Telegram from Robert Ramsay, Chief Secretary to the Colonial Secretary reporting the capture of Ned Kelly wounded but alive and the other three members of the gang shot dead, sent from Melbourne 28 June 1880

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Queensland Police sub-inspector Stanhope O’Connor, Constable Thomas King and six Aboriginal troopers from the went to Victoria in 1879 to help search for the Kelly Gang. Victoria thanks Queensland for its help when Ned Kelly was captured in 1880.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 4666

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