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| Grave of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly said found |
| 2008-03-10 |
| Australian archaeologists believe they have found the grave of the country's legendary outlaw, Ned Kelly, on the site of an abandoned prison. Kelly, immortalized for using home-made armor in a final shoot-out with police, became a folk hero of Australia's colonial past with his gang's daring bank robberies and escapes. The son of an Irish convict, Kelly was hanged for his crimes in 1880 and buried in a mass grave at a prison in the southern city of Melbourne in Victoria state. The whereabouts of his body had remained as elusive as Kelly was in real life. Archaeologists who have been digging at the site of the former Pentridge prison unearthed a mass grave where historical records suggested the remains of Kelly and other executed prisoners were buried after being removed from the old Melbourne Gaol when it closed in 1929. "We believe we have conclusively found the burial site, but that is very different from finding the remains," Jeremy Smith, senior archaeologist with Heritage Victoria, told Reuters on Sunday. "If the remains exist, then we will have found them." He said the grave contained 32 bodies in rows of coffins in various states of decomposition. The bodies are incomplete and will now be subject to forensic tests. Smith said it would be a struggle to prove conclusively that any of the remains were Kelly's, particularly from single bones. He said the bones had been roughly treated in the 1929 move and some may have been taken for souvenirs. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 There's a bar by that name in Herndon, VA in the Clock Tower center. Used to eat there from time to time when I worked out that way. |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo Chusotle9664 2008-03-10 11:51 |
| #2 The Ballad of Ned Kelly Eighteen hundred and eighty five Is a year I remember so well When they drove old brad into an early grave And sent my mother to jail Now I don't know what's right or wrong But they hung christ on nails But with six kids at home and two still on her breast They wouldn't even give her bail Chorus Oh ned, you're better off dead You get no peace of mind A track's a trail And they're hot on your tail Before they're gonna hang you high I did write a letter And I sealed it with my hand Tried to tell about stringy bog creek And tried to make them understand Oh, that I didn't wanna kill kennedy Or cause his blood to run Well he alone could have saved his life By throwing down his gun Chorus Well I'd rather die like donahue That bush-ranger so brave Than be taken by the government And forced to walk in chains Well I'd rather fight with all my might While I have eyes to see Well I'd rather die ten thousand times Than hang from a gallow's tree. Chorus |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-03-10 03:39 |
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| Posted by: RD 2008-03-10 02:14 |