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Dear Sir,
I wish to acquaint you with
some of the occurrences of the present
past And future, In or about the
spring of 1870 the ground was
very soft A hawker named M^r Gould
got his waggon bogged between Greta
And my mother's house on the eleven
mile creek, the ground was that rotten
it would bog a duck in places so
M^r Gould had abandon his waggon
for fear of loosing his horses in the
spewy ground. he was stopping at
my Mother's awaiting finer or dryer
weather M^r M^c Cormack and his
wife. hawkers also were camped
in Greta the mosquitoes were
very bad which they generally are
in a wet spring and to help them

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M^r. John had a horse called ruita
cruta although a gelding was as
clever as old Wombat or any other
Stallion at running horses away
and taking them on his beat
which was from Greta, swamp
to the seven mile creek conse-
quently he enticed M^c Cormack's
horse away from Greta. M^r
Gould was up early feeding his horses
heard a bell and seen M^c Cormack
horse for he knew the horse well
he sent his boy to take him back
to Greta. When M^c Cormack's got
the horse they came straight out
to Goold and accused him of
working the horse, this was false.
And Goold was amazed at the
idea I could not help laughing
to hear M^rs M^c Cormack

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accusing him of using the horse
after him being so kind as to send
his boy to take him from the ruta
Cruta and take him back to them
I pleaded Goulds innocence And
M^rs M^c Cormack turned on me
And accused me of bringing the
horse from Greta to Goolds waggon
to pull him out of the bog I did
not say much to the woman as
my Mother was present but that
same day me and my uncle
was cutting calves Gould wrapp^_ed
up a note and a pair of the
calves testicles and gave them
to me to give them to M^rs M^c
Cormack. I did not see her
And I gave the parcel to a boy
to give to her when she would
come instead of giving it

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to her he gave it to her husband
consequently M^c Cormack said
he would summons me I told
him neither me or Gould used
their horse, he said I was a liar
& he could welt me or any of my
breed I was about 14 years of age
but accepted the challenge And
dismounting when M^rs M^c Cormack
struck my horse in the flank with
a bullock's shin it jumped
forward And my fist came in
collision with M^c Cormack's nose
And caused him to loose his equil-
librium and fall postrate I tied
up my horse to finish the battle
but M^c Cormack got up and ran
to the Police camp. Constable
Hall asked me what the row
was about I told him they

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accused me and Gould of
using their horse and I hit him
and I would do the same to him
if he challenged me M^c Cormack
pulled me and swore their lives
against meI was sentenced to
three months for hitting him and
three months for the parcel and
bound to keep the peace for 12
months. M^rs M^c Cormack gave
good substantial evidence as
she is well acquainted with
that place called Tasmania
better known as the Dervon
or Vandiemans land and
M^c Cormack being a Police man
over the convicts And Women
being scarce released her from
that land of bondage And
tyranny, and they came to

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Victoria And are at present residents
of Greta And on the 29th of
March I was released from prison
And came home Wild Wright came
to the Eleven mile to see M^r Gunn
stopped all night and lost his
mare both him and me looked
all day for her and could not
get her Wright who was a strang^_er
to me was in a hurry to get back
to Mansfield and I gave him
another mare and he told me
if I found his mare to keep her
until he brought mine back
I was going to Wangaratta
And seen the mare I caught
her And took her with me
all the Police and Detective
Berrill seen her as Martains
girls used to ride her about

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the town during several days that I
stopped at Petre Martains Star Hotel
in Wangaratta She was a chestnut
mare white face docked tail very re
markable branded M as plain as the
hands on a town clock. the property
of a Telegraph master in Mansfield
he lost her on the 6th gazetted her on
the 12th of March And I was a prisoner
in Beechworth Gaol until the 29 of
March therefore I could not have
Stole the mare. I was riding the
mare through Greta Constable
Hall came to me and said he
wanted me to sign some papers
that I did not sign at Beechworth
concerning my bail bonds I thought
it was the truth he said the papers
was at the Barracks and I had no
idea he wanted to arrest me or I

