Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LAST

OF

THE BUSHRANGERS

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.

Aaron Sherritt--A Disappointment--At Mrs. Byrne's--A
Twenty-five-day Watch--Manufacturing Brands--Sherritt's
Revenge--A Letter from Joe Byrne--Whorouly Races--On
Watch at Mrs. Sherritt's--Mrs. Byrne's Discovery--Break-up
of the Camp--Arrest of Kelly Sympathizers--A
Dynamite Scare--Aaron jilted 159

CHAPTER IX.

Mrs. Skillian's Hoax--A False Alarm--Searching the Warby
Ranges--Among the Kelly Sympathizers--Ill and dispirited--The
Tenant of the Haystack--Relieved after
Eight Months' Camping Duty 203

CHAPTER X.

Black Trackers--Again in Charge with _carte blanche_--Aaron
Sherritt's Doom--The Beginning of the End--Glenrowan--Sticking
up the Hotel--Bracken's Escape--The Police
on the Alert--A Dangerous Journey--Mr. Curnow's
Adventure 227

CHAPTER XI.

The Attack on the Hotel--Wounded 267

CHAPTER XII.

From _The Age_ Newspaper, 29th June, 1880--The Start--The
Journey--A Timely Warning--The Gang surprised--Death
of Byrne--Capture of Ned Kelly--His Statement--The
Prisoners released--Renewal of the Fight 274

CHAPTER XIII.

From _The Age_ (continued). Mrs. Skillian comes on the Scene--The
Hotel fired--Rescue of Sherry--Fate of Dan Kelly
and Hart--Statement of Various Prisoners made by the
Gang--The Incident of the Cannon 291

CHAPTER XIV.

The Outlaws' Plans--Execution of Ned Kelly--Habits and
Customs of the Gang--Katie Kelly's behaviour--Kelly's
distrust of Hart--The Cost of the Destruction of the
Gang 315

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

NED KELLY _Frontispiece_

DAN KELLY _To face page_ 94

AARON SHERRITT " 140

JOE BYRNE " 192

STEVE HART " 240

NIGHT ATTACK ON THE GLENROWAN HOTEL " 270

NED KELLY IN HIS ARMOUR " 284

GROUP TAKEN DURING THE FIGHT " 308

THE LAST OF THE BUSHRANGERS.