrow. ...are anxious to return. The weather being very stormy is much against their search. The latest report is that one mate is Kelly's sister. The two Lloyds are i
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/11/1878
  ...have not been in the direction of Yarrawonga. There are still two or three parties out in various directions, but no reports have been received from them to-d
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• The Argus at KellyGang 11/11/1878
  ...iderable number of troopers, who are continually coming and going in small parties, searching in various directions. This is, of course, necessary, as there a ...ty having been recently in that direction were obtained. When these search parties were first organised there was great complaint made respecting the ineffici
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/11/1878
  ...papers to the effect that a Government horse had been found by one of the parties recently despatched from here. This fact was known on Saturday, but as it w
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/11/1878
  ...ation brought into Wangaratta by one of the [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] on Sunday was of such a nature as to warrant a reconnaissance ''en force'
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/11/1878 (2)
  ...is not probable that any important move will be made, but in the meantime parties are out in several directions, and info rmation of importance may be receiv ...he murdered police. As for the statement that Mr Monk volunteered to go in search of the Kelly gang, there is no truth in it. He simply said he would act as
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/11/1878
  ...o are in a days rest. There are still two or three [[Police Search Parties|parties]] out on different directions, but nothing has been heard from them. It is
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/11/1878
  ...tely nothing doing here to-day. None of the [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] that are out have sent in any information as to their movements. There is ...is rumoured that the men now in the police camp are to be despatched on a search expedition during the night. This only shows how every movement of the auth
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• The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 16/11/1878
  ...also stated in court that Edward Monks had refused to help the police to search for Kelly ; he only helped them to find the bodies of the murdered police. ...es, left here at five o'clock this morning, and returned after dark in two parties. Nothing fresh has transpired, but fears are entertained. that the police h
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/11/1878 (2)
  Nothing has been heard to-day from any of the search parties that are out, and the authorities are evidently waiting for some trustworth
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/11/1878
  There have been several movements amongst the [[Police Search Parties|troopers]] in this district to-day. A party of men went out of Benalla that
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/11/1878
  ...rengthening their guards at outside places. [[Police Search Parties|Search parties]] have been out for days, and have returned apparently without obtaining an
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/12/1878
  ...to where the gang might be found. Whether or not this idea is correct, the search for the outlaws as conducted in the past baa been like looking for a needle ...rains. Instead, however, of going to Euroa, the Mansfield [[Police Search Parties|party]] only went down the [[Broken River|Broken River]] for some distance
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/12/1878 (3)
  ...ing has been heard from any of the numerous [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] now out. The police authorities have again made Benalla their headquarter ...family]] and their confederates it may be mentioned that one of the search parties returning to Benalla met Kelly's sister on the road, and she entered into c
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/12/1878 (3)
  ...duct the [[Police Tactics|search]] from one head centre, but to leave some parties at any rate liberty of action. Mr Nicolson reports that the men are all eag ...special tram took a detachment of the local artillery and dropped them by parties on the way. The men take their breechloader rifles with, them and they are
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/12/1878 (6)
  ...police authorities off the scent and impeding the movements of the search parties. The truth or otherwise of these various reports must however necessarily b ...d relations and acquaintances about here that every movement of the police parties is closely watched. By their system of bush telegraph, the information is c
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/12/1878 (8)
  ...ow exists, and will also prevent troopers being taken away from the search parties to guard the banks. The police force here has also been increased by the ar
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• The Argus at KellyGang 17/12/1878 (2)
  ...of the latter are completely knocked up with their exertions. One of these parties searched the ranges as far as Mount Separation, which is about 20 miles to ...nd Inspector Baber has been instructed to make a further and more extended search tomorrow.  
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• The Argus at KellyGang 17/12/1878 (4)
  ...of the latter are completely knocked up with their exertions. One of these parties searched the ranges as far as Mount Separation , which is about 20 miles to
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/12/1878 (2)
  ...re has been neither the arrival nor departure of a [[Police Search Parties|search party]] to break the monotony. There has been also an absence of rumours re ...all together but, fixing upon a point of rendezvous, they divide into two parties, so as to move through the bush with the less likelihood of attracting atte
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• Sydney Morning Herald (23)
  ...endeavouring to conduct the search from one head centre, but to leave some parties at any rate liberty of action. Mr Nicolson reports that the men are all eag ...pecial train took a detachment of the local artillery, and dropped them by parties on the way.
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• The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 21/12/1878
  ...f the latter are completely knocked up, with their exertions. One of these parties searched the ranges as far as Mount Separation, which is about 20+ miles to ...d. Inspector Baber has been instructed to make a further and more extended search to-morrow.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 21/12/1878
  ...day. It is understood that the detectives will not go out with the search parties, but will work on their own plans, with the view of obtaining some reliable
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2712/1878 (2)
  ...me hesitation Mr Bradley handed him over the keys. Kelly then proceeded to search the strong chest, and appropriated about £1,500 in notes, and nearly £500 ...athbogie ranges. A few days afterwards 50 additional armed [[Police Search Parties|policeman]] were sent up to the district, and 50 of the Garrison Corps were
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/1/1879
  A large body of armed [[Police Search Parties|troopers]] left to-day with packhorses to scour the different parts of the
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• The Argus at KellyGang 21/1/1879
  A large body [[Police Search Parties|police]] has just returned from a search for the Kellys. As usual, they have been unsuccessful. They report having p
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• The Argus at KellyGang 23/1/1879
  The [[Police Search Parties|police party]] who proceeded to Euroa last evening returned by the early tr
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/1/1879
  ...hroughout the week of special trains dashng through gates, [[Police Search Parties|troopers]] being smuggled off in the dead of night under the strictest secr
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• The Argus at KellyGang 27/1/1879 (2)
  ...itnesses, but that was also impossible. They were mostly leaders of search parties now out in the bush, and could not be brought forward even were it desirabl
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• Illustrated Australian News at KellyGang 21/2/1879
  '''A SEARCH PARTY IN THE WOMBAT RANGES''' A special train was instantly despatched from Benalla with a [[Police Search Parties|force of troopers]] and their horses, and a few hours afterwards the detach
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1879
  The following [[Police Search Parties|search party]] returned, after an absence of a week, this evening, and as the Kell
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• Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 22/3/1879
  The following [[Police Search Parties|search party]] returned, after an absence of a week, this evening, and as the Kell
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• The Argus at KellyGang 5/5/1879
  ...nd the assistance he was always ready to give to the police and the search parties, and dwelt feelingly upon the aspersions cast upon his character. He truste
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/5/1879
  ...top at my place, but gave them no other active assistance. For guiding the search party, packing the bodies, and for my trouble during the first week, I was