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would have quietly rode away in-
stead of going to the Barracks. I
was getting off when Hall caught
hold of me and thought to throw me
but made a mistake and came on
the broad of his back himself in the
dust the mare galloped away. and in-
stead of me putting my foot on Halls
neck and taking his revolver and
putting him in the lock up. I tried to
catch the mare, Hall got up And snapp^_ed
three or four caps at me And would
have shot me but the colts patent
refused. This is well known in Greta
Hall never told me he wanted to arrest me
until after he tried to shoot me when
I heard the caps snapping I stood
until Hall came close he had me
covered and was shaking with fear
And I knew he would pull the

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trigger before he would be game to put
his hand on me so I duped. and Jumped
at him caught the revolver with one
hand and Hall by the collar with
the other. I dare not strike him or
my sureties would loose the bond money
I used to trip him and let him take a mouth-
ful of dust now and again as he was as
helpless as a big guano after leaving a dead
bullock or a horse. I kept throwing him in
the dust until I got him across the street
the very spot where M^rs. O. Briens Hotel
stands now the cellar was just dug then
there was some brush fencing where the
post and rail was taking down and
on this I threw big cowardly Hall on
his belly I straddled him and rooted
both spurs onto his thighs he roared like
a big calf attacked by dogs and shifted
several yards of the fence I got his
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hands at the back of his neck and trid to
make him let the revolver go but he stuck
to it like grim death to a dead volunteer
he called for assistance to a man named
Cohen and Barnett, Lewis, Thompson, Jewitt
two blacksmiths who was looking on
I dare not strike any of them as I was
bound to keep the peace or I could have
spread those curs like dung in a paddock
they got ropes tied my hands and feet
And Hall beat me over the head with
his six chambered colts revolver nine
stitches were put in some of the cuts
by Dr Hastings And when Wild Wright
And my mother came they could trace us
across the street by the blood in the dust
And which spoiled the lustre of the paint
on the gate post of the Barracks Hall sent
for more Police and Doctor Hastings
Next morning I was handcuffed
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A rope tied from them to my legs
and to the seat of the cart and
taken to Wangaratta Hall was fright-
ened I would throw him out of the
cart so he tied me whilst Constable
Arthur laughed at his cowardice for
it was he who escorted me and Hall
to Wangaratta, I was tried and com-
mitted as Hall swore I claimed the
mare the Doctor died or he would
have proved Hall a perjurer Hall has
been tried several times for perjury
but got clear as this is no crime in
the Police force it is a credit to a Police-
man to convict an innocent man
but any muff can pot a guilty one
Halls character is well known about
El Dorado and Snowy Creek And
Hall was considerably in debt to
M^r. L. O.Brien and as he was going

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to leave Greta M^r. O. Brien seen no
other chance of getting his money so there
was a subscription collected for Hall
And with the aid of this money he got
James Murdock who was recently hung
in Wagga Wagga to give false evidence
against me but I was acquitted on
the charge of horsestealing and on
Hall and Murdocks evidence
I was found guilty of receiving And
got 3 years experience in Beechworth
Pentridge's dungeons. this is the only
charge ever proved against me
Therefore I can say I never was
covicted of horse or cattle stealing
My Brother Dan was never charged
with assaulting a woman but he
was sentenced to three months
without the option of a fine and
one month and two pound fine

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for damaging property by M^r Butler P.M.
A sentence that there is no law to uphold
therefore the minister of Justice neglected
his duty in that case, but there never was
such a thing as justice in the English
laws but any a mount of injustice
to be had. Out of over thirty head of
the very best horses the land could produce
I could only find one when I got my
liberty, Constable Flood stole and sold
the most of them to the navvies on
the railway line one bay cob he
stole and sold four different times
the line was completed and the men
all gone when I came out And
Flood was shifted to Oxley. he carried
on the same game there all the stray
horses that was any time without
an owner and not in the Police
Gazette Flood used to claim

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He was doing a good trade at Oxley
until M^r Brown of the Laceby Station
got him shifted as he was always run-
ning his horses about. Flood is different
to Sergeant Steel, Strachan, Hall
And the most of Police a they have got
to hire cads and if they fail the Police
are quite helpless. But Flood can
make a cheque single-handed. he is
the greatest horsestealer with the
exception of myself and George King
I know of. I never worked on a farm
a horse and saddle was never traced
to me after leaving employment
Since February 1873 I worked as a
faller at M^r. J. Saunders and R
Rules sawmills then for Heach
and Dockendorf I never worked
for less than two pound ten a
week since I left Pentridge

