THE KELLY BUSHRANGERS.
It was stated recently in a telegram from Euioa that a party of four men, fully armed and equipped, supposed to be schoolmasters from 'Ballarat had ai> rived there by train, and'at once struck into the bush in purfcuit of the Kelly gang of ruffians, The Marat Courier remarks iii explanation - that "although hailing from this neighbourhood, they are not schoolmasters, but four miners, all unmarried, the leader of -whom, when a young man, Was niemberiof a Californian vigilance committee in '49. Their ostensible object is to sjrend the days In prospecting that portion of the country, and they hope to strike a patch should they fall in with the outlaws. From a letter received otf Saturday from one ot the ' prospectors,' we learn that on Thursday last, when some distancefrom Benalla in the ranges, they met a individual carrying a bag, and followed him for about a mile, under the impression that he wa? planting provisions for the Kelly gang. On being observed, however* the fellow retraced his tracks. The writer also states, that the population thereabouts openly' express sympathy with the outlaws, but that this feeling is affected by many who, from their isolated position,? fear tp do otherwise."
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Kumara Times, Issue 715, 14 January 1879, Page 2
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204THE KELLY BUSHRANGERS. Kumara Times, Issue 715, 14 January 1879, Page 2
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