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Edward „Ned” Kelly byl australský zbojník irského původu. Narodil se ve městě Beveridge v britské kolonii Victoria irskému trestanci původem z irského hrabství Tipperary, a australské matce s irskými kořeny. Když mu bylo 12 let, jeho otec zemřel po 6měsíčním pobytu ve vězení za nelegální vlastnictví volské kůže. Po obvinění z pokusu o vraždu policisty v domě Kellyho rodiny roku 1878 začali po Nedu Kellym a jeho přívržencích pátrat policisté s pomocí aboridžinských stopařů. Poté, co on, jeho bratr a jejich spojenci zastřelili tři policisty, byli vládou Viktorie prohlášeni za psance.

Během „Kellyovské epidemie“ Kelly a jeho společníci spáchali několik ozbrojených loupeží a zastřelili Aarona Sherritta, známého policejního informátora. V dopise, diktovaném a odeslaném z Jerilderie v Novém Jižním Walesu během bankovní loupeže, Kelly sepsal seznam svých činů vedoucích k jeho prohlášení za psance. Kritizoval Britské impérium a obvinil irsko-australské katolíky, nosící vojenské či policejní uniformy, ze zrady svých lidí a své víry. Vyhrožoval hrůznými následky vůči těm, kdo by se mu pokusili vzdorovat, a dopis končí slovy „Jsem psancem, synem vdovy a mé příkazy musejí být uposlechnuty.” Po neúspěšném Kellyho pokusu o vykolejení a přepadení policejního vlaku se 28. června 1880 se svým gangem naposledy střetli s policií státu Viktorie. Kelly, oblečený v podomácku vyrobeném kovovém plátovém brnění a helmě, byl policisty postřelen do nohou, zatčen a následně obžalován ze zastřelení tří policistů. Byl shledán vinným ve třech bodech úmyslné vraždy a odsouzen k trestu smrti oběšením. Trest byl vykonán v Old Melbourne Gaol v listopadu 1880.

Již před svou popravou se Kelly stal legendární postavou Austrálie. Navzdory uběhlé době delší než sto let zůstává kulturní ikonou inspirující nespočet děl v umění, a je předmětem více biografií, než kterýkoliv jiný Australan. Kelly je ve své domovině stále předmětem sporů: zatímco jedni ho považují za australský protějšek Robina Hooda, druzí ho berou jako zabijáka nezasluhujícího si své postavení lidového hrdiny. Historik Geoffrey Serle řekl o Kellym a jeho gangu, že byli „posledním překročením hranice zákona něčím, z čeho se postupně stávala vysoce organizovaná a vzdělaná společnost; poslední protest mocné buše, nyní přibitý kovovými hřeby k Melbourne a světu.” Novinář Martin Flanagan píše: „To, co z Neda dělá legendu není, že ho každý vidí stejně - je to to, že ho každý vidí. Jako požár v buši sálající svou červenou září do noci.” Wikipedia  

✵ 3. červen 1855 – 11. listopad 1880
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Ned Kelly: Citáty anglicky

“The Police got great credit and praise in the papers for arresting the mother of 12 children one an infant on her breast and those two quiet hard working innocent men who would not know the difference a revolver and a saucepan handle and kept them six months awaiting trial and then convicted them on the evidence of the meanest article that ever the sun shone on it.”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“I will be compelled to show some colonial stratagem which will open the eyes of not only the Victoria Police and inhabitants but also the whole British army”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)
Kontext: It will pay Government to give those people who are suffering innocence, justice and liberty. if not I will be compelled to show some colonial stratagem which will open the eyes of not only the Victoria Police and inhabitants but also the whole British army and no doubt they will acknowledge their hounds were barking at the wrong stump.

“I could not suffer them blowing me to pieces in my own native land and they knew Fitzpatrick wronged us and why not make it public and convict him but no they would rather riddle poor unfortunate creoles.”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“Had I robbed, plundered, ravished and murdered everything I met my character could not be painted blacker than it as present, thank God my conscience is as clear as the snow in Peru.”

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Cameron Letter (1878)

“I will go a little further than that, and say I will see you there where I go.”

