How Did Ned Kelly Hanged

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Ned Kelly Hanged Edward “Ned” Kelly was a bushranger from Victoria, Australia. He was born in 1855 and hung in 1880 at Old Melbourne Gaol and was buried in a mass grave. Ned Kelly was arrested for alleged assault on a Chinese pig farmer and was held for ten days on remand but the charge was dismissed in 1869. A year later, he was arrested and held in custody for seven weeks as a suspected accomplice of the bushranger Harry Power, the charge ended up being dismissed again. Kelly was convicted of summary offences and ended up being imprisoned for six months, later in 1870. Kelly had a gang called “The Kelly Gang” and it included his brother Dan Kelly, along with two of his friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart. Kelly shot Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick