NED KELLY'S CONVERSATION.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3599, 9 July 1880, Page 2

NED KELLY'S CONVERSATION.

Benalla, Thursday. Some Lours before Wed Kelly was takea to Melbourne, he conversed very freely with Constable Kelly. He owned to ghootiog Fitzpatrick in the wrist, and said he was sorry the bullet did not go into his head. He also said he came to Glenrowan to wreck the train. He said, he expected the special train to come up Monday morning or Sunday night. He pulled up the rails in a place where the train would go over into a culvert. He then became obstinate and refused to continue, but from some other remarks that fell from his lips, and from circumstances that subsequently transpired, there is no doubt v that the gaog intended to put on their armor, walk deliberately up to the train when it fell off the line, and every living soul that escaped from the ruins they would hare shot like dogs, and left not one alive. By this mean they could have got rid of the body of police from Benalla, and they would go to that place and stick up one of the banks there, as cased in their bullet-proof armour, they could walk into a bank and take what they wanted. They could have gone to the police station and taken possession of it; then, with the railway lines torn up and the telegraph wire cut, they could have held the town fora week. It was always Ned's ambition to stick up Benal'.a. When spoken to on the subject, be scowled fiercely, " Yes," he said, "and if you bad not sent up that pilot engine, and that-— schoolmaster had not given the train warning of danger you would have been up a tree." BYBNK'B SPECIALITY. Byrne had a number of nicknames. He was the idol of the girls of the district, who said he was such a handsome and such a mild young gentleman that no one would believed him to be capable of interfering with anybody, One anecdote will suffice to show how mild he was. Some time ago, before he took to bushranging, he was running some horses to the stockyard at the woolshed. The yard was old, and the fence was broken. He got his sister to help him, and to stand in one of the gaps in the fence, This is a time-honored custom with the people of the district, whe will go into a stock* yard and chase the horses round them' selves, but they use the women to fill up the gaps in the fence. One of the horses was a very wild one, and this one Byrne wanted to catch. It rushed straight at his sister and knocked her aside, and escaped from the yard. Byrne was foaming with rrge. He rushed at his sister, seized her by the hair of the bead with one-hand, and struck her over the face with the heavy bridle he carried. He cut lies face terribly, and knocked her eye out. So much for the ladies' man! BEGGING BYBNE's BODY. After the. magisterial inquiry had been held on Byrne's body yesterday the friends of the deceased were extremely anxious to g«t possession of it. They came to the station, and court-house and begged hard to be allo.ved to bury it at Greta. They were pat off from time to time.