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Young British Artists of 2 generations Francis BAcon and Damien Hirst

Ned Kelly(1854 - 1880)
Nature Of the crimes Ned Kelly committed.
In April 1878, a police officer called Fitzpatrick accused Ned's mother of attacking him and Ned of shooting him in the wrist.
On the 26 October 1878, together with friends, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart, they came across police camped at Stringy Bark Creek.

Ned believed the police intended to kill him and Dan so he called on them to surrender.

But three of the officers resisted, and in the fight which followed Kelly shot them dead.

The reward for Kelly and his gang rose to two thousand pounds and would later rise to an amazing eight thousand pounds, the equivalent, today, of nearly two millions dollars!

But Ned had many supporters and for almost two years they helped the gang dodge police.

During this time the Kelly gang robbed two banks. ( while he was 16 )

The robberies were important in the making of the Kelly legend.

In defying authority, robbing the ...

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