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And in 1875 or 1876 I was overseer for
Saunders and Rule. Bourkes water-holes
sawmills. in Victoria since then I was
on the King river, during my stay there
I ran in a wild bull which I gave
to Lydicher a farmer he sold him
to Carr a Publican and Butcher
who killed him for beef, sometime
afterwards I was blamed for stealing
this bull from James Whitty Boggy Creek
I asked Whitty Oxley racecourse why
he blamed me for stealing his bull
he said he had found his bull and
never blamed me but his son in law
Farrell told him he heard I sold
the bull to Carr not long afterwards
I heard again I was blamed for
stealing a mob of calves from Whitty
And Farrell which I knew nothing
about. I began to think they wanted

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me to give them something to talk
about Therefore I started wholesale
and retail horse and cattle dealing
Whitty and Burns not being satisfied
with all the picked land on the Boggy
Creek And King River and the run
of their stock on the certificate ground
free and no one interfering with
them paid heavy rent to the banks
for all the open ground so as a poor
man could keep no stock And impoun^_d
ded every beast they could get, even off Government
roads. If a poor man happened
to leave his horse or bit of a
poddy calf outside his paddock they
would be impounded. I have known
over 60 head of horses impounded in-
one day by Whitty and Burns
all belonging to poor farmers they
would have to leave their ——

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ploughing or harvest or other employment
to go to Oxley. When they would get
there perhaps not have money enough
to release them And have to give A
bill of sale or borrow the money which
is no easy matter. And along with all
this sort of work, Farrell the Policeman
stole a horse from George King. And
had him in Whitty And Farrells
Paddocks until he left the force And
all this was the cause of me and
my step-father George King taking
their horses And selling them to
Baumgarten and Kennedy. the pick
of them was taken to a good market
and the culls were kept in Petersons pad-
dock and their brands altered by me
two was sold to Kennedy And the rest
to Baumgarten who were strangers to
me and I believe honest men.
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They paid me full value for the horses
And could not have known they were
stolen. no person had anything to do
with the stealing and selling of the horses
but me and George King. William
Cooke who was convicted for Whittys horses
was innocent he was not in my com-
pany at Petersons. But it is not the
place of the Police to convict guilty men
as it is by them they get their living
had the right parties been convicted
it would have been a bad job for
the Police as Berry would have
sacked a great many of them
only I came to their aid And
kept them in their bilits And good
employment and got them double
pay And yet the ungrateful Articles
convicted my mother And an infant
my brother in law and another man

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who was innocent And still annoy
my brothers and sisters And the ignorant
unicorns even threathen to shoot myself
But as soon as I am dead they will be
heels up in the muroo. there will be
no more police required they will be
sacked and supplanted by Soldiers
on low pay in the towns And special
constables made of some of the farmers
to make up for this double pay and
expence. It will pay Government
to give those people who are suffering
innocence, Justice and liberty. if
not I will be compelled to show
some colonial stratagem which
will open the eyes of not only the
Victorian Police and inhabitants
but also the whole British army
And now doubt they will acknowledge
their hounds were barking at the

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wrong stump. And that Fitzpatrick
will be the cause of greater slaughter
to the Union Jack than Saint Patrick
was to the snakes and toads in
Ireland. The Queen of England was as
guilty as Baumgarten and Kennedy
Williamson and Skillion of what they
were concicted for When the horses
were found on the Murray River
I wrote a letter to M^r Swanhill of
Lake Rowan to acquaint the Auction
eer And to advertize my horses for sale
I brought some of them to that place but
did not sell I sold some of them in
Benalla Melbourne And other
places And left the colony and
became a rambling gambler
soon after I left there was a
warrant for me and the Police
searched the place and watched

