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i need interesting facts about ned kelly for my assignment!.

something u find interesting or u didn't know about him

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Ned Kelly's father, John "Red" Kelly was supposedly transported to Australia from Ireland for the theft of a number of pigs, but in fact it was for his own safety as he worked as an informer for the British!.

Ned first came to the attention of the authorities at the age of 14 after he was accused of assaulting and robbing a Chinese farmer with the fantastic name Ah Fook!. The charges were dismissed!.

When finally brought to trial for murder and robbery in 1880, the judge, Redmond Barry, sentenced Kelly to death intoning the words "God have mercy on your soul"!. Kelly replied prophetically "I will see you there when I go!." He was hanged on 11th November!. 12 days later Redmond Barry died due to an infected boil on his neck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The last and best-known of all bushrangers, Ned (1854 - 1880) was the son of an Irish convict, and first gained notoriety at the age of 15 when he was arrested as an accomplice of Bushranger Harry Power!. he was arrested twice more, the second arrest, for horse-stealing, earning him three years in prison!.

On his release Kelly worded at various laboring jobs but again fell foul of the police in 1877!. With his brother, Dan, and two friends, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart, Kelly fled to the Wombat Ranges where they formed a bushranging gang which he led!.

Ned Kelly, embittered by what he considered was repressive authority, led the gang in a series of desperate exploits!. Three troopers were killed when an attempt was made to arrest the gang!. In late 1879 the gang robbed a bank at Euroa, and in the following year repeated this act at Jerilderie!. In June 1880 the gang became trapped by troopers in a hotel at Glenrowan!. Byrne, Hart and Dan Kelly were killed by the troopers but Ned escaped!. He returned to challenge the police and was wounded and captured!.

In October 1880 Kelly was tried in Melbourne, found guilty and sentenced to death by Sir Redmond Barry!. In November of that year he was hanged!.

Ned's mother, Ellen, arrived in Australia from County Antrim in 1841!. She bore twelve children by two husbands, the second of whom was John Kelly!.

Ned was on the run in 1878, hiding out over at the Murray River in New South Wales due to warrants on stock charges, when his mother was sentenced to three years for a trumped up attempted murder conviction!.

By some accounts Ned Kelly and his gang were horse thieves, bank robbers, and murderers!. By others, they may have been political revolutionaries, misunderstood deprived youth; or just plain good old boys!. One point is certain: all were dead before their thirtieth birthdays!. Ned Kelly was twenty-five when he was hung!. His brother, Dan, was nineteen when he died, probably of smoke inhalation during a police siege at Glenrowan!.

The final stand of Ned Kelly and the gang came in Glenrowan in June, 1880!. Beyond the predictable: three dead and Ned eventually hung, there is the uniqueness that Ned armored his gang with bullet proof plates, presumably fashioned from parts of ploughshares!. The Glenrowan siege was to be a stand-off as fabulous now in Australian folklore as the gunfiight at the OK Corral in American legend!.Www@QuestionHome@Com