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/5/1879
  ...onk]] inquiry was resumed this morn ing, Mr Panton, PM , presiding and the parties being represented as before. Three hours were occupied by the clerk of the ...e paddock of English grass which had been used or trodden down by the same parties. When the dam was broken down Constable Neville, who had been at witness's
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/6/1879 (2)
  That I aided various search parties with shelter and food.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 17/11/1879
  ...Hart]] to the house of the latter's [[Richard Hart (2)|father]], an active search has been prosecuted by the police, acting under secret instructions from th ...the 17th October, some additional information was obtained, and an active search was then instituted.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/11/1879 (6)
  ...the gang to retreat while retreating a continuous fire was kept up by both parties. Constable Barry's horse was shot through the flank, and Barry, feeling him ...hat the gang was com posed of six men, and five only being ac counted for, search was immediately made for the missing man. No traces of him, however, could
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• The Argus at KellyGang 3/6/1880
  The recent action of the police in sending out search parties in the direction of Beechworth having failed in producing any result, the q
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• The Argus (12)
  ...nt. In this way a great amount of energy has been latterly thrown into the search, and gradually the gang became aware that they were closely followed. Impor ...ng out the importance of the men being allowed to remain and assist in the search, and Mr Palmer gave his consent. Yesterday Mr Palmer sent this further tele
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• The Argus (23)
  ...g in the ranges at the head of the King River. Two [[Police Search Parties|parties of police]] were despatched, one from Mansfield and the other from Greta. T ...n which it had occurred, a panic prevailed among the residents, and search parties, comprising large numbers of men, started from the various centres of popul
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/7/1880
  ...rough the colony.  From many centres of population in the district search parties, joined by volunteers from every class and rank, went out to assist in the
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 15/7/1880
  ...have joined the great mass of the public in attacking the [[Police Search Parties|police]] as to the Glenrowan affair.Little they knew that at the very momen
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• The Argus (41)
  ...ed, and remain out as long at they thought fit. I also made up three watch parties, consisting of four men each, and directed them to watch certain places by
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• The Argus (52)
  ...26 th. Kennedy and Scanlan went away on horseback to scour the country in search of the Kelly’s, whilst Lonigan and McIntyre remained in charge of the cam ...eard a number of shots fired. He eventually reached Mansfield , and search parties having turned out, the dead bodies of Lonigan, Scanlan, and Kennedy were fo
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• The Age (31)
  ...d, ‘Are there any others out?’ I said ‘Yes, there is [[Police Search Parties|another party]] at Greta.’ He asked me who they were, and I said, ‘I do ...d what I had seen to Sub-inspector Pewtress. Some police and others made a search party, and I went with them. I started on the return journey about two hour
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• Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 21/10/1880
  ...the nearest mining registrar's office, with pro visions, and several other parties of miners, and operations were commenced systematically. Nearly every one on the creek prepared to leave, and it was proposed to search for the prospectors. who were hidden in the scrub and lynch them; wiser cou
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• Kilmore Free Press at KellyGang 21/10/1880 (2)
  In the end of 1860 several parties of prospectors from Gaffney's Creek out their way, for as the scrub general Next morning they all started in search of the place where the specimen was found, and though the specimen selected
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/11/1880 (4)
  After a search for some months’ duration, the police ascertained that the gang was hidin From many centres of population in the district search parties went out to assist in the capture of the perpetrators of the dastardly outr
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• The Argus at KellyGang 24/3/1881
  ...onths, it was ultimately determined, with my approval, to start two search parties, well armed in pursuit of the Kellys. One started from Mansfield under char
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• The Argus at KellyGang 24/3/1881 (2)
  ...in the bush, and sent a party of seven or eight men under Mr Nicolson, to search the house. Soon after he had reached the house we heard a shot fired, which ...ge of the district, but not of the operations. In addition to these search parties, who were not sent out on bootless errands, Mr Hare had a body of very effi
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• The Argus at KellyGang 24/3/1881 (4)
  ...a chance offered. Four men would have been a sufficient force. The search parties were at liberty to try to capture the Kellys a without first communicating ...ugh at you behind your back. With regard to your stopping a party about to search for the Kellys, on information given by — —, yon might have sent in a r
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/3/1881
  ...re then 50 or 60 police. (Witness then detailed how he had sent out search parties for Sergeant Kennedy and the Kelly gang) On November 1 we heard a man had b ...tions from Captain Standish. He did not send me with seven or eight men to search the hut. His statement to that effect is incorrect. Did not interfere with
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/3/1881 (2)
  ...herefore only able to perform ordinary duties. Was out with several search parties, and when not with them was continually travelling. At that time could get ...e country into districts, and a party was appointed to each district. When parties returned they gave in reports of their proceedings. These reports should st
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• The Argus at KellyGang 28/3/1881
  ...in good health and spirits, only chafed by the patience necessary in this search. The offenders have 2,000 square miles of mountainous, rocky, thickly timbe ...t Mansfield, under Sub-inspector Pewtress. The only place where a complete search party was kept was Benalla; but at the other places one seven or eight stro
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• The Argus at KellyGang 28/3/1881 (3)
  ...ceeded on foot until we came to the head of the gully. Sent two parties to search the gully on the banks, with Mr O'Connor and the trackers. I went down into
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/3/1881 (3)
  ...ockman type – good bushmen. The system of scouring the country in search parties was utterly useless. Did not notice any want of promptness of action. Certa
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/4/1881 (4)
  ...lowing his ordinary occupation. Not only kept agents on, but formed search parties. Shifted some of Mr Nicolson's agents, as, I believe he had intended to do.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/4/1881 (5)
  ...from Jerilderie bore consecutive numbers. No action was taken against the parties circulating New South Wales notes at the time because the Jerilderie bank c ...there. Was then in charge of the Bourke district. Sent out many parties in search of him from my district. After he had been out l8 months.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/4/1881
  ...them at all times in their several positions during the long period of the search for the outlaws. One moiety of the reward has been distributed as nearly as A further distribution has been made to the parties under Superintendents Hare and Sadleir and Sergeant Steele, who took part i
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• The Argus at KellyGang 4/5/1881
  ...the North-eastern district, remaining there until 1875. Was engaged in the search after Power, and acquired knowledge of the Kellys and their relations. In 1 ...t; There I met Strachan's search party, who had arranged to meet the other search party, viz., Kennedy's, at the head of the river. That was on Saturday, Oct
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/5/1881 (2)
  ...he had been visited by search parties.) Once I saw Ned Kelly, but I told a search party subsequently that I had not I sold hay to the police for their horses
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/5/1881
  ...hey were employed. Recollected when Mr Brook Smith declined to follow up a search. There was some talk amongst the men about that. The constable who reported
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/5/1881
  ...|Barry]]''' gave evidence to the effect that he had been engaged in search parties under Mr Nicolson. At night they used to camp for a time, put out the fires
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• The Argus at KellyGang 1/6/1881 (2)
  ...wed them himself, but he had to follow his previous instructions and go to search the Rat's Castle. Witness recommended Inspector Brook Smith to follow the t ...it his duty to act on his instructions and go to Rat's Castle. The search parties were at liberty to go where they thought best on receiving information.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 3/6/1881
