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.


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Post by bill on Mar 3, 2014 at 2:13pm

Thanks photographer,

The blue tarps were the work of Bruce, admin of KC2000 24/09/2010
www.ironicon.com.au/images/bruces-blueimg049.jpg  
Bruce posted this six weeks after PoorFlour had removed all her postings from SBC thread at KC2000 ? That shows you how interested he/she was to debate almost four years ago.

Now he/she wants to create a dubious argument suggesting the height of the tarps reflect the true height of the rocks on the ground. It has always been said at the offset 2002, the huts fireplaces may have been rebuilt several times there.









 

 

 



Please note the hut posts in the original photo do not  match the two plastic posts Bruce has placed in existing holes in the ground.

These holes of posts were left over when either bush fires burnt out the hut posts long ago although these holes do mark the edge of that hut site.

You can read Bruce's post at www.ironicon.com.au/newforum/sbcnewsandviews10.htm 
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Post by sarah on Mar 3, 2014 at 2:15pm

Not that I know of Brian. She is at nedkellyforum.boards.net

 

 



 

 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 3, 2014 at 2:46pm

Thanks Sarah.

forums popping up and we're no closer to solving the mystery. One thing that is clear though we're agreeing to disagree with one another.
Sarah what is your involvement with the kelly story? interest, passion, etc?

 

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Post by sarah on Mar 3, 2014 at 3:11pm

Interest in the history of Victoria Brian which lead to persecution of early selectors and progressed to the Kelly story.



 

 

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 Post by Guest on Mar 3, 2014 at 3:42pm

Sarah,
I was just quoting what Dee had already said about Poorflower. Who has already been tried and convicted by Dee.

Poorflowers got it right.

 

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Post by sarah on Mar 3, 2014 at 3:47pm

Sorry Henry, my apologies I didn't realise it was a quote.

 

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Post by bill on Mar 3, 2014 at 5:50pm
 

I have no interest going from one forum to another.
I tried to join the other bad attitudes forum on 7 Feb - by email I asked admin to give me a ring as I would like to know who I was dealing with. On application a window popped up to say it was up to 3 admins? No one did ring, but and 3 weeks later on that forum they said I could log on, then I'm accused of not wanting to answer dubious loaded questions.
I will address these here.

This person pseudo Poor Flour, wants me to comment on a scenario that has been well covered more than four years earlier on Bruce's KC2000 forum when he simply allowed this pseudo Poorfour to delete all his/ her postings 'even though' Bruce's forum had been gutted years earlier, rendering some forty threads useless, my postings amongst them. I always copy my postings and threads.

These webpage links below are my copies showing where Poor Flour had posted with images back in 2010 that he/she remove from the original KC2000 forum thread within days of he/she's last post. One wonders why that would be?

You can read Poor Flours original postings here, They are no where else to be found.

www.ironicon.com.au/newforum/sbcnewsandviews5.htm

www.ironicon.com.au/newforum/sbcnewsandviews6.htm

www.ironicon.com.au/newforum/sbcnewsandviews7.htm

www.ironicon.com.au/newforum/sbcnewsandviews8.htm

Without doubt, pseudo Poor Flour made some interesting observations that I thought were great, and I encouraged he/she to keep going as you will read if you have the time. But later he /she thought the wacky bent trees theory may throw a spanner in the two huts site which is always OK, we need as much rigor in the argument as possible, but after all this time, why try again when these issues had all been addressed years ago. This makes one wonder she must be one of the desperate undercover CSI team for which he'she may get a medal.

It is interesting that for almost 4 years these forum discussions lay dormant, then just after Peter FitzSimons's Ned Kelly book comes out with my SBC illustrations in centre pages, then all of a sudden the its on again - kill Bill.

Isn't it amazing how these people now want to demolish 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, but they hang their hat on an earlier marked tree where the local land owner signposted it nearest to the road, so the 1930's Kelly tourists would not be jumping the fence and trampling all over his ground looking for the dreaded site. This was more than fifty years after the event.

At NKF boards -where was the police-camp at sbc bad attitudes forum, you will see a staged number of postings from hidden pseudos most likely the CSI team, for who else would bother and they keep telling us 'its not at the two huts site'.

When you cannot present a reasonable better scenario, you either accept you may be wrong or you mount a propaganda campaign.

But what is Poor Flour all about attacking dreaded ' Two huts Model Plan'.
www.ironicon.com.au/images/burmanphotomodelplan.jpg  click on link for full size image


The grid on the plan (above) represents 3m sqr  in order to give an estimated scale to the Burman photos based on the height of an average standing man, and the foot print of a hut, so we could determine a scale grid, so we can determine how far back that large tree on the right is from the camera, then we can also estimate how far back the slope starts from as THERE is No creek between the slope and the tree.