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night and day for two or three weeks
And when they could not snare me
they got a warrant against my
brother Dan And on the 15 of April
Fitzpatrick came to the Eleven mile
Creek to arrest him he had some
conversation with a horse dealer
whom he swore was William Skillin
this man was not called in
Beechworth. besides several other
witnesses, who alone could have
proved Fitzpatricks falsehood
after leaving this man he went
to the house asked was Dan in
Dan came out. I hear previous
to this Fitzpatrick had some con-
versation with Williamson on
the hill. he asked Dan to come
to Greta with him as he had
a warrant for him for stealing

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Whittys horses Dan said all right
they both went inside Dan was
having something to eat his mother
Asked Fitzpatrick what he wanted
Dan for. the trooper said he
had a warrant for him Dan
then asked him to produce
it he said it was only a telegram
sent from Chiltren but Sergeant
Whelan ordered him to releive
Steel at Greta and call and
arrest Dan and take him into
Wangaratta next morning and
get him remanded Dans mother
said Dan need not go without
a warrant unless he liked And
that thi trooper had no business
on her premises without some
Authority besides his own word
The trooper pulled out his

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revolver and said he would blow
her brains out if she interefered
in the arrest she told him it
was a good job for him Ned was
not there or he would ram the
revolver down his throat Dan
looked out and said Ned is com-
ing now, the trooper being off his
guard looked out and when Dan
got his attention drawn he dropp
the knife And fork which showed
he had no murderous intent
And slapped heenans hug on him
took his revolver and kept him
there until Skillion And Ryan
came with horses which Dan
sold that night. The trooper left
and invented some scheme to say
that he got shot which any man
can see is false, he told Dan to

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clear out that Sergeant Steel and Detec-
tive Brown And Strachan would
be there before morning Strachan
had been over the Murray trying
to get up a case against him and
they would convict him if they
caught him as the stock society
offored an enticement for wit-
nesses to swear anything and the
germans over the Murray would
swear to the wrong man as well
as the right, Next day Williamson
and my mother was arrested and
Skillion the day after who was not
there at all at the time of the row
which can be proved by 8 or 9 witnesses
And the Police got great credit and
praise in the papers for arresting the
mother of 12 children one an infant
on her breast and those two quiet

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hard working innocent men who would
not know the difference a revolver
and a saucepanhandle and kept
them six months awaiting trial and
then convicted them on the evidence
of the meanest article that ever the
sun shone on it seems that the
jury was well chosen by the Police
as there was a discharged Sergeant
amongst them which is contrary to
law they thought it impossible for a
Policeman to swear a lie but I can
assure them it is by that means
and hiring cads they get promotion
I have heard from a trooper
that he never knew Fitzpatrick
to be one night sober and that he
sold his sister to a chinaman
but he looks a young strapping
rather genteel more fit to be a
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starcher to a laundress than a Policeman
For to a keen observer he has the wrong
appearance or a manly heart the
deceit and cowardice is too plain
to be seen in the puny cabbage heart-
ed looking face. I heard nothing of
this transaction until very close on
the trial I being then over 400 miles
from Greta when I heard I was
outlawed and a hundred pound
reward for me for shooting at a
trooper in Victoria and a hund-
red pound for any man that could
prove a conviction of horse-stealing
against me so I came back to
Victoria knew I would get no
justice if I gave myself up I
enquired after my brother Dan
and found him digging on Bullock
Creek heard how the Police

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used to be blowing that they would
not ask me to stand they would
shoot me first and then cry sur-
render and how they used to rush
into the house upset all the milk-
dishes break tins of eggs empty the
flour out of the bags on to the ground
and even the meat out of the cask
and destroy all the provisions And
shove the girls in front of them into-
the rooms like dogs so as if any-
one was there they would shoot the
girls first but they knew well
I was not there or I would have
scattered their blood and brains
like rain I would manure the
Eleven mile with their bloated
carcasses and yet remember there
is not one drop of murderous
blood in my Veins

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Superintendent Smith used to say
to my sisters, see all the men
a I have out today I will have
as many more tomorrow And we
will blow him into pieces as small
as paper that is in our guns Det-
ective Ward and Constable Hayes
took out their revolvers and threat-
hened to shoot the girls and children
in M^rs Skillions absence the greatest
ruffians and murderers no matter
how deprived would not be guilty
of such a cowardly action, and
this sort of cruelty and disgraceful
And cowardly conduct to my brothers
and sisters who had no protection
coupled with the conviction of
my mother and those men certainly
made my blood boil as I dont think
there is a man born could have

