The Kelly Gang: Infamous Outlaws and Their Downfall

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The Kelly Gang in 'the Australian Town and Country Journal' July to November 1880: The extensive coverage of everything to do with the pursuit, the gang, the fight, the deaths, the trials and the hanging, featured on the following pages of the T&C: July 3rd 1880: pages 6 to 9 (with a small section on page 10) July 10th 1880: pages 54 to 58 July 24th 1880: page 151 August 7th 1880: page 252 August 14th 1880: pages 296 to 298 November 6th 1880: page 891 November 13th 1880: page 926 November 27th 1880: page 1021 The Australian Town and Country Journal was a weekly English language broadsheet newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, from 1870 to 1919. Ned Kelly & his gang eluded the police for 2 years (1878-80), thanks in part to the support of a network of sympathisers. The gang's crime spree included armed bank robberies at Euroa (Dec.1878) and Jerilderie (Feb.1879), and the killing of Aaron Sherritt (June 1880), a sympathiser turned police informer. In a manifesto letter, Kelly?denouncing the police, the Victorian government and the British Empire?set down his own account of the events leading up to his outlawry (The Jerilderie Letter). Demanding justice for his family and the rural poor, he threatened dire consequences against those who defied him. In June 1880, when Kelly's attempt to derail and ambush a police train failed, he and his gang, dressed in armour they had crafted from plough mouldboards, engaged in a final gun battle with the police at Glenrowan. Ned Kelly, the only survivor, was severely wounded by police fire and captured. Despite thousands of supporters attending rallies and signing a petition for his reprieve, Kelly was tried, convicted and sentenced to death by hanging (11th Nov. 1880), which was carried out at the Old Melbourne Gaol. His last words are famously reported to have been 'such is life'.

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