The Kelly family was having trouble with the law long before Ned was born. His father, John Red” Kelly, came from Ireland. He was deported to Tasmania in 1843, apparently for stealing two pigs. It is difficult to say for sure what his offense was — court records at Made by a family of trouble
After his release from prison, Red Kelly moved to Victoria, Australia, where he found work on a farm and got married. the farmer’s daughter, Elena. Red and Ellen were survived by seven young children. Ned was the eldest son.
The entire Kelly family seemed to be struggling in one way or another. Before Ned’s proclamation was published, eighteen were arrested against the domestic membrane. Only about half of them ended in conviction, and it is difficult to say now whether the arrests were legitimate or whether the Kelly family was the victim of capital harassment. It was certainly not unknown what happened to Irish-Australians in the middle of the 19th century.
As a young boy, Ned had at least one heroic moment. Richard Shelton saved another boy’s life from drowning. Ned’s family gave him a green belt to appreciate his role. Keep it all your life. For he was found in extreme display under his armor.
Not the first crimes
When he was 14, Ned was dating a Chinese farmer named Ah Fook. Ah Fook claimed to have rescued the boy. Ned’s story was that Ah Fook had gotten into an argument with Ned’s sister Annie. Whatever the truth may be, he was not arrested, and ten days ago he was released into prison. The authors called him a “young bushranger.”
Bushrangers were criminals hiding in the bush in colonial Australia. They had the necessary skills to live in the wild, and they supported their way of life with occasional raids or raids. Think about those ads in our Old West ads.
A year after the Ah Fook incident, Ned was found captured again. At this time he was accused of being an accomplice of the Bushranger, Harry Power. Niri was held for a month, and then the charges were dropped. This could also have been an example of military police harassment. Or it’s possible that Ned’s family will impeach the witnesses.
In 1870 he attempted to attack a hawk, and deliver the hawk’s wife a package of calf’s testicles – three months for each guard. Ned seemed to be involved in the case of another subject. And thence, as soon as he came out, he was entangled in the king’s salutation, and he took back the horse, which had run away, and escaped to steal it. He got three years for that one.
In 1877, Ned was arrested for public drunkenness. he escaped, turned himself in, and received a fine. During the scuffle, however, Constable Lonigan grabbed him by the testicles and gave them a hard squeeze, an act he never forgot. “If anyone’s going to get shot, Lonigan, it’s going to be you,” Ned said.
Fitzpatrick Case
There was another constable, Alexander Fitzpatrick, who troubled Ned in those days. In 1878 he went to the authorities with his wrists bound, claiming that he had been attacked by Ned’s gang, his brother, Dane, his mother, and several other friends and relatives of the Kellys. All but Mrs. Kelly were armed with revolvers. The Kellys had come to Kelly’s house to question Dan about the cattle duffing incident. (Duffing cattle was the act of removing or changing the mark of cattle.) While there he had made his way to Dan and Ned’s sister and Mrs. Kelly surrounded him with a shovel of coal. The men had just beaten him to the ground with no guns.
No one knew where Ned and Dan were—it wasn’t even obvious that they were in the vicinity at the time of the alleged crime. Despite Dr. Fitzpatrick’s testimony that he was drunk when he treated him, and his inability to confirm that the man had also been hit, the judge accepted Fitzpatrick’s story as uncorrupted. Mrs. Kelly and two companions who were there for a trial”>convicted of attempted murder. The judge said that if Ned was there would give him 15 years.
Vulture in Stringybark
Ned and Dan, of course, heard things and figured it would be best not to come home for a while. They hid in the bush and were soon joined by their friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart.
Searching for the Kellys were four men: Sergeant Kennedy and Constables McIntyre, Scanlon, and Lonigan. So the same Lonigan who had Ned Kelly in his hand. They camped at Stringybark Creek, then split into two pairs. Kennedy and Scanlon went out to look for the Kellys, and McIntyre and Lonigan remained in camp.