Obviously there will are always scaling errors that cannot be avoided, but you will see the green and Pink arrays represent the photos boundaries and camera spots. In the arrays, notice one post is in one array and two posts in the other. Notice the big tree on the right is in both arrays. The blue lines were suggested by PoorFlour mid 2010 on in order place the second hut site behind central big tree.
Whoever PoorFlour was then when he/she put up some very smart observations, but now doubt if it’s the same brains today.

Poor Flour says the placement of Burman's camera would be " down the bank where nobody would place the camera" (Ref posting by guest Horrie page 6.)

I would like you to visualise this-

In your backyard make a 3 metre square grid on the ground. With camera in hand take a picture looking diagonal across from point to point. Take a picture. On the print out measure the width of the square, and divide the height into the width. This gives you a ratio. You will need a ratio of 9 to 1.

See image- www.ironicon.com.au/images/burmanphotologanglegrid2.jpg



In order to capture a photo of a 3m grid like in the Burman photo you need to be laying down or on your knees bent over to get a ratio of 9 to 1.

So PoorFlour, you are correct Burman would have had to take his photos lying down or lower down the bank of the creek probably on a fully extended tripod to get his Wide shot, and a little higher up the creek bank to get his narrow angle shot.
PoorFlour, good luck with your research.
CSI team, hope you can follow this otherwise I may have to build you a very short tripod so you can take your Kelly tree Burman photo comparison, and being only 500 mm above the ground. 

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Post by Guest on Mar 3, 2014 at 8:48pm

Sarah (Fitzy), you only told Brian about one of your pet hates, the alleged persecution of early selectors - but you didn't add your well-known rant about how Victoria Police were corrupt then and now.

You've posted here 36 times in an outpouring of negativity and hate. You have bagged Dee endlessly, slagged the MacFarlane book and heaped criticism on Bill (I relished seeing when you supported him briefly in 2010 in Bill's archive).

You praise Pooflower who is an internet serial pest nearly as tiresome as you.

 

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Post by sarah on Mar 3, 2014 at 9:21pm

Shonk Watcher (Internet Pest), you know nothing about me or Poorflower and you accuse me of being someone you all hate with a passion because he tears you all and that book to pieces. I know nothing of Fitzy supporting Bill as you claim, although he may well have before discovering the truth. That however has nothing to do with me and as I have said before, I hope Fitzy is viewing this forum so you end up in gaol with your friends for slander. As you already know, his friends are going to use ‘cyber detectives’ (see ABC 2 a few weeks ago), Look it up, you will be crapping your dacks at what they can do and how they can find people!

Dee has already stated how she personally sought you people from where you were, so she is complicit in your illegal activities. I am personally (like several others), taking screenshots of every post here for use as evidence against you all. Fitzy has lots of friends and they are all monitoring websites for him as he is too busy to do it himself and no doubt will reward us all from the defamation claims against those who have offended and broken the law!

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 3, 2014 at 9:46pm

Bill,

I can assure you and everyone else on this Forum that Poorflower is totally unknown to any of the CSI team. She has independently come to her own conclusions.
As have a growing number of others that have taken the time to study in depth the relevant information.

As for your remark about staged pseudos, it is easy to see that there are more than one or two here that back you up. Mostly diversionary tactics or some other garbage.  They could just as easily be you or someone close to you for all I know.

That is the problem with this type of forum. Hence my suggestion to continue this discussion on the www.stringybarkcreek.forumotion.com  Where people who post must have a real identity.
And the forum more closely moderated.
So please forget that for the present and stick with the subject matter at hand. It is an interesting read so far.
I have nothing to add at this point in time.
 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 3, 2014 at 9:48pm

Horrie,
I did say that I would talk with the other members of the team prior to proceeding here with a full presentation.
Have spoken with Kelvyn who in turn spoke with Gary. Have not yet been able to contact Linton. (At 82 he is still a busy man) The general opinion is no, not yet.
Gary, would like to sell the remaining hard copies of the report (second printing) first.
Then we may consider a suitable and more stable site, most probably a web site. To make it more open to the public.

Cheers, Glenn

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 3, 2014 at 10:14pm

Glenn, I'll be older than Methuselah before you disclose the Kelly Tree site!



 

 

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Sshhhh, Sarah!

...You've been found out.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 3, 2014 at 10:43pm

Sarah, Fitzy (Fred) can't be that busy. He's busy posting on the Ned Kelly Forum boards:

"Keep up the good work PF [Pooflower]. Bill might not be answering, but you can be assured he will be watching and reading. LOL".

