Edward Ned Kelly was an Australian most famous bushranger. A bushranger is someone that is an outlaw living in the bush. Ned was born June 1855 at Beveridge, Victoria. The eldest son of John Kelly and his wife Ellen. When Ned Kelly and his parents moved to Avenal. Later on John Kelly was accused of stealing a young cow and butchering it. John Kelly died. And Ellen was left with six children. After her husband death Mrs Kelly packed her belongings and moved to north-eastern Victoria where her brothers lived. Ned learned to hate the police through listening to many stories. When Ned was 14 years old the police arrested him for assaulting and robbing a chainman. By the age of 16, Ned seemed set in the path of his uncle Harry Power which was all so a bushranger. A little time later Ned played a bad joke on a neighbor. From what happen Ned Kelly was sent to prison for six months. …show more content…
For a while he became an honest businessman, quarrying blocks of granite and building houses of stone. One of these still stands today. Than Dan Kelly started stealing horses. One of the police rode to the Kelly house to arrest Dan. What he said and did so enraged Mrs Kelly that she hit the policeman with a shovel. During the scuffle, Ned arrived and shot the police in the wrist. For this Ellen Kelly was sent to goal for three years. The police could not find Ned and Dan escaped into the bush and became outlaws hunted by the police. Ned and his gang robbed the national bank in Victoria. Then they robbed a bank in New South Wales. After they robbed two banks the Victorian government, the government of New South Wales, and the banks together offered a reward of 8000 pounds for the capture of the bushrangers. Aboriginal blacktrackers were brought from Queensland to help catch the Kelly gang. The blacktrackers could quickly follow a man’s tracks through the bush. Their skill was the only thing which worried