Glenrowan
“In our issue of Saturday last we give an extract from the Rutherglen and Wahgunyah News, in which it was stated that recently a large body of armed men was seen the vicinity of Yarrawonga. There is a crossing at that place, and it is in the direct line for Jerilderie, which township the Kellys stuck up some time ago.”
The sittings of the Commission were continued to-day. Mr Hare continued his statement, which was commenced on Friday. Amongst the papers handed over to him by Mr Nicolson there were, he thought, a dozen letters from the diseased stock man and other agents. There were letters also from Ned Kelly and Joe Byrne to — and Detective Ward, (These letters will be produced later on.)
“Edward Kelly, a young man about twenty years of age, who has been suspected of being a confederate of the notorious bushranger Power, was charged with assaulting a hawker named Jeremiah McCormick. Mr Lamont, instructed by Mr Norton, appeared for the prosecution.”
“For some time past very little news, if any, has come to hand in reference to the Kelly gang, and many persons, who are not fully conversant with Greta and its inhabitants, are under the impression that the Kellys have made their escape from the colony.”
“At last, however, a spirit arrived breathless haste at a sitting, and on being asked why the spirits had not come to the watchers before, said that all the good spirits had been busy for days making a net to spread over the precincts of the Melbourne gaol, in which to enmesh the spirit of Ned the atrocious when it should leave his body.”
“Kate Kelly and her brother, with Ned’s horse, &c., commenced to exhibit them selves in an old out-house up a lane in King-street, a few doors from Pitt street; Kate and Jim on horseback, the former on Ned’s grey mare, and the latter on Kate’s pony; Kate is dressed in deep black and Jim in bushranger’s attire.”
“Before Messrs. Charlton, Dean, Moses, and Carpenter, at the Water Police Court this morning, James Gregory Tompkins and James Pringle were summoned at the instance of sub inspector Anderson, for that on the 23rd day of November, on the premises at the rear of No. 128, Pitt-street, in Sydney, they did permit to be exhibited to the public a woman named Kate Kelly, and a man named James Kelly, relatives of the notorious criminal, Edward Kelly, who was recently executed in the neighbouring colony, to the great damage and common nuisance of all persons therein inhabiting and passing, to the evil example of others in the case offending, and against the peace of the Queen.”
“No mention having been made in any of the official reports of the horses that took such an active part in fulfilling the frightful tragedy at Sherritt’s, where the murder took place, and Glenrowan, at the destruction of the Kelly gang, it is a matter of public interest to know what became of them, and to see the animals that could carry a heavy man incased in armor, weighing 97lbs.”
“The exhibition of Kate Kelly and friends is exciting much indignation along respectable people on the one hand, and drawing large crowds of people of the lower order on the other. Arrangements are being made for showing the horses on which Ned Kelly and Kate Kelly distinguished themselves. A good deal of money has already been taken.”
Glenrowan 