Article Alert: Elder Reveals Her Ned Kelly and Don Bradman Links in Book

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The Fraser Coast Chronicle of January 5, 2013 has an article entitled "Elder Reveals Her Ned Kelly and Don Bradman Links in Book."


It begins with:

 The granddaughter of the Aboriginal tracker who helped capture bushranger Ned Kelly at Glenrowan, has finally revealed her life story.

Aunty Joyce Smith, the Butchulla people's oldest living elder, has spent the past three months working with local journalist Toni McRae on her book, Butchulla Marun (Butchulla Woman), which will be finished tomorrow.

Some of the anecdotes of Aunty Joyce's family link the Butchulla story with iconic Australian figures.

"My grandfather Gary Owen, a stockman from K'gari, Fraser Island, was hired by Hervey Bay's police sergeant Tommy King to go down to Victoria in pursuit of Ned Kelly," she said.

"But grandfather, who was my mother Maidie Owen's dad, never got the money they promised him. Sadly, when he was older the government shunted him off to Barambah mission, which is now known as Cherbourg, and he died there of a broken heart.


To read more (though that is all there is on the Kelly connection) see:

http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/elder-reveals-her-ned-kelly-bradman-links/1706544/