Meet the people of the KellyGang story
brothers ... sisters ... wife Mary Quinn. children Margaret parents ... uncle ... aunt ...
I was a selector, married to an aunt of the Kellys
My daughter had links with the Kellygang. (OMA18/1/79)
Was I helping the boys at faithful's creek?
On 2/1/1879 Commissioner Standish ordered the arrest of about 20 sympathizers including myself. He took that action under section 5 of the Felony Apprehention Act. Most of the sympathizers were held in Beechworth goal.
I was arrested near Mansfield. I was one of the first people arrested. (Argus4/1/79) (Argus6/1/79) (OMA7/1/1879)
We were held without ever being given a chance to defend them selves. They remanded us in custody for periods of 7 days. Only one of us was represented by a lawyer. The magistrates repeated the remands each week for over 3 months before the sympathizers were finally released
At the start, the arrests had public support in Melbourne but that turned into general contempt for the police. The mass arrests resulted in fewer people being prepared to assist the police or to supply information about the KellyGang
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