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To Judge Redmond Barry when told "May the Lord have mercy on your soul" after being sentenced to death by hanging.
Sentencing (1880)

“I am a Widow's Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)
Kontext: Neglect this and abide by the consequences, which shall be worse than the rust in the wheat of Victoria or the druth of a dry season to the grasshoppers in New South Wales I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning, but I am a Widow's Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

“If my life teaches the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may not exasperate to madness men they persecute and illtreat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.”

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Statements to the press (1880)

“The Queen must surely be proud of such heroic men as the Police and Irish soldiers as It takes eight or eleven of the biggest mud crushers in Melbourne to take one poor little half starved larrakin to a watch house. I have seen as many as eleven, big & ugly enough to lift Mount Macedon out of a crab hole more like the species of a baboon or Guerilla than a man.”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“Oh, what a pretty garden.”

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Passing through a small garden on the way to the gallows for his execution.
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“I am really astonished to see Members of the Legislative Assembly led astray by such articles as the Police, for while an outlaw reigns their pocket swells, tis double pay and country girls.”

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Cameron Letter (1878)

“[Fitzpatrick] seems a strapping and genteel looking young man, and more fit to be a starcher to laundress than a trooper, but to a keen observer he has the wrong appearance to have anything like a clear conscience or a manly heart. The deceit is plain lit to be seen in the white cabbage-hearted looking face.”

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Cameron Letter (1878)

“I threw big cowardly Hall on his belly I straddled him and rooted both spurs onto his thighs he roared like a big calf attacked by dogs … I used to trip him and let him take a mouth ful of dust now and again as he was as helpless as a big guano after leaving a dead bullock or a horse.”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“Fitzpatrick shall be the cause of greater slaughter to the rising generation than St. Patrick was to the snakes and toads of Ireland.”

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Cameron Letter (1878)

“I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also, who have no alternative but to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed, big bellied, magpie legged, narrow hipped, splaw-footed sons of Irish bailiffs or English landlords, known as 'officers of justice' or 'Victorian Police' who some call honest gentlemen but I would like to know what business an honest man would have in the Police as it is an old saying it takes a rogue to catch a rogue.”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“It appeared [based on the evidence given] that I deliberately took up arms, of my own accord, and induced the other three to join me, for the purpose of doing nothing but shooting down the police.”

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Sentencing (1880)

“That charge [stealing over 200 horses] has never been proved against me, and it is held in English law that a man is innocent until proven guilty.”

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Sentencing (1880)

“The public could not do any more than take firearms and assisting the police as they have done, but by the light that shines pegged on an ant-bed with their bellies opened their fat taken out rendered and poured down their throat boiling hot will be fool to what pleasure I will give some of them and any person aiding or harbouring or assisting the Police …”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“They are all damned fools to bother their heads about Parliament at all, for this is our country.”

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On the rural people of Victoria, said during a speech to his hostages at Glenrowan.
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“I wish to acquaint you with some of the occurrences of the present past and future.”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“More men than I have put men to death, but I am the last man in the world that would take a man's life. Two years ago—even if my own life was at stake—and I am confident, if I thought a man would shoot me—I would give him a chance of keeping his life, and would part with my own; but if I knew that through him innocent persons' lives were at stake, I certainly would have to shoot him if he forced me to do so; but I would want to know that he was really going to take my innocent life.”

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Sentencing (1880)

“… a day will come, at a bigger Court than this, when we shall see which is right and which is wrong. No matter how long a man lives he is bound to come to judgement somewhere, and as well here as anywhere.”

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Sentencing (1880)

“I would have scattered their blood and brains like rain I would manure the Eleven Mile with their bloated carcasses and yet remember there is not one drop of murderous blood in my Veins.”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“I would advise all those who joined the Stock Protection to withdraw their money and give it to the poor of Greta where I have spent and will again spend many happy days fearless free and bold as it only aids the police to procure false witnesses to lag innocent men I would advise them to subscribe a sum and give it to the poor of their district.”

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Jerilderie Letter (1879)

“I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side, and that after the worst has been said against a man, he may, if he is heard, tell a story in his own rough way that will perhaps lead them to intimate the harshness of their thoughts against him, and find as many excuses for his as he would plead for himself.”

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Statements to the press (1880)

“My mind is as easy as the mind of any man in this world, as I am prepared to show before God and man.”

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Sentencing (1880)

“Let the hand of the law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.”

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Statements to the press (1880)

“Everyone looks on me like a black snake.”

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Babington Letter (1870)