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    16 KB (1,620 words) - 12:44, 15 November 2015
  • ...e had undergone some terrible experience, and he was making his way to the police-station, where Sub Inspector [[Pewtress|Pewtress]], an officer just arrived ...be questioned, and the knot of people who gathered round the doors of the police station waited anxiously to hear his story.
    6 KB (933 words) - 16:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...mong them [[Reynolds|Dr. Reynolds]], the local medical practitioner, and a party of five volunteers was quickly organised. Two constables, [[Const Thomas Me ...set out about six o’clock from Mansfield as the sun was going down. The party were well mounted, for the smallest bush township is never deficient in hor
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  • ...ther men came up and inspected the dead bodies and the camp, before making search for Kennedy. ...showed that it had been burnt down, and all the property possessed by the police had been either removed or destroyed by the bushrangers. The horses, which,
    4 KB (736 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...ry Kitchen|Kitchen]], a leading resident, who gave great assistance to the police. Thence unto Mansfield the cavalcade followed the vehicle until near the to ...on this occasion, with using threatening language to members of the search party, and showed considerable resistance, when they were locked up.
    4 KB (613 words) - 16:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...ss for the police officer to remain alone, as many men were wanted for the search; so he perforce accompanied the others on their return, leaving, on his way ...ss, however, accompanied the third search party—a large one, composed of police and civilians, which he and Superintendent Sadleir had collected—and set
    5 KB (829 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • This report is important, as showing the class of men with whom the police had to deal, and the fact that responsible officers well recognised the gra ...er from the elements, failed to warn [[Harry Power|Power]] when the search party was creeping up the mountain to arrest him.
    4 KB (604 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...exactitude, what the outlaws’ movements had been after the murder of the police on October 26.
    4 KB (706 words) - 16:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...t difficult to approach. I have endeavoured to communicate with Steele’s party of thirteen men, six of which I can be sure of coming, but I think you shou ...about midnight. Meet us. Standish accompanies me.’ With Mr Nicolson’s party were also, though his telegram did not mention it, two or three pressmen ea
    5 KB (783 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...the affair very keenly, regarded it as a wild goose chase, and thought the police were only bringing ridicule upon themselves by the proceeding. After crossing the range the party reached low ground again, and came in sight of a dwelling which they unders
    4 KB (700 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...n he should have been leading upon the tracks of the outlaws. There were [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] at Wangaratta, one an old man from [[Coranderrk|C In addition to Kennedy’s packhorse Mr Brooke Smith’s party had picked up a ramrod, very probably dropped by the outlaws; but owing to
    4 KB (688 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...ource Kelly had most accurate information of the disposition of the police party, for he described how the members of it sat in a little open space where th ...the North Eastern District was parcelled out into areas whereon parties of police varying in number from six to nine were constantly on the move, scouring th
    3 KB (556 words) - 16:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...serious effect upon me. It reduced my strength. It also affected the whole party; we would come in very much fagged - horses and men. The young men used to ...abitants and putting the outlaws on their guard. Consequently, party after party, having spent various times from a few days to a fortnight in the bush or t
    3 KB (556 words) - 16:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...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 ...ay deep in the mountains, intent upon nothing but evading pursuit, and the police saw good cause to believe from such reports as reached them that the gang w
    5 KB (800 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...sy often arising between the men of the detective service and the ordinary police, Mr Wyatt gave a guarded opinion in favour of waiting for the superior offi ...rrival of Mr Nicolson, while Mr Wyatt went by train to Benalla to meet the police officer there and acquaint him with all the news in his possession.
    6 KB (997 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...]. Stopping the train there at about 8.30, he got out and met the party of police who had ridden out from Euroa, while Mr Wyatt continued his journey. ...vided for them. [[Johnston|Johnson]], one of the most energetic men of the party, slept so heavily, that the hotelkeeper, believing he had sunstroke, poured
    4 KB (643 words) - 16:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...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]]. The ...would be galloping away into the bush, with news almost before the police party had left the barracks.
    6 KB (927 words) - 16:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...ertain place; but the others had not kept their appointment, and he was in search of news of them. [[Aaron Sherritt|Sherritt]] believed that the whole gang w ...tt at a place agreed on, where they were to have been joined by a party of police of the township of Eldorado, but by a mischance these men did not appear, a
    4 KB (622 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...sometimes as a miner—at others as a farm hand, a stockman, a selector in search of land—and in all his journeys he succeeded in escaping recognition. ...s reason to suspect that they did help the outlaws at least as much as the police. Being paid by the latter for information furnished, they sometimes concoct
    3 KB (534 words) - 00:52, 21 November 2015
  • ...Just at daybreak a boy issued from the house with dogs, which scented the police and led the boy so close to them that he must have discovered their hiding
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