  ...with Mr Nicolson's search party; was not one of the cave party. The search parties were much troubled by false reports and information on all hands. Witness a
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/6/1881
  ...after the outlaws. Thought the best plan would have been to send out small parties to watch the sympathisers' houses, and that in future young, active men sho
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/6/1881 (2)
  ...was not over me. He said a couple of trackers would be sufficient for any search party, and that would not allow my men to be worked without myself, which w ...lled by Mr O'Connor said – Mr O'Connor always wished to work w ith small parties and never showed a want of courage. Once Captain Standish said Mr O'Connor
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/8/1881 (3)
  ...ible in appointing Sergeant Kennedy and his party to under- take the first search for the Kellys. Until Mr Sadleir took charge, the police in the district we
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• The Argus at KellyGang 1/9/1881
  ...lting with Messrs. Hare and Sadleir that it was useless sending out search parties except on apparently reliable information. Witness was up in the district f
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• The Argus at KellyGang 7/9/1881
  ...(the North-Eastern) should be carried out. With regard to the preliminary search for the Kelly brothers he (Mr Sadleir) visited Greta for the first time aft ...ds. Arranged, however, with Sub-inspector Pewtress for starting parties in search of Sergeant Kennedy. Respecting the positions of Mr Nicolson and himself in
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/9/1881 (3)
  ...he acting officer there. Saw Mr Nicolson that evening, and he directed the parties to go out on the following day. They went out without witness, and found on
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/10/1881 (4)
  ...ping search and watch parties continually scouring the country. With these parties he took his full share of the hardships endured, and by so doing insured th
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/10/1881 (2)
  ...oroughly scoured. Of the facts connected with the despatch of those search parties and the murder of Kennedy and two of his companions by the Kellys, the publ ...oner, was despatched to the scene of operations, and at once formed search parties of police with which to follow the outlaws upon the first intimation of the
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/10/1881 (3)
  ...elegrams to the officer in charge at Mansfield , instructing him to send a search party in a direction the opposite of that which it was possible the outlaws ...e expedition which started on the 6th November, 1878 , from Wangaratta, to search the Warby Ranges , discloses culpable negligence and incapacity on the part
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/10/1881 (4)
  ...d recourse to the system of employing secret agents, and abandoning search parties, which he, in common with Superintendent Sadleir, looked upon as mere fooli ...this period enlarged upon in the report. Allusion is made to the fact of a search party that had been organised to start from Benalla in September, 1879, hav
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/11/1881
  ...Ranges. Sergeant STEELE was sent by Superintendent SADLEIR with a party to search Rats' Castle, and he was ordered to inquire into the Wangaratta rumour, and
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• The Argus at KellyGang 5/1/1882
  ...ted a new system. He came to the conclusion that the sending out of search parties into the wilds and fastnesses of the Kelly country was folly. The evil was ...mand in the Kelly district, the quarrel does not seem to have affected the search for the outlaws so much as was at first supposed. The commissioners say:-
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  ...onths, it was ultimately determined, with my approval, to start two search parties, well armed, in pursuit of the [[KellyGang's family|Kellys]]. One started f
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• Royal Commission report day 1 page 7
  ...for a period of upwards of six months. The Government then decided to send parties of the paid [[Army|artillery]] to the various townships of any importance i ...d direction of affairs in the North-Eastern district I at once sent search parties in the various portions of the district where there were some grounds for b
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• Royal Commission report day 1 page 17
  ...stated you organised search parties -We had [[Police Search Parties|search parties]]. 166 How many did those search parties generally consist of?- No fixed number, it differed.
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  ...was unable to go out of camp-to go out with [[Police Search Parties|search parties]]?- I was not aware of that. ...hat was two months after. Are you not aware that I had to go out on search parties myself?- I know I went out a great deal.
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• Royal Commission report day 2 page 1
  ...not been found, and Mr. Sadleir returned to Benalla after despatching the search party from Mansfield which found his body. ...were unaccounted for, about which there was considerable anxiety-those two parties of police that went out at the same time that the other was out....
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  ...29th]]-parties of men that I could muster together to look those men up-to search for them. ...nd despatched two search parties from [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta.]] All those parties came in in a few days.
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  363 Search parties returning?- No; they had been gathered there specially.
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  ...to the Euroa robbery, I was engaged forming [[Police Search Parties|search parties]], dividing the country off into sections, and going out myself with them i
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  ...ming those search parties?- I was frequently-several times-out with search parties before then, but not for any length of time. On the [[events 1879-11/ 1879- ...ually travelling from one place to another; and when out with these search parties at that time we could not get any guides or assistance from the inhabitants
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  448 Were any particular instructions given to those parties in writing or verbal?- Mostly verbal. I was out with one party, and [[Steel ...Const Flood|Flood]] that you have now spoken of as in charge of one of the parties the constable that originally was in charge at [[Greta|Greta]]?- I believe
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  ...d not. I did so because there was such an outcry at that time about search parties, and about the police not doing anything, and I knew at that time it was no
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  ...unicate verbally that it was a mistake to follow out this system of search parties?- No, I do not think so. ...on had come in about their being anywhere. I would have sent the police in search of them; but I intended then, if no result occurred from that, I should hav
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• Royal Commission report 24/3/1881
  ...to Benalla to take charge of the hunt for the killers. He organised search parties and other measures to meet the problem. The police force in the area was ne ...oined us as a guide." He then went on to detail how the police search parties lived in the bush.
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  ...m in good health and spirits, only chafed by the patience necessary in the search. The [[KellyGang|offenders]] have 2,000 square miles of mountain, rocky, th ...the tactics we were pursuing, because I considered it a matter of duty to search the country thoroughly first. But that was an opinion in advance of my work
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  723 You allowed the [[Police Search Parties|parties]] to start at their discretion?- On any good information they received. ...contrary. I directed the police to be very very quiet; to continue search parties; to make no demonstrations at all.
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  ...need so many horses to be kept in the stables?- No; the horses for search parties I did not stable. ...d. I have in my hand a return of police expenditure in connection with the search of the gang of outlaws.
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  ...rectly in that search, and whom you instructed not to undertake any search parties again; I mean Mr. Smith?- That was not the officer I alluded to. ...tion I ask is this: in the course of your evidence you state there was one search party under the control of an officer, Mr. Smith?- Yes.
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• Royal Commission report 25/3/1881
  ...he police arrangements and the formation and. organisation of these search parties. Nicolson found the original document the night before. ...m in good health and spirits, only chafed by the patience necessary in the search. The offenders have 2,000 square miles of mountain, rocky, thickly timbered
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• Royal Commission report 31/3/1881
  How did the police organise their search parties? What was it really like to be out with a search party in all weather?
