Ned Kelly-Australian Bushrangers Ned's Record

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"For I need no lead or powder
to revenge my cause
And if words be louder,
I will oppose your laws".

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"Mind You Die Like a Kelly Son"

Ned in the dock looking splendid in a borrowed jacket from William Gaunson

And so... Ned Kelly, Australian Son, Leader of Men and Father of Our Nations Courage was Hung on the gallows of Old Melbourne Gaol

Over sixty thousand people signed a petition to have Ned's sentence reprieved, but to no avail. At 10 o'clock on the 11th November 1880, Ned was taken from the condemned cell to the gallows. His last words of his unfair and unjust world were:

"Ah Well, I suppose it has to come to this."

and as the noose was placed :

"Such is Life."

Following his execution Ned's body was cannibalised by members of the medical profession. A reporter for the Bendigo Independent reported at the time that "The students went in particularly heavily, taking parts of his body and generally examining every organ. It was a ghastly sight...I'm told portions of the corpse are now in nearly every 'curiosity' cabinet in Melbourne medical men's places."

The final insult - Kelly Death Mask

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The Police Purge

In March 1881, a Royal Commission was established to enquire into the circumstances of the Kelly outbreak and into the efficiency of the Police and Authorities of the time.

Some 62 witnesses were examined and the Commission recommended that:

Captain Standish: the Incompetent Chief Commissioner of Police be forced into Retirement
Superintendents Nicholson and Hare: also be Retired
Superintendent Sadlier: be placed at the bottom of the list of Superintendents
Sergeant Steele: The Coward, be reduced to the ranks
Inspector Brooke-Smith: the cowardly human version of the Poodle dog also be Retired
The four Constables: from Sherritt's hut be dismissed from the police force for gross Cowardice
Judge Sir Redmond Berry: Died a few short weeks after Ned warned him he would "meet him where he goes"

The Blood Money

Supt. F.A Hare: received £800 for fleeing the siege with a bullet wound to the hand.
Thomas Curnow: £550 (later increased to over 1000 pounds) for treachery
Sgt Steele: £290 13 9 for shooting women and children at Glenrowan
Stanhope O'Conner: £237 15 0 commander of the black trackers from Queensland
The Black Trackers: Hero, Jimmy, Jackey, Barney, Mosses and Spider
£50 each... which they were never payed because they were seen as 'Not reliable enough to have that much money". These poor blokes suffered huge amounts of racism in that era.

The Blacktrackers with Inspector O'Conner (sitting)

The rest went to assorted Cops, Magistrates and Spies.