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== Ned Kelly was the leader of the KellyGang. 'As game as Ned Kelly' is a common Australian saying ==
Anyone who saw me once could not mistake me. I shrugged my shoulders like my two uncles. ([[Royal Commission report day 45 page 13|RC15515]])
See also ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 3 page 3|CHC]]) ([[Cookson, 08_09_1911_4|BWC]]) '''Teen age years and Harry Power''' In October 1869 I was working with [[William Skillion|William Skillion]] and '''William Gray''' on my mother's place. A Chinaman called [[Ah Fook|Ah Fook]] said that I robbed him. I got off with the help of my mates.
The case came to court in Benalla on 26/10/69. Supt [[Sup Nicolas|Nicolas]] procecuted. Ned Kelly gave his version and it was backed up by his two mates. He was not convicted.
See my friend Fitzpatrick's verion, some of the reatest rubbish I ever heard. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 4|RC12822]])
See also ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 4 page 2|CHC]]) ([[Cookson, 07_09_1911_3|BWC]])
Hear my very own version of what happened ([[The Age (36)|Age9/8/80]]) See also([[The Argus at KellyGang 17/4/1878|Argus17/4/78]]) ([[The Argus at KellyGang 22/4/1878|Argus22/4/78]])
. '''Deaths at Stringy Bark Creek in the Wombat Rangers [[!!FIXME \events\e78_10__4MM.html|!!MISSING]]''' Sgt [[Kennedy Sgt|Kennedy]] had a [[Photographs|photograph]] of me that was taken while I was in [[Pentridge|Pentridge Prison]] ([[The Age (33)|Age9/8/80]])
I had an old Enfield musket that was useful for shooting around corners. I have set out my version of events in the [[Cameron Letter|Cameron]] and [[Jerilderie Letter|Jerilderie]] letters. Const [[McIntyre|McIntyre]] survived our attempt to protect ourselves. The police had their version of the 'truth' and they 'used' it at my trial. See also ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter I page 1|CHC]])
On 25 October [[ev78-10--4Mansfield Murders|1878]] I had been to Table Top and the Bogs and [[Emu Swamp|Emu]] and on my way back to [[Bullocky Creek|Bullock]] Creek I came cross the tracks of a police party.
One of the police fired at some parrots during the afternoon of Saturday 26/10/1878 so [[KellyGang|we]] knew that other people were in the area. The police were camped on [[Stringy Bark Creek|Stringy Bark]] Creek less a mile and a half south east from our camp on [[Bullocky Creek|Kellys]] Creek. This is what we had to say in the Cameron [[Cameron Letter|Letter]]:
'...found police camped at the Shingle Hut with long fire arms and we came to the conclusion our doom was sealed unless we could take their fire-arms, as we had nothing but a gun and a rifle if they came on us at our work or camp. We had no chance only to die like dogs as we thought the country was woven with police and we might have a chance of fighting them if we had firearms, as it generally takes 40 to one.' ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 3|CHC]])
The rest of the story of this incident is really the story of what happened at [[Stringy Bark Creek|Stringy Bark]] Creek,
We managed to escape drowning in the River Murray and eventually escaped to a nice life on one of the squatter's stations near home. Let the police find us. They could no matter how hard they tried. We had time to spend with our friends and plan for the future.
See text of the warrant they issued ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 6 page 4|CHC]])
. '''[[Euroa|Euroa]] Robbery 10/12/[[ev78-12--2Euroa Robbery|1878]]''' We needed money and we needed to do something for our friends. The banks had money and they had mortgages that sapped the pride of our friends.
After a lot of planning we headed off to [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Faithfull]]'s Creek Station. There we first met the Mr and Mrs [[Fitzgerald|Fitzgerald]]. She has given a good account of our first meeting. We then took all those who came to the station into custody including Mr [[Casement, Henry Dudley, Tennant & McDougall|Casement]] and his party and Mr [[James Gloster|Gloster]], the hawker.
On the afternoon of 11/12/78 Dan and Steve Hart and I went into [[Euroa|Euroa]] and robbed the bank. We returned with Mr [[Scott|Scott]] and his family. They give a good account as to what happened and what I did. See also ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 11 page 1|CHC]])
Soon after they arrived back at Faithfull's Creek Station we had the ladies locked in the homestead and all the rest except Mr [[Macauley|McCauley]] locked in the out buildings. I then told Mr McCauley that he should wait for at least 3 hours before he let the people out or sort any assistance. Of course we had our friends amongst the captives.
Before we said good bye to the people of Jerilderie gathered in the hotel I explained to them who we were and why we had done what we had done. The banks store squatters and other rich peoples money and take land from poor farmers. The police only protect the interests of the wealthy. I also explained that on the occasion when Constable [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] was wounded, he was not within 400 miles of his mother's place. I admitted that we had stolen 400 horses from Mr. [[Whitty|Whilty]]'s run at various times and he sold them, but explained that beyond that, up to the time we shot the police at the Wombat, we had not been guilty of any other crime. People were interested in our exploits and I showed those present my revolvers, and pointed out one which I got from Constable Lonigan. The musket which I shot Lonigan with was an old worn-out crooked thing.
Please see Dan [[Dan Kelly|Kelly]] for the story of the '''KellyGang''' in Jerilderie. See also ([[The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 7 page 5|FH]]) ([[The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 3|CHC]])
At about this time I dropped in to see old Mrs [[Anne and John Sherritt Snr|Sherritt]]. This was after Mrs [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Byrne]] stopped Aaron from seeing [[Catherine Byrne, Kate Byrne|Kate Byrne]]. We were concerned that Aaron [[Aaron Sherritt|Sherritt]] was travelling with the police and not being entirely frank with us. I picked up one Mrs Sherritt's children and gave it a cuddle. I think that gave old Mrs Sherritt a fright. This was perhaps the last time we tried to get Aaron on our side.([[Royal Commission report day 37 page 9|RC13166]])
