Article Alert: Ned Kelly's Relatives Disagree Over Remains Plan

from google alerts...a couple of more articles of interest out of the plethora available..I am just cherry-picking ones to share, but you can go to google and search the news and find all you desire. Also,  I have decided to delay my new original blog posting for a few days so that it won't get lost in the news shuffle. Keep checking back for that. On to the articles....

There is one called Ned Kelly's Relatives Disagree Over Remains Plan that has the following:

Anthony Griffiths, a descendant of Ned Kelly's sister Grace, has said any public exhibition of the bones would be 'macabre and disgusting' and 'something out of medieval times'.

However another of Grace's descendants, Joanne Griffiths, told Drive with Lindy Burns she likes the idea of displaying the remains at the State Library.
To read more:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/09/02/3308486.htm

Then there is one wherein the Chief Commissioner (Ken Lay) weighs in on Ned Kelly. And I cannot believe what was alleged by the great grandson of Sgt Kennedy! (Well, yes, I can, actually, as he drags out that tired old furphy every chance he gets.)

From the article:

And scientists have identified the remains of iconic Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly but not everybody is celebrating. Ken Lay told Jon Faine he’d been speaking to the great grandson of Sgt Michael Kennedy who was murdered by Kelly at Stringybark Creek and who told him that Ned Kelly was no hero to his family while describing how his great grandfather had been shot in the back of the head while retreating.
To read more:

http://blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2011/09/jungle-drums-on-a-rudd-comeback-and-the-chief-commissioner-on-ned-kelly-and-angry-superintendents.html

Ok, I have to weigh in on this one. In Constable Thomas McIntyre's manuscript "A True Narrative of the Kelly Gang, by T.N. McIntyre, Sole Survivor of the Police Party Murderously Attacked by Those Bushrangers in the Wombat Forest, on the 26th October, 1878" he quotes a telegram from Sub-Inspector Pewtress in which it said of Kennedy:

"The body was face upwards and Kennedy's cloak thrown over it. It presented a frightening spectacle. He had been shot through the side of the head the bullet coming out in front carrying away part of the face.."

Note that McIntyre inserted the following statement in parentheses in the narrative just after that bit:

(This was a mistake as it was due to decomposition.)

Later in his narrative McIntyre had this quote from Dr. Reynolds regarding Kennedy's wounds:

There is a large wound in the centre of the sternum which I believe was caused by a charge of shot fired at a very short range and which passed completely through the body. He had also received other wounds one being in the right arm and one in the body under the arm."