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the patience to suffer it as long as I did
or ever allow his blood to get cold while
such insults as these were unavenged
And yet in every paper that is printed
I am called the blackest and coldest
blooded murderer ever on record
But if I hear any more of it I will
not exactly show them what cold-
blooded murder is but wholesale
And retail slaughter, something
different to shooting three troopers
in self defence and robbing A
bank. I would have been rather
hot-blooded to throw down my
rifle and let them shoot me And
my innocent brother they were
not satisfied with frightening
my sisters night and day and
destroying their provisions and
lagging my mother and an infant

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And those innocent men but should
follow me and my brother into
the wilds where he had been quietly
digging neither molesting or inter
efering with anyone he was making
good wages as the creek is very rich
within half a mile from where I
shot Kennedy. I was not there
long and on the 25 of October
I came on Police tracks between
Table top and the bogs. I crossed
them and returning in the evening
I came on a different lot of tracks
making for the shingle hut I went
to our camp and told my brother
And his two mates me and
my brother went and found
their camp at the shingle hut
about a mile from my brothers
house saw they carried long

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firearms and we knew our doom
was sealed if we could not beat
those before the others would come
As I knew the other party of Police
would soon join them And if they
came on us at our camp they
would shoot us down like dogs
at our work as we had only two
guns. we thought it best to try and
bail those up take their firearms
And ammunition and horses
And we could stand a chance
with the rest We approached the
spring As close as we could get to
the camp As the intervening space
being clear ground And no battery
We saw two men at the logs they
got up And one took a double barrel-
ed fowling-piece And fetched a horse
down and hobbled him at the tent

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we thought there were more men in the
tent asleep those outside being on sentry we
could have shot those two men with-
out speaking but not wishing
to take their lives we waited M^c
Intyre laid the gun against a
stump And Lonigan sat on the log
I advanced, my brother Dan keep-
in M^c Intyre covered which he took
to be constable Flood And had he
not obeyed my orders, or attempted
to reach for the gun or draw his
revolver he would have been shot
dead. but when I called on them
to throw up their hands M^c Intyre
obeyed And Lonigan ran some
six or seven yards to a battery
of logs insted of dropping behind
the one he was sitting on, he
had just got to the logs. And put
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his head up to take aim when I
shot him that instant or he would
have shot me as I took him to be
Strachan the man who said he would
not ask me to stand he would
shoot me first like a dog. But it
happened to be Lonigan the man
who in company with Sergeant Whelan
Fitzpatrick And King the Boot maker
And constable O.Day that tried to
put a pair of hand-cuffs on me in
Benalla but could not. And had
to allow M^c Innis the miller to
put them on, previous to Fitzpatrick
swearing he was shot, I was fined
two pound for hitting Fitzpatrick
And two pound for not allowing
five curs like Sergeant Whelan
O. Day Fitzpatrick King And Lonigan
who caught me by the privates

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And would have sent me to Kingdom
come only I was not ready And he
is the man that blowed before he
left Violet Town. if Ned Kelly was to
be shot he was the man would
shoot him And no doubt he would
shoot me even if I threw up my
Arms and laid down as he knew
four of them could not Arrest me
single-handed not to talk of the
rest of my mates, also either me
or him would have to die, this he
knew well therefore he had a right to
keep out of my road, Fitzpatrick
is the only one I hit out of the five
in Benalla, this shows my feeling
towards him as he said we were
good friends & even swore it
but he was the biggest eneny I had
in the country with the exception

