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'''The [[../../things/C_community/C_newspapers.html|''North Eastern Ensign'']]''' of the 2nd inst. writes as follow a with regard to the proposi tion to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in the North Eastern district in order to enable the police to cope more effectually with the KellyGang and their " sympathisers -" We have certainly no objection to the suspension of that venerable charter of our liberties, and the immediate arrest of all suspected persons, seeing that, thanks to the weakness of a magistrate, the [[Sympathizers|sympathises]] with the outlaws have again been set free to aid and abet the criminals, and the [[Felons Apprehension Act|Outlawry Act]] may therefore be held to have failed, but we certainly object to the reasons offered for the course proposed the disaffection to law of the districts named. There is no general lawlessness in these districts, as the people at a distance are apt to believe, but there is a strong body of folks of ill-character either related by blood or marriage or the ties of intimacy engendered by a common disposition towards crime, which ramifies the district. This element includes the Baumgartens, the Kellys, the Lloyds, the Wrights, and scores of other lawless people, who, forming a strong 'ring,' were able to defy the very weak police force of the district for years, until the arrests and convictions leading up to the Mansfield murders and the consequent crimes. "