Melbourne Daily Telegraph
Meet the people of the KellyGang story
Importance of the Melbourne Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph was a major daily Melbourne
newspaper
. It reported most of the events of the
KellyGangLinks
to the KellyGang, Early Years , Fitzpatrick
Incident , Murders at Stringy Bark Creek , Sebastopol Cavalcade , Euroa Robbery
, Jerilderie Robbery , Autum 1879 , Hare replaced by Nicolson , Spring 1879
Early 1880 , Death of Aaron Sherritt , Glenrowan Siege
, Ned Kellys Trial , Royal Commission
Part owner and manager, James McKinley
Links to the KellyGang
Fitzpatrick
Incident 15/04/1878
The
story of the Fitzpatrick incident was not really a big story in the city, although
the details would be told later, particularly in the aftermath of the Glenrowan
Siege
Murders at Stringy Bark Creek in the Wombat Ranges 26/10/1878
Sebastopol
Cavalcade 7/11/1878
Jerilderie
Robbery 10/2/1879
Government
withdrew advertising from the Daily Telegraph (
OMA13/3/1879)
Hare
replaced by Nicolson 6/7/1879
Nicolson
replaced by Hare 2/6/1880
Death
of Aaron Sherritt 26/6/1880
Glenrowan Siege 28/6/1880
The
Daily Telegraph's reporter at the Glenrowan siege were George Allen
and ? (there was a second local reporter).
There was a great crowd around the Daily Telegraph office all day as news
came from Glenrowan (Daily Telegraph29/6/1880)
Early history of the Daily Telegraph
Later history of the Daily Telegraph
The
Melbourne Daily Telegraph ceased publication in the early 1900s
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