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Introducing: Real Outlaws - Ned Kelly

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on the trail of ned kelly

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the australian legend without equal

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what's the truth behind

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ned kelly is popularly known

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as the australian robin hood

1:25

a semi mythical figure drawn

1:27

from the traditions of the highway man depending

1:31

on who you speak to is a cultural

1:33

icons a social revolutionary

1:36

or just another stone

1:38

cold killer the

1:40

harsh realities of life on fringes

1:42

in the bush land territories of colonial

1:44

australia shapes the man he would

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become and legend that

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would emerge this

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is ned kelly part

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one the bush ranger

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southern australia and the

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year eighteen seventy the

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way out middle nowhere single

2:09

road cut through the dense bush

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it's mid march and rainfalls

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heavily this time of year open

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to the elements the to rental downpour

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still the rotted dirt track that

2:22

passes for road a

2:25

huge figure of a man

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stumbles out of the trees dragging

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a thick log out onto

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the road he

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, sit next to another huge

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tree trunks already lying in mud

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he curses this

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is backbreaking work that's

2:45

fifty years since harry power

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was born all the way across the world

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in waterford ireland is

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broad southern irish accent still

2:56

carries clearly even

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though it's been decades since he was transported

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year to australia the colony

3:03

of victoria the

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our straightens up rubbing the small

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does back it

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takes a breath pushing his

3:12

wild hair about his face

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these moods is thick beard with the

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back of his calloused hand

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cox linear there's a cart

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approaching paint way growing

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louder he throws

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look toward side the road then

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a nod barely

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noticeable in the dim afternoon

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light small filthy

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face nestled amidst the

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thick vegetation nods

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back it belongs

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to a young accomplice of hours barely

3:47

fifteen years old our

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, the logs and splashes across

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the road back into the trees crouching

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and site site grabs

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his rifle as

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you feet away the boy balls back

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the hammer on revolver the

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cart round the corner it's

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an open topped coach driver

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sat on her raised bench for horses

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out run polling at the reins three

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passengers to men and a lady well

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turned out heading straight

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for i'm straight into

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their trap

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peering through the sheets of rain down

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sing along on top of the cart it's

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hard to see more than a few feet ahead

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in the nick of time the driver spots

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the logs slung out over the track the

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jogs on the reins the cart gets

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to a halt the

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passenger door swings open one

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, the men jumps down he

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grabs he and makes to he's

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it out of the way the

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driver suddenly yells him stop grabbing

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, shotgun station device foot

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foot , a

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bandana concealing his face our

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fires into the air and steps out

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onto steps road be levels as

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rifle at coach bail

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or he bellows gesturing

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with the barrel the passengers

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comply prose and with terror

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their hands held in mid air the

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driver hesitates and

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still hovering inches over his weapon

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the our narrows his eyes his

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grip rock steady on his gun

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the never kills his victims they're

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the first time for everything second

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gunshot rings out causing the

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driver jump with frites it's

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, turn of powers young accomplice

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to enter the party revolver

5:53

raised jaw clenched raised jaw

5:56

the back the coach the drivers mind

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is made up he knows it did it take

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on these bush rangers he to

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throws his hands the air the

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boy holds out sack for the valuables

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a couple of pocket watches the woman's

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jewelry and all the cash and

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mail in the trunks strapped to the back

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court our

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demands the gold there's a coach

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do in the minds at nearby beach

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was but there is none

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different court the heavy

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rains have delayed it's progress

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our uncoupled to

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of horses one , the get

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one for himself together

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they had strayed into the bush back

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from one say game the

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older does come and gone in a

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matter of minutes blink

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and you've missed it now

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the bewildered victims have no choice

6:52

but to make their way into town to

6:55

horses light there

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they will report yet another highway

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robbery by the notorious bush ranger

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harry power

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but it is mysterious young accomplice

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who and the years to come will

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make all the headlines young

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edward will go down in history as

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, most infamous son

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the one and only ned

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kelly

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history is full

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of men and women who live outside

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the last summer heroes

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others are villains many are

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both each week

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will take you on journey into the life