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  ...Captain Standish wanted me to go out that night with a party of police in search of the [[KellyGang|Kelly gang]]. I told him I knew nothing of the circumsta ...ut their opinions on matters, and what men I thought fit to take charge of parties. Sometime afterwards I selected three very good men, they were constables,
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  ...d search. Besides the men I have mentioned, who were fit to take charge of parties, there were Senior-Constable [[SConst James|James]] of [[Mansfield|Mansfiel ...men that come to my mind. The first month or so I did not go out with the search party. I remained at Benalla, and my time was fully taken up going about th
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  ...in that direction; the other side of Glenrowan.” I then made a thorough search of the whole premises. I got the boy Moses, to take a circuit round, and se
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  ...used to go out and get the horses. Each man had his own work to do in the search party, and directly I called them in the morning the two men used to go and ...n we squashed it over directly after the billy had been boiled. Our search parties generally consisted of seven or eight men. Some used to think it was far to
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  ...1879]], and during all that time, as I have stated, I was out with search parties off and on. I used to be sometimes four or five days in Benalla recruiting ...n id="rc1306">[[#rc1306|1306]]</span> Did you make yourselves known to the parties you got provisions from?— We were as well known as the town clock, such a
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  ...nce. He has been in the office thirty years, and to put him in charge of a search party on a mountain he would have to rely on his men. The men look to their ...n the active pursuit that you were following, in going out with the search parties, it was necessary to have some responsible party in Benalla to conduct the
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• Royal Commission report 1/4/1881
  ...said, &quot; I was told when I returned to Benalla, after an unsuccessful search, that I was a great fool to go out so much- that I would kill myself.&quot;
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• Royal Commission report day 7 page 3
  ...y say the number; there were large numbers of men all over the place, many parties; and I could not give an estimate within thirty. <span id="rc1398">[[#rc1398|1398]]</span> When you were with the search party at Daws's, was that the nearest you were ever to it?—
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  ...e Benalla district, he was sent up at once, and he had never been out on a search party up to the time I left; and had only been, I think, about a few weeks ...th that, that during the time I was at Benalla, when I came in with search parties, that I frequently let the men go out and fire for practice. I do not think
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• Royal Commission report day 8 page 10
  ...reliable men that had ever been engaged in that capacity during the Kelly search. He was a little too sanguine, and after he left the office I said to Mr. [ ...district when I went there (that is the second time); but in forming those parties I merely shifted the men from less important stations, so that in the event
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• Royal Commission report day 10 page 4
  ...n the zeal and discretion of the members of the force forming these search parties to do what is possible in the matter to effect the arrest of the offenders, ...t that is only an opinion. Here are some further papers preliminary to the search, also semi-official correspondence between myself and Captain Standish. On
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  ...and thence on to [[The Gap|Taylor 's Gap]]. I met there by appointment two parties of police, and instructed them, according to arrangement with Mr. Nicolson, ...rrun with armed men—the camp overrun with armed men. I found there was a search party being got up by Constables [[Sebastopol Cavalcade|Keating]] and [[Seb
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  ...acks I think we would have had a very fair show. There were several search parties still going out without information. We always hoped against hope; and with ...was not fit for the other, but I found afterwards I was. While the search parties were out we had one or two very good agents at work. I am not at liberty to
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  ...re were three detectives sent up, the best men they could find, and search parties were started from time to time. Now I may speak particularly of my own shar
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  ...ent time or something to that effect. Well, there were two or three search parties sent out upon this statement, but not the slightest trace of anything could ...rd, in Ryan's Creek, with that object in view and cutting tracks, and that search was kept up from time to time. On the 22nd January information was received
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  ...aven you are not going to continue this fooling any longer with the search parties.” ...are you going to make any comment as to what the fooling was with search parties?— I will answer any questions on the subject.
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• Royal Commission report day 13 page 13
  ...ber of the [[Kelly family|Kelly family]] being seen by the police in their search, immediately after the bank at Euroa robbery—would it be true that the po ...edge that the search parties of police—were you informed that the search parties of police who went that very road met Kate Kelly within a day or two of the
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  ...h May, information that they were at the old diggings place, and we made a search there. ...dleir]] made arrangements for two parties of police to start and make this search.
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  ...ld see the police, the way they were galloping round the country in search parties.
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  <span id="rc4351">[[#rc4351|4351]]</span> How long did you remain out on that search?— Perhaps ten minutes. ..."rc4366">[[#rc4366|4366]]</span> Do you remember any remarks made by those parties when they came in?— No, I do not, only what [[Donoghue|Donoghue]] said th
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• Royal Commission report day 17 page 14
  ...eived instructions at Oakleigh to proceed to the North-Eastern District in search of the [[KellyGang|gang]]. ...144|5144]]</span> What were you doing particularly?— I was out in search parties.
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  ...t was the object of that special train?— It was to distribute the search parties round towards Beechworth. ...ent on to Myrtleford. A despatch was sent from Beechworth ordering the two parties to return to Beechworth. The despatch reached us about two a.m. in the morn
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  ...204">[[#rc5204|5204]]</span> Would thirteen have been the total of the two parties?— It might have been. ...05">[[#rc5205|5205]]</span> ''By the Commission''. —Were there any other parties except those two named?— Only those two that came from Myrtleford and the
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  ...ou, as a rule, get clear of the roads very much, with that [[Police Search Parties|large party]]?— At times, when we received information, we generally went ...u remember hearing any remarks about the noise and dust kicked up by those parties?— No, I cannot say I do.
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• Royal Commission report 10/5/1881
  He went out with search parties, watched the bridge over the Mitta Mitta and was stationed at Rutherglen. After this Const Faulkiner was out with Sup Hare on search parties to Lloyd's place
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  ...]], the old lady's, and we conveyed them from there to the [[Police Search Parties|cave]].
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  ...wn or to suppress it?— It was altogether to keep out the [[Police Search Parties|cave party]] being known in it.
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  ...id="rc5552">[[#rc5552|5552]]</span> Did he speak about the [[Police Search Parties|cave party]]?— No.
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  ...]</span> ''By Mr. Hare''. —Before I came there, were you in other search parties?— Yes. ...daylight, and as soon as daylight we saddled up the horses and started to search the ranges.
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  ...oing out in search parties fooling —I ask you to state what object those parties started with; give one case where you kind any information that the Kellys
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• Royal Commission report 11/5/1881
  How did the search parties travel through the bush? ...daylight, and as soon as daylight we saddled up the horses and started to search the ranges.&quot;
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  ...rs. We had trackers from [[Coranderrk|Coranderrk]]. He used to go out with parties himself. He went to the Watchbox Creek and [[Fern Hills|Fern Hills]] and do ...harassed the outlaws, and kept them in the back country. Mr. Hare's search parties were out in all directions. He sent a party at night to the [[Strathbogie R
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  ...again the search for the Kellys, what system would you pursue—by search parties and harassing or by endeavoring to get them by secret service?— If they h ...e tell you the bank had been robbed, from information he had received from parties who had been robbed?— He said he heard it at the railway station; and I s
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  ...lion|Mrs. Skillian]], a sister of Ned Kelly, was moving up, and some other parties, but they did not get near the house, the priest was out so quick. ...ict?— Most of the men passed through here before they went out on search parties.
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  <span id="rc6417">[[#rc6417|6417]]</span> And most of the search parties passed through Benalla, and were under your immediate observation?— A gre
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  ...out to the Reef to practice with the, Martinis. There were some times two parties here, and not much doing in searching, and they were kept practising at the ...ot aware that in the Kelly country there are tier upon tier of ranges, and parties looking for those men they might go down one of those spurs and ride down a
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  <span id="rc6550">[[#rc6550|6550]]</span> Were not search parties kept up after Euroa and Jerilderie?— Yes, and before Euroa. ...</span> After Euroa and Jerilderie?— Yes; [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] were kept up all the time, but not so many the last time.
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  <span id="rc6829">[[#rc6829|6829]]</span> Had you been with him in any search parties?— I was.
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  <span id="rc7136">[[#rc7136|7136]]</span> And you were out with many search parties?— Yes. On the 28th October 1878 I received a telegram from Senior-Constab
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  ...[#rc7371|7371]]</span> ''By the Commission''— You were out in the search parties?— I was with Mr. Nicolson and with Mr. Sadleir.
