THE POLICE MURDERS IN VICTORIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5309, 21 November 1878, Page 2

THE POLICE MURDERS IN VICTORIA.

! The following arc the latest items in | Melbourne papers : — Constable Strahan and Shewbridge's party j have just returned to Mansfield from Worn--1 bat for provisions and further orders. They I report finding no trace of Kelly's gang, i They feel perfectly coutident that they are i hiding iu the Upper Iving ranges, and they | are anxious to return. The weather being | very stormy is much against their search. ! The latest report is that one mate is Kelly 8 i sister. The two Lloyds are in Mansfield, no doubt with the intention of shewing that they are not the two uuknown ones of the gang. A correspondeat of the Argus writes:— "There is every reason to beiievc that the surmise of the officials of the penal department that Strickland, who was a prisoner at Penti idge, is one of the Kelly gang, is correct. A abort timo before his discharge he, with two others, made a savage attack on tlie well-known Vou Sanden in the and the assault might have terminated seriously bad not some of the warders been present. For sonic time Strickland ffa® employed as a wardsman, and subsequently iu the stonecutters' yard, where his associate* were the worst class of prisoners. So wc** / aware were some of the warders of this man s ■ proclivities, that as soon as the report or the Mansfield affair was known, picion at once turned to StricklWi > especially as it was known that was from that part of the country. the time Kelly was at Pentridge there * nothing remarkable in his conduct, h e >' h'fe desire to let the people know that he J Power's mate iu bushranging. The la livs always said that he had no contidcne Kelly's courage. Un one occasion, - . Power, wheu he was neatly surrouu C( police at Mount B <ttery« station, and tut seem, d but little hope of escape, & e "J that he would surrender, wheu Power - • » ■ If you attempt t„ do bo I will .hoo |>o« ® tko spot.' Power said ho would ha\e s u[> thu Seymour Hank, if Kelly wo "''. k a need to hold his horse close to the u which ho refused to do. Power a PP e " jj. have been i formed about tho recent r o 1 - -' but ho makes no comments He i i the prison hospital for the Inst l se aid is not likely to recover from a „ contracted during his bushranging ca