The
Parkes Letter
Ned Kelly
March 14, 1879
To Sir Henry Parkes
Premier N S. W
My dear Sir Henry Parkes
I find by the newspapers that you have been very liberal
in offering a reward for the Kelly gang or any one
of them Now Sir Henry the man that takes I Captain
E. Kelly will have to be a plucky man for I do not
intend to be taken alive. And as I would as soon die
in NSW as Victoria I will give you or any other person
who wishes to take me a fair chance to try your pluck.
I am at present not very far from Bathurst (in fact
I have been in the town of Bathurst and has taken a
peep at the bank) Now I tell you candidly that I intend
to rob Bathurst and particularly the bank. So now you
are warned of course I will not say what time I and
the gentlemen that follows in my train will visit the
City of the plains. But one thing you can count on
that I will pay it a visit. Now Sir Henry I tell you
that highway robbery is only in its infancy for the
white population is been driven out of the labour market
by an inundation of mongolians and when the white man
is driven to desperation there will be desperate times.
I present my respects to the Sydney police
yours E. Kelly |
Steve
Hart descendant Paul O'Keefe has alerted me to yet
another ridiculous Kelly Gang claim (the latest in a line
of many). Not just content to see Dan escape, this time
around Steve also made a bolt from the Glenrowan Inn
fire (so why was Ned heading back when they had both left?).
Lucky Steve also headed north where he lived a long and
happy life in Queensland under the name of Billy Meade. Apparently
this Meade character confessed about his double identity
on his deathbed in 1938. Well, in that case, it
