THE KELLY GANG.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1980, 29 June 1880, Page 2

THE KELLY GANG.

DESTRUCTION OE THE BAND. TRAGIC TERMINATION. fBY SUBMARINE CABLE.] Teedteb’s telegrams.] MELBOURNE, June 28. Particulars of the capture of Ned Kelly aro to hand. Twenty-five civilians had been bailed up by the Kellys when the police arrived. This was at three o’clock this morning, but fighting commenced. Ned Kelly took to the hush shortly afterwards, but returned at daylight, and again entered into the fray with his mates. They fought hard, hnt Ned Kelly received a shot in the groin, and was captured. The rest of the gang then made off. One of the black trackers received a graze on the head in the encounter. A later telegram to the Melbourne “ Exchange ” states that Nod Kelly is lying at Glenrowan Station mortally wounded. Jones’ Hotel, which is close to the station, is occupied by Dan Kelly, and Hart, and Byrne, and all the civilians at the station who wore hailed up. Later telegrams state that Bywio is dead, aud that all the civilians have been released by the outlaws. Dan Kelly aud Hart still occupy the hotel. Incessant firing is taking place between them aud the police, but it is expected that they will surrender to-day. The outlaws are covered with chain armour to protect them from the shots. The Government have sent a mortar to Glenrowan to dislodge the outlaws. A further telegrams says—Doubtful whether Ned Kelly will recover. Ho has been wounded mortally in three places. The breastplates worn by the gang consist of ploughshares. The man who was murdered by the Kellys at Sebastopol on Saturday was Sherett, a selector, and a former associate of the gang. He was recently employed by the police, four of whom were secreted in a house near the scene of the tragedy. Byrne and the Kellys compelled a German acquaintance to call Sherett outside, when Byrne instantly killed him out of revenge. The police summoned them to surrender, but they refused, and the Kellys then fired a volley aud attempted to burn the house. They remained outside till the morning, and then disappeared. The police were inactive, and their explanations are unsatisfactory. They rode to Beeehworth in the morning, when the trackers reported that the Kellys had been seen at Minchison. Later. The police have surrounded the Kellys at Jones’ Hotel, Glenrowan, seventy miles from the scene of the outrage at Sebastopol. Superintendent Hare is wounded in the arm. The gang tore up the rails near Glenrowan ahead of the special train, but an accident was averted. Two children have been shot in one of the encounters with the gang. Midnight. Owing to the outlaws still continuing to resist, the police fired the hotel, which was burned down, and the charred remains of Hart and Dan Kelly were found armoured. The bodies of Byrne and a platelayer were recovered. A reporter belonging to the Benalla paper and two children and the hotelkeeper were slightly wounded. The civilians were prisoners the whole of Sunday, and the platelayers were compelled by the gang to destroy the railway. Ned Kelly has been taken to Benalla. LATEST PARTICULARS.

MELBOURNE, June 29. There is little fresh regarding yesterday’s events at Glenrowan. Ned Kelly has in all thirteen wounds, and eighteen shots struck his armour. Dan Kelly and Hart were, it is said, burnt after death, but it is not certain whether they committed suicide or were ‘shot by the police.