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Evening Post, Issue 90, 24 May 1865, Page 2

On Thursday night a noise was stolen out of a paddock at Murrumburrah, of which no particulars could be ascertained till about eleven o'clock on Friday morning, when a gentleman named Furlonge, who was travelling with sheep, stated that he had been visited by Gilbert and Dunn, who rounded up his horses and took a favourite animal, leaviug in its Bteed the one taken from Murrumburrah. On Friday night the bushrangers camped at Riely's Hill, two miles

from Binalong, some one having seen them there apparently fast asleep. When thejiolice received their information they went to a farmer's hut, in which a man named Kellyresided, who is the grandfather of Dunn. The police watched all night, but they saw no indication of the bushrangers, and left in the morning, being hopeless of success ; fresh news, however, reached them between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday, mornirtg, which induced a fresh start to Kelly's. When the party arrived there they watched for about an hour, when T£elly came out of the hut and walked up and down, in front of the door, and afterwards his wife came out. A little while after Kelly's youngest son, Thomas, made his appearance, and was beckoned by Constable Hales, who inquired whethsr there was any one besides his parents in the hut, to which the boy replied that no strangers had been in the house during the night. Hales, however, proceeded to the house, and burst open the door, when he was saluted by a volley from the two bushrangers. The fire was returned, and the police withdrew for a short distance, when almost immediately after Gilbert and Dunn were observed running through a paddock adjoining the hut. Constable Bright started in pursuit, land was followed by the three other troopers. Several shots were then exchanged on both sides, when the bushrangers again retreated, and Hales and Bright fired together, and Gilbert fell. The pursuit after Dunn was continued, but although several shots were fired at him none took effect ; and he has since been heard of at Bogolong, ten miles from Binalong, having stuck up Mr. Jul lien's station yesterday, from whence he took a horse, saddle, and bridle.