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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Article Alert: Police Map Discovery Takes Gloss Off Ned Kelly

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There is a story in The Age of Sept. 12, 2011 entitled Police Map Discovery Takes Gloss Off Ned Kelly.

From the article:

Researchers have uncovered evidence showing the Kelly gang more as ruthless police killers than misunderstood rebels.

Historians have discovered a map detailing how the gang murdered policemen sent to capture them in north-eastern Victoria in October 1878.

Elizabeth Marsden, the Victoria Police Museum collections manager, said a diagram outlining where the bushrangers gunned down three policemen at a camp site in the vicinity of Stringybark Creek had been discovered in old files as researchers began collating information about the Kelly gang....

To read more:


http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-map-discovery-takes-gloss-off-ned-kelly-20110911-1k45i.html


The article, somewhat abbreviated (and without a photo of the map like there was in The Age) was also in the SMH and entitled Map Reveals Kelly 'Ambushed' Police.



http://www.smh.com.au/national/map-reveals-kelly-ambushed-police-20110911-1k4bx.html

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