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men I have out today I will have as many more
tomorrow and we will blow him into pieces as
small as paper that is in our guns Detective Ward and
Constable Hays took out their revolvers and threatened
to shoot the girls and Childrenin ^Mrs Skillion's absence
the greatest ruffians and murderers no matter how
depraved would not be guilty of such a cowardly
action and this sort of cruelty and disgraceful and
cowardly conduct to my brothers and sisters who
had no protection coupled with the conviction of
my mother and those men certainly made my blood
boil as I don't think there is a man born could have
the patience to suffer it as long as I did or ever allow
his blood to get cold cold while such insults as
these were unavenged and yet in every paper that
is printed I am called the blackest and coldest
blooded murderer ever on record But if I hear any
more of it I will not exactly show them what cold
blooded murder is but wholesale and retail slaughter
something different to shooting three troopers in self
defence and robbing a bank, I would have been rather
hot blooded to throw down my rifle and let them
shoot me and my innocent brother, they were
not satisfied with frightening my sisters night
and day and destroying their provisions and
lagging my mother and infant and those innocent
men but should follow me and my brother into the
wilds where he had been quietly digging neither molesting
or interfering with any one he was making good wages
as the creek is very rich within half a mile from where
I shot Kennedy I was not there long and on the 25 Oct
I came on Police tracks between Tabletop and the bogs I crossed
