Nabbing Ned Kelly : The Extraordinary True Story of the Men Who Brought Australia's Notorious Outlaw to Justice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dufty, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kelly, Ned, 1855-1880.

Kelly, Ned.

Bushrangers--Australia--Victoria--History.

Bushrangers.

Outlaws--Australia--Victoria--History.

Outlaws.

Victoria--History--19th century.

Victoria.

Australia--History--1851-1901.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Nabbing Ned Kelly

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2022.

Summary:

He lurched through the gun smoke, his head encased in an iron helmet, and started shooting. To the weary police in the cordon around the Glenrowan hotel, he appeared like a monster, or a creature from hell. For over a century, the Ned Kelly legend has grown and grown. He's become Australia's Robin Hood, and leader of a colonial Irish resistance. How much of the legend is true? This is the real story of the hunt for the Kelly Gang over two long years. As gripping as any police procedural, it is an account of poorly trained officers unfamiliar with the terrain, in pursuit of the most dangerous men in the state. By recounting the story from the perspective of the law, David Dufty gets to the heart of the story for the first time and finds answers to many unresolved questions. Why was the gang always one step ahead of the police? Did law-abiding citizens really assist the outlaws? Did the barely literate Ned really write the impassioned Jerilderie Letter? Did the police really persecute the Kelly family? Who was Michael Ward and why is he the real hero in the capture of Ned Kelly?

Contents:

Cover

About the author

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

Contents

Map

Introduction

The Days of Harry Power

1 Magistrate McBean's heirloom watch

2 The Melbourne Club

3 The fiz-gig

4 It takes a thief to catch a thief

Stock Thieves

5 Constable Ward

6 Kelly and the cops

7 Constable Flood

8 A tale of two Irishmen

9 Michael Ward joins the detective force

10 The Whitty raid

11 Sergeant Steele

The Fitzpatrick Incident and Its Aftermath

12 Constable Fitzpatrick

13 The Fitzpatrick incident

14 The arrest of Ellen Kelly

15 Ward undercover

16 The trial of Ellen Kelly

Seeking the Kelly Brothers

17 Border crossings

18 Into the Ranges

19 Stringybark Creek

20 McIntyre's flight

21 Three inquests

After Stringybark

22 Riders on the storm

23 The Warby Ranges

24 Uproar

25 Agent McIntyre

Euroa

26 Tip-off

27 Wyatt's day trip

28 Night train to Euroa

29 The hawkers and Kelly

30 The Euroa bank robbery

31 Nicolson out

32 The Cameron Letter

33 Sympathisers

34 A bedside visitor

Jerilderie

35 The Jerilderie barracks

36 The Jerilderie bank

37 'The Story of My Life' by Edward Kelly

38 The Jerilderie Letter

Agents

39 Agent Aaron Sherritt

40 Trackers

41 New agents

42 The thief who came in from the cold

43 Agent Wallace

44 Jack, Aaron and the Cave Party

45 The Graves Letter

46 The Hut Party

47 The murder of Aaron Sherritt

Glenrowan

48 The Curnow family's day trip

49 The night special

50 Gunfight at Jones' hotel

51 Glenrowan by moonlight

52 Reverie

53 The man in the iron mask

54 The morning after

55 The trial

Epilogue: Two mysteries and their possible solutions

Mystery 1 Who made the armour?

Mystery 2 Who wrote the Jerilderie Letter?

Picture section

Notes.

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781761063992

1761063995

OCLC:

1299383348