STORY
Ned Kelly’s parents were married in Melbourne on November the 15th 1850, four years later their first son Ned was born at Wallan. The Kelly’s lived at Beveridge for a short time before relocating to Avenel. It was at Avenel that ten year old Ned saved the life a five year old child from drowning in the local creek. Ned’s father died shortly after and the family left Avenel in 1867. The Kelly family moved to the Eleven Mile Creek outside of Greta and at the age of thirteen Ned took up with the notorious bushranger Harry Power. Captured in 1870, Power received fifteen years prison. With his apprenticeship complete, Ned was out in the world on his own but not for long though as he was sentenced to six months gaol for indecent behaviour. …show more content…
The forming of the Kelly Gang began over an altercation between a police constable named Fitzpatrick at the Kelly homestead, where intoxicated he claimed that Ned, brother Dan and two neighbours had attacked and shot at him including Ned’s mother who hit him over the head with a shovel. Ned, who claimed he was nowhere near the homestead that day, heard the news and escaped to the Wombat Ranges to be joined by his brother Dan and their friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart where they would become the Kelly Gang. Ned and Dan’s mother and the two neighbours were sentenced to three and six years gaol. A reward of one hundred pounds was offered for the capture of the Kelly brothers. A police party of four, Sergeant Kennedy, Constables Scanlon, Lonigan and McIntyre set out from Mansfield into the Wombat Ranges to capture the Kelly brothers. A shootout at Stringybark Creek resulted in the deaths of three policemen while Constable McIntyre escaped to tell of the tragedy. A reward of five hundred pounds was now issued for the capture of the Kelly Gang. In December 1878, forty four days after Stringybark Creek murders, the Kelly Gang held up the Younghusband’s sheep station at Faithfull’s Creek near Euroa and then the National Bank of Euroa where they cleaned out the safe of two thousand …show more content…
The Gang had plenty of friends to let them know of where the police were searching but they also had their fair share of informers helping the police. The reward was now eight thousand pounds, a huge amount of money in those days. Fearing that native blacktrackers would be despatched to find their whereabouts, the Kelly Gang knew it was just a matter of time before a final showdown. The Gang stole several plough mouldboards to make armour for the final confrontation. The armour was made on a bush forge at Greta. Although extremely heavy at ninety pounds per man the armour was tested and proved to be very affective. Before their showdown with the police, the Kelly Gang were determined to kill one Aaron Sherritt, a childhood friend of Joe Byrne who had turned police informer. On the 26th of June 1880, Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly killed Aaron at his home while the police who were there to protect him, hid under the bed. They then rode onto Glenrowan to derail a special police train that would be despatched from Melbourne and ‘Ned Kelly’s last stand’. Ned Kelly and Steve Hart had rounded up most of the town and confined them to the Glenrowan Inn. Thomas Curnow, a schoolteacher managed to escape and flag down the train from
Ned Kelly’s parents were married in Melbourne on November the 15th 1850, four years later their first son Ned was born at Wallan. The Kelly’s lived at Beveridge for a short time before relocating to Avenel. It was at Avenel that ten year old Ned saved the life a five year old child from drowning in the local creek. Ned’s father died shortly after and the family left Avenel in 1867. The Kelly family moved to the Eleven Mile Creek outside of Greta and at the age of thirteen Ned took up with the notorious bushranger Harry Power. Captured in 1870, Power received fifteen years prison. With his apprenticeship complete, Ned was out in the world on his own but not for long though as he was sentenced to six months gaol for indecent behaviour. …show more content…
The forming of the Kelly Gang began over an altercation between a police constable named Fitzpatrick at the Kelly homestead, where intoxicated he claimed that Ned, brother Dan and two neighbours had attacked and shot at him including Ned’s mother who hit him over the head with a shovel. Ned, who claimed he was nowhere near the homestead that day, heard the news and escaped to the Wombat Ranges to be joined by his brother Dan and their friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart where they would become the Kelly Gang. Ned and Dan’s mother and the two neighbours were sentenced to three and six years gaol. A reward of one hundred pounds was offered for the capture of the Kelly brothers. A police party of four, Sergeant Kennedy, Constables Scanlon, Lonigan and McIntyre set out from Mansfield into the Wombat Ranges to capture the Kelly brothers. A shootout at Stringybark Creek resulted in the deaths of three policemen while Constable McIntyre escaped to tell of the tragedy. A reward of five hundred pounds was now issued for the capture of the Kelly Gang. In December 1878, forty four days after Stringybark Creek murders, the Kelly Gang held up the Younghusband’s sheep station at Faithfull’s Creek near Euroa and then the National Bank of Euroa where they cleaned out the safe of two thousand …show more content…
The Gang had plenty of friends to let them know of where the police were searching but they also had their fair share of informers helping the police. The reward was now eight thousand pounds, a huge amount of money in those days. Fearing that native blacktrackers would be despatched to find their whereabouts, the Kelly Gang knew it was just a matter of time before a final showdown. The Gang stole several plough mouldboards to make armour for the final confrontation. The armour was made on a bush forge at Greta. Although extremely heavy at ninety pounds per man the armour was tested and proved to be very affective. Before their showdown with the police, the Kelly Gang were determined to kill one Aaron Sherritt, a childhood friend of Joe Byrne who had turned police informer. On the 26th of June 1880, Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly killed Aaron at his home while the police who were there to protect him, hid under the bed. They then rode onto Glenrowan to derail a special police train that would be despatched from Melbourne and ‘Ned Kelly’s last stand’. Ned Kelly and Steve Hart had rounded up most of the town and confined them to the Glenrowan Inn. Thomas Curnow, a schoolteacher managed to escape and flag down the train from