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== 8 September 1911 ==

'''FAMILY WITHOUT A FATHER''' [[John King / Kelly|John Kelly]], the father of the outlaws died in 1865. [[Ned Kelly|Ned]] being then only 11 years old, and Dan only 4. The mother was left with a large family to look after. And the family lived in a district that is scarcely less desolate now than it was then. Strict adherence to the more sevre moral codes of cities was scarcely to be expected forfor youngsters born in such wilderness and allowed to run wild as they grew up. They were but little different from the other children of the region in most respects. But the police made the the terrible mistake of dealing more hashly than ? with them. Wild natured are not readily arnenable to strict measures. Ned Kelly found the police his foe, as a boy. His life with [[Harry Power|Power]] left him with sadly oblique views. He had learnt to hold the police in contempt, as the result of a long experience of successfuldefiance of them and their works. And if from the time of his leaving Power to his taking to bush young Kelly grew more and more irritable under the curb of the law - as en forced in those days - it was not, on the whole surprising.