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and times of notorious outlaws

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from billy the kid and ned kelly to

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and bonnie and al suppose we'll

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, deep into their stories

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to find out how legends were born

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and continue to grow often

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long after they're gone i'm

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nathan wireless and this

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wireless and the outlaws

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ned kelly is the archetype all social

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banned it who reflected the injustices

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of life in the early australian

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colonies the robbed

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banks and distributed some of his ill

8:20

gotten gains to the poor the

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was also a violent man whose slade

8:25

police officers and tormented his enemies

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with impunity where

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does the real man end and

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folk hero begin to

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understand the real ned kelly

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we need to understand australia

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in the eighteen hundreds

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the

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australian colonies in the nineteenth

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century or a unique melting pot

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in seventeen seventy explore

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captain james cook had claimed a

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land for the kingdom of great britain it's

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not long after and seventeen eighty

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eight when the first penal colony

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is established under the flag of kings

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colors at what will become sydney

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with british prisons bursting penal

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colonies separate criminals

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from society by transporting them

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to far flung corners of the empire

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transportation as the sentences known

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is seen as more humane alternative

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to execution but

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it takes more than career criminals

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and murderers to build an empire

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petty crimes are also punished with

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transportation they

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are assigned as indentured servants

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to other settlers or are given

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time as laborers there's

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like the population of britain's crowded

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prisons many of these undesirables

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are also social outcasts

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even before their sentencing by

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virtue of their birth

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graham seal

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is professor of focus or curtain

10:00

university and purse and

10:02

author of hell am i died

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game the legend of ned kelly

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the tissue transportation is

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the theories feature very heavily in

10:12

it will transportation britain any way to

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it's series and paw colonies and

10:16

no difference australia goes somewhere

10:19

political prisoners of as you side i'd been

10:21

arrested and tried size both i'm trying

10:23

to decide british authorities this

10:25

because we just people who'd committed crimes one

10:27

kind or another but by that stage

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across my stories by the library happy

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about the british will be the english in particular then

10:34

because that was that to play out here as well

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rising republicanism in ireland

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following the great famine and growing

10:44

political strife had swelled britain's

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prisons with irish men and women

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who were subsequently transported to

10:51

the colonies that

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australia isn't merely a penal colony

10:56

for the british it also contains

10:58

colonies of settlement these

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been built on the premise that the land belongs

11:03

to no one i'm an older

11:05

been transported to australia sure

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i'd also settlers have been encouraged

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to move here largely from britain

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and ireland their

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job is to till the soil that supposedly

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is up for grabs the

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settlers have pushed further inland

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establishing their own towns and villages

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scant regard for the aboriginal people

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they've encountered along the way australia's

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indigenous population has been almost

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totally overlooked where's

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the net they've been brutally persecuted

11:39

married off their ancestral lands

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forced into camps and pressed into service

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for the europeans

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and then the gold rushes come in id fifties

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and sixties and population increases

11:51

dramatically ah gold rushes

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are over the population has increased

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but most of my distortion and

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i've got nowhere to go said as a great enterprise

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iran colonial governments to or the call

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i've been delayed though i

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opened up the land to what call free selectors

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was selectors which is all fine well

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the there's already a group on land

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the previously displaced indigenous inhabitants

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of course and they called squatters they

12:16

can't agree forgot their generational to earlier

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and done to got government grants the

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edward kelly is born into one of these

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selector farming families in

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december eighteen fifty four

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his father read kelly is

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a tough irishman transported

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to australia for pigs fast and eighteen

13:15

forty two following

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released from prison he moved

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to the colony of victoria and

13:21

finds work on farm north of melbourne

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these smitten with ellen quinn

13:27

the daughter of his employer and soon

13:30

the couple or married not

13:32

long before they've built a tiny to room

13:34

house in which they all start their family

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edward or ned as

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he will become known is the third

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of their eight children and

13:45

the eldest boy the

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family are proud irish catholics

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and their resentment of their treatment in

