THE LAST
OF
THE BUSHRANGERS
Ned Kelly.
THE LAST
OF
THE BUSHRANGERS
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF
THE KELLY GANG
BY
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS HARE, P.M.
LATE SUPERINTENDENT OF VICTORIAN POLICE
Illustrated
FOURTH EDITION.
LONDON:HURST AND BLACKETT, LIMITED,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1895.
All rights reserved.
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
London & Bungay.
CHAPTER I. | ||
Introductory Remarks—Birth—Early Days at the Diggings—UnlicensedDiggers—Attacked by Fever—Keeping aStore | 1 | |
CHAPTER II. | ||
Lieutenant in Victorian Police—Gold-Escort Duty—Catchinga Burglar—All that was left of him—Brooks the Murderer—Atthe Buckland River Station—"Billy the Puntman"—InCharge of new Rushes—Border Difficulties on theMurray | 19 | |
CHAPTER III. | ||
Power the Bushranger—His Escape—The Squatter's GoldWatch—£500 Blood-money—A Peacock as a Sentinel—Caughtby the Heels—Some of Power's Adventures—HisSentence—Gamekeeper to Sir William Clarke | 55 | |
CHAPTER IV. | ||
A Sporting Party on the Murray—"Winkle"—How to takeAim—After the Ducks—A Night with the Snakes—Kangarooing—ARunaway Bed | 77 | |
CHAPTER V. | ||
The Kelly Gang—Ned and Dan Kelly—Steve Hart—JoeByrne—The Origin of the Bushranging Outbreak—SearchParty organized—Murder of Kennedy—M'Intyre's Escape—Armingthe Police—Tracking the Gang—Close onthem | 92 | |
CHAPTER VI. | ||
Euroa Bank Robbery—Euroa—"Sticking up" Mr. Younghusband'sStation—Mr. Macauley "bailed up"—TheHawker Gloster—Cheap Outfits—The Raid on the Bank—TheManager and Family made Prisoners—The Returnto Mr. Younghusband's—The Retreat of the Gang andLiberation of the Prisoners—Explanatory Statement of theAuthor | 112 | |
CHAPTER VII. | ||
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