Ned Kelly spoken by an eye-witness to Jerilderie robbery

Andrew Nixon the Jerilderie blacksmith interviewed in 1946 at age 92 regarding his personal eye-witness account of the Kelly Gang's visit to the small NSW town in February 1879
Thanks goes to Trevor Gordon for sourcing a copy of the audio to make this video possible and Joey Shogun for soucing the image of Andrew Nixon
More info