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  ...about his role in the Stringy bark Creek murders and the following search parties. ...party are listed. There were problems with the train that was carrying the search party from Benalla to Euroa.
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  ...0|7774.7280]]</span> With how many parties?— I do not know the number of parties. I was, in fact, continually employed, and out. ...c7774_7281|7774.7281]]</span> How many constables went out in those search parties?— Different numbers, with different officers.
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  ...4]]</span> Have you heard your brother constables who were out with search parties say that was the most efficient weapon?— They have expressed themselves i
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  ...]</span> How many men were in the party?— The first was divided into two parties, I think, six in one and four in the other. ...8]]</span> Subsequent to this you were with Mr. Hare on most of his search parties?— Yes.
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  ...t day?— I heard and saw in the papers the different times that different parties arrived. ...c7896">[[#rc7896|7896]]</span> Which was the first [[Police Search Parties|search party]] you went out with?— Under Senior-Constable [[SConst Flood|Flood]]
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• Royal Commission report 17/5/1881
  ...ictoria after the Stringy Bark Murders. He was out with a number of search parties. After the Jerilderie robbery he watched Mrs Byrne's home as part of the fi
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  ...> Did you understand that they had gone out on the [[Police Search Parties|search]]?— Yes, I understood they were out. Senior-Constable James was brought d
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  <span id="rc8005">[[#rc8005|8005]]</span> You went out constantly with search parties?— No. On the [[events 1879-05/ 1879-07at KellyGang|10th of May 1879]] I w
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  <span id="rc8024">[[#rc8024|8024]]</span> Only that you were out with search parties continually?— Yes.
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  ...anges–what they call the Table-land; that was on the 2nd. I then went to search the Stanley ranges; I think that was the 4th, and that we had rested our ho ...than that we were continually going out on [[Police Search Parties|search parties]].
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  ...ook the special train as soon as we had something to eat. It was two small parties met, but there were not, I think, more than eight or nine altogether. ...n id="rc8903">[[#rc8903|8903]]</span> You say you were one of the party in search of the Kellys on the Warby ranges?— I went out one morning with Mr. Sadle
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  ...ments were altered in regard to the duty of [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] from time to time. I have some notes as to the duty. <span id="rc8912">[[#rc8912|8912]]</span> Those search parties were very severe both on men and horses?— Yes. And then Mr. Nicolson thou
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  ...the advantage of adopting a system of secret service rather than by search parties?— Yes.
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  ...t the capture of the Kellys at that time?— Well, so far as confining the search to one party of men, I should say it had. ...]]</span> Are you aware that the evidence shows that several of the search parties that went out with Mr. [[Hare|Hare]], went out without definite information
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• Royal Commission report day 24 page 3
  ...ld since there were about thirteen or fourteen men, but there were so many parties I could not tell unless I kept a memorandum. I could have told but for losi ...record sheet:–“ 16/8/80 . Has been engaged in charge of several search parties re Kelly gang since October 1878, and joined in the attack on the gang at G
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  ...n pursuit of them. I stated in that application that I would do my best to search for and capture them or die in the attempt, and now I can truthfully tell y ...c9375|9375]]</span> Was it single-handed you went?— No, joined in search parties.
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• Royal Commission report 1/6/1881
  ...uit of them, &quot;I stated in that application that I would do my best to search for and capture them or die in the attempt, and now I can truthfully tell y Dwyer went out on search parties after information that was either out of date or untruthful.
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• Royal Commission report day 25 page 3
  ...610]]</span> Were you in any of the search parties?— I was in Mr. Hare's search party. <span id="rc9614">[[#rc9614|9614]]</span> Did you, in any of your search parties, have any information that led you to believe you came near upon the Kellys
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  ...s. The best way would be for mounted police to go out with [[Police Search Parties|very little provisions]], and no incumbrance, just a 'possum rug–somethin <span id="rc9652">[[#rc9652|9652]]</span> A search party like that would be a laughing stock to the outlaws?— It would be a
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  ...n> You disapprove of the Melbourne men being sent up at all?— For search parties. ...orsemen and good bushmen are best for that?— Yes. Some of the men in the parties could not ride a horse– could not ride it over a fence. In fact, it was n
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• Royal Commission report 9/6/1881
  ...in charge of the above trackers and on all occasions when out with them in search of offenders and otherwise, they have worked with alacrity, determination a ...y information to act upon. It was impossible, especially with large search parties.
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• Royal Commission report day 28 page 7
  ...7|11077]]</span> Were you out in any of the [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] after the Kellys?— Yes. <span id="rc11081">[[#rc11081|11081]]</span> Did you in any of those parties believe that at any time,You came near upon catching the Kellys?— No; I c
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• Royal Commission report day 28 page 14
  <span id="rc11287">[[#rc11287|11287]]</span> Were you in any of the search parties?— No. ...id="rc11290">[[#rc11290|11290]]</span> You were never out with any of the parties?— No, not one.
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• Royal Commission report day 30 page 10
  ...11784|11784]]</span> You have nothing to add in connection with the search parties?— One thing. I want to point out this—you notice that I, from the very ...you take large parties, and then blamed you because you had to carry large parties about?— He has done that in his evidence.
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• Royal Commission report day 31 page 1
  ...11875|11875]]</span> Do you remember the first occasion of my going out in search of the outlaws?— You went out first with me. <span id="rc11887">[[#rc11887|11887]]</span> I mean it is not the position of parties, but it was an independent command; he gave him the command in your distric
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• Royal Commission report day 32 page 1
  ...had been there about twelve months. I volunteered my services, and went in search of them along with Sergeant [[Steele|Steele]]. .../span> Were you out with any of the search parties?— With all the search parties, and with Sergeant Steele till they were captured.
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  ...I know as much about them as any man who was in connection with the search parties. ...onsidered advisable to take action, fearing it might prevent or injure the search for the Kellys.
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  <span id="rc12212">[[#rc12212|12212]]</span> Were you out with any search parties under Mr. Brook Smith?— Yes. I am independent of any officers now. My ins
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• Royal Commission report day 34 page 11
  ...n> But by searching those [[Sympathizers|sympathizers]]' houses?— We did search their houses. We watched about their places at night–watched several plac ...n id="rc12695">[[#rc12695|12695]]</span> In watching those places, did you search the houses before leaving after watching all night?— No; in most cases wh
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• Royal Commission report 6/7/1881
  Fitzpatrick was out with many search parties including the one to the Warby Ranges.
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• Royal Commission report day 36 page 10
  ...ere shot. The search parties seemed to cease for some time. They organized parties after the time they shot me, but there were none during the hearing of the ...ellys at the time there was a warrant for their arrest?— The only search parties were Lonigan and myself from Benalla; and I was given to understand that Mr
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  ...information they had received from time to time. It was badly managed; the parties having to proceed from Wangaratta up to the head of the [[King River|King R ...#rc12969|12969]]</span> Did you consider the practice of sending out large parties a proper one in searching, or likely to be successful?— No.
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• Royal Commission report 20/7/1881
  SCont Mullane was stationed at Beechworth. He went out on a nmber of search parties. Mullane was out with search party into the Warby Ranges and other areas. He also saw the problem with I
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  ...here anything you wish to speak of?— Nothing, except as to the different parties I was on. ...re you out with search parties with Mr. [[Hare|Hare]]?— I was out with a search party when Mr. Hare was in the district. He sent me out on the [[Fern Hills
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  ...was in [[Benalla Police Station|Benalla]] during the time that the search parties were out.
