This is a true copy of a forum debate about SBC where the Police were shot by the Kelly gang in 1878. These following 25 pages were lost when one of the participants complained to forum host ProBoards.com. Despite numerous efforts to have the whole forum re-instated by me, this topic was one of several threads on DEE's 'Ned Kelly Truth forum' that questioned the many mythologized elements of the Kelly story, and is the reason for much personal attack on those that may have alternative views of how Kelly history is recorded. Bill Denheld May 2014


Man stands at fireplace of one of two huts, the police tent stood behind where this photo was taken.The Kelly gang came from left of little hill above.


The Great Debate about Stringy-Bark Creek  
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Post by Guest on Mar 4, 2014 at 10:47pm

There had been a hut on the clearing, but only remains of it were left standing.

There being the remains of a hut there.

We camped immediately behind the old hut, erecting a tent there.

Where we built the fire was near two logs, about twenty yards from the tent.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 4, 2014 at 11:16pm

...and, and, Glenn? What's your point?
Your Kelly Tree site has been bulldozed often in the past. You'll need side-looking radar (SLR) to find any hut remains. You guys have been nit-picking Bills work for so long its embarrassing.

Bill is right and you all know it!

 

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Post by sarah on Mar 5, 2014 at 1:08am

Horrie you really are horrid and have contributed nothing to this debate as you are the one that has been nit-picking, especially about spelling and you are the biggest proponent of misspelling with Bill a close second. You fail to comprehend the simplest of things and even said yourself you had to read a post ‘slowly’ to understand it. It has been simply pointed out to you where the tent and logs were in relation to the spring (that Bill doesn’t have), and this spring is described along with the area in detail and you still don’t get it. This description fits the CSI site not Bill’s.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 2:03am

Buzz off Sarah (Fitzy)!
Dee has admonished you frequently for disruptive misbehaviour.
You promised to leave us days ago, but are still here being silly.
I have never raised the subject of the logs, tent or spring, other than perhaps in passing.

 

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Post by sarah on Mar 5, 2014 at 9:50am

Again you fail to comprehend Horrie, Logs, Tent and spring are pinpointing where the police camp was. You are so negative you do not read posts slowly enough to be able to comprehend. Either that or you are playing dumb to be disruptive. If you have no interest in this subject or do not want to learn, then I suggest you buzz off!

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 9:56am

Within McIntyre’s various accounts of the hut we read:

at the burnt hut
an old burnt hut
the remains of a hut there
the old hut
but only the remains were left standing

We camped immediately behind the old hut, erecting our tent there.

Throughout McIntyre mentions hut singular.

G.W.Hall. Author of "The outlaws of the wombat ranges”


The spot where they established their halt was a small clearing on the rise alongside of the creek, near the ruins of two small huts, one of which was burnt down, and had been the residence of three prospectors, named Reynolds, Broomfield and Lynch …….

One burnt hut, one ruined hut.

J.J. Kenneally in his "Inner History of the Kelly Gang”


Dan was deputed to find out the exactly where the police were camped. After careful reconnaissance he returned and reported that the police were at the shingle hut on Stringybark creek, and that their tent was pitched in a clear space nearby.

One hut – The burnt hut in the clearing.

One ruined hut nearby the clearing – The shingle hut

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 10:21am

Hi Horrie,

Now please reft to the topic "The Huts @ SBC

www.stringybarkcreek.forumotion.com  

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 11:16am

How can compare McIntyre’s distances?