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of Lonigan And he can be thankful
I was not there when he took a
revolver and threathened to shoot
my mother in her own house it
is not fire three shots and miss him
at a yard and a half I dont think
I would use a revolver to shoot a
man like him when I was within
a yard and a half of him or att-
empt to fire into a house where
my mother brothers and sisters
was and according to Fitzpatrick's
statement all around him. A man
that is such a bad shot As to miss
a man three times at a yard and
a half would never attempt to
fire into a house among a house
full of women and children while
I had a pair of arms and bunch
of fives on the end of them
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that never failed to peg out any-
thing they came in contact with
And Fitzpatrick knew the weight
of one of them only too well. As it run
against him once in Benalla. and
cost me two pound odd as he is very
subject to fainting. As soon as I shot
Lonigan he jumped up and stag-
gered some distance from the logs
with his hands raised and then fell
he surrendered but too late I asked
M^c Intyre who was in the tent he
replied no one. I advanced and
took possession of their two revolvers.
and fowling-piece which I loaded
with bullets instead of shot. I asked
M^c Intyre where his mates was he
said they had gone down the
creek and he did not expect them
that night he asked me was I

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going to shoot him and his mates. I told
him no. I would shoot no man if he
gave up his arms and leave the force
he said the police all knew Fitzpatrick had
wronged us. And he intended to leave the
force, As he had bad health. And his life
was insured, he told me he intended
going home. And that Kennedy and
Scanlan were out looking for our camp
And also about the other Police he told
me the N.S.W Police had shot a man
for shooting Sergeant Walling I told him
if they did, they had shot the wrong man
And I expect your gang came to do the
same with me he said no they did
not come to shoot me they came to
apprehend me I asked him what
they carried spenceir rifles and breech-
loading fowling pieces and so much
Amunition for as the Police was

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Only supposed to carry one revolver And
6 cartridges in the revolver but they had
eighteen rounds of revolver cartridges
each three dozen for the fowling piece
And twenty one spenceir-rifle cartridges
And God Knows how many they
had away with the rifle this looked
as if they meant not only to shoot
me only to riddle me but I dont
know either Kennedy Scanlan or
him and had nothing against
them, he said he would get them
to give up their arms if I would
not shoot them as I could not
blame them. they had to do their
duty I said I did not blame them
for doing honest duty but I could-
not suffer them blowing me to pieces
in my own native land And
they knew Fitzpatrick wronged.
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us And why not make it public And
convict him but no they would
rather riddle poor unfortunate creoles.
but they will rue the day ever Fitz-
patrick got among them, Our two
mates came over when they heard the
shot fired but went back again
for fear the Police might come to
our camp while we were all away
and manure bullock flat with
us on our arrival I stopped at
the logs And Dan went back to
the spring for fear the tropers would
come in that way but I soon heard
them coming up the creek I told
M^c Intyre to tell them to give up
their arms he spoke to Kennedy
who was some distance in front
of Scanlan he reached for his
revolver And jumped off, on the off