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  ...701">[[#rc13701|13701]]</span> How long after the information came was the search made?— I think the day after; but it was immediately after—it was withi ...you first employed on the Kelly search, as the man in charge of the Kelly parties?— The first time I was placed in charge was by my going up to [[Fern Hill
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• Royal Commission report day 38 page 4
  ...Younghusband's station with the police and black trackers, and there made search until Mr. Nicolson arrived. He took charge of the police then, and directed ...new to be true. I immediately communicated by telegram to Benalla, and two parties of police were sent up to Gundowring, and I received instructions to send a
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  ...yourself, and let us have a consultation. I intend keeping three standing parties of police, and two [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] at each station, that
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• Royal Commission report day 41 page 10
  ...om that end, and the others to act with the [[Greta|Greta]] police, and to search simultaneously up and down the King River and neighboring places. I shall b ...ceedings determined on by those men?— Only what I have said that our two parties were to join at Hedi and have a consultation.
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• Royal Commission report day 43 page 5
  ...l?— I never kept any dates. Byrne said that Mr. [[Hare|Hare]] and search parties very nearly had them once, and that they were well starved out. He told me
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• Royal Commission report 30/8/1881
  '.. do you think it was good generalship continually to start parties of police for upwards of seven months?--' Search parties; 'When I got information I kept it to myself, and acted upon it.'
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  ...se?— I thought, unless we had very good grounds to go on, sending search parties without any definite ground to go on was a mistake.
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• Royal Commission report day 46 page 4
  ...of all that knowledge, that it was good generalship on your part to start parties of police at Benalla for upwards of seven months?— I do not know what you ...ards of seven months?— I left off the practice of sending out the search parties after I had been there some time and found they were no use.
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 3
  ...to the point. What is the Commission to think of your conduct with search parties in the North-Eastern district, when you condemn Mr. Nicolson?— Condemn hi ...said, after experience there, I found it was utterly useless to send those parties galloping about.
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  ...orders or not?— He was merely in charge of the black trackers in search parties, under the officer in charge.
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  ...mation with regard to any outrage, what course he should take to bring the parties charged with any offence against the law to justice?— In any ordinary dis ...infrequent; but I very soon found out that the plan of having large search parties all over the district was waste of time and money.
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• Royal Commission report day 48 page 13
  ...n pursuit of the Kellys, when, according to your own accounts, your search parties all ended in failure, and showed your system was wrong?— I did not say my 16493 Your parties ended in failure?— So did yours.
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 1
  ...had been brought in, and I arranged, with Mr. Pewtress ' assistance, for a search party on the following morning to find the body of Sergeant Kennedy . His b
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  ...statement that the log was, I thought, not found is explained by this. The search for this log was subsequently renewed, and it was stated it could not then <span id="rc16691">[[#rc16691|16691]]</span> Were there search parties in that particular locality at the time?— Yes; and we had some men at [[G
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  ...12th I returned to Benalla for further intelligence. The only other search parties I went out with were to Euroa and Muddy Creek, on some information by a wat
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 4
  '''2''' . That I acted as scout or guide for different parties of police for thirteen days, and received in payment therefor the sum of th ...the Wombat. There were floods in the King River which interfered with the search I was directed to make. I returned to Wangaratta and saw Mr Nicolson and re
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  ...1th I was engaged corresponding and considering reports of returned search parties, and as I then could plainly see that the men who had been out with Mr. Smi
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  ...ation which was requisite for them to know. I sent out picked men as watch parties where it could be done without the knowledge of the gang. By this system I
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  ...nd extra pay. Theirs was a life of enjoyment while they were on the search parties, and, of course, under the system that I considered necessary for the servi
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  ...gue; now the gravamen of the charge is that on the 6th you went out with a search party with [[Johnston|Johnson]], and you came on tracks, and at the very mo ...d to any party whatever. You appear to know more than I do. There were two parties had charge of that party besides myself. There were Kennedy and Johnson , a
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• Royal Commission report day 51 page 16
  ...been there between those dates?— Certainly. I was continually on search parties. 17375 How could you be on a search party when you were every day in Wangaratta?— All that I can say is that
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  Could Brook Smith take out a search party out without Nicolson's leave? ...&amp;c., which show that you do not anticipate camping out. ........ Three parties besides yours are now out under my knowledge. Communicate with me by telegr
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  ...re at [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]]?— But I had no control; I could not take parties out like that. ...7479">[[#rc17479|17479]]</span> Under whose instructions did you go in the search party on the 6th?— Mr. Nicolson's.
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  ...party to scour between the North-Eastern road and the Murray River. Three parties besides yours are now out under my knowledge. Communicate with me by telegr
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  ...n I was ordered back to my station again, at the Broken River. Then search parties were the order of the day at the time; they went out fourteen or fifteen at
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• 2nd Report of the Royal Commission
  | The development of the program search parties. Sgt Kennedy's search party. The spot indicated by Sergeant Kennedy for the purposes of a camp wa ...visited the more important stations, Mr. Nicolson proceeded to form search parties with whom to scour the country according as information was received as to
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• Royal Commission second Report Part IV ( page 7)
  ...uperintendent Sadleir issued final orders to guide the search parties. Two parties of police were to start simultaneously - one, consisting of Sergeant Kenned
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• Royal Commission second Report Part V ( page 8)
  ...r the work, and Mr. Pewtress was wholly unsuited for bush duty. The police parties sent in pursuit in the first instance returned to quarters without success,
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• Royal Commission second Report Part X ( page 13)
  ...sympathizers. He undertook expeditions to the Warby Ranges ; he led search parties to [[Cleary|Cleary's]] house, and to the [[Whorouly (2)|Whorouly]] races re
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XII ( page 15)
  ...er the circumstances, took no action. This was the occasion upon which the search party had assembled in the barrack yard at Benalla, with their horses saddl
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XII ( page 16)
  ...at midnight, without being discovered, and that the trackers might have to search over at least a quarter of a mile before finding the footprints., and consi ...connection with operations against the Kelly gang, namely, that of search parties and of secret agents, have been frequently referred to in the course of the
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XII ( page 17)
  ...at midnight, without being discovered, and that the trackers might have to search over at least a quarter of a mile before finding the footprints; and consid ...connection with operations against the Kelly gang, namely, that of search parties and of secret agents, have been frequently referred to in the course of the
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XII ( page 18)
  ...suppose that the police were not on the alert. There were very few search parties despatched, and in every instance where action was taken of this nature the
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• Royal Commission Second Report Part XV ( page 24)
  ...ping search and watch parties continually scouring the country. With these parties he took his full share of the hardships endured, and by so doing ensured th
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 5 page 2
  | Reported by Sergeant Harkin, who made search, but could not trace these persons, not supposed to be the outlaws. | Search by police, without result.
