The Mistery of Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly is much prized by Australians. A few years ago, when British rocker, Mick Jagger, was selected to star as Ned Kelly in a movie of the same name, Australian critics panned the movie mightily, taking issue particularly with the premise that a Brit could accurately portray a legend of Oz.

North-east of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria and extending to the border of the state of New South Wales, the Murray River, is a ranching region known to this day as Kelly Country. Here the legend of Ned Kelly was played out.

Ned, the eldest of eight children, was born to Irish parents in Victoria in 1854. His father was an ex-convict and mothers a migrant.

Ned attended school at Avenel until his father died on 27 December 1866.

• 1869, Ned was arrested for alleged assault and held for ten days on remand but the charge was dismissed.

Dictated by Ned Kelly to Joe Byrne in 1879. It is the only document providing a direct link to the Gang and the events with which they were associated.

While much of the provenance of the letter remains unclear, Ian Jones has been in contact with the owners of the letter since 1969.

d in custody for seven weeks as a suspected accomplice of the bushranger.

The Jerilderie Letter provides a detailed account of Ned Kelly's troubled relations with the police. It begins with his dispute with two hawkers over a horse in 1870 and continues to an account of the events at Stringybark Creek in which three policemen were killed. The passionate tone of the letter makes plain the intensity of Kelly's antagonism towards the police, and his sense of injustice about the treatment that his family had received at the hands of the law.

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