Descendants of the legendary Austrian robber recently Kelly, who was hanged for his crimes in 1880, demanded from the authorities to transfer them to his remains. That was reported by AFP, referring to representatives of the heirs Kelly. According to relatives of known criminals, they will pick up the remains in order to "bury them with all honors." They plan to bury him next to the graves of relatives robbers.
A little over a year ago, Australian archaeologists have found a mass grave in which, presumably, is the dust recently Kelly. The grave was found near Melbourne, in the place of prison Pentridzh. It is believed that the body of the offender was transported there in 1929. Previously, it was in the Melbourne prison, where Kelly was executed.
Now the descendants of robbers going to pick up the coffin with the body of Kelly from the mass grave, where in addition he was buried still 32 people from among the prisoners of Melbourne prison. In order to identify the remains of Kelly, his family are ready to provide their DNA samples, as the coffins, there is no special marks, which could determine which of them was buried robber.
Irish descent, Ned Kelly, was born in the Australian province of Victoria, where his father had moved after five years of penal servitude in Tasmania. For the first time the future bank robber with the law at the age of 12 years - when he was accused of stealing a calf, but he managed to escape punishment. Father Kelly was obliged to pay a penalty for misconduct of a son, but because he did not have the required amount, he was sent to prison, where he later died.
Unite with their relatives, Ned Kelly, has gathered a gang that promyshlyala theft of livestock. Later, he and his associates turned to looting banks, and within two years of successfully hiding from the police. After the murder of constables Victorian Parliament adopted an act that the offender and his outlaw gang. He was later arrested and sentenced to death.
The attitude of Australians to Kelly ambivalent: part of the country's inhabitants consider it a cruel criminal, while others see in it a fighter with the British colonial authorities. In the XX century, Kelly became a character of novels and movies. In 1970 came the picture on the screens "Ned Kelly" with Mick Dzhagerom starring role in 2003 in the same tape played Hit Ledzher, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts. In 2001, the Australian writer Peter Carey won the Booker Prize for his book "The True Story of Kelly gang".
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