THE KELLY'S AGAIN.
News of a startling character has (states Walgunyah and Rutherglen News) been received by the police m connection with the movements of the Kelly gang. Some time ago it will be recollected that Steve Hart had visited his parents, near Wangaratta, and that he had some conversation with an old acquaintance who was casually visiting his father's house. Owing to some portions of that conversation, and the fact of the visit leaking out, the Assistant - Commissioner of Police (Mr. Nicholson) was dispatched to Wangaratta on October 17, and for a time a strict search was made on the strength of the information received for traces of the outlaw. It now transpires that dark hints were thrown out by Hart of preparations being made by the gang for a further raid. Ned Kelly, so Hart says, has become possessed of information that large sums of money are almost daily forwarded by the conutry Banks to the head offices m Melbourne for safety since the Euroa and Jerilderie Banks were operated upon, and that as the country Banks from which there was any likelihood of getting a good haul were too well guarded the members of the gang did not care about risking the consequences of a visit, but that they intended sticking-up a train as soon as their accomplices furnished them with reliable information as to the particular train from which the greatest booty coula be obtained. Who those accomplices are remain to be proved, but it is rumoured that if the information of the conversation referred to is reliable some employe's of the Railway Department, or some Bank officials, are m some way interested m the movements of the outlaws. Hart also stated that the bush telegraphs m the pay of the outlaws keep the gang well posted as to the number of police stationed m each township, and the number specially told off to watch the Banks ; and that when information i 3 received of a Bank not being well guarded, the outlaws conclude that the spoil to be obtained is not worth the risk entailed m going for it. Mr. Assistant-Commissioner Nicholson, we understand, gained some important verbal information as to the contemplated movements of the gang, but nothing definite as to the time of the operations or the place where the sticking-up of the taain was to happen.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 966, 3 December 1879, Page 2
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394THE KELLY'S AGAIN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 966, 3 December 1879, Page 2
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