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Post by Guest on Mar 3, 2014 at 11:43pm

SARAH (Fitzy/Fred) I'm thinking of posting here about the three most vile and defamatory posts I've ever read on the net. They mentioned each of the CSI@SBC members by name - "Gary your first" - and concerned Bill's wife in the most disparaging, sickening terms. She had been expelled earlier by the wacky Ned Kelly Forum for supporting "The Kelly Gang Unmasked" book.

The thing that tied Fitzy (who then was using his real nickname) to the disgusting posts was the fact he had just posted two posts a few minutes earlier. No other posters posted hours side of his repulsive comments.
This is one of the major stories of the hate campaigns against Bill and Ian.
When the CSI@SBC guys see what you wrote about them, Fitzy, they are going to want a very, very long talk with you.
 

 

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Post by Dee on Mar 4, 2014 at 7:50am

Shonk Watcher if you or anybody else reposts things on this Forum from the ForumJar THEY WILL BE DELETED. I understand exactly where you are coming from and share your revulsion at the tactics of people on Forumjar and of people like fred and fitzy, but by bringing that sort of "debate" to this forum you are assisting these nasty people in their work as trolls and internet bullys and pests, who just want to wreck discussions and disrupt debate between genuinely interested participants. Please just contribute in a positive way to debates rather than be drawn into the mean and dark place that these small minded individuals want to drag us all.

The title of this thread is The Great Debate about SBC.

I have been enjoying the positive contributions from both sides of the SBC debate, and don't want them wrecked by people whose only interest is to wreck and disrupt. Lets keep discussing SBC.


In regard to Poorflower, Henry, yes I did say her theories are absurd amateurish and a joke, and that I was offended by her attacks on Bill, but to say she has been tried and convicted is a cop out. I would have expected her to defend her views if she held them with any conviction, and as I have repeatedly also said, her attacks on Bills site add NOTHING to the strength of the case for the other - or any other - site. Can Poorflower point us to any other work using the angles of trees as a means of identifying an historical site 136 years later? As you will note I have left open the possibility of there being something to her arguments about the place the photos would have to have been taken from.

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 4, 2014 at 3:02pm

Just a few observations from words posted recently by an unimpressive rabble of the arm-chair (no doubt a well worn one) mob.
1. To quote Horrie: "a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs"? YES HORRIE A BUNCH OF AMATEURS WHO WENT LOOKING WITH OPEN MINDS.
Your words should have appropriately also mentioned that individual amateur flogging his rocks solution.
2. "sqrs" (What?) It has been OK to lambast Poor Flower recently for a "different" way to denote metres; perhaps a similar derision is appropriate in this case.
3. "Poor Flour" (sic) is it caused by Dyslectic or poor spelling capability or yet another attempt to "belittle" someone ??.
4. "Beekeeper" indeed - try using the limited grey matter the rabble seem not to have in plenty and spend a few minutes of your time (Google and the Internet make research reasonably easy even for the intellectually challenged) to establish the life and times of Linton Briggs. A man of many facets and a very well respected man of integrity who has served this country well (check it out).
 

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 4, 2014 at 7:43pm

Here we go again. Unable to address ANY/ALL OF THE MATTERS GIVEN APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION IN THE CSI TEAM'S REPORT ALL DENHELD CAN DO IS REGURGITATE HIS RIDICULOUS ASSERTIONS AND GUESSES.
So, I apologise to those who take the time to read his rambling words BUT HIS UNTRUTH's, ETC WILL BE ADDRESSED.
"poped up" Do you mean
1. the bishop of Rome as head of the Catholic Church, or
2. one of the other religious heads (Coptic patriarch, or
3. parish priest of the eastern Orthodox church, or
4. just a commoner who has assumed a supreme position in some field, or
5. the freshwater fish genus Acerina
or did you mean to say pope's nose ?
Now for the serious stuff.
Some more quotable crap from an above posting:

"This makes one wonder she must be one of the desperate undercover CSI team for which he'she may get a medal".
SO IT HAS TO BE AGAIN SAID (AND RAMMED INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS) THAT POORFLOWER IS NOT NOW AND HAS NEVER BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE CSI TEAM IN ANY FORM WHATSOVER. SO SHUT THE .... UP (THE ADULT/CHILD BOOK IS AN EXCELLENT REFERENCE IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND) ABOUT THIS MATTER.

"Isn't it amazing how these people now want to demonish 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, but they hang their hat on an earlier marked tree where the local land owner signposted it nearest to the road", ETC ETC
WHEN YOU CAN ADDRESS ALL OF THE EVIDENCE WITHIN THE CSI REPORT AND OFFER MEANINGFUL REBUTTAL TO IT THEN YOU CAN RATTLE ON BUT UNTIL YOU CAN THEN I RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST YOU SHUT THE .... UP (SAME BOOK REFERENCE REFERS) . AT NO STAGE HAS THE CSI TEAM HUNG THEIR HAT ON THIS TREE - BUT LOOK CAREFULLY IN THE BACKGROUND FOR A CLUE THAT ADDS TO THE COMPLETE REVIEW OF THE (NOW) 3 KELLY TREES.

