...a place in the KellyGang story
Areas
The original aboriginal owners
The First Squatters
Sup Hare hunted the local game on the Murray Flats in the 1850s and 1860s. What was it like? (FH)
The first selectors
The KellyGang made the Murray Flats on the evening of Tuesday 29/10/1878 and the morning of the Wednesday. They were on there way to Howlong in New South Wales after the Mansfield Murders. They tried to cross the River Murray but it was in flood. The punt at Bungowannah was under water and it could not go any where.
SConst Mullane was part
of a search party of about 7 police to the Murray Flats, on 31/10/1878. (RC13524)
DSet Kennedy led the search
party to the Murray flats.
Const Twomey informed Insp
Brook Smith that there
was information that the KellyGang were
on the Wodonga flats, so he asked me to go to the railway station to get a
truck ready to convey the horses by the next train the nearest way to the
flats. The police boxed the horses and went by the next train as far as Chiltern.
There was a telegram there awaiting him and it instructed Insp Brook Smith
and his men to remain at Wangaratta, and that Sgt Harkin
and Constable Twomey were to proceed to the Wodonga flats and to assist Kennedy
and his party there. (RC17447)
On 1/11/878 there was a report of a man having been stuck up by the KellyGang on the Murray flats near the Baumgarten's place. (RC344)
It is likely tat the KellyGang also met up with Margery at this time (CHC)
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