Mrs. Reardon's Statement.
Mrs. Eeardon makes the following statement : — " My husband is a platelayer employed on the railway, and we live about a mile from the station on the Benalla side. At three o'clock on Sunday morning we were all in bed, and were aroused by Ned Kelly, who knocked at the door, and told my husband when he opened it to ' surrender himself.' They had also made a prisoner of Sullivan, another platelayer, and Kelly brought us to the station, where I was kept for some hours. Kelly took my husband and Sullivan down the line, in order to tear up the rails and destroy the train coming with the police. He was afterwards taken to the hotel. There are a lot of innocent people in there now, and they are frightened to come out for fear the police will kill them. Among them are James and Michael Reardon, my husband and son, Catherine and Patrick Delaney (who are here coursing), W. S. Cooke (a laborer), Martin Sherry (a platelayer), John Larnins (a farmer), L. Ward Reynolds (the brother of the postmaster), Robert Gibbons, the brothers Meanliffe, and other strangers whom I don't know."
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 July 1880, Page 3
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195Mrs. Reardon's Statement. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 July 1880, Page 3
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