Royal Commission report day 25 page 9
Story of the KellyGang - the Royal Commission Report
The Royal Commission evidence for 2/6/1881
(see also introduction to day 25)
[[../../people/peD_G/gascoignePmc.html|Const Charles Gascoigne]] giving evidence
9713 You remained on the Benalla side of the hotel?— Yes, all the time.
9714 Were you in a position to see whether there was any large amount of firing from the hotel in the front?— I had the position from the front and side windows to see any one escaping at that end.
9715 Was there any large amount of firing from the front windows after the first volley?— Not from the front windows; there was a lot between the kitchen and the hotel. There was a paling fence for cover, and there were two men firing endways at the Benalla side; they were standing between the kitchen and the hotel.
9716 Was there a large amount of firing from the immediate front of the hotel–from the railway side, towards the hotel?— There was at the first shooting a lot of shots.
9717 After Mr. Hare was shot, was there much firing from the police from the railway side?— Well, I believe there were a good number of shots firing from that, not so freely as before.
9718 When was the last time you saw any shot fired from the hotel during the day?— Half-past two, from the back window, the skillion where the outlaws were captured.
9719 Had there been any considerable amount of firing from the hotel from the time the civilians were released until half-past two?— Odd shots only.
9720 Only now and then?— Only now and then odd shots.
9721 You were present at the burning of the hotel?— Yes.
9722 Did you see the priest go in?— I saw him go in.
9723 Which way did he go in?— In the front door.
9724 Which way did he come out?— I could not say. I heard some of the people sing out he was burnt, and I went to the back of the hotel.
9725 You did not see him there?— I saw him afterwards, at the back, but I cannot say whether , he came out that way or not.
9726 Did you see the body of Joe Byrne taken out?— I saw some men carrying it away; I was not there. There was supposed to be a wounded man at the back, Cherry, and I went there.
9727 Did you see the bodies of the two men that were burnt?— I did.
9728 Before they were moved?— No, there was some one moving them from the position they were in.
9729 When you saw them they had been moved?— Yes.
9730 After the house was burnt and the bodies dragged out?— Yes, it was still burning.
9731 Did you see where they were brought to or from?— Yes.
9732 Where were they lying in the hotel?— When I saw them?
9733 Can you say what room those two were in?— They were in the room on the Benalla side of the building, the back skillion on the Benalla end–the south end.
9734 Were both bodies there?— They were both there.
9735 Were they both there when they were burnt?— I believe they were.
9736 Did you hear Dwyer's statement about those bodies?— I did.
9737 Do you consider that is a correct statement?— Well, the bodies had been removed, had been poked with a pole when I saw them, and that may have shifted them.
9738 Not from the north end to the south end?— No. They were both in the small room, as I have stated.
9739 Could a body at the north end have been shifted into the skillion on the south end?— No.
9740 You saw them troth in that room?— Yes.
9741 How was the armour lying?— It had been moved too, a man with a large pole had been poking it.
9742 Who was the man?— Williams, of Dookie, a civilian, and Senior-Johnson.
9743 He had not moved them far?— No, not much out of position.
9744 Not a yard?— No, perhaps a foot.
9745 Were they lying on the floor?— Yes.
9746 Not on the bed?— No.....
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