The cause of Kelly : a complete history of the primitive colonial war between the Kelly family and the police, in blank verse / by Robbitt Jon Clow

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Clow, Robbitt Jon, 1877-1952
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SR A 822 CLO
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Ballarat [Vic.] : Baxter & Stubbs, 1919
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Contents

Ned Kelly 1
CAUSE OF KELLY 5
ORDER FROM BAXTER & STUBBS GRENVILLE STREET, BALLARAT. 6
Introduction 9
DRAMATIS-PERSONÆ 11
Cause of Kelly 12
SCENE II. The Roadway near the Greta Home. 13
SCENE III. The Shearer's welcome within Selector's Home. 16
SCENE IV. Sheritt’s Selection. Post and Rails drawn on the Line. 16
SCENE V. Interior of Selector's Home. 18
ACT II. Scene I. A Bushman falling a tree in the Bush. 20
SCENE II. A Tree in Mansfield Street with Calico Notice: NED KELLY £100 REWARD 23
SCENE III. Mansfield Police Office. 24
SCENE IV. Police Camp at Stringy Bark Creek. 25
SCENE IV. (Again) The Police Camp, Stringy Bark Creek. 26
SCENE V. Scrub near Police Camp. 26
SCENE VI. Wild Bush in midst of which is a wombat hole. 29
SCENE VII. The Kellys Stronghold in Wombat Forest. 29
ACT III. Scene I. Frank Hart's Home, Melbourne—Drawing Room. 33
SCENE II. Office at Police Station, Mansfield. 37
SCENE III. Mansfield Police Lock-up. Three men within. 37
SCENE IV. A hut with wooden chimney at the end and two rooms eleven by eleven—Windows and door on side facing the road—Each window has but four fanes of glass —Each fane scarcely larger than a man’s hand. 39
SCENE V. A rough hush Camp—Billycan hanging over the fire supported by a rod and two forked sticks. 41
ACT IV. SCENE I. Camp at the head of the Buckland River occupied by Nell Skillion and Kate Kelly armed with rifles. 43
SCENE II. A mountain Bush—With trees, Native hop, and tangle-foot growth. 47
SCENE IV. The Police Station Jerilderie. Daylight. 50
SCENE VI. In the Yard at the Police Station—The Bushrangers with their horses are much excited. 53
SCENE VI. A Lawn on Country Race Course; on it appear numerous young women strutting around in fashionable attire—Bookmakers striving to cry down each other—Police disguised as card sharpers looking out for Byrne whose favorite horse Sherritt has entered in the races for him; but the Bushranger does not turn up. 55
ACT V. SCENE I. The Kelly Home at Greta. 56
SCENE II. The Bushrangers' Camp in the King Basin. 57
SCENE III. The Lookout Post—Elevated Rock commanding a View of Surrounding Country. 62
SCENE IV. The Bushrangers' Camp in the King Basin. 62
SCENE V. Sherritt's Cottage—Two rooms with a Diminutive Lean-to in the Rear. The view is the front room inside. 63
SCENE VI. Scrub Country. Dusk. 64
Scene VII. Little Wood by Glenrowan Township (just daylight). 65
SCENE IX. The Commercial Room, Glenrowan Hotel. 68
SCENE VIII. The Railway Line. 68
ACT VI. SCENE I. The Glenrowan Railway Station. 3 a.m. Cold and dark. 71
SCENE II. The Interior of a black-dark Building. 73
SCENE III. An Out Post—A tree giving shelter to Lieutenant Gascoigne. 75
SCENE IV. Little Wood by Glenrowan Township. 76
SCENE V. Inside the Glenrowan Hotel. 78
SCENE VI. Out of the zone of Fire—Among the trees. 8.30 a.m. 81
SCENE VII. Inside the Hotel—The two Warriors clad in their Armour 'with their Helmets beside them are lying still on the floor. 84
SCENE VIII. The Hotel in the Background with tongues of fire leaping from all sides of it. 85
SCENE IX. The Jail Yard, Benalla Lock-up 86
SCENE X. The Supreme Court. 92
SCENE XI. The Condemned Cell—General Kelly within. 97
SCENE XII. The Gardens. 101
SCENE XIII. The Condemned Cell. 101
SCENE XIV. The Scaffold. 102
SCENE XV. A Street in Melbourne. 103
SCENE XVI. An Irish Wake without the body. (The afternoon of day of execution) 103
SCENE XVII. Melbourne Theatre—Behind the Stage. (The night which follows the execution) 105
SCENE XVIII. Melbourne Theatre—A small Play Stage on a stage—with a Play audience. 106
SCENE XIX. Redmond Barry's bed-chamber. (The midnight which followed the execution morn.) 108
SCENE XX. Room of the Liberal Party, Parliament House. 109

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