THE KELLY GANG.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 410, 9 July 1880, Page 3

THE KELLY GANG.

(rjBQU $?£ OTTJCLTON TIMES.)

■"'...■ Ned Kelly is apparently recovering from \i\A: numerous flesh wounds j> Hie■* mother, who is confined, is allowed; 'to "interview;::;» him& He still < tmaintairie that he .was driven.to his outrages -by * police persecution. The boy Jonas, (wounded by the poliae^lißS i diedj- It has be£n ascertained'that fchesplatelayer; su|>£bsed to * have' been ! killed' by thepolice shots,!, was .murdered , by* Nod' KelJy, jwho shot him for refusing-to pujl down the jwiudo'W ■blinds , to''prevent • the'seeing in. Curnow,' ft■•schoolmaster; Iwas the man who stopped' the.train by giving warning' that the rails had bi?eri torn upV When tfobodies (of Hart and Dau Kelly were I ' brought'to Gretft by their relatives;^tlie : isceue 'was* one .of extreme excitement. The procession" ' wasme't by & great crowd of ■ sympathisers, many of whom were arniecl. Dick Hart dared the police to. interfere at- the. funeral,. and said that it' they wiinte.d the bodies they, would ,have,.-to < ißghtfor them. They were placed in Mrs . Skilligan's hilt. Many sympathisers,, inflamed' with 1 drink, 'professed to be anxious for a brush with tHe polfre. It is stated that, standing by the corpes in ..presence of Kate Kelly, Dick Part raised his riglit hand and ! swore to avenge their , death. Threats, ivere made to roast the Glenrow'dn constables as the outlaws were ■ roasted. It is doubtful yet whether amputation will be necessary for Superintendent Hare's arm

Government has not decided when or howled Kelly .will lie tried, whether at 'Melbourne or Beech worth. Rumours are : stiil chopping tip that Wright and ttai't threaten to take to the bush with a stronger band than the - Kellys, and wfeaK yeßgeanCfi. , .'..'■ The report lias since been contradicted that Kate Kelly shot ,Serge,ant. -Steele, who phot Ned Kelly. Thd Press of Sydney and JJfisbane generally condemn the conduct of the Victorian police as a reckless disregard of the lives of the 50 prisoners shut up witli.th o - outlaws in the building, while volleys were fired. Careful of their own, they never ventured to risk them till the place was in flames and the outlaws dead some tiuie.