Message #88726

[Bianca]

Grave discovered



On March 9, 2008 it was announced that Australian archaeologists believed they had found Kelly's
grave on the site of an abandoned prison.

The bones were uncovered at a mass grave, and Kelly's are among those of thirty-two felons who
had been executed by hanging. Historians had discovered records which suggested that Kelly's re-
mains were buried at Pentridge prison after having been removed from the Old Melbourne Gaol when
it closed in 1929.

Jeremy Smith, a senior archaeologist with Heritage Victoria said, "We believe we have conclusively
found the burial site but that is very different from finding the remains."

Forensic pathologists have examined the bones, which are much decayed and jumbled with the
remains of others, making identification difficult. However, Kelly's remains were identified by an old
wrist injury and by the fact that his head was removed for phrenological study.

Mrs. Ellen Hollow, Kelly's 62-year old great-niece, offered to supply her own DNA to help identify
Kelly's bones.



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