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 5 page 3
  | Detective Ward and two constables sent to search; no result; report believed to be doubtful. Party watching Tom Lloyd's from | Report was to effect that attack by outlaws' was imminent. Two parties of police, two in each, secretly lodged in each township
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XIX page 1
  ...Nothing could exceed the zeal of the men who were sent out on these night parties. The work was particularly trying; there was not only the strain of eager w
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XIX page 3
  ...y part offered hiding places for fugitives such as the Kelly gang, and all search seemed hopeless unless their very footprints could be traced.
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XIX page 4
  ...-operate. I felt Hare gave too much attention to the sending out of search parties on the mere hope of their coming across the Kellys. He certainly did not sp
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XVIII page 1
  ...re in the Wombat country when he and his party went out on this disastrous search. ...ought that public feeling, so greatly shocked as it was, would demand that search should be made in the first instance near the scene of the outrage, and thi
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XVIII page 4
  ...leared space showed numberless bullet marks. It was discovered by a police search party under Sergeant, afterwards Superintendent [[SConst James|James]], but .... Without competent trackers it was impossible to carry on this particular search, and Mr Nicolson returned to Benalla.
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XX page 1
  ...than once to police parties in the neighbouring colonies. Our early search parties, in order to avoid this danger, used to choose the site for their camp afte
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XX page 3
  The usual police parties were continued by [[Hare|Hare]]. He took charge also of a party that contin ...in regard to some remote banks. It was found, now that speculative search parties were discontinued, there was a great saving in men and horses.
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• Mansfield Murders
  ...|Ward]] reported Dan [[Dan Kelly|Kelly]] working on Fifteen Mile Creek and search should be sent from Wangaratta and Mansfield to catch '''KellyGang'''. ...adleir]]'s orders to [[Pewtress|Pewtress]] about [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy]]'s search party.
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• Euroa Robbery
  | Sadleir started search party through to Lake Rowan | police [[Police Search Parties|search party]] sent into the [[Strathbogie Ranges|Strathbogie]] Ranges
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• Jerilderie Robbery
  ...going to NSW; response [[Telegraph|telegram]] and [[Police Search Parties|search party]]. | first search party for the Qld [[Police Trackers|Trackers]] left [[Benalla Police Statio
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• Const Armstrong
  ...aph''' I was stationed at [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] and went out on search parties with Sgt Steele ([[Royal Commission report day 32 page 1|RC12083]]) ...we could not fire out through the wheather boards. They were used by watch parties, but they were totally useless in our case, and we could not fire through t
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• Const Daniel Barry
  ...me other place, perhaps a mile away. There were usually 6 or 8 police in a search party. . I simply went where the others led to. I had no information about '''Euroa Robbery 10/12/1878''' I was involved in search parties hunting the '''KellyGang''' after the Euroa robbery with Const [[Johnston|J
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• Brooke Smith
  I led a search party that travelled between [[Merriang|Merriang]], across the [[Buffalo Ri ...amp;c., which show that you do not anticipate camping out. ......... Three parties besides yours are now out under my knowledge. Communicate with me by telegr
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• Mrs Margaret Byrne
  ...1879]] the police under Sup [[Hare|Hare]] set up a [[Police Search Parties|search party]] to watch my home. They stayed for about a month and crept around tr ...en Aaron. When he came to see me I said 'A pretty fellow you are, going to search; I found the men in the mountains today.&quot; He Hare later, &quot;She has
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• Const J Dixon
  ...nce from the inhabitants. I was the exception and helped the police search parties as a guide. I then joined as a mounted constable at [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta '''Photograph''' '''Warby Ranges search party''' 6'''/11/1878''' I went out with a serach party under Insp [[Brooke
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• Const Faulkiner
  I arrived at [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] on 29/10 and went out with serach parties under Sgt [[Steele|Steele]]. The first party I went out with went up over t I joined Sup Hare on search parties to the [[Warby Ranges|Warby Ranges]]. ([[Royal Commission report day 18 pag
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• Fitzpatrick
  ...llyGang''' in the Cameron [[Cameron Letter|letter]] as being a member of a search party with Sgt [[Steele|Steele]] and Const [[Strahan|Strahan]] to the [[Kel I went out on a search party from Benalla with Const [[Lonigan|Lonigan]]. ([[Royal Commission repo
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• SConst Flood
  ...yal Commission report day 26 page 2|RC1034]]) I went out with him on seach parties from the start ([[Royal Commission report day 2 page 10|RC448]]) I went out with Ass Com Nicolson on search parties. ([[Royal Commission report day 2 page 10|RC452]])
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• Hare
  Captain Standish wanted me to go out that night with a party of police in search of the '''KellyGang'''. ...P Mullane|Mullane]] at [[Chiltern|Chiltern]] and started off police search parties to [[Gravel Plains|Gravel]] Plains on the River Murray. I gave Aaron £2 fo
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• Hayes
  ...t [[Ward|Ward]] and I proceeded to there, and made [[Police Search Parties|search]] for three days.We did not find anything. ([[Royal Commission report day 1
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• Hunt
  ...Early Years , Fitzpatrick Incident , Springybark Creek Murders , [[#Warby|search in Warby Ranges]] , Sebastopol Cavalcade , Euroa Robbery , Jerilderie Robbe ...''' I was with Insp [[Brooke Smith|Brook Smith]]'s [[Police Search Parties|search party]] in the [[Warby Ranges|Warby Ranges]]. ([[Royal Commission report da
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• Const Irwin
  '''Mansfield Murders 26/10/1878''' I went out with a search party after the '''KellyGang''' after the murders. We went up around [[Alex '''Photograph''' '''Euroa Robbery 10/12/1878''' I led out search parties from Alexandra ([[Royal Commission report day 6 page 2|RC1262]])
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• SConst James
  I went out with search parties under Ass Com Nicolson ([[Royal Commission report day 2 page 10|RC448]]) Just after the murders I took out a search party from [[Mansfield|Mansfield]] to Lancefield on road to Wombat, [[Strin
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• Johnston
  '''Photograph''' '''Warby Ranges search party''' 6'''/11/1878''' After the '''KellyGang''' fled to the Murray River In response we sent out 2 search parties on 6/11/1878 under Det [[Det Kennedy|Kennedy]] and Insp [[Brooke Smith|Broo
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• Dan Kelly
  ...tarted pestering the girls at home and going through the hills with search parties looking for us.
