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he was sitting on he had just got to the logs and put
his head up to take aim when I shot him that instant
or he would have shot me as I took him to be Strachan
the man who said he would not ask me to stand
he would shoot mefirst ^like a dog But it happened to
be Lonigan the man who in company with Sergeant
Whelan Fitzpatrick and King the bootmaker and Constable
O'Day that tried to put a pair of handcuffs on me
in Benalla but could not and had to allow McInnes
the Miller to put them on previous to Fitzpatrick
swearing he was shot I was fined two pounds
for not allowing five curs like Sergeant Whelan
O'Day Fitzpatrick King and Lonigan and would
have sent me to Kingdom come only I was not
ready and he is the man that blowed before he left
Violet Town if Ned Kelly was to be shot he was the
man that would shoot him and no doubt he
would shoot me even if I threw up my arms
and laid down as he knew four of them could
not arrest me singlehanded not to talk of the rest
of my mates, also either him or me would have
to die this he knew well therefore he had a right
to keep out of my road, Fitzpatrick is the only one I
hit out of the five in Benalla this shows my feelings
towards him as he said we were good friends
and even swore it but he was the biggest enemy I had in
the country with the exception of Lonigan and he
can be thankful I was not there when he took a revolver and
threatened to shoot my mother in her own house it is
not fire three shots and miss him at a yard and a half I dont
think I would use a revolver to shoot a man like him
when I was within a yard and a half of him or attempt to
