Produced by deaurider, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) THE LAST OF THE BUSHRANGERS [Illustration: 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. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks--Birth--Early Days at the Diggings--Unlicensed Diggers--Attacked by Fever--Keeping a Store 1 CHAPTER II. Lieutenant in Victorian Police--Gold-Escort Duty--Catching a Burglar--All that was left of him--Brooks the Murderer--At the Buckland River Station--"Billy the Puntman"--In Charge of new Rushes--Border Difficulties on the Murray 19 CHAPTER III. Power the Bushranger--His Escape--The Squatter's Gold Watch--£500 Blood-money--A Peacock as a Sentinel--Caught by the Heels--Some of Power's Adventures--His Sentence--Gamekeeper to Sir William Clarke 55 CHAPTER IV. A Sporting Party on the Murray--"Winkle"--How to take Aim--After the Ducks--A Night with the Snakes--Kangarooing--A Runaway Bed 77 CHAPTER V. The Kelly Gang--Ned and Dan Kelly--Steve Hart--Joe Byrne--The Origin of the Bushranging Outbreak--Search Party organized--Murder of Kennedy--M'Intyre's Escape--Arming the Police--Tracking the Gang--Close on them 92 CHAPTER VI. Euroa Bank Robbery--Euroa--"Sticking up" Mr. Younghusband's Station--Mr. Macauley "bailed up"--The Hawker Gloster--Cheap Outfits--The Raid on the Bank--The Manager and Family made Prisoners--The Return to Mr. Younghusband's--The Retreat of the Gang and Liberation of the Prisoners--Explanatory Statement of the Author 112 CHAPTER VII. The Police at Euroa--Aaron Sherritt--Jerilderie--Capture of the Police Station and Constables--Amateur Policemen--The Royal Hotel stuck up--Raid on the Bank of New South Wales--£2000 taken--Kelly's Autobiography--His Account of the Fitzpatrick Affair--Departure of the Gang--Return to their Haunts 137 CHAPTER VIII.