"At NKF boards -where was the police-camp at sbc bad attitudes forum, you will see a staged number of postings from hidden pseudos most likely the CSI team, for who else would bother and they keep telling us 'its not at the two huts site'"
WELL ITS NOT THE CSI TEAM PLAYING PSEUDOS BUT NO DOUBT OTHERS. THE CSI TEAM IS AWARE OF MANY OTHERS WHO HAVE CONTACTED TEAM MEMBERS, MET TO DISCUSS ITEMS OF INTEREST, THESE 'PSEUDOS' PREFER TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS TO AVOID BEING RIDICULED.

Now for some relevant information:

PERHAPS THOSE STILL WASTING THEIR TIME TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF A NON-SENSICLE (MY WORD THIS ONE!)PROPOSITION ABOUT ROCKS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN MOVED/ PILED UP AGAIN, OR WHATEVER MAY CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING FROM A NEWSPAPER REPORTER WHO WENT TO THE POLICE CAMP SITE (TOGETHER WITH MONKS, BURMAN AND AN UNIDENTIFIED MANSFIELD LOCAL WHEN BURMAN MADE HIS 2 PHOTOGRAPHS).
EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT
This was a cleared space, of about ten acres in extent, on a gentle slope, rising gradually, and on the further side having a northerly and easterly aspect . . .
The police tent was pitched on the northern slope of the hill and faced that direction. At the rear of the tent, the slope goes gradually up to the summit, receding again to the creek, which winds partially round it. . . .
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 readily 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. Having reached the gum-tree from the bush , the hill hid their approach to the clump of scrub mentioned, the distance being about 20 paces. At the time the call to surrender was made, M’Intyre 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.

NOTE HIS WORDS - PRECISELY AND EXACTLY - SO HOW COULD HE BE SO PRECISE ? THE ANSWER IS STARING YOU IN THE FACE IF YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE SEARCHING & RECOVERY OF THE 3 POLICE)

SO NOW WHAT CHANCE FUTURE POSTS BY DENHELD WILL NOT CONTAIN INNUENDO OR GUESSWORK AND INSTEAD ADDESS THE MANY SUBSTANTIVE MATTERS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE CSI TEAM'S UNASSAILABLE CONCLUSION(S.)LONG ODDS NO DOUBT THAT HE WON'T BE ABLE TO HELP HIMSELF "GOING FORWARD"

 

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Post by Guest on Mar 4, 2014 at 8:57pm

(The above comment is as clear as porridge. What does it all mean?)

Kelvyn, all those open minds have snapped tight shut.

You should be working on the CSI's response to Bill's presentation of 26 February.

We'll all be in nursing homes before you get around to telling us where your Kelly Tree site is.

Bill's presentations are always impressive. He has additional gifts as an artist.

His brilliant illustrations in the Peter FitzSimons book were helpful. I read somewhere there were more that inexplicably were not used.

I just noticed in the needlessly long post above "The tent stood exactly 25 paces from the Kelly’s hiding place".

What is an "exact pace"? There is no such thing - unless you are a Regimental Sergeant Major carrying a Pace Stick. Groan... more BS

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Post by Guest on Mar 4, 2014 at 9:50pm

Not much precision or exactitude in the newspaper report presented by 'Me Again'.

Another Version 1

They descended on the camp through clumps of saw-edged sword-grass between 6ft. and 7ft. high. The tent stood in the middle of about three acres of cleared ground, and commanded a good view of all approaches except the one through the sword-grass. No precautions were taken to prevent surprise, because the police never suspected that an attack would be attempted.

Another Version 2

We camped at Stringy Bark creek, about 20 miles from Mansfield. All four of us travelled on horseback and were armed. At Stringy Bark Creek the country is thickly timbered, but we camped on a clearing. The photograph produced shows a portion of the ground. There had been a hut on the clearing, but only remains of it were left standing. A number of logs were lying about. The opening was about an acre or two in area; we camped immediately behind the old hut, erecting a tent there.

Another Version 3

When we reached Stringybark Creek, we camped in an open place which had been previously used as a camping-ground, there being the remains of a hut there. The country was thickly wooded, and there were a number of fallen logs lying about at the time. The photograph (produced) of the locality is a correct one. The open space was about an acre or two in extent.

Another Version 4

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

 

 

 


 

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