Ned Kelly : under the microscope / edited by Craig Cormick, Adrienne de Kretser, Righting Writing ; cover design by Andrew Weatherill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cormick, Craig, editor.

Kretser, Adrienne de, editor.

Writing, Righting, editor.

Weatherill, Andrew, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kelly, Ned, 1855-1880.

Kelly, Ned.

Bushrangers--Australia--Biography.

Bushrangers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ned Kelly was hanged at the Old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, and his body buried in the graveyard there. Many stories emerged about his skull being separated and used as a paperweight or trophy, and it was finally put on display at the museum of the Old Melbourne Gaol - until it was stolen in 1978. It wasn't only Ned Kelly's skull that went missing. After the closure of the Old Melbourne Gaol in 1929, the remains of deceased prisoners were exhumed and reinterred in mass graves at Pentridge Prison. The exact location of these graves was unknown until 2002, when the bones of prisoners wer

Contents:

Cover; Foreword: Rob Hulls; Contents; Timeline; Preface; Introduction; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. The arrival of Ned's skull; 2. The identification of Ned Kelly: a historical perspective; Such was life; Examination of the skull; Putting together the project team; Searching for the missing link; Had Ned Kelly's body been dissected?; Examining unclaimed bodies; Looking to the DNA; Unanswered questions; 3. Analysing the skull; 4. Bringing up the bodies: the search for the lost Pentridge burial ground; The Pentridge reburials; Surprising discoveries; Another burial ground?

Turning to the recordsThe Glenrowan connection; Finding the missing bodies; Security needed; Final reburials; 5. Anthropology: identifying the skeleton by its injuries; Estimating the numbers of individuals buried; Skeletal analysis; Similar injuries to Ned Kelly's; 6. Analysis of the skull using odontology and craniofacial superimposition; The skull: first impressions; Forensic examination; Two matches! Kelly and Deeming; 7. The forensic pathology; Mixing scientific and historical research; The question of autopsy; Sawing of the bones; Limited post mortem did occur

8. Forensic 3D facial reconstructionData collection; Repair and duplication of the skull; Mounting the replica skull on a turntable; Positioning of soft tissue depth markers and placement of eyes in the orbits; Layer by layer of muscle build-up; Fleshing out (outer skin); Final details; 9. Turning to the DNA; Conducting the DNA analysis; DNA extraction; Searching for a maternal descendant; Trying to get nuclear DNA samples; Making sense of the DNA data; 10. Looking after Ned in the mortuary; Buying a safe for the skull; Granting media access; 11. Judicial hanging: the injuries and effects

Execution needing to be repeatedThe scale of drops; Modern examinations of hanging; The execution of Ned Kelly; 12. The prison governor; 13. Who were the other prisoners executed and buried at the Melbourne Gaol?; Martha Needle; Frances Knorr: the 'baby farmer'; Emma Williams; Multicultural profile of executed prisoners; Future identifications; 14: Reading Ned's head: colonial phrenology, popular science and entertainment; Why were death masks made?; Phrenology; The grotesque and extraordinary; Ned Kelly's death mask; Measuring Kelly's head; Was the phrenology of Ned Kelly taken seriously?

15. The science of the Kelly gang's armour: distilling fact from fictionHow was the armour tested?; X-ray diffraction; Gamma-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy; Optical metallography; Transmission electron microscopy; How mild steel is produced; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 16. The guns: firearms of the Kelly gang and police; The Kelly gang's guns; 17. Ned's injuries and their treatment: then and now; Description of injuries; Medical management; Wound treatment at the time; Gunshot wound management before and around 1880; Current treatment of Edward Kelly's injuries

Specific management of injuries sustained by Edward Kelly

Notes:

"Solving the forensic mystery of Ned Kelly's remains".

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 24, 2014).

ISBN:

9781486301782

1486301789

9781486301775

1486301770