17 July 2009
Ian Jones
Collectors ABC 1
Episode 22
Ned Kelly's 'Betty'

Ian Jones was obviously as outraged as most of us, even more so, with regard to Penzig's moronic outburst during the ABC 'Collector's' episode on May 22 (see below) that he felt compelled to respond. Ian not only sets us straight on what really happened during the McCormick Incident but makes it quite clear 'historians' like Penzig have no idea about real history. This segment is also worth a look as Ian Jones also displays one of his most prized possessions, Ned Kelly's Snider-Enfield 577 caliber hunting rifle which Kelly referred to as 'Betty'.

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Episode 22 Ned Kelly's 'Betty'

22 May 2009
Edgar Penzig
Collectors ABC 1
Episode 14
Ned Kelly Bust

I don't blame the ABC for airing this bloke's thoughts on Ned. After all their researchers are an under paid and inexperienced lot who wouldn't know a sow's ear from a silk purse. What I don't understand is if Edgar finds Ned so repugnant why does he have a bust of his death mask? The answer? Without Ned this bloke Penzig would be just another bald headed uneducated twit. How can he be uneducated if he has the initials F.A.I.H.A. after his name? Easy, he made them up! Penzig even had a certificate printed which hangs on his wall. Don't believe me? Then call into Glenrowan and see Gary Dean's one on his wall. Edgar gave him a certificate too (and those initials) because he and Edgar are best mates... And with a ruddy complexion like that, Edgar should lay off the cream sherry!

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Episode 14 Ned Kelly Bust

30 August 2008
Tully Tubby Strikes Again
source: Is Jack the Ripper buried in Brisbane?
Penny Brand

A Brisbane cemetery may be the resting place of one of the most notorious homicide suspects of all time, Jack the Ripper. On the eve of the 120th anniversary of the first of the murders of five prostitutes in London's Whitechapel area, keen Ripperologists have made the chilling claim he could be buried at Toowong Cemetery, in Brisbane's west. They claim the man they think was Jack the Ripper was Walter Thomas Porriott, known to police as Andrew John Gibson. The headstone where he was buried in 1952 does not even mention his name. Instead it reads: "Bessie" died 25th June 1957 and her husband.

A grainy image on the headstone, depicting a caped-man raising a dagger, adds to the mystery. Porriott was a convicted killer and fraudster who had 20 wives and was buried at Toowong Cemetery beside his last wife Eliza, known as "Bessie". He lived in London when all five murders were committed and sailed to Australia after the murders stopped. The latest Brisbane theory is one of hundreds about the identity of the never caught killer, who went on a brutal rampage through London for five months in 1888.

Brisbane historian and Ipswich City Councillor Paul Tully said the latest claim was "sketchy in detail. All of the theories are based on circumstantial evidence and a lot of supposition," he said. "That's why being another theory, I don't think this is... Jack the Ripper. But it can't be ruled out." Cr Tully said exhuming the grave for DNA testing would be "inappropriate". "I don't know that digging up people on a speculative basis would be appropriate." Mr Tully has previously claimed Ned Kelly's younger brother Dan and fellow gang member Steve Hart survived the famous Kelly gang shoot-out at Glenrowan 125 years ago and came to live in Ipswich. He has now become a self-professed Ripperologist who is writing a book which details the notorious killer's connection to Australia. "It is possible we might still find out one day who Jack the Ripper was. It is equally possible that no one will ever know." Porriott joins Frederick Deeming, who was hanged in Melbourne in 1892 for killing his wife, as the other Australian link to the Jack the Ripper mystery. Deeming went to the gallows claiming he was Jack the Ripper.

What is in the water up at Ipswich? And why is this Tully bloke still a city councillor?  Why hasn't he retired after all the millions he made starring in the movie Kenny? After all, Tully looks more like that turd-flushing hero than the actor Shane Jacobson does! Yes, Paul Tully (or Kenny Smyth), is that self-same moron who claims to have Dan Kelly buried in the local cemetery after his amazing escape from the Glenrowan siege. Now Tully claims some plot in the Toowong Cemetery holds the remains of Jack The Ripper. He's so keen to convince the world this is Mr Ripper (God, it must have been a slow news day when the papers picked this gem up) that he hasn't even had time to convince himself. Especially if you go by this quote from the above report, ' I don't think this is... Jack the Ripper. But it can't be ruled out'. Really? Next thing you know he'll be teeming up with dear old Bill Denheld* and going on a two man crusade to remove all those 'pesky facts' from our history pages. Actually, I can picture their road show, much like Puppetry of the Penis only these guys won't have to drop their strides for you to see their private parts. Because Tully and Denheld are two 'knobs' that you can spot a mile off!

*In a recent article titled, Kelly boots 'burial clue' Bill Denheld claims that Ned Kelly was adopted, because, now-wait-for-it, some half demented distant relative of the Kelly clan told him so. Must be true then!