13:52

colonies and the british empire

13:55

will set the tone for ned's short

13:57

life the

13:59

same guy and fighters protestantism

14:02

than catholicism was asked for

14:04

the first twenty thirty years i guess of the

14:06

i'm saying so it wasn't allowed

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secondly it wasn't to look favorite

14:10

have gone either that catholics are really allowed

14:12

to worship in public and

14:15

that kind of situation which was that flies into

14:17

the can lead saga to some extent because

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sir kelly's themselves are catholic

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irish and selectors

14:24

so they fill out working class

14:26

suppose it's i but selectors my

14:29

are from the irish background even if

14:31

they born here as they kill was big into

14:33

the kids born in a might encourage

14:35

those kind of images and ideas of

14:37

irish antagonism towards english

14:40

and of courses or said there was a catholics

14:42

and there was pretty unhappy about the situation

14:44

i find themselves in it's

14:47

not an easy life harsh

14:50

laws and even harsher landscape

14:53

the

14:53

unscrupulous farmers and corrupt

14:55

officials and a lawless

14:57

population not

14:59

unlike america as wild west a

15:03

big difference to the dynamic here is

15:05

a large convict population transported

15:08

for minor offenses and finding

15:10

themselves on the other side

15:12

of the earth often

15:15

sentenced to hard labor they

15:17

work the land on farms and

15:19

join works games on public projects

15:22

usually employed outside any

15:25

find opportunities to escape convicts

15:28

flee into the thick bush a

15:30

wild and unforgiving land there

15:33

are numerous tales of gangs have escaped

15:35

petty criminals turning cannibal

15:38

before survivors read civilization

15:40

again only to be taught

15:42

and hanged as murderers the

15:45

other prisoners serve out their sentences

15:47

and are released commit further

15:49

crimes and sli into the bush

15:52

to avoid going back into prison and

15:54

backbreaking labor these

15:57

men who live as outlaws

15:59

and the have the forested areas are

16:01

known as bush rangers

16:06

on the committee closers by skype into the bush

16:09

in order to survive i brought paper on the roads

16:11

they get to be called bush rangers

16:14

and that continues on after

16:16

com be two years as a and the gold

16:18

era begins the people

16:21

who are cobras ranges been a

16:23

basically robbing out coaches rather

16:25

than individual travel

16:28

those rangers are to the australian

16:30

colonies as outlawed gunslingers

16:33

are to the wild west romanticized

16:36

and lauded by many they are despised

16:38

as bloodthirsty criminals by others

16:41

examples existed both ends of the spectrum

16:44

the majority fall somewhere in between

16:47

small number of these bush rangers become

16:50

celebrated folk heroes none

16:52

so much as ned kelly

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eighteen

17:01

sixty four the family moved

17:03

to avenue l a small village

17:05

on the main melbourne to sydney road

17:07

and ten year old ned is learning

17:10

about the bush himself the

17:12

received basic schooling but

17:14

as a tall strong athletic boy

17:17

sports or where he really thrive

17:21

that has the opportunity to put his physical

17:23

prowess to good use when he's

17:25

eleven heavy rains

17:27

have swollen the nearby creek and

17:30

fast moving floodwaters rush

17:32

through the goalie the

17:34

seven year old boy falls into the creek

17:36

ned doesn't hesitate to jumpin

17:38

after him the saved

17:40

the boy from drowning and is lauded

17:42

as a hero the village the

17:45

boy's parents proprietors as a

17:47

local hotel present ned

17:49

with green silk sash fringe

17:51

with gold in recognition of his

17:53

bravery it becomes

17:56

is most treasured possession they'll

17:59

be wearing it in very different circumstances

18:02

several years from now

18:05

he was given a green such as a

18:07

reward presumably the grain

18:09

reflecting the irish mr the community

18:12

the and it was extremely proud

18:14

of that sash

18:18

the end of eighteen sixty six tragedy

18:20

strikes read kelly

18:23

