Media: BOOK - paperback, 132 pages
Author: C. Chomley
Year: 2021
ISBN: 9781922473295
Other: b&w photos, sketches
Publisher: ETT Imprint

The True Story of the Kelly Gang of Bushrangers was originally published in 1900, and was a highly researched biography of the notorious 19th-century Victorian family of bushrangers. Chomley wrote the biography using court documents, police records and court evidence. It is recognised as being one of the most accurate depictions of the story of Ned Kelly, particularly regarding the police involvement. This important publication has now been reprinted.

In his discussion of The True Story of the Kelly Gang of Bushrangers, Paul Eggert writes: "He often expresses scepticism about the extant accounts of events and of motives, but his attitude is always one of confident understanding and conservative judgement". As the nephew of Arthur Wolfe Chomley, the Assistant prosecutor at Ned Kelly’s trial in 1880, and the nephew of Hussey Malone Chomley, a police officer during the Kelly years, Chomley had a unique insight into the case.

Contents:
1. The murders on the wombat
2. Finding the bodies
3. The bushrangers' country
4. Why the Kellys 'went out'
5. Police preparations
6. Mr Nicholson in pursuit - the Outlawry Bill
7. The Rat's Castle fiasco
8. The outlaws' lost to sight
9. Mr Wyatt and the broken wires
10. The sticking-up of Faithfull's Creek
11. The Euroa bank robbery
12. A change in the command
13. The Kelly Gang at Jerilderie
14. The camp at Mrs Byrne's
15. Fruitless efforts
16. A change in the place of campaign
17. Aaron Sherritt's death
18. The prisoners at Glenrowan
19. The assault upon the hotel
20. Fire and flames
21. The last of the bushrangers