THE KELLY GANG.

Dunstan Times, Issue 882, 14 March 1879, Page 3

THE KELLY GANG.

The fnßowing additional particulars in reference to the raid on Jerilderio we ex trae 4, f oin a Vie’o inn paper : - “ It seems hat after all Ned Kelly was very constlerahly under the influence of drink towards he termination of his un'ilea-ant visit, and, while in that state, he is mneh given to blowing” and bullying. He was in D avidson’s Hotel not long before his final departure, itnd hai 1 with him nine loaded revolve.s. so that he could have fired about fifty shots without reloading. These revolvers, in his bravado, he laid down on the bar counter, there being at th'S time some thirty persons in the bar, for whom he had just sh uted.” Thus temporarily unarmed, ho strutted up and down the bar. anal told bis an lienee that anyone might sh aot him. but if they dial, .Tcildeaie would swim in tie blood of its inhabitants. The converaati m turned on the pugilistic abi'ities of the outlaw, and he at once mountad bis hobby horse and observed, “ Tiaev talk of Mace s champion of the worlal If they can arrange a nvering, so 'hat 1 am sufefiom being taken. I wdl fight him or anv other man in the worl 1. and lick him ton " This was a v«-rv safe kina! of 41 hloa,” as Kelly well kn ov. for a m eting under his c nditions nmild not possibly bo arrangcil. While the 1-ad r pf the gang was thus wa'king np and alown th ■ bar, his ‘h'ee confederates were at the Rival Ho 4 el and other p'aes some distance away Constable Richards, bow-ver. was at Davi Ison's, and he seeing that Ke'ly was to a considerable extent off bis guard, in consequence of being somewhat in his oil"* was ve'y anxi ms to make a sod ten attack and se-ive him. He promts -d th's to Mr Living, the bank tel'er. ff ring, if Living or any me else would assist him. to make tbs first atUok and pull the bubb-

ranger down w me oiuer# acvuiea ms mine Diving, however, declined to enter on the hj izardous undertaking, and the constable could get no one to assist him, and the opportunity was lost