This is where Ned Kelly stole a Gold Watch from the corpse of Michael Kennedy Even Sympathisers admit occasionally that Ned Kelly wasn’t perfect, that he was human like the rest of us and that he made mistakes. In doing so of course they’re conceding the self-evident reality of being mortal, as well as ‘the […]
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BOOK REVIEW : The Trial of Ned Kelly
Surprising links keep turning up in the Kelly story. Here’s a curious one : Lindy Chamberlain and Ned Kelly were both defended by John Harber Phillips, the Victorian barrister who eventually became Chief Justice. He unsuccessfully defended Lindy Chamberlain at her first trial in 1982 and his defence of Ned Kelly came […]
I have a few issues to discuss…
I don’t have a Post ready to go onto the Blog yet, because Ive been busy with other things. I do actually have a life thats separate from reading and writing abut Ned Kelly and I do stop to ‘smell the roses’ from time to time Mark! Now that Ive picked off all the places […]
Two Years and 100,000 Visits later….
Its now exactly two years since this Blog started. Given that my two earlier attempts to provide an alternative to Kelly worship on the Internet had been sabotaged, I wasn’t sure how long this one would last, but here we are , two years later still going strong as the other places have mostly crumbled […]
Dan goes to Gaol; Two Kelly Myths sink
Ian Jones called Chapter 7 of his Kelly biography “The Fitzpatrick Mystery” because there were so many conflicting accounts given of what took place when Fitzpatrick was at the Kelly homestead on Monday April 15th1878 it became almost impossible to work out what really happened. In the preceeding Chapter 6, titled “The Whitty larceny”, […]
The Lies about Police Persecuting the Innocent Kellys
My purpose in reviewing the criminal records of the Kellys is to find out how true was their claim to be ‘Police made criminals’ and to have been hounded and persecuted by Police and Authorities generally. Kelly writers invariably point to this statement by CH Nicolson, given to the Royal Commission in 1881 as proof […]
Ned Kellys Last Days
This is the book Ian Jones described as ‘poisonously inaccurate”, the one he planned to publically denounce at the Ned Kelly Weekend back in 2005 because he believed it is “marked by persistent vilification of Ned Kelly — unbalanced to the point of psychosis …” surely the kiss of death. As if that wasn’t enough […]
Peter Newman asks : Where are the bodies buried?
Greta Cemetery Graves I’ll start this post by saying I believe Dan Kelly and Steve Hart are most likely buried at the Greta Cemetery. Inspector Sadleir had released the charred bodies to the Kelly family and their friends, but there was a belief the authorities might have had a change of heart and seek to […]
Dan Kelly : Persecuted or Perjuror?
According to the list in Appendix IV of George Farwells 1970 book “Ned Kelly” ( such an original title! ) – these are the Arrests and Convictions of Daniel Kelly : 1871 Illegally using a horse Wangaratta Discharged 1877 Stealing a saddle Beechworth […]
The Last Kelly Warrior and the Ayatollah Khomeini
Ian Jones the last true Kelly Warrior? As I mentioned to Mark Perry recently, I am working my way through a book he recommended called ‘Ned Kellys Last Days’ by Alex Castles. Its subtitle is “Setting the record straight on the death of an Outlaw”. I will Post my review in due course, its not […]