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Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir

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Chapter
FOREWORD	By George Gordon McCrae
PREFACE
I	From Ireland in the 'Fifties
II	To Australia in the Great Britain
III	Police Cadets in 1852
IV	Ballarat in the Early 'Fifties
	The First Criminal Court Henry ("Tony") Foster
V	Ballarat in the Early 'Fifties (continued.)
	Some Fellow Passengers The Miners and Their Troubles A "Digger Hunt"
VI	Ballarat in the Early 'Fifties (continued.)
	Gold and Prisoners' Escort McIvor Gold Escort Robbed A Mystery of the Early 'Fifties
VII	Ballarat in the Early 'Fifties (continued.)
	Growing Discontent How Mining Disputes were Decided More Contentious Irishmen Russell Thomson and Duncan Gillies The Eureka Stockade Public Feeling in Melbourne
VIII	Melbourne Police in 1854
	A New Chief Commissioner Licensing Courts in the 'Fifties
IX	Beechworth in 1856
	Horse Stealing Robert O'Hara Burke Drilling the Foot Police The Buckland Riots The Burke and Wills Expedition
X	Beechworth in 1856 (Continued)
	Indigo Diggings Discovered McIvor Private Escort Tragedy A "Protector" of Chinese Cornelius Green, Gold-Buyer
XI	Beechworth in 1856 (Continued)
	Some District Personalities Long Journeys on Horseback Beechworth, Past and Present Billy, the Puntman
XII	The Western District of Victoria
	Captain Whittaker and the Bushranger Snipe Shooting Tracking by the Blacks The First Coaches in the District "Lambing Down" The Wannon Falls A Plucky Constable Cuthbert Featherstonhaugh, Jr. A Yellow Peril The Duffy Land Act
XIII	Melbourne in 1864
	Unrest and Insubordination Superintendent T. H. Lyttelton The City Police, 1864 to 1867 The Theatre Royal Cafe The Wrecked Passengers of the "Netherby" The Horse and Jockey Inn An Awkward Situation A Charge Refused A Military Scare All-Night Licenses to Publicans Dr. J.G. Beaney in the Dock
XIV	Some Legal Luminaries
	B. C. Aspinall as a Humorist A Q.C.'s Longest Day
XV	Gippsland in 1867
	Captain Edgar Slade, R.N. "Viking's" Last Race Snipe, Quail and Duck Grant in the Later 'Sixties The Dargo High Plains The Walhalla Mine The Long Tunnel Mine Mr. John Arabin A Land of Floods
XVI	The Bushranger, Power
	Mr. Robert McBean Robbed
XVII	Four Uneventful Years
	The Road to Woods' Point Some Curious Accidents Bishop Moorhouse as a Pedestrian A Country Surgeon The Jericho Diggings Mr. J. H. Graves as Parliamentary Candidate "Black Wednesday"
XVIII	The Kelly Gang
	Police Murders in the Wombat Forest Constable Thomas McIntyre Sergeant Kennedy Isaiah ("Wild") Wright After the Wombat Murders
XIX	The Kelly Gang (Continued)
	"A Lost Opportunity" A Night Watch on the Ovens The Euroa Bank Stuck Up "Assistant Postmaster" Flood Again Superintendent Francis Hare The Jerilderie (N.S.W.) Bank Robbed
XX	The Kelly Gang (Continued)
	The Queensland Black Trackers How the Black Trackers Worked C. H. Nicolson Again Takes Charge The "Diseased Stock" Agent Some Arm-chair Advisers A Disturbing Element Shortly After Glenrowan The Police Train Leaves Benalla
XXI	The Kelly Gang (Continued)
	The Kelly Gang at Glenrowan Ned Kelly's Armour Alleged Reckless Shooting by Police Ned Kelly Captured The Kelly Prisoners Leave the Hotel How Joe Byrne Met His Fate The Hotel Fired Peace Reigns in the North-Eastern District The Longmore Police Commission An Editor Interviewed
XXII	In Charge of the Metropolitan District
	Disorganisation of the Police The Police Negligent, Not Corrupt Increase of Junior Officers A New Development
XXIII	The Detective Force
	Detective John Williams Two Brave Bank Officers
XXIV	Rioting in Melbourne
	Assault on Orangemen at Brunsick The Maritime Strike Nearly a Tragedy The People's Forum
XXV	Chief Commissioners of Police, 1853 - 1902
XXVI	Some Sergeants and Constables
XXVII	Men Who Have Helped
APPENDIX.	The Corps of Native Troopers List of Police Cadets and Officers