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side of his horse and got behind a tree
when I called on them to throw up
their arms And Scanlan who carried
the rifle slewed his horse around to
gallop away but the horse would not
go and as quick as thought fired
at me with the rifle without unsling-
ing it and was in the act of firing
again when I had to shoot him
and he fell from his horse. I could
have shot them without speaking but
their lives was no good to me. M^c
Intyre jumped on Kennedys horse
and I allowed him to go As I did
not like to shoot him after he surren-
dered or I would have shot him as
he was between me and Kennedy
therefore I could not shoot
Kennedy without shooting him
first Kennedy kept firing from
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behind the tree my brother Dan advanced
And Kennedy ran I followed him he
stopped behind another tree and
fired again I shot him in the arm-
pit and he dropped his revolver and
ran I fired again with the gun as
he slewed around to surrender I did
not know he had dropped his revolver
the bullet passed through the right
side of his chest & he could not live
or I would have let him go had they
been my own brothers I could not help
shooting them or else let them shoot me
which they would have done had their
bullets been directed as they intended
them. But as for handcuffing Kennedy
to a tree or cutting his ear off or bru-
tally treating any of them is a false-
hood, if Kennedys ear was cut off
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of my mates was near him after he was
shot I put his cloak over him and left him
as well as I could and were they my
own brothers I could not have been more
sorry for them this cannot be called wil-
ful murder for I was compelled to shoot
them, or lie down and let them shoot
me it would not be wilful murder
if they packed our remains in, shattered
into a mass of Animated gore to Mans-
field. they would have got great praise
And credit as well as promotion but
I am reconed a horrid brute because
I had not been cowardly enough to
lie down for them under such trying
circumstances and insults to my
people certainly their wives and
children are to be pitied but they
must remember those men came
into the bush with the intention
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of scattering pieces of me and my
brother all over the bush And yet they
know And acknowledge I have been
wronged And my mother and four
or five men lagged innocent And
is my brothers and sisters And my mother
not to be pitied also who has no
alternative only to put up with the
brutal and cowardly conduct of a
parcel of big ugly fat necked wombat
headed big bellied magpie legged
narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish
Bailiffs or english landlords which
is better known As Officers of justice
or Victorian Police who some calls
honest gentlemen but I would
like to know what business an
honest man would have in the
Police As it is an old saying It takes
a rogue to catch a rogue And a
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man that knows nothing about roguery
would never enter the force an take an
oath to arrest brother sister father or
mother if required and to have a
case and conviction if possible
Any man knows it is possible to
swear a lie and if a policeman
looses a conviction for the sake
of swearing A lie he has broke his
oath therefore he is a perjurer either
ways. A Policeman is a disgrace to his
country, not alone to the mother that
suckled him, in the first place he
is a rogue in his heart but too cowardly
to follow it up without having the force
to disguise it. Next he is traitor to his
country ancestors and religion
As they were all catholics before the
Saxons And Cranmore yoke held
sway since then they were perse
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cuted massacreed thrown into
martyrdom And tortured beyond
the ideas of the present generation
What would people say if they saw a
strapping big lump of an Irishman
shepherding sheep for fifteen bob a week
or tailing turkeys in Tallarook ranges
for a smile from Julia or even
begging his tucker, they would say
he ought to be ashamed of himself
And tar and feather him But
he would be a king to a policeman
who for a lazy loafing cowardly
bilit left the ash corner deserted the
shamrock, the emblem of true
wit and beauty to serve under a
flag And nation that has destroyed
massacreed And murdered their forefathers by the
greatest of torture as rolling them
down hill in spiked barrels

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pulling their toe and finger nails And on
the wheel. and every torture imaginable.
more was transported to Van Diemans
Land to pine their young lives away in
starvation and misery among tyrants
worse than the promised hell itself All
of true blood bone and beauty, that
was not murdered on their own soil,
or had fled to America or other count-
ries to bloom again another day. Were
doomed to Port M^c Quarie Toweringabbie
Norfolk island And Emu plains
And in those places of tyrany and con-
demnation many a blooming Irish-
man rather than subdue to the Saxon
yoke, Were flogged to death And bravely
died in Servile chains but true to
the shamrock and a credit to Paddys
land What would people say if I
became a policeman and took
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An oath to arrest my brothers and
sisters & relations and convict
them by fair or foul means after
the conviction of my mother and
the persecutions and insults offered to
myself and people Would they say
I was a decent gentleman. And yet
A policeman is still in worse and
guilty of meaner actions than that
The Queen must surely be proud of
such herioc men as the Police
and Irish soldiers as It takes eight
or eleven of the biggest mud crushers
in Melbourne to take one poor
little half starved larrakin to a
watch house. I have seen as many
as eleven, big & ugly enough to lift
Mount Macedon out of a crab hole
more like the species of a baboon
or Guerilla than a man.

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actually come into a court house
and swear they could not arrest one
eight stone larrakin and them armed
with battens and neddies without
some civilians assistance and
some of them going to the hospital
from the affects of hits from the
fists of the larrakin And the
Magistrate would send the poor
little Larrakin into a dungeon
for being a better man than such
a parcel of armed curs. What would
England do if America declared war
And hoisted a green flag As it is all
Irishmen that has got command of her
armies forts and batteries even her
very life guards and beef tasters are
Irish would they not slew around
and fight her with their own arms
for the sake of the colour they dare not wear
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for years. and to reinstate it and rise
old Erins isle once more. from the pressure
and tyrannism of the English yoke. which
has kept it in poverty and starvation.
And caused them to wear the enemys
coat. what else can England expect.
H[3 spaces]Is there not big fat necked Unicorns
enough paid to torment and drive
me to do thing which I dont wish to
do. without the public assisting them
I have never interefered with any
person unless they deserved it. And
yet there are civilians who take
firearms against me, for what
reason I do not know. unless they
want me to turn on them and exter-
minate them without medicine. I
shall be compelled to make an exam-
ple of some of them if they cannot
find no other employment

