Author: David

General Custers disastrous Last Stand at Little Big Horn:  almost exactly four years before Ned Kellys equally disastrous Last Stand at Glenrowan Its often said by Ned Kelly supporters that if Ned Kelly had been a soldier,  being so brave and commanding a person, and so able at planning and co-ordinating such things as attacking Police […]

The ambush and murder of three innocent Policemen in the bush at Stringybark Creek was a monstrous crime committed by a Gang of Four led by Ned Kelly. One would have thought that killing three innocent Policemen would have been sufficient payback for the jailing of Ned’s mother, if indeed that was his motivating grievance. […]

I do apologise most sincereley to the Kelly Fanatics whose day was ruined by my mis-identification of this building in a previous photo – now deleted – as the Bank.  One of the lessons Harry Power is supposed to have taught Ned Kelly when he was his “apprentice” was that to survive as a bushranger […]

One of Ned Kellys Rifles : this one is on display at the Imagining Ned Exhibition.  The Note by the Rifle at the Exhibition : Don’t tell the Neducator anyone – His business model would be wrecked if the truth got out! The Kelly Fanatic who has a Facebook Page devoted – but utterly failing – to  “Unmask” […]

On Saturday June 6th I went back to Bendigo to attend a Presentation on Ned Kelly by Doug Morrissey and Leo Kennedy, and afterwards to the formal launching of Morrisseys book, “Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life”. These two events were linked to a course offered by Latrobe University called “Exhibiting Culture: Imagining Ned”, designed to […]

In the Jerilderie Letter Ned Kelly recalled his killing of Lonigan at Stringybark Creek as follows:  “When I called on them to throw up their hands McIntyre obeyed and Lonigan ran some six or seven yards to a battery of logs instead of dropping behind the one he was sitting on, he had just got […]

A Photo from the time of the exact place where the body of Michael Kennedy was found, recently believed to have been rediscovered by Bill Denheld.  Not many of the things Ned Kelly believed are as insane as the idea that he was defending himself when he murdered three Policemen at Stringybark Creek. When arguing this […]

So now we come to Ned Kellys most heinous crime, the killing of three innocent Policemen at Stringybark Creek.  Had he been successful, Neds plans for Glenrowan would have involved even greater violence, and murder in far larger numbers, but thankfully his plans were thwarted, leaving the events at SBC the central and defining act […]

The “Fitzpatrick Affair” happened in April 1878, when Ned Kelly was about 23 years old. It resulted in warrants being issued for his arrest on the serious charge of Attempted Murder, and began the last chapter of his life, which up to that point had been one of relatively minor but escalating criminality.  As we […]

How often do you see a photo of the back of the armour? And is that Dees family reflection? Or the side? Great Depiction of the Gang by Chevalier Matania, 1930.  This work was on loan from “The Collection of Leigh Olver”  the Kelly descendant whose Mitochondrial DNA matched that of the Bones identified as […]