ned's father eyes of alcohol

18:25

related illness the

18:27

tender age of twelve young

18:30

ned kelly leave school to step into

18:32

his father's boots

18:35

alan kelly moved

18:37

family to the town of credit to be nearer

18:39

to her relatives taking up

18:41

and eighty eight acres selection farm

18:45

family soon learns the land is unsuitable

18:47

for farming so allen

18:49

supplements the family income by

18:51

offering accommodation to travellers

18:53

and selling moonshine oh

18:56

made liquor illicitly brewed in

18:58

hidden stills that

19:01

is coming of age in tough environment

19:04

that with his mother's siblings and their own

19:06

extended family and friends they

19:08

make up formidable clan

19:11

these one of the young terrorized all these kids

19:13

growing to adolescence across the

19:15

in this area many the parents

19:17

were convicts nets father was convict

19:19

coast and they're all related

19:21

to each other by marriage

19:24

so it's the kelly's the score lot

19:26

of those it's queens and

19:28

the lloyds are all of them as i

19:30

said are related but one way or another everybody

19:32

knows everybody basically whether it's whether police

19:35

the squatters the selectors the shopkeepers

19:37

and course live the kelly's on that everybody

19:40

else so when someone does something

19:42

wrong everyone as about it's trusts

19:44

right away and it's very

19:46

on tight be compressed social situation

19:49

at some we get in that office and victoria

19:52

the result those kind of influences

19:56

networks the farm as best he can

19:58

using his muscle to good muttering

20:01

cattle and breaking and horses

20:03

it's not just a hostile environment

20:05

he has to contend with the

20:08

selector farming families

20:10

at constant war with the larger

20:12

more powerful squatter landowners

20:14

who already laid claim to the land

20:17

they

20:17

do take up a selection of land and

20:20

find that those squatters have been there before

20:22

got the best land of got the water

20:24

supplies sign up and i've also

20:26

got the of the local policing and authorities

20:28

sign up as well they've also

20:30

got the access to markets buying like

20:32

sign up as well said a doesn't play very

20:35

much room for people like kelly's to

20:37

actually get out there and prosper which

20:39

because i needed to do in order to lump essentially

20:41

diet the land that government given them

20:45

police and the government or the enemy

20:47

viewed with suspicion

20:49

in return the police despise

20:51

the closely interwoven clans

20:54

the early eighteen sixty nine ned

20:57

realizes those little prospect

20:59

of supporting himself and his family

21:01

against these odds fourteen

21:03

year old decides to even those odds

21:06

and makes the decision that will change the course

21:09

of his life the teams

21:11

up with notorious local outlaw

21:13

bush ranger named harry

21:15

power

21:19

our is a fifty year old escaped iris

21:21

convict a large gruff

21:23

man with wild hair and

21:25

beard as dense as the bush he's

21:27

been living on ned's grandfather's land

21:30

our has built up a network of sympathizers

21:33

among these poor downtrodden farmers

21:36

now to keep them on side is

21:39

turn to highway robbery holding

21:41

up travelers on the rural roads

21:43

he distributes the proceeds to his supporters

21:47

harry powers very colorful was rider

21:49

of the old school and i am

21:51

the base or hanging out ram the kelly country

21:54

the connections with the paperwork kelly's

21:56

know there he was that shoot us an

21:58

aid and are you doing i tried

22:00

him how to dot robe original reversed

22:02

sophisticated basically just right

22:04

up to somebody on the road and twenty two gun

22:06

their face said bile up and generally

22:08

speaking they did which was pretty sensible

22:10

reaction harry was some as

22:12

a colorful it didn't kill anybody which

22:14

was always a plus for bush rioters

22:17

because people went to happy about that

22:19

one reason another the

22:21

duo make a great team undertaking

22:24

several successful robberies together

22:27

not long however before ned

22:29

gets his first taste of the sharpened

22:31

of bush range an

22:34

attempt to feel horses from a large

22:36

squad or farm sees the to

22:38

