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== The Royal Commission evidence for 4/8/1881 ==
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=== full text ===
(see also introduction to [[Royal Commission report 20/9/1881|day 53]])
[[../../people/peL_M/meehanThomasPc.html|'''Const Thomas Meehan''']] '''giving evidence'''
<span id="rc17675">[[#rc17675|17675]]</span> What do you mean by that—what is in the book?— [[Police Organisation|orders]] emanated from head quarters, and copied at all the stations.
<span id="rc17676">[[#rc17676|17676]]</span> What was the nature of the entry?— That uniform was dispensed with.
<span id="rc17677">[[#rc17677|17677]]</span> That is not that discipline was dispensed with?— Uniform being dispensed with, discipline was dispensed with.
<span id="rc17678">[[#rc17678|17678]]</span> That was not the instruction?— Where could I take my instruction from?
<span id="rc17679">[[#rc17679|17679]]</span> Did you imagine that uniform was the foundation of all discipline?— Not necessarily.
<span id="rc17680">[[#rc17680|17680]]</span> You said you had something of importance you wanted to tell the Commission?— Yes; I should wish the Commission should give me an impartial hearing.
<span id="rc17681">[[#rc17681|17681]]</span> We only want anything of importance. I may as well tell you at once that the record we have shows that you were discharged from the police for drunkenness?— I will come to that.
<span id="rc17682">[[#rc17682|17682]]</span> There are some entries on your sheet by a gentleman not here at all that you were intemperate. Come to that at once, or anything of importance?— We shall come to that directly. On another occasion I came into Benalla about Jim Quin, who told me about the Kellys. He said, “Your guns cannot hurt.” To put it in plain phraseology, he said, “You , your guns cannot hurt.”
<span id="rc17683">[[#rc17683|17683]]</span> Was he drinking at that time?— He was, and I was too. [[Jimmy Quinn|Jim Quin]] said, “The lads (meaning the outlaws) will drink out of one of those bottles,” the one we were drinking out of.
<span id="rc17684">[[#rc17684|17684]]</span> What object had you in writing to the Commission so frequently to call you?— About the Kellys being at Mother Farrell’s place; and when I gave that information to Mr. Nicolson, and he would not act upon it, when I had to salute him and everything.
<span id="rc17685">[[#rc17685|17685]]</span> Were you sober at the time?— Yes.
<span id="rc17686">[[#rc17686|17686]]</span> Was that the time you had been drinking with Jim Quin?— Yes. I could always drink. This was a man that could get information about the Kellys for the police; a man with polished boots in the township could not.
<span id="rc17687">[[#rc17687|17687]]</span> There was no action taken on your information then?— I do not know whether there was or not.
''The witness withdrew.'' ....
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== The Royal Commission evidence for 4/8/1881 ==
''''''
=== full text ===
(see also introduction to [[Royal Commission report 20/9/1881|day 53]])
[[../../people/peL_M/meehanThomasPc.html|'''Const Thomas Meehan''']] '''giving evidence'''
<span id="rc17675">[[#rc17675|17675]]</span> What do you mean by that—what is in the book?— [[Police Organisation|orders]] emanated from head quarters, and copied at all the stations.
<span id="rc17676">[[#rc17676|17676]]</span> What was the nature of the entry?— That uniform was dispensed with.
<span id="rc17677">[[#rc17677|17677]]</span> That is not that discipline was dispensed with?— Uniform being dispensed with, discipline was dispensed with.
<span id="rc17678">[[#rc17678|17678]]</span> That was not the instruction?— Where could I take my instruction from?
<span id="rc17679">[[#rc17679|17679]]</span> Did you imagine that uniform was the foundation of all discipline?— Not necessarily.
<span id="rc17680">[[#rc17680|17680]]</span> You said you had something of importance you wanted to tell the Commission?— Yes; I should wish the Commission should give me an impartial hearing.
<span id="rc17681">[[#rc17681|17681]]</span> We only want anything of importance. I may as well tell you at once that the record we have shows that you were discharged from the police for drunkenness?— I will come to that.
<span id="rc17682">[[#rc17682|17682]]</span> There are some entries on your sheet by a gentleman not here at all that you were intemperate. Come to that at once, or anything of importance?— We shall come to that directly. On another occasion I came into Benalla about Jim Quin, who told me about the Kellys. He said, “Your guns cannot hurt.” To put it in plain phraseology, he said, “You , your guns cannot hurt.”
<span id="rc17683">[[#rc17683|17683]]</span> Was he drinking at that time?— He was, and I was too. [[Jimmy Quinn|Jim Quin]] said, “The lads (meaning the outlaws) will drink out of one of those bottles,” the one we were drinking out of.
<span id="rc17684">[[#rc17684|17684]]</span> What object had you in writing to the Commission so frequently to call you?— About the Kellys being at Mother Farrell’s place; and when I gave that information to Mr. Nicolson, and he would not act upon it, when I had to salute him and everything.
<span id="rc17685">[[#rc17685|17685]]</span> Were you sober at the time?— Yes.
<span id="rc17686">[[#rc17686|17686]]</span> Was that the time you had been drinking with Jim Quin?— Yes. I could always drink. This was a man that could get information about the Kellys for the police; a man with polished boots in the township could not.
<span id="rc17687">[[#rc17687|17687]]</span> There was no action taken on your information then?— I do not know whether there was or not.
''The witness withdrew.'' ....
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