Ned Kelly Found

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well heck, I didn't even know he was missing

The headless remains of the infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly have finally been identified, officials said Thursday, solving a mystery dating back more than 130 years.
Considered by some to be a cold-blooded killer, Kelly was also seen as a folk hero and symbol of Irish-Australian defiance against the British authorities.
After murdering three policemen, he was captured in Victoria state in 1880 and hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol in November of the same year. But his body went missing after it was thrown into a mass grave.

The bodies in the grave were transferred from the jail to Pentridge Prison in 1929 and then exhumed again in 2009. The investigation into Kelly began when a skull believed to be his -- and stolen in 1978 -- was rediscovered.
Doctors and scientists at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine identified his body, found in a wooden axe box, after a DNA sample was taken from Melbourne teacher Leigh Olver, Kelly's sister Ellen's great-grandson.
"The wear and tear of the skeleton is a little bit more than would be expected for a 25-year-old today," said institute director Professor Stephen Cordner.
 
Yeah its been in the news here for days, there are some the want the put his headless skeleton on display in a museum. However, his descendants are dead set against it.
Apparently his skull was on display in Pentridge Prison for years but someone stole it.
They played that movie version of Ned Kelly with Mick Jagger last week, and as an Australian I was appalled.
I cant believe that anyone would make a film set in Australia about an Irish Australian bushranger, played by an English rock star with some half baked American folk singer doing numbers throughout in an American accent. It made me want to puke.

It’s a wonder they didn’t set the damn story in California, then Mick could have run up the same rocks that William Shattner ran up in the Star Trek series.
 
im actually impressed with you orelander. I wouldnt have expected anyone outside Australia to even know who ned kelly was
 
This was the 1970 version of the film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066130/

"The film was poorly received at its opening, and is still regarded as one of Richardson's least successful efforts. It was effectively disowned by Richardson and Jagger, neither of whom attended the London premiere. The soundtrack features music composed by Shel Silverstein and performed by Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings, with one solo track sung by Jagger."

From wiki.

Poms and Yanks shouldnt attempt Australian stories.
 
Dywyddyr said:
Don't be silly, we all know!
Ned Kelly is Skippy's brother. :p
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Skippy Kelly?

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The investigation into Kelly began when a skull believed to be his -- and stolen in 1978 -- was rediscovered.
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It turns out that the skull wasn't his, so the skull is now of some unknown person.

The bones are definitely his, linked via DNA taken from descendants of Ned Kelly's sister. Kelly himself didn't have any children.

For those who don't know, it's a interesting story of Australia's most (in)famous bush ranger.

Ned Kelly

I live in the state of Victoria, and have been to virtually all of the places associated with Kelly. I've been in the courthouse where he was tried. I've been to the prison where he was hung. I've been to the town where he made his last stand in his famous home-made armour, which is part of what has made him such an icon.

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The painting shown in by Sidney Nolan, who did a famous series of paintings illustrating key moments in the Ned Kelly saga. (I've seen most of those too.)
 
Asguard said:
im actually impressed with you orelander. I wouldnt have expected anyone outside Australia to even know who ned kelly was
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LOL, why not? I do read ya know. :D

I remember seeing a Clint Eastwood movie where he wore a metal chest plate and thinking "ah, just like Ned Kelly". I would think the metal head covering would make a robbery harder for him, not easier.
 
The Kelly gang only ever wore the armour in their final showdown with the police. It was incredibly heavy. Seeing out of it was a problem. It slowed them down. There's no way you could ride a horse wearing the armour.

Without the armour, though, I'd venture to say that Ned Kelly would be practically unknown today. He was an unusual man in many ways, and the armour idea was just one of them.
 
Maybe it was an ad on the gruen transfer then but i have herd that line before somewhere, specifically "he wore a bucket on his head"
 
From Wikipedia entry:
"In 1869, the 14-year-old Ned Kelly was arrested for assaulting a Chinese pig farmer named Ah Fook."
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Only in Australia could a Chinese guy be called that.
 
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