almost shot

22:40

it's too closer shave for ned he

22:42

decides to split from power leaving

22:44

the older bush ranger to go it alone

22:48

soon after arriving back at the family

22:50

home ned has his first brush

22:52

and with the law

22:54

a passing chinese animal dealer accuses

22:57

ned of robbery ned

23:00

gives the very different version of events to

23:02

police

23:03

he claims the man assaulted his sister

23:05

and he was merely coming to her aid

23:09

the police can't dig up anything either

23:11

way and once ned sister

23:13

and to other kelly family members

23:15

give evidence in support of ned the

23:18

charges are dismissed

23:20

already the fiery young ned

23:22

is building a reputation for himself

23:29

by eighteen seventy allen is behind

23:31

with her rent the

23:32

bring in some much needed cash

23:35

ned goes against his better judgment

23:37

and hooks up with power again together

23:41

they commit string of highway robberies

23:43

across victoria traveling

23:45

great distances and attacking with

23:47

impunity they

23:49

hold up every one from

23:51

stock men to police officers the

23:54

even rob a local magistrate relieving

23:56

him of his watch his horse and

23:58

is riding gear the

24:01

police are on to power in no time

24:03

but the identity of his mysterious

24:05

young accomplice remains hidden

24:07

for months

24:09

finally young ned is named

24:11

thanks to paid informers and

24:13

he's captured at the end of april eighteen

24:15

seventy ned finds

24:17

himself and be worth jail for the

24:19

first time facing time facing

24:22

sentences found guilty fortunately

24:25

witnesses failed to identify him

24:28

and a month later he is released without

24:30

charge

24:32

kelly family seen ned's arrest as

24:34

clear evidence of corruption bias

24:37

and police harassment despite

24:39

ned actually being guilty of the robberies

24:43

some believe the kelly family got to those

24:45

witnesses intimidating people

24:48

into silence

24:50

that despite not being free it's

24:52

the end of the duo tumultuous partnership

24:55

the is done with power this

24:58

time for good

25:02

the older bush ranger his

25:05

caught in june eighteen seventy

25:07

word spreads that was ned who informed

25:09

on him in exchange for the charges

25:11

being dropped

25:13

the an accusation which doesn't win

25:15

ned many friends

25:18

the truth soon comes out it

25:20

was actually ned's uncle who pocketed

25:23

the five hundred pound reward even

25:25

so it takes awhile for ned

25:28

to shake the snitching rumors

25:32

that's not long before ned ends up in

25:34

hot water again this friend

25:37

is accused of stealing a hawkers horse

25:40

the argument escalates only

25:42

ended by swift speak to the

25:44

nose from ned the

25:46

, lands him back and beach with

25:48

jail for a second time this

25:51

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25:53

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twentieth of april eighteen

26:32

seventy one that

26:35

is only been out of prison for month

26:39

get his nose fairly clean

26:42

and today is doing a good deed

26:46

the just not mer he's riding

26:48

belongs to a man named isaiah

26:50

wilde right who's

26:52

in down to see ned's brother in

26:54

law

26:57

when hours when missing a few days ago

27:00

ned , to go after it

27:02

and bring it back back

27:05

as the horse race li ambles between

27:07

the wooden buildings along the high street

27:10

a police constable ahlers

27:12

for ned to stop

27:15

he jogs on the rain and

27:17

, as the constable jobs

27:19

across the dirt road eyes

27:22

on the horse beneath him him

27:26

to ned the policemen as

27:28

a be and as bonnet as

27:30

he thinks the horse the

27:34

the constable tells ned to dismount

27:36

and asks him all asks

27:39

like to come friendly

27:41

some papers as

27:44

soon as ned's boots touch the

27:46

ground the police touch is upon

27:48

and grabbing for man clothes

27:51

wrestling him violently the

27:53

arrest turns into a scuffle

27:57

violently crowd gathers to watch as

27:59

the seemingly and q a confrontation

28:01

escalates the

28:03

constable manages to pull his revolver

28:06

trying to shoot of bewildered ned who

28:08

backs away the

28:10

hammer clicks with the gun misfires

28:14

that is enraged but the

28:16

constable pulls the trigger again and

28:18

again the gun misfires three

28:20

times in row that uses

28:23

his temporary good fortune to overpower

28:25

his opponent knocking into the ground

28:28

ned

28:31

straddles the man stabbing is riding

28:33

spurs into the constable size

28:36

the house of pain brahms the crowd

28:38

into action bystanders

28:41

managed to pull ned off the constable

28:43

holding him firmly enraged

28:46

policemen brandishes as impotent

28:49

revolver again but instead of trying to

28:51

shoot ned he swings it

28:53

at his head

28:54

it connects with a dove thought

28:57

knocking , sideways into the

28:59

dirt as

29:01

ned blinks as ned blood running down

29:03

his head the policemen swings

29:05

the gun again brutally pistol

29:07

whipping ned spinning his head

29:11

the

29:11

swings over and over

29:14

until finally ned is

29:16

senseless lying on ground

29:20

the man under each arm the

29:22

constable drags the severely injured

29:25

and half conscious ned down

29:27

the street the police station

29:33

when wilde right and alan kelly come

29:35

to trace her son they find him

29:37

by the pools of blood spilled in the dust

29:40

and the bright red smears across the

29:42

gate post there

29:44

was a charge on assault on indecent behavior

29:46

in other ones are receiving stolen or was us

29:49

the got for years hard labor in pink reach

29:51

for that one hundred prison was the nine

29:53

prison in melbourne that's why from

29:55

beach worthwhile and in the city because

29:58

three years and that current environment the i

30:00

do fourteen sustain us i didn't

30:02

do him cry discuss

30:05

what ned hadn't known as he'd written down

30:07

that street was that the horse really

30:09

was stolen swiped by

30:11

isaiah right from the postmaster

30:13

in nearby town while

30:16

ned serves three years for

30:18

receiving stolen horse right

30:21

was sentenced to just eighteen months

30:23

for the actual best

30:25

that's brutal arrest and subsequent long

30:28

hard labor stint as further

30:30

reinforced his views of the police

30:32

and notorious victorian penal

30:34

system

30:36

when he finally breathe fresh air again

30:38

and eighteen seventy four he

30:40

swears ill never stepped foot in

30:42

prison again he

30:44

also swears revenge on

30:46

wilde right for the loss of

30:48

his three years

30:53

one

30:56

of the best known photographs of ned

30:58

kelly shows him standing in

31:00

his underwear arms up ready

31:03

in boxing pose foot forward

31:05

hair swept back she

31:08

beard flowing down towards his

31:10

chest it was famously

31:12

snapped following ned's revenge

31:14

on wild right the

31:17

age of august eighteen seventy four

31:19

at the imperial hotel and beach

31:21

worth ned fights a

31:23

bare knuckle match with wilde

31:25

right over the if their the horse

31:28

the

31:29

was very well my local man actually

31:31

built manager going so from the side aggressive and

31:34

a great bare knuckle fighter and

31:36

the one the the match you're referring

31:38

to which was kind legendary was

31:40

a twenty rounds stand up match against

31:42

the manga was right was this anything

31:44

even bigger and more solid the ned

31:46

made one a base in modern truly

31:49

but later on ra ra became

31:51

one of his strongest supporters if neither

31:53

enemies with the time that with about supplies

31:55

that so yeah it's it's great story for

31:59

a time

32:00

networks that saw mill then takes

32:02

on building work those skills

32:04

he picked up in prison while

32:07

he was inside his mother had begun

32:10

courting and american george

32:12

king the to now

32:14

married and an eighteen seventy

32:16

seven ned joins his new

32:18

stepfather in the more profitable

32:20

business of horse theft

32:24

he also joined the local organized

32:26

crime gangs founded by his younger

32:28

brothers gym and dan called

32:31

the grad a mob they

32:33

known for their distinctive fancy style

32:35

of dress which includes wearing

32:37

their hat chin strap under their nose

32:41

not only does it keep their had on when riding

32:43

at full gallop down the high street but

32:46

it's also stab at authority

32:48

aristocracy and the upper

32:51

class

32:52

a signal of teenage rebellion

32:54

