The Hotel Set on Fire.
This, in fact, was the procedure the police decided upon in order to bring the outlaws from their cover. The police first opened up a heavy fire on the hotel from the front and rear, in order to cover the. operations of SeniorConstaule Johnston, who rapidly approached the hotel on the north side with a bundle of straw, which he placed against the weatherboards and net fire to. It was known that MartiD Sherry was still in the house, and when "the last prisoner had escaped he was alive, though badly wounded. The thought that the man should be sacrificed, and perish in the flames with the determined bushrangers, caused a feeling of terror to pervade the crowd. Kate Kelly at this junctui'e came upon the scene, but the only expression which escaped her lips was one uttered in heart-broken accents, " My poor, poor brother." Mrs. Skillion exclaimed, "I will see my brother before he dies," and then sprang towards the hotel, from the roof of which, by this time, tongues of flame were beginning to asceud. The police ordered her to go back, and she hesitated.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 July 1880, Page 4
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