Ned Kelly's Last Days
Subtitle: Setting the Record Straight on the Death of an Outlaw
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: July 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781741145380
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Kelly, Ned,; Death and burial; Bushrangers; Trials (Murder); Crime And Criminals; Judicial Process; History - General History; History; Biography / Autobiography; Criminology; History: World; Victoria; Australasia, Oceania & Other Land Areas; Courts - General; Australia & New Zealand - Australia; Criminals & Outlaws; History / Australia & Oceania; Australia & New Zealand - General; 1855-1880; Australia; Biography
Description: "Ned Kelly - Australia's beloved national icon - was once just a bushranger who had to be punished for his crimes. In 1880, everyone wanted him dead." "There are many stories that form the Kelly myth. But the side of the story rarely told is what really happened in the 137 days between Ned's last stand at Glenrowan and the day the hangman's noose was placed around his neck. Who was with him in his last hours, and why did he have so many powerful enemies? Ned Kelly's Last Days exposes the blatant cover-ups, the corruption and the rampant press baying for blood that were ultimately Ned Kelly's death sentence."

"Piecing together a vast jigsaw of obscure records and unpublished material, Alex Castles sets the record straight on the highly questionable judicial processes of the time and sheds a whole new light on the life and death of the most famous bushranger of them all."--Jacket.