Example Of True Blue Story Of Ned Kelly Argumentative Essay

It has been long known that the English government has declared Edward Kelly and the rest of the members of his gang—the Kelly Gang, as outlaws, after they were accused and allegedly sentenced for killing three government subsidized troopers, an accusation which Kelly, together with his brother Dan, and the rest of their gang members strongly denied. According to Kelly’s Jerilderie letter which he wrote in February 10, 1879, it was never in his nor in his comrades’ intention to kill or to hurt any civilians and even members of the police force. They merely responded to the situations. An example of which was what happened during the Killings at a Creek in Stringybark in October 25, 1878; it appears that Kelly and his gang, fearing that they would not receive justice and equality even if they turn themselves in to the police after being declared a notorious and cold-blooded killer by the authorities, were hiding in a camp around the Stringybark creek area. The troopers at that time discreetly assembled and dispatched two heavily and at the same time, excessively armed police parties. The first party was from Greta—led by Sergeant Steele, and the second one was from Mansfield. Apparently, the reason behind the dispatching of two parties was to execute a pincer maneuver that would eventually corner Kelly and the rest of his gang, which the authorities had hoped would ultimately lead to his arrest, or death, should the circumstances arise. There were a total of 9 men involved in the incident. The two parties started scouring and investigating the nearby areas a few moments after their arrival. They wore civilian clothes as a form of disguise. The next day, when all member of the team was performing their search and capture duties, Constable McIntyre, one of the members of the Greta party, foolishly fired two gun shots towards a pair of parrots. According to the investigations conducted after the incident, it was these two shots that caused the search parties’ discovery by Ned Kelly and his gang. The gun shots aroused Kelly’s consciousness and immediately ordered his gang to search for and investigate the police. Later that afternoon at around 5 pm, Kelly attempted to rob Constables McIntyre and Lonigan off their firearms. Ned Kelly saw to it at that none of his four-man team will do any instigation that would lead to a killing because it was never his attention to kill. The surprise move that afternoon was intended to rob the police forces’ weapons and to threaten them so that they would retreat and both sides could go back to whatever they were doing before the government decided to bring in heavily armed search parties in the area. Things spiraled down when Constable Lonigan attempted to fight back. He ran off and reached for his revolver as if he was about to aim. Kelly was immediately prompted to act. He acted by immediately delivering a bullet towards Lonigan’s temple, shortly before the latter could have delivered one or even more towards him or any of his gang members in that incident. Kelly and the rest of his gang pushed their plans of looting the weapons and ammunitions—with knowledge that these are high caliber ones, of the dispatched police forces, killing a total of three troopers during the process, including Lonigan. Kelly and his gang were merely threatened by the presence of such heavily armed police search parties in a relatively remote and small area. Their actions can easily be justified by feelings of insecurity and knowledge that justice will never be given to them and that they will be shot death by these police forces the moment they are spotted.
Kelly, in some parts of his letters, contemplated about whether he would pity the family of those who were killed in Stringybark incident. He later on realized that he should not pity those people because the three officers who were shot dead in the incident did not have any pity for him, his mother who had to take care of an infant and suffer from the maltreatment and abuses of the authorities at the same time, and his younger brothers and sisters who did not have anyone to depend whenever they were harassed by the troopers in Greta.
If there is someone who needs pity, that would be Kelly. He had endured a lot of unnecessary sufferings even before he was practically exiled from his village. He was always the main suspect behind the stealing of horses, other livestock, and incidences of violence even if he knew nothing about such. One night, Constable Hall tried to unlawfully imprison Kelly due to mere accusations, which in reality are false accusations made up by either him or other troopers. Kelly tried to flee but was faced with a gun. He was of course forced to fight not only for his freedom but also for his life. He managed to hurt Constable Hall badly. Some men witnessed how he punished Constable Hall and helped the injured man. Kelly was tied down and was brought to the nearest trooper station. Constable Hall, as expected, revised the entire story in his favor. As a result, the court sentenced him to serve 3 years in Beech worth and Pentridges dungeons for a crime he did not even know about. He never intended to kill or to hurt anybody, even his critiques and enemies. He did not even want to take revenge after how the authorities manipulated the destruction of his life. As such, the allegations, which are most likely manipulated and stained by the local police force during that time, may be erroneous and one-sided. Kelly, according to the Jerilderie letter was a very helpful man and had clean intentions, even though he had to resort to unrighteous acts to feed his large family and survive the harsh living conditions at Greta during his time. It was sad, and at the same time, enraging to see him accused and punished for crimes he did not commit, and in the long run be labeled as an outlaw and a cold blooded killer when all he did was run and protect himself and his family.
Everything can be seen on Kelly’s letter. His side of the story was never properly heard during all the court trials he attended. Now that his letter has been discovered, it would only be fair to consider the validity of this account because both sides indeed deserve to be heard and it so happened that during Kelly’s time, all that the public was allowed and able to hear was the police forces’ side and not even a single word from Edward Kelly.