GlenrowanAll about the leader of the Kelly Gang.
“At a meeting of the Executive Council, held at 12 o’clock yesterday, the further application for a reprieve of Edward Kelly was considered, together with a long statement sent in that morning to the Chief Secretary by the convict. The result was that the law was left to take its course.”
“Edward Kelly was charged with horse stealing and receiving. The same jury heard the case with the exception of Thomas Merton, whose place was taken by Thomas Valentine Ferris. Mr F. Brown appeared for the prisoner.”
“Some time back, when quietly riding out in the vicinity of Moyhu Common, he chanced to espy Young Kelly rounding up some cattle and ordered him to desist from doing so, but not relishing the interference he became very insolent. Irritated at this abuse Mr. Poundkeeper showed a touch of his former spirit, and pulling the youth off his horse administered to him a sound thrashing.”
“The excitement caused here by the conflict between the police and the Kellys, and the destruction of the desperate gang of outlaws, is subsiding. A general feeling of relief is experienced by the respectable inhabitants of the district, and it is pretty certain that now the gang are no longer to be feared that some of their movements during the past twelve months will be made known. Already stories concerning their movements are freely circulated, and from these it is apparent that the police have during the past month or six weeks made it very unpleasant for the outlaws.”
“Edward Kelly, a young man about twenty years of age, who has been suspected of being a confederate of the notorious bushranger Power, was charged with assaulting a hawker named Jeremiah McCormick. Mr Lamont, instructed by Mr Norton, appeared for the prosecution.”
“At last, however, a spirit arrived breathless haste at a sitting, and on being asked why the spirits had not come to the watchers before, said that all the good spirits had been busy for days making a net to spread over the precincts of the Melbourne gaol, in which to enmesh the spirit of Ned the atrocious when it should leave his body.”
“Speaking about the black trackers reminds me of a humorous incident which occurred during the attack on Jones’s hotel to one of these gentlemen. Constable Milne and Constable Gascoigne were standing behind a tree in front of the house keeping a steady fire directed towards it, when a black boy of O’Connor’s, standing under cover a few yards off, called out at he wanted to light his pipe, and asked the constables for a match, Milne thereupon placed a few matches in a blank cartridge, and plugging the end with a piece of paper, threw it towards the tracker. The cartridge, however, did not fall within three or four yards of the tracker, and for a moment the latter was puzzled how to reach it without exposing himself to the fire of the outlaws. At last, after glancing earnestly towards Jones’s hotel, he called out, ‘Ned you —— ; don’t shoot me till I get the matches,’ and sprang forward at the same instant as one of the outlaws sent a bullet within an inch of his head as he stooped, and which would have gone through his body if he had been standing straight. In return for this salute — as soon as the tracker got back to his shelter — he delivered the contents of his rifle into the house, with the remark, ‘Take that Mr, Kelly, and put it in your pipe.'”
A summary of news reports pertaining to Ned Kelly’s upcoming hearing, the armour, the injured Reardon boy, the burning of the inn and more.
The following description of what took place at Glenrowan is taken from the Melbourne Age of June 29, and although going over the same ground as the telegrams already published, contains fuller information…
Some time on Saturday morning, rumors were rife in Melbourne, says the Age, to the effect that Ned Kelly, who was expected to appear before the City Police this Monday morning, was not to undergo examination here, but was to be taken hence to Beechworth. Inquiry proved that this was correct, but as the authorities kept all proposed movements profoundly secret, a difficulty arose as to determining when and how the notorious outlaw would be deported to Beechworth.
Glenrowan 