that goes down the ages to

32:56

today as well

32:58

as being responsible for fair chunk

33:01

of the petty crime in the area the

33:03

great a mobs primary interests or

33:05

much the same as teenagers

33:07

today

33:08

smoking boozing and

33:10

chatting up local girls

33:13

there again as an australian slang

33:15

term for allowed boisterous young man

33:18

with a disregard for authority

33:20

a hoodlum or hooligan the

33:23

word is still used today these

33:26

young men really live up to us

33:29

they raise their horses through the streets vaulting

33:31

senses and dates and wagering

33:34

each other on racing and trick riding

33:37

generally making a new sense of themselves

33:41

in september of eighteen seventy seven

33:43

ned kelly is arrested for riding

33:45

over footpath drunk

33:48

following his previous run in with the law

33:51

this was never going

33:53

to end well the

33:55

resists from the osce a

33:57

fight ensues night on ones

34:00

the i'd and to constables by the names

34:02

of lawn again and fitzpatrick on the other

34:05

while ned scuffles the smaller fitzpatrick

34:08

flanagan grabs ned's testicles

34:11

so tightly ill cause him problems

34:13

for the rest of his short life after

34:16

you're done screaming with pain and rage

34:19

ned supposedly hollers well

34:21

on again i never shot man

34:24

yet but so help me god you'll

34:26

beat us first these

34:29

are certainly faithful words

34:33

that leads to boot bankers opposite

34:35

the courthouse but as eventually subdued

34:38

and dragged back across street the

34:40

is find and released the

34:43

event will have long lasting ramifications

34:46

for all three men

34:49

it's constable

34:52

fitzpatrick stern first on

34:54

pleasant evening in april eighteen

34:56

seventy eight

34:58

the air is thick with insects

35:00

and evening birdsong as

35:03

he ties his horse up outside the

35:05

kelly place he

35:07

, around at the dry grass

35:09

dense forests beyond no

35:13

sign of dan jelly

35:14

they'd rather man

35:17

he's come to arrest then

35:20

ned and or stepfather all

35:22

have warrants out for horse theft

35:26

the glance through the window suggests dan

35:28

is not inside alan

35:30

kelly looks up from the stove and

35:33

rushes out to see what the police man

35:35

once

35:37

the do have known each other for a long time

35:39

and chat while though

35:42

it's clear fitzpatrick has no care

35:44

for allen sons particularly

35:46

since his run in with ned as you months

35:48

earlier that

35:51

feeling is mutual there's

35:54

a noise from the dirt road behind

35:57

the patrick turns to see to riders

35:59

approaching the first

36:01

the kelly's neighbor that

36:04

alongside him rides dan kelly

36:06

himself the

36:08

younger kelly is much smaller than

36:10

ned a good looking glad

36:13

but darting and nervous

36:16

constable is confident he can take him

36:18

in but waits until dan

36:20

dies his horse up before walking over

36:22

to arrest him

36:25

dan protests and asks

36:27

to least eat his dinner first

36:30

said patrick agrees and the two

36:32

men go inside with alan

36:34

kelly the

36:36

room and dark smoky with

36:38

the scent of cooking then

36:41

sits the ruff wooden table and

36:43

picks up fork as

36:45

allen dishes up the grub the

36:49

latest do into a bowl and places

36:51

it on a table glaring at

36:53

the policeman as if daring him to

36:55

ask for some shadow

36:58

crosses the window behind fitzpatrick

37:02

he's watching dan kelly so intently

37:05

the doesn't hear the horse outside the

37:08

only turns as he hears the door swung

37:10

open but by then it's too

37:12

late ned kelly

37:14

fills the doorway silhouetted

37:17

in the low son the

37:19

odds are against the policeman and

37:22

with ned's recent threats ringing in

37:24

his ears the reaches for

37:26

his gun it's a

37:28

mistake that , already

37:30

holding his he squeezes

37:32

the trigger the shot deafening the small

37:34

room room bullet

37:36

mrs climbing into

37:38

wooden wall splinters

37:40

fly as dispatch and duck's back

37:43

still reaching for his guns he

37:45

, flanked by alan dollars with

37:47

shovel shovel sound

37:49

of it bouncing off it's geysers head is

37:52

almost as loud as the following gunshot

37:56

it's patrick's daggers clutching

37:58