From - The Melbourne Herald’s Special Reporter’s article:
"At the top of the slope and overlooking the police tent, was a clump of scrub and sword grass, some sixty feet in circumference, and in which a dozen men could conceal themselves.
Standing a few feet in front of this clump of scrub but still overlooking the police tent , are two bunches of sword grass, four feet six inches high, and presenting a covering surface of some six feet.
It was from behind these bunches of sword grass that Kelly and his confederates called on the police to surrender………………

"At the time the call to surrender was made, McIntyre was at the fire cooking. This was precisely 39 paces from the foremost bunches of grass.
The tent stood exactly 25 paces from the Kelly’s hiding place”


McIntyre:
There was a quantity of spear grass 5ft high about 35 yards from the fire on the south side of the clearing.
There were some tall spear grass at the south side of the open space. It was about 35 yards from the fire where we were standing about 5 foot high or quite high enough to hide persons.
Both my revolver and the shot gun were at the tent about 24 yards distant on my right and about the same distance from some of the attacking party
The four men were in line and two or three yards distant from each other and all the same distance – about 40 yards


From the fire
McIntyre about 35/40 yards.
Reporter 39 paces

Tent from attacking party
McIntyre about 24 yards
Reporter 25 paces.

Given that it would be highly unlikely that McIntyre paced these distances himself his estimations of distance are not too bad at all.

McIntyre also stated that the tent was pitched a few yards behind the remains of the hut. The burnt hut.
About 20 yards from the fire
The tent being pitched about 70 yards from the creek.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 12:30pm

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"Isn't it amazing how these people now want to diminish the Two Huts site while the CSI team are still unable to provide even the slightest evidence of their location near the Kelly tree, -
except for some text and swamp gums, what ever they have to do with it I have no idea,"


From - The Melbourne Herald’s Special Reporter’s article:
"At the top of the slope and overlooking the police tent, was a clump of scrub and sword grass, some sixty feet in circumference, and in which a dozen men could conceal themselves.

Sword grass (Gahnia sieberiana) – or the “spear grass” grows in specific areas.
Swamp gums also only grow in specific areas.

Both can sustain periods of dryness but prefer moist, or wet areas.

Both abundantly grow at the site of the spring and declivity in the location near the Kelly tree. Near the white hill.

The spear grasses mention by both McIntyre and the special reporter.
Approx. 25 yards from the tent location within the CSI report. With the tent being place exactly 70 yards from the creek. (McIntyre about 70 yards) Facing due East.
Special reporter mentioned the tent faced North.
Therefore it could also be said that the tent faced N/E. Both cases share the similar results.

Tent from attacking party
McIntyre about 24 yards
Reporter 25 paces

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 1:27pm

How can we confirm the tent was located behind the burnt hut?

Using Bill’s scaled log layout draw a hut approx. 20ft long in both directions. Incorporating the two burnt posts.
One to the right towards Bill’s fireplace location.
The other towards the viewer of the Burman images (McIntyre’s tent position in his diagram)

Then draw a circle 20yrds and 25yards from where the two logs meet. From the fire (McIntyre provided both approx. tent to fire distances)

Place the tent a few yards (Up to 5yrds) behind each hut. (A dot will do)

See for yourself which position best matches McIntyre’s diagram and descriptions.
Combined with the Burman images a very good match.


McIntyre:
"We made a fire about 20 yards from the tent where the two logs crossed each other"
"These two logs thus formed two right angles, the point of junction about 25 yards from the tent"

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 4:22pm

Horrie, I have no doubt that you simply cannot digest FACTS of which you should by now have been able to read throughout recent postings by me and now also by Glenn.
" Your Kelly Tree site has been bulldozed often in the past. You'll need side-looking radar (SLR) to find any hut remains"
So now it is imperative to address you in CAPS so you also get it through your ??

THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE ROAD RESERVE HAS NEVER BEEN BULLDOZED - PROVABLE BY BEING ABLE TO LOCATE THE REMAINS OF A SIGNIFICANT TRAMWAY THAT PROGRESSED ALONG THIS SIDE BETWEEN THE ROAD RESERVE AND THE CREEK AND STILL THE REMAINING SHAFTS USED BY THE MINERS, AND ALSO WATER RACES.
I DID POINT OUT IN AN EARLIER POSTING THAT THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ROAD WAS EXTENSIVELY BULLDOZED FOR A FIRE BREAK SOME FEW YEARS AGO.
IT SEEMS YOU ARE HALLENGED BY BEING UNABLE TO ASCERTAIN THE EAST FROM THE WEST.
AND THE CSI TEAM HAS NEVER REFERRED TO THE LOCATION OF THE POLICE CAMP AS THE KELLY TREE SITE WHICH YOU FLOG AS BEING A TRUTH ! STOP ACTING LIKE A FOOL.
OH, AND I REPEAT - READ THE REPORT (OR ARE YOU TOO LOUSY TO SPEND MONEY/) REMEMBER ITS FREE TO LOOK AT FROM THE STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA OR TAKE A JAUNT TO CANBERRA AND THE NATIONAL LIBRARY.
PS AND SO YOU DON'T GET YOURSELF FURTHER CONFUSED - I DON'T MEAN THOSE BIG LOUD TRAMS THAT RUN AROUND IN MELBOURNE!!
(Above text can be read and absorbed by most people in just a few minutes - take as long as you must however)

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 8:39pm

Glenn thank god you are a man of few words, and well-connected thoughts and superb presentational skills!

OK I jest!  Glenn, you and your shy pal 'Me' are very long-winded, and have the habit of a lot of pro-Kelly people of putting words in other people's mouths which they didn't say.

Some of the points you make are spurious - "I DON'T MEAN THOSE BIG LOUD TRAMS THAT RUN AROUND IN MELBOURNE!!" So you must mean a logging tramway (and you must know tramway expert and author Norm Houghton). Why didn't you say so?

All the CSI team have to provide here is a sketch of the location of their preferred site.
But all we have been given is a parade of excuses why you can't do so.

I'm beginning to think this is all 'Kill Bill', and no CSI Site presentation. Oh well, another disappointment.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 9:59pm

Horrie,

Short reply.
Please refer to the stringy bark creek forum.

Orientation of the Burman images. Page 2. Mid way down is the CSI diagram showing the location of the site

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 11:18pm

I've spent the whole evening seeing how Ian Jones triumphed over Bill and CSI in getting his wacky site approved by DSE officials who were easily fooled.

The Kelly Tree Reserve today is a shambles.
The CSI site (or, rather, the Linton Briggs site) was presented by CSI in 2009:

www.ironicon.com.au/stringybarkckinvestigation.htm
Ian Jones's site is shown with a purple triangle; Linton Briggs's (CSI) by green triangles and Bill's Two Huts site by yellow triangles.

Don't ask me why the triangles. The amateur sleuths from CSI never explained what they meant.

So... I have had to do what CSI today can't do - provide an illustration of their site!


http://pixmaker.com.au/twohuts/images/locationmap.jpg

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 5, 2014 at 11:37pm

You conned me Glenn. I've just been to this site:

stringybarkcreek.forumotion.com/t2p15-stringybark-creek

No CSI SBC image there - unless it is one of those danged     [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 6, 2014 at 12:41am

Dee, you must visit SBC yourself. As you forecast, the whole locality will be deeply moving.

But if you go with Bill to his Two Huts site and see him hold up the big Burman photo towards the road, you will gasp with shock at how the scenes match perfectly.

You will discover Bill is a quiet Ned supporter. It will trouble you thinking about everything later, why a small handful of people have spent six years back-stabbing him for his thousands of research hours in rain and scorching suns, and patient presentations.

Why is his Two Huts site so disturbing to the Ned Neanderthals? Why have former mates like the CSI geriatric chumps turned against him? Why do useless time-wasters like Pooflower and Sarah attack him relentlessly. Many of Bill's noisiest critics have never been to the Two Huts site.

 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 6, 2014 at 1:53am

I see the triangles in the 2009 CSI presentation are photo views. What photos are these? If, in relation to Bill's Two Huts site, they are the Burman photos, they are showing the wrong direction. Misleading information always is nearly impossible to undo.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 6, 2014 at 8:01am


How is it that the yellow triangle's (Photo views) 2A & 2B face S/E and SSE when you say the if you hold the Burman photo towards the road which is SW or WSW ?

As you say " Misleading information always is nearly impossible to undo."

The triangles above is Bill's work and nothing to do with the CSI team.

