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charge. The whole Kelly family resisted this and Ned wounded one of the constables. Mrs Kelly and some of the others were captured, but Ned and Daniel escaped to the hills, where they were joined by two other desperadoes, Byrne and See also:

Hart. For two years, despite a See also:

REWARD

reward of £8000 offered jointly by the governments of Victoria and New See also:

South See also:

WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales for their arrest, the gang under the leadership of Kelly terrorized the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country on the borderland of Victoria and New South Wales, " holding up " towns and plundering See also:

banks. Their intimate knowledge of the See also:

DISTRICT

district, full of convenient hiding-places, and their elaborate See also:

SYSTEM

system of well-paid spies, ensured the See also:

DIRECT

direct pecuniary See also:

INTEREST

interest of many persons and contributed to their See also:

long See also:

IMMUNITY (from Lat. immunis, not subject to a munus or public service)

immunity from See also:

CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture. They never See also:

ill-treated a woman, nor preyed upon the poor, thus surrounding themselves with an attractive See also:

ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere of See also:

ROMANCE

romance. In See also:

JUNE

June 188o, however, they were at last tracked to a wooden shanty at Glenrowan, near Benalla, which the See also:

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police surrounded, riddled with bullets, and finally set on See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire. Kelly himself, who was outside, could, he claimed, easily have escaped had he not refused to See also:

DESERT

desert his companions, all of whom were killed. He was severely wounded, captured and taken to See also:

BEECHWORTH

Beechworth, where he was tried, convicted and hanged in See also:

OCTOBER

October 1880.

The See also:

TOTAL

total cost of the capture of the Kelly gang was reckoned at £115,000. See F. A. See also:

Hare, The Last of the Bushrangers (See also:

LONDON

London, 1892).

End of Article: KELLY, EDWARD (1854–188o)

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