Edward "Ned" Kelly (* approx. 1854; "† 11 November 1880) is of Australia of most famous bandits and for some a people hero because of its resistance against the colonial authorities.

Life

Ned was probably born in Beveridge, Victoria north of Melbourne, in December, 1854. When it saved school child under employment of the own life another boy from drowning and received as reward a which it should carry also during its last combat with the police under its armament.

When Ned was 12 years old, its father died, so that he left the school, in order to support the family. At this time Kellys family pulled into the area Glenrowan, Victoria, today as Kellyland well-known. Ned buildup under conditions, after the people excessive quantity it the winter-outlawed in the open air spent.

1869 were locked up Ned as because of a over case on the Chinese pig breeder ah Fook and its complicity with the bandit Harry power. He was not guiltily spoken, but 1870 again because of a over case arrested and to six months hard labour condemns. Three weeks after its release arrested because of horse theft, he was condemned again to three years hard labour.

After its release it was complicated into suspicious cattle business of its brother Dan, which excited the attention of the local police. Neds sister inches excited likewise the attention of the policeman Alexander Fitzpatrick, which attacked her 1878. Fitzpatrick accused of Ned of the tried murder, whereupon Ned submerged; when the police found it in October finally, killed it and its accomplice three policemen, and it escaped again. It undertook 1879 two bank assaults in Euroa and Jerilderie, when it needed money in February, in order to make itself an armament, which should protect it against the police.

This time he wrote a detailed letter for the public, in which he represented his actions, as well as the treatment of his family and generally the treatment of the Irish catholics by the police of the English and Irish Protestanten. The Jerilderie letter in such a way specified considers the possibility of the rebellion, not only in Australia, but also in the United States and even in Ireland, against which, which it regarded as rough injustice.

Some sources state, Ned finally planned an armed rebellion, but its actions give to it few referring.

The police discovered its trace in July 1880 again. Ned concerned on 27 July in Glenrowan and took in the hotel hostage. With the following shooting with the police Ned was wounded. It survived, came before court, to death was condemned and on 11 November in the old Melbourne Gaol gehenkt.

From one of its prisons, today the Ned Kelly museum developed, numerous of his weapons and utensils was issued there. Some call it Billy the Kid Australia.

Since its death Kelly became a part of the Australian folklore and the subject of numerous books and filmings. For some is he a people hero, for others a normal rogue, whose crimes were aligned to personal profit brutally and alone.

The home-made armament, which it carried during its last unsuccessful employment against the police, was the topic of a famous picture series of Sydney Nolans.

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