“FROM telegraphic reports to the Sydney newspapers we are enabled to supply the latest particulars of the overthrow of the Kelly gang and the capture of Ned Kelly.”
The Kelly Gang (05/07/1880)
“FROM telegraphic reports to the Sydney newspapers we are enabled to supply the latest particulars of the overthrow of the Kelly gang and the capture of Ned Kelly.”
The sittings of the Commission were continued to-day. Mr Hare continued his statement, which was commenced on Friday. Amongst the papers handed over to him by Mr Nicolson there were, he thought, a dozen letters from the diseased stock man and other agents. There were letters also from Ned Kelly and Joe Byrne to — and Detective Ward, (These letters will be produced later on.)
A brief look at the band of juvenile delinquents that would become the seed from which the Kelly Gang’s network of sympathisers would sprout.
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