Death of Byrne.
When the poor woman had completed her story, the firing of the police became very brisk, and it was vigorously replied to by the desperadoes. Senior Constable Kelly, at that juncture, found a rifle stained with blood lying on the side of the hill, and this led to the supposition being formed that one of the gang was wounded, and had escaped through the forest. Just before the arrival of another detachment of police, a heavy volley was poured into the hotel by the police, and, according to the statements which some of the prisoners afterwards made, that volley proved fatal to Byme, who was standing close to young Delaney drinking a " nobbier" ot whisky at the bar, when he was shot in the groin. He was then carried to the back of th« building, where he gradually sank and died a painful
death. This fact at the time was \mknown to the police.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 July 1880, Page 3
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157Death of Byrne. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 July 1880, Page 3
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