The stele ton of 'Ned Kelly, Australia’s most notorious bushranger, who was hanged at Melbourne gaol in 1880, has been unearthed from ifhe flagged yard of tre gaol, where a school is to be erected. The bones were exposed when a steam shovel tore the lid from a rough coffin. Immediately the bones were taken by the workmen as mementoes. Even the teeth were removed from the jaws.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3932, 18 April 1929, Page 1
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68Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3932, 18 April 1929, Page 1
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