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  • ...ough a series of spectacular events that ended after a 2 year chase by the police with the siege at Glenrowan. The main members of the KellyGang were [[Ned K ...llyGang''' and its supporters '''''' and this '''colour''' to identify the police and those who supported authority. Both sides are important to this story.
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  • ...the country towns was full of it, while there was immense activity in the police department, which despatched heavy reinforcements of constabulary to every ...seek his horse at Peechelba, a station he had stuck up upon the New South Wales border.
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  • ...near them. However, their communications with each other are known to the police. Until the gang referred to is rooted out of this neighbourhood, one of the
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  • ...exactitude, what the outlaws’ movements had been after the murder of the police on October 26.
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  • ...y appear to have made strenuous attempts to cross the river into New South Wales. At [[bungowannah|Bungowunnah]] wharf, on the Victorian side, they found a ...ne. Mr [[Brooke Smith|Brooke Smith]] who was in charge of a large party of police at Wangaratta took no action, and Sergeant Steele was under orders to proce
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  • ...f the banks that there was likelihood of a raid being made upon them. More police had been applied for by Mr Sadleir and Mr Nicolson for the work of pursuing ...m that the gang was about to make another attempt to escape into New South Wales. Among the men who gave Mr Nicolson real or fanciful accounts of what the K
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  • ...is this-‘Any work to be had?’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Where?’ On the New South Wales side one shall meet you. I will have a boat ready. There must not be any ho ...to take place, and he also sent notice to the [[NSW police|New South Wales police]].
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  • ...rthward to [[Albury|Albury]], whence it could go to Denilquin in New South Wales , and southward by another line to Melbourne. ...d.’ Later on, after some scruples as to whether he should interfere with police plans, Mr Wyatt, who remained at Benalla, wired to Captain [[Standish|Stand
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  • ...inions and wishes of Mr Hare, very readily fell in with this view, and the police party departed under the leadership of Senior Constable [[Johnston|Johnson] From this day there began a new regime in the Kelly pursuit, Mr Nicolson going to Melbourne to take the Chi
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  • ...d to be Byrne and Dan Kelly had been seen riding towards the Murray, and a police party was sent up the river to watch a crossing place where a chain of hill
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  • ...lace in the hope of intercepting the Kellys on their return from New South Wales. ...r horses comfortable in the police stables, after which they went into the police station to take up their quarters for the night.
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  • ...e the town extra protection against the Kelly gang. On their return to the police station Richards was reincarcerated, and the bushrangers, making Mrs Devine ...ay morning Joe Byrne, in uniform, took two of the horses to be shod by the police farrier, who did the work but apparently was rendered somewhat suspicious b
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  • ...d to the saddle. He himself was next to leave, and led with him one of the police horses. Dan Kelly and Steve Hart departed last, and, before they took leave
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  • Police parties sent out with all possible despatch on receipt of the news from Jer ...r of people who saw and heard of the outlaws frequently decided to let the police catch them as best they might without taking any part in the game.
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  • ...ber by young Sherritt was a threatening letter to Detective Ward and other police, warning them of mischief to happen before the end of the month, and at the
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  • ...ious letters and putting up in different places certain caricatures of the police, and also mentioned that he and Ned were discussing rival plans for stickin ...party and another more modern make of rifle taken from the New South Wales police at Jerilderie. The train in which Lloyd and Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillio
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  • ...d sore, she showed courage that should have shamed both the Kellys and the police. . . .That is her picture-that one on the wall near the dark frame. . . . T "She wanted to defy the Kellys and the police wanted us all to run out of the house to some place of safety. When they ca
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  • "Two days later the Bank of New South Wales at Jerilderie was stuck up and cleaned out. ...pay them all with Government cheques. Of course, they daren't go near the police. I used to do very well out of both parties. Business was good and brisk, f
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  • ...to execution. The 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 t ...ak. There is the same fear amongst stock-owners to-day. Well the New South Wales thieves used to drive the horses and cattle to [[Howlong (2)|Howlong]]. Tha
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  • ...worthy exploits of the Kellys was the sticking up of the Bank of New South Wales at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]]. That event is still fresh in the mind of Mr P ...cut off the telegraph wires and looted the branch of the Bank of New South Wales. At that time I was a telegraphist at Deniliquin, and it was one of my duti
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