Ned and Dan found them there, and decided that the chances were better with two than with more. They had a plan to compel the surrender, then the guns and horses. McIntyre surrendered, but Lonigan tried to pull him away. The Niris stabbed him dead. Now the children were guilty of parricide.
When Kennedy and Scanlon returned, they also tried to get them to surrender. And no. Both were killed.
The cruel nature of the murders of which led to the Felons Apprehension Act which made the boys outlaws, and did not allow anyone to be shot in sight. No accused was arrested or arrested.
Euroe and Ierilderia
Next, Ned and Dan turned to robbing a bank. National Bank Euros on December 10, 1878. Depositors accepted, all money collected. The hostages were given to the knights. After dinner, they released the hostages, so that no one would inform anyone else for three hours. They received about €2,260 — about $100,000 in today’s currency. No one was injured or killed.
In retaliation, the police arrested all the Kellys’ known family members, associates, and sympathizers. He held them for three months without any charge. The result of this abuse of power was that the Kelly boys got even more support from the state.
In Jerilderie, the following February, the boys robbed another bank. This time they first entered the police officers and put on their uniforms. When the townspeople were mingling and buying drinks, ae’†'”””””¢’Æ’†'””’Æ”’¤2,414 migrated from the banks. They also burned all the mortgages he held in his bank on local properties. It’s easy to understand why the Kellys quickly became folk heroes.
At about the same time as the Jerilderie Heist, Ned Kelly wrote a long letter (over 7,000 words) giving an account of his life and activities. He also discussed the treatment of Irish Catholics by officials and civilians. He intended to publish the letter, but did not publish it in the press until 1930, when again by the Melbourne Herald.
The end of Ned Kelly
The Felon Apprehension Act expired on June 26, 1880. Ned and Dan still wanted the “attempted murder” of Fitzpatrick, but Hart and Byrne were now free. The men discovered that Byrne’s best friend, Aaron Sherritt, was a police informant, and Hart and Byrne went to his house and killed him. Again, all the people wanted.
Then Kelly’s gang went to Glenrowan to take over the bank there. The day was June 28, 1880. They had about 70 hostages, and they ordered the railway tracks to be pulled, when they knew that the police would arrest them on their way. However, they allowed one of the hostages, Thomas Curnow, the master of the schools. We do not know why they sent him away, but he is convinced that it was a big mistake. A depressed train prevented the train from being brought down. The stable was quickly besieged where they were fed.
Bizarrely, Kelly’s gang had decided to manufacture their own weapons. The suit weighed about 96 pounds each, and the abdomen and arms were covered, leaving the legs bare. All the men had four helmets. They believed themselves to be impervious to bullets by wearing their armor. It is considered very possible that alcohol has something to do with his judgments.
The men wore gray cotton shirts over their arms. It was reported to the police that the men had weapons, but they did not believe it, and wondered why their bullets had so little success. “He’s not used to firing Ned Kelly,” one of them said. “It can’t hurt.”
In fact, Ned Kelly was wounded by bullets. As he sprang from his horse, the fence was fenced in his arms. When he was trying to free her, he was stuck in the arm and the leg. the other men began to return to the fire inside the stable. Ned then began to walk stiffly towards the police, and “side motion” according to his methods. Because of the weapons, they can only hold fire in one hand, from the body, and here and there. The police shot him, and finally hit his legs repeatedly, which brought him to the ground.
Joe Byrne, the only one of the band whose arms were not in front, was struck by a bullet in the femoral artery and died. Dan Kelly and Steve Hart were burned when the police set fire to the stable. Ned alone lived to the trial.
Ned Kelly was convicted of the attempted murder of Constable Lonigan and sentenced to death. He was hanged on 11 November 1880 at Melbourne Gaol. In an effort to save him, over 30,000 people signed a petition asking that his life be spared.
Sources: Chase Calendar of Events, 2011 Edition: The Ultimate Go-To guide for Special Days, Weeks and Month, Publishers of Chase’s Calendar of Events; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junij_28; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_kelly; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busranger; http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/objectsthroughtime/ned-kelly-jerilderie/; http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Jerilderie_Letters; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid;=12694.
