Author: CHOMLEY, C.H.
Title: The True Story of The Kelly Gang of Bushrangers
Description: Melbourne, Pater & Co. 1900, First Edition. Soft cover, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, 156 pages (missing the last 3 pages), frontispiece and 7 plates, bottom corner of p. 49/50 torn out with the loss of a few words, lacking the original covers. Simple old card covers with the title "The KELLY GANG" from the original cover pasted on the front. This vintage book contains an detailed account of the Kelly Gang and their various exploits, painstakingly composed by the author from official documents, contemporary newspapers, and other sources of information. The Kelly Gang was a family criminal gang of bush-rangers that rose to infamy in late nineteenth-century Australia for a litany of crimes ranging from horse rustling to bank robbery. Contents include: "The Murders on the Wombat", "Finding the Bodies", "The Bushrangers' Country", "Why the Kellys 'Went Out'", "Police Preparations", "Mr. Nicholson in Pursuit.--The Outlaw Bill", "The Rats' Castle Fiasco", "The Outlaws' Lost to Sight", "Mr. Wyatt and the Broken Wires", "The Sticking-Up of Faithfull's Creek", "The Euroa Bank Robbery", etc. Fair.

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