The Pursuit.
Immediately on the news being spread of the Sepastopol murder, the police were in activity, and a special train was despatched from Melbourne at 10.15 on Sunday night. At Essendon, Sub-In-spector Connor and his black trackers were picked up. They were en route for Queensland. Mrs Connor and her sister came along, thinking they would be able to pay a visit at Beechworth. When about a mile and a quarter fi-om Glenrowan, the tram was stopped by a messenger, who told the police that the rails were torn up and the Kellys in possession of the Glenrowan Hotel. The man who gave the information disappeared in the forest so soon as he had imparted the news. It soon became apparent that he had saved the lives of those in the train, which, to a certainty, would, along with the pilot engine, have been hurled into a deep gully just below the Glenrowan station, and behind a curve which would have prevented the conductors from seeing the pilot engine go over the embankment where the rails were torn up.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 July 1880, Page 3
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