his wrist before his world

38:00

the goes black the

38:02

constable drops to the floor like sack

38:04

of washing when

38:07

it comes round net is standing

38:09

over him brandishing a nice he

38:12

passes into the dazed policemen telling

38:15

him to dig out the bullet patrick

38:18

glances round and sees his revolver

38:21

now held firmly in dan

38:23

kelly's hands the

38:25

kelly's mother is still hovering nearby

38:28

holding the shovel as

38:31

he curses and digs out bullet

38:33

ned tosses grubby piece of

38:35

cloth under the floor to dress the

38:37

wound the three

38:39

kelly's concoct a cover

38:41

story which fitzpatrick is

38:43

told to stick to they'll

38:45

be trouble these

38:48

donald out of the house and helped onto

38:50

his horse as

38:52

gallops away into darkening evening

38:55

he heads not for home but

38:57

straight for his police station and

38:59

his superior officer to

39:02

inform him of everything that happened

39:05

it had started as dans arrest

39:07

for horse test now

39:10

the galley family or wanted for

39:12

the attempted murder of a policeman

39:14

that's

39:16

better your failures one of most controversial

39:18

elements of the whole story the

39:20

a division of story is that comfortable

39:23

fitzpatrick went out to arrest

39:25

someone but he answered up at kelly

39:27

place drunk or into the story

39:29

and attempted to molest one of they can

39:31

be girls who were there and to be

39:33

i'm so very well and the kelly's

39:36

simply deny the snake was they said

39:38

you know that didn't happen and so

39:40

we don't really know basically you can type

39:42

one your analogy and

39:45

patrick's wrist wound is examined by a

39:47

doctor the nice marks make it

39:49

seem superficial inconsistent

39:51

with gunshot

39:54

kelly story seems to stack up the

39:56

wound appears to be self inflicted

39:59

there's evidence the law takes very

40:01

dim view of any lerach and behavior

40:04

the kelly's have already gained reputation

40:08

ned and dan kelly wastes no time

40:10

and flee into the bush but

40:13

their mothers days behind it is found guilty

40:15

of attempted murder alan

40:18

kelly is sentenced to three years

40:20

hard labor it's harsh

40:22

sentence especially since she

40:24

has a newborn baby at home

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summer eighteen seventy eight

41:23

now living is bush rangers and the wombats

41:26

ranges the kelly brothers hide

41:28

out in the thick bush living

41:30

outside of law always

41:32

looking over their shoulder they

41:34

build to hots from thick wouldn't

41:36

logs for shelter and

41:38

make money by sluicing gold and

41:41

selling moonshine to their large network

41:43

of sympathizers the

41:45

brothers were revenge the police

41:47

and the government who they feel

41:50

are persecuting their family without just

41:52

cause

41:54

it's bad for doesn't is of lighter on dismissed

41:56

from the police i'm back and other things

41:58

to a museum of natural the patient and

42:01

that particular incident was the thing that set

42:03

off the app right because as consequence

42:05

of it's on the kill his mother was arrested

42:07

sent to jail and some theories

42:10

are the ones who they are the same time also went

42:12

job as they did a skype or then and

42:14

, the one that ranges and

42:17

focus was and advertising and

42:19

in the long term yudof creek

42:22

by caught up with a drug

42:26

whatever truth behind the fitzpatrick

42:28

incident events have now been

42:30

set in motion that will be remembered

42:32

for centuries to follow

42:35

the kelly rampage is about

42:37

to begin

42:45

next week on real outlaws

42:48

events , violent as police

42:50

and the kelly gang class in the bush

42:54

bush story of the kelly outbreak is

42:56

one of murder and revenge a

42:58

vicious crime spree of violence and

43:00

daring bank daring the

43:02

cat and mouse game turn ever more

43:04

dangerous with the introduction of terrifying

43:07

aboriginal fracking team sent

43:09

into team bush is to take

43:11

that is gang down will

43:14

they succeed in bringing ned kelly to justice

43:17

or will the outlaw push range

43:19

or achieve his ultimate goal destroying

43:22

the corrupt forces of colonial

43:24

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