 

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Post by bill on Mar 6, 2014 at 11:00am

Thank you Horrie,
The Stringy Bark Creek Investigation webpage started out as the vehicle for the team's findings back in July 2009. The sites map with the 'triangles' was drawn by me.

Each triangle 'array' represents the apex where the BURMAN camera would have to been if we reckon that was where he took the photos. The final photo view would be seen from the apex looking out towards the open fan array.

Further notes about the map's coloured arrays are explained in detail see -
www.ironicon.com.au/stringybarkckinvestigation.htm

On the webpage - with the map it says
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The fan shaped angles represent the Burman photo views.

I know it can be confusing but every photo has four sides just as looking through a rectangular funnel from the narrow end - look through the funnel and we see a bottom, a top, and two sides. The two sides are the lines you call a triangle. Hope that clears that up.

It is interesting since I drew this map, 3B was the CSI teams photo view, but they have now turned 3B to be looking towards North to take in the Kelly tree.
This to me is the most absurd thing as the original Kelly tree was cut down in 1908, and it was situated well behind photographer Burman when he took the photos where Const Lonigan was shot. The Kelly tree as it was known then was where Const Scanlan fell and died. This was about 40m down the creek from the two huts site.

Array 2B was considered as a big contender in the early days of the investigation with Glenn, Kelvyn and Linton, but it could not have been because there is the creek between the slope and the logs.

I always favoured Array 2A because there is a slope, there are two huts fireplaces, McIntyre said he took off on Kennedy's horse crossing the creek* headed in a northerly direction.
Bill

* Constable James followed horse tracks across the swampy ground in a northerly direction just as McIntyre said. These horse tracks were followed by Sgnt Kennedy on foot and was killed on the Eastern side of SBC.
 

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Post by bill on Mar 6, 2014 at 12:02pm

Glenn and Kelvyn,
You keep posting a lot of irrelevant stuff but then Glenn does mention a crucial bit of information the reporter wrote for the Herald of 6 Nov 1878.


The reporter wrote -
"at the top of the slope and overlooking the police tent"

He was obviously there LOOKING down - overlooking the police tent from the little hill.

Readers, please read what the reporter wrote, this is page 37 from my document.
www.ironicon.com.au/images/SBC37.jpg  This is a jpg image click on link to see full size
 
Then open map page to see the relevant point numbers in red.
www.ironicon.com.au/images/SBC36.jpg This is a jpg image of the page but click on link to see full size
 

Glenn and Kelvyn,
I cannot believe you keep on with this nonsense because there is no slope near to your CSI at SBC - Kelly tree location from which a reporter could take a view over where a tent may have stood ?

If you think there is, then PLEASE show us your picture?  


Readers, you need go no further to see the slope /little hill the reporter looked down from -looking down onto the police tent. www.ironicon.com.au/images/twohutssouthslopefromroad.jpg
 

My observation is, these CSI gents are just having us all on, they know they can't show you a picture or a slope, they have no hut sites, they have their Burman photo facing the wrong way, they only seem to have a lots of time.

Also, Glenn invites readers to the SBC forum but it's still a closed shop where they use the same spin - feet- yards and paces this way and that from their starting point see image below.

www.ironicon.com.au/twohuts/images/northviewnearkellytreesite.jpg  Please click on link to see full-size image
 

Now readers please understand, these Gents are standing where they reckon the police tent stood. They have their backs to what would have been 'the slope in the Burman photo'. That new green growth is 1m high, and it was within this vegetation that Linton Briggs first proposed the police tent had stood. ( 7 metres left /west out from the road) , but 'where is that slope or little hill' from which a reporter could stand, look and write -
" at the top of the slope and overlooking the police tent"?
uuuggg, am I wasting my time here?

Bill

PS, Dee, we are not wasting our time here, only with these CSIs, Poor flours and confederates. It all reminds me of what poor old Copernicus had to endure with his proposal the Earth going around the Sun. Poor old Copernicus had to wait forty years before Galileo was to prove his theory.


www.ironicon.com.au/images/sbcmappicturessmall.jpg


 

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