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Kate Kelly returns to Melbourne (26/03/1881)

The Kelly business is all over, and the family have settled down quietly at Greta, and are likely to forget the past, and give us no more trouble.

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser (NSW : 1873 – 1899), Saturday 26 March 1881, page 4


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The Kelly business is all over, and the family have settled down quietly at Greta, and are likely to forget the past, and give us no more trouble. The last movements of Kate Kelly were characteristic. She arrived from Adelaide, where her “season” was not a success, and went on to Greta, but returned to Melbourne with her sister to meet their mother, who had served her time. Kate took with her back to Greta flower plants and two cypresses in pots, and when asked what they were for, she replied, “To put on poor Dannie’s grave. Exeunt omnes.

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