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    Ned Kelly
    Ned Kelly
    Ned Kelly
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    Ned Kelly

    By Philip Hewitt

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    Ned Kelly is Australia's Robin Hood. Born in 1854 into a poor Irish Catholic family, he and his brother Dan were in trouble with the police even as kids. At first they stole only sheep, cattle or horses, eventually becoming outlaws, living in the Ausstralian outback. With their two friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart, they robbed two banks but gave the money they took to help the poor and oppressed people of Victoria Colony.

    There were many attempts to capture them, and it finally took over 100 armed policemen to capture Ned and kill the other members of the gang. Ned was patched up after the shoot-out and stood trial in Melbourne in 1880, aged only 25.

    A fascinating tale of a short but adventurous life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip Hewitt
    Release dateSep 25, 2013
    ISBN9781301758753
    Ned Kelly
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    Philip Hewitt

    Born 28 November 1945 in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England. Grew up in Croydon, South London (at that time in the county of Surrey). Educated at Selhurst Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford University. Taught first German and French to kids at the Royal Merchant Navy School in Wokingham, Berkshire, then English to German adults in Stuttgart, Germany. Published many readers and grammar books for learners of English. Now back in the UK and living in the ex-Post Office (which I ran until 2008 until it was closed down) in the small village of Tanygrisiau, North Wales. Busy learning Welsh so I can understand and communicate with the locals! Unmarried - any takers??

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      Ned Kelly - Philip Hewitt

      Ned Kelly

      Outlaw and Folk Hero

      by

      Philip Hewitt

      Ned Kelly

      Outlaw and Folk Hero

      by

      Philip Hewitt

      Published by Philip Hewitt at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Philip Hewitt

      Smashwords Edition, Licence Notes

      This ebook was originally published by EASY READERS, Copenhagen, for learners of English.

      It is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Other books by Philip Hewitt published by smashwords.com which you may enjoy:

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      Contents

      Chapter 1 Invisible chains on our feet

      Chapter 2 One law for the rich

      Chapter 3 The Stringybark Creek Shootout

      Chapter 4 Going straight

      Chapter 5 Euroa: our first bank robbery

      Chapter 6 Jerilderie: our second bank robbery

      Chapter 7 The Jerilderie Letter

      Chapter 8 Superintendent Hare takes over

      Chapter 9 Ordeal by fire

      Chapter 10 A traitor among us

      Chapter 11 Showdown

      Chapter 12 Glenrowan

      Chapter 13 David and Goliath

      Chapter 14 Last words

      Chapter 1

      Invisible chains on our feet

      Our fathers and grandfathers arrived in this country with chains on their feet, but Australia had already come a long way by the time I was born, in 1855. I come from a good Catholic family and am proud to be an Australian. My father came here in 1842, sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing two pigs in ‘the old country’ – Ireland.

      So I was a ‘Mick’ – an Irish Catholic – and a convict’s son, but that did not give the police the right to push me and my family around simply because Ma came from a famous family of horse and cattle thieves – the Quinn clan.

      In the eyes of the police, the Quinn connection branded us as troublemakers right from the start.

      Although England no longer sent its convicts to Australia – that had all stopped years before I was born – in the eyes of the police and ‘honest’ citizens of the Australian colonies, many of us still seemed to wear invisible chains on our feet.

      My father died when I was eleven and a half years old, so I had to leave school because I was now head of the family. And we were poor - so very poor. In those days we were living between Glenrowan and Greta, two small towns in the north-east corner of Victoria Colony. In those days I would do any kind of work to earn a few honest pennies.

      And would you let yourself and your family go hungry if a young calf or a sheep with no brand on it just happened to walk across the road right in front of your nose? Of course you wouldn’t. Nor did I.

      I was 14 when I had my first big problem with the police. They locked me up for ten days because of an argument I had with a Chinese pig farmer called Ah Fook. He had said something bad to my sister Annie, so I hit him. But he told the police that I had robbed him, too. That was a lie. But my mother was a Quinn, so what else could I expect?

      From then on, I was known to the police as a ‘juvenile bushranger’. Bushranger? That’s a fine-sounding word to anyone who wasn’t living in Australia in the 1870s. In those days – and for many years afterwards – it meant: an outlaw who lived

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