THE KELLY GANG.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5584, 20 February 1879, Page 2

THE KELLY GANG.

Jekilderie, February 11. The Kelly gang surrounded tho police barracks about 12 o’clock on Saturday, when all were in bed, and called out aud stuck up the two policemen who were in charge. They came down to town on Monday, and stuck up the Bank of New South Wales, by walking in and ordering the clerks to bail up. Having stuck up the telegraph office and destroyed the wires, they marched the station-master, Mr. H. D. Jefferson, and his probationer, Rankin, up to the police station, where they locked them up in the lock-up together with the two constables, and they were kept there till 7 p.m. The gang then started towards Wanamurra station, and nothing has been seen of them since. They had a room full of people stuck up at the Royal Hotel, where they had a few drinks, aud Ned Kelly handed a paper he had written to Mr. Leving, of the bank, aud made him promise to have it published. He regretted he had not time to finish it, but wished to have it printed, and he would write the remainder some other time. As soon as they had gone some persons started for Moama, and some one for Deniliquio, to give information.

The gang took nothing from the telegraph office, but cut the wires about in a fearful mess. They locked the station-master up, and made him promise not to mend the line till morning, but as soon as he was released he got help, and fixed the wires along the fences, so as to work. They took the constable down with them from the barracks, and walked into the hank, and stuck up two clerks, and then found Mr. Tarleton in a bath in his room, stuck him up, and then proceeded to take everything. After this they marched the bank officials into tbe Royal Hotel, where they collected a whole room full, and then came over and stuck up the telegraph inaster and made him stop the linos, which he did by disconnecting the wires. They then ordered some men to chop down the poles, and told tbe telegraph officers to lock np the place and go with them. They said they would take them a few miles with them, but when they got to the lock-up they put them in with the two police, and threatened Mrs. Devine, the senior constable’s wife, with her life if she let anyone out before seven o’clock.