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If I had robbed and plundered ravished
And murdered everything I met young
And old rich and poor. the public
could not do any more than take firearms
And assisting the police as they have
done, but by the light that shines
pegged on an ant bed with their
bellies opened their fat taken out render-
ed and poured down their throat
boiling hot will be /ool to what
pleasure I will give some of them
And any person aiding or harbouring
or Assisting the Police in any way
whatever or employing any person
whom they know to be a detective
or cad or those [...] would be
so deprived as to take blood
money will be Outlawed And
declared unfit to be allowed
human buriel their property
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either consumed or confiscated
And them theirs and all belonging
to them exterminated off the face of
the earth, the enemy I cannot catch
myself I shall give a payable reward
for, I would like to know who put
that article that reminds me of a
poodle dog half clipped in the lion
fashon. called Brooke. E. Smith
Superintendent of Police he knows
as much about commanding
Police as Captain Standish does
about mustering mosquitoes And
boiling them down for their fat
on the back blocks of the Lachlan
for he has a head like a turnip
a stiff neck as big as his shoulders
narrow hipped and pointed towards
the feet like a vine stake And if
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regarding Kennedy, Scanlan and
Lonigan it is that mis-placed poodle
he gets as much pay as a dozen good
troopers, if there is any good in them,
And what does he do for it he cannot
look behind him without turning
his whole frame it takes three or
four police to keep sentry while he
sleeps in Wangaratta, for fear of body-
snatchers do they think he is a
superior animal to the men that
has to guard him if so why not
send the men that gets big pay And
reconed superior to the comnon
police after me And you shall soon
save the country of high salaries
to men that is fit for nothing else
but getting better men than him-
self shot and sending orphan
children to the industrial school

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to make prostitutes and cads of
them for the Detectives and other evil
disposed persons Send the high paid
and men that received big salaries
for years in a gang by themselves
after me, As it makes no difference
to them but it will give them a chance
of showing whether they are worth more
pay than a common trooper or not
And I think the Public will soon find
they are only in the road of good men
And obtaining money under false
pretences, I do not call M^c Intyre
a coward for I reckon he is as
game a man as wears the Jacket
as he had the presence of mind to know
his position, directly as he was spoken
to, And only foolishness to disobey, it
was cowardice that made Lonigan
And the others fight it is only
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foolhardiness to disobey an outlaw
As any Policeman or other man
who do not throw up their arms directly
as I call on them knows the con-
sequence which is a speedy dispatch
to Kingdom Come, I wish those
men who joined the stock protection
society to withdraw their money And
give it and as much more to the widows
And orphans and poor of Greta district
wher I spent and will again spend many
a happy day fearless free and bold
——
As it only aids the police to procure
false witnesses And go whacks with
men to steal horses and lag innocent
men it would suit them far better
to subscribe a sum and give
it to the poor of their district
And there is no fear of anyone
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could steal their horses without
the knowledge of the poor if Any man
was mean enough to steal their property
the poor would rise out to a man
And find them if they were on the face
of the earth it will always pay a
rich man to be liberal with the poor
And make as little enemies as he can
As he shall find if the poor is on his
side he shall loose nothing by it.
If they depend in the police they shall be
drove to destruction. As they can not
And will not protect them if duffing
and bushranging were abolished the
police would have to cadge for their
living I speak from experience as I have
sold horses And cattle innumerable
And yet eight head of the culls is all
ever was found I never was interefered
with whilst I kept up this successful
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trade. I give fair warning to all those
who has reason to fear me to sell out and give
£10 out of every hundred towards the widow
and orphan fund And do not attempt to
reside in Victoria but as short a time as
possible after reading this notice, neglect this
And abide by the consequences, which shall
be worse than the rust in the wheat in
Victoria or the druth of a dry season to
the grasshoppers in New South Wales I do not
wish to give the order full force without
giving timely warning. but I am a widows son
outlawed And my orders must be obeyed
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