The Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly GangHare, Francis Augustus
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The Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang
Hare, Francis Augustus
Brigands and robbers -- Australia; Kelly, Ned, 1855-1880
The station hands during their confinement took the matter very easily;
they were well fed, and passed away the time chiefly in playing cards,
knowing nothing serious was likely to happen to them. Most of them
looked upon the affair as a capital joke, which had cost them nothing
but their confinement. At half-past ten o'clock they all agreed it
was time to get out, which they had no difficulty in doing. Mr. and
Mrs. Scott and party returned at once to Euroa, which they reached at
midnight; the rest of the people stopped at the station that night,
except Mr. Casement and McDougal, who went to the house of the former,
who lived not far from Euroa.
It was noticed by all the prisoners, that during their imprisonment,
although they were domineering in giving their orders, no attempt at
violence or roughness was used towards any of them. Ned Kelly was the
most communicative of the gang, and conversed freely with many of the
prisoners during the day, asking questions as to the movements of the
police, and talking of the kick-up which they had caused in the force.
When Mr. Scott got back to Euroa at midnight, the bank was just in
the same state as when he had left it--the doors all locked, and the
inhabitants of the township perfectly unconscious of what had happened
in the midst of them during the afternoon. Some of my readers in
England may possibly not be able to grasp the matter in its true light.
A few remarks in explanation of the doings of the outlaws may therefore
not be out of place.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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