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  • Cattle brought good money as nice fresh meat for the local miners. They could also ...amily]] was accused by the police of living largely by stealing horses and cattle.
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  • ..., but he was a good officer who had been concerned before in the arrest of cattle stealers friends of the Kellys; and they had given proof of bloodthirstines
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  • ...his portion of Victoria had enjoyed an unenviable notoriety as the home of cattle ‘duffers’ and other lawless persons; and two of the most notorious bush ...there, and the police were kept constantly on the alert. The popularity of cattle ‘duffing’ in the neighbourhood may be accounted for, partly by the fact
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  • ...order in the district. The [[KellyGang|Kellys]] themselves were well known cattle thieves, with whom the police had considerable acquaintance. Mr [[Nicolson|
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  • ...bles, and [[Joe Byrne|Joe Byrne]], the fourth, had also both been known as cattle or horse stealers, but enjoyed by no means so evil a notoriety as the Kelly
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  • ...of those of their families were in danger, but their sheep and horses and cattle and property were liable to be stolen or destroyed; in addition to which th
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  • ...personal friend of Joe Byrne, and had been engaged in several [[Horse and Cattle stealing|horse stealing]] exploits with him and the Kellys, besides which i
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  • ...it was quite out of the question to follow any individual tracks. All the cattle of the neighbourhood came to this spot to water, but it was impossible to g
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  • ...ks of having their lives taken, or their stacks and fences burnt and their cattle killed or driven away. The Kellys, they knew, would not harm them. Except i
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  • ...he police, when he told the superintendent much of the ways of [[Horse and Cattle stealing|horse stealers]] generally and of himself and the Kellys in partic
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  • ...have been eminently successful; and at the present day - though horses and cattle may occasionally strangely change brands and ownership in the hills - life
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  • ...nst a man at the Woolshed, and that if he'd run in his enough of the man's cattle to satisfy the judgement the boots were his. He did it, at once.
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  • ...had nothing and would I let her have a bag of flour. Well, I knew she had cattle running in the hills, and she said she'd sell some of them and pay me . Of
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  • ...et Foley to identify the beast, however. He said, 'Iwo hundreds of head of cattle, and if I do what you ask they won't leave me one.' At that time I was an i
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  • ...idea was a most promising one. It was that the New South Wales [[Horse and Cattle stealing|robbers]] should steal in their own State and the Kellys confine t ...ners to-day. Well the New South Wales thieves used to drive the horses and cattle to [[Howlong (2)|Howlong]]. That was the rendezvous. The Kellys took their
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  • ...inst Dan Kelly and [[Jack Lloyd Jnr|Jack Lloyd]], on a charge of suspected cattle stealing. Sergeant Lynch, at Chiltern, considered that the men alleged to h
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  • ...], in Victoria, in 1854. He first came into prominence as a finder of lost cattle for which rewards had been offered. But the police had, on account of the c
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  • ...re who have built up substantial competencies through smartness in finding cattle that were never lost. The author was at a well known sale yards one morning
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  • ...sionally. There were intermittent reports of isolated cases of bailing up, cattle-stealing, &c., but though a very strong force of police was employed in ...want horses-did not want anything but food, for themselves, and for their cattle. Having refreshed themselves, the outlaws bailed up a hawker who was travel
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  • ...d into the bush. I came upon two timber-getters. They told me five head of cattle passed half an hour before. They pointed in the direction they had taken, a
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  • "Looking for lost cattle," I replied.
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