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• Det Kennedy
  '''Warby Ranges search party''' 6'''/11/1878''' At the time of the murders I was based in [[Sheppa On 1/11/1878 AssCom [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] sent me out in charge of a search party to follow up on a report at [[Murray Flats|Murray Flats]], near [[Wil
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• Kennedy Sgt
  ...By forming a camp there, it would enable the party to keep up a continuous search between there and the flat country towards the King River, Fifteen-mile Cre ...Kennedy from that end, and the others to act with the Greta police, and to search simultaneously up and down the King River and neighboring places. I shall b
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• Kirkham
  ...rifle. I was out with him for a short time (two or three months) in search parties hunting after the '''KellyGang'''. ([[Royal Commission report day 7 page 4|
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• Const Thomas Meehan
  ...t out from [[Benalla Police Station|Benalla]] on a [[Police Search Parties|search party]]. We went through Greta and spent a night on [[Boggy Creek|Boggy Cre ...ound my horse in his paddock next morning and returned it. They sent out a search party to look for me.([[The Argus at KellyGang 29/10/1878 (2)|Argus29/10/78
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• SConst P Mullane
  The first search party I went out with was by Mr. Nicolson's directions, and he joined us hi '''Euroa Robbery 10/12/1878''' I took part in the search after the robbery. I was appointed a SConst with a pay raise of sixpence a
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• Nicolson
  From September 1878 down to the Euroa robbery, I was engaged forming search parties, dividing the country off into sections, and going out myself with them in I organized and sent out [[Police Search Parties|search parties]] after the '''KellyGang''' under SConst [[SConst James|James]], [[Const Fa
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• Sadleir
  ...art of my time in North Eastern Victoria which meant that I could not take parties out in the bush.([[Royal Commission report day 1 page 19|RC222]]) '''Fitzpa ...with Com Standish's approval, to start two [[Police Search Parties|search parties]], well armed, in pursuit of the '''KellyGang'''. One started from [[Standi
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• Aaron Sherritt
  ...ersuaded Sup [[Hare|Hare]] that he should set up a [[Police Search Parties|search party]] to watch Mrs [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Byrne]]'s home for visits by the ...] said that as soon as I heard them I cleared away in the bush. After some search the police found me asleep in the bush ([[Royal Commission report day 21 pa
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• Shoebridge
  ...eld Murders|21/10/1878]] Sup [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] issued the orders for our search party. (Sgt [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy]] has a copy of the order) At the time of the murders I was out with a search party with SConst [[Strahan|Strahan]] and Consts [[Thom|Thom]] and [[Const
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• Standish
  ...'''KellyGang''' and I arranged for Sup [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] send out search parties to catch the '''KellyGang.''' These men were well known to police as horse ...in the bush, and sent a party of seven or eight men, under Mr. Nicolson to search the house. Soon after we had searched the house we heard a shot fired. It w
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• Steele
  ...'''KellyGang''' in the Cameron [[Cameron Letter|letter]] as sending search parties with Const [[Strahan|Strahan]] and [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] at the [[Kel ...g subsequently served with a subpoena to attend the equity court but I did search the area around [[Greta|Greta]]. ([[Royal Commission report day 23 page 2|R
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• Strahan
  ...llyGang''' in the Cameron [[Cameron Letter|letter]] as being a member of a search party with Sgt [[Steele|Steele]] and Const [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] to t I went out with Ass Com Nicolson on search parties. ([[Royal Commission report day 2 page 9|RC442]])
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• Ward
  ...Events|1869]] and in November I was sent to the North-Eastern district in search of Harry [[Harry Power|Power]] and remained there until November 1875. I wa ...and went to [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]]-Glenrowan to [[Oxley|Oxley]], and made search then until about the [[ev78-10--4Mansfield Murders|15th of October]], when
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• Wild Wright
  ...at Ranges 26/10/1878''' After the shooting the police organised big search parties from Mansfield looking for the '''KellyGang'''. I was pretty annoyed about
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• Benalla Police Station
  ...onnor and the Quuensland trackers went out from the station on their first search party The party that went to start the search party included Det [[Ward|Ward]] (in charge) Consts [[Johnston|Johnson]], '
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• Bright
  Police sent search parties to the Bright area
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• Broken River
  Insp [[Brooke Smith|Brook Smith]] a search party that travelled between [[Merriang|Merriang]], across the Buffalo, ove [[Police Search Parties|Search party]] to Broken River area after [[Euroa|Euroa]] robbery ([[The Argus at
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• Glenrowan
  Const [[Johnston|Johnson]] and his search party lost track of the '''KellyGang''' as they traveled through Glenrowan ...ed through Glenrowan on [[events 1880-4/ 1880-6|26/6/1880]] and saw police parties that were there to cut off the '''KellyGang''' and sympathizers communicati
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• Gravel Plains
  ...4/2/[[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|1879]] Police [[Police Search Parties|search party]] sent to Gravel Plains ([[Royal Commission report day 6 page 4|RC127
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• Hedi
  ...s for Sgt [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy]]'s party to meet up with the other police parties at Hedi. ([[Royal Commission report day 41 page 10|RC14399]]) ...on [[ev78-10--4Mansfield Murders|29/10/1878]] Sgt [[Steele|Steele]] took a search party of police, including Const [[Const Faulkiner|Faulkiner]] and [[Fitzpa
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• King River
  ...tives]], suggesting to him that two bodies of police should be sent out to search the [[Fifteen Mile Creek|Fifteen-mile]] Creek, the right-hand branch of the ...gh to [[Mansfield|Mansfield]]. SConst [[SConst James|James]] led a similar search party from Mansfield to the right-hand branch of the the King River. ([[Roy
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• Wangaratta
  [[Brooke Smith|Brooke Smith]] took out a search party to Lake [[Lake Rowan|Rowan]] on 6/11/1878 and returned on 8/11. He re ...icolson and Sup [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] returned to Wangaratta. Sadleir took a search party down to the area around Glenrowan. ([[Royal Commission report day 49
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• Wodonga (2)
  ...as stationed at Wodonga at the time of the Mansfield Murders. He took up a search party up to the area of the [[Rat's Castle|Rat's Castle]]. ([[Royal Commiss ...elief or the knowledge that you came close upon the Kellys in any of those parties]] [[Category:Wodonga]] [[Category:history]]
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• Yarrawonga
  Insp [[Brooke Smith|Brook Smith]] took a search party with Const [[Johnston|Johnson]] from Wangaratta to Yarrawonga on [[ev ...n the darkness of the night. He then gave information to the police, and s search was instigated at daylight, when tracks of men landing on the New South Wal
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• Environment
  ...rathbogies]] forest was a good hiding place and a barrier to police search parties.
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• Aboriginals
  ...based in Benalla and went out on patrol together with large police search parties. Often they were acting on very little information or reports of sitings of
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• Banks- local branch
  ...re were three detectives sent up, the best men they could find, and search parties were started from time to time. ([[Royal Commission report 12/4/1881|RC2025
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• Newspapers
  ...a bank robbery that the police galloped around the country in large search parties because there was such an outcry, and concern about the police not doing an Sup Hare and his search party came across a newspaper that reported on the KellyGang had been left
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• Police Towns
  ...[[Police Tactics|police tactics]] , [[Police Search Parties|police search parties]] , [[Police Trackers|police aboriginal trackers]] , [[Police pay and Condi
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• Police
  ...sfield]] almost completely denuded of weapons. The parties who went out to search for the bodies of the murdered men were wretchedly equipped, and, before st ...notoriously had bushmen, and ignorant of the country in which they had to search for the outlaws. Some also were indifferent horsemen. &quot;([[Royal Commis
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• Police Search Parties
  == Police Search Parties == == Importance of Police Search Parties ==
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• Police Tactics
  ...on|Benalla]] in the north and [[Mansfield|Mansfield]] in the south. Search parties also operated from [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] and [[Beechworth|Beechworth]]. ...River at Kellygang|Murray]] but then lost them in the Warby Ranges. Search Parties and pursuit seemed to be the only way to catch the '''KellyGang'''.
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• Sebastopol Cavalcade
  ...citizens with guns and weapons of various sorts. Sadleir found there was a search party being got up by Consts '''Keating''' and '''Keen''' (see also ([[The
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• Justice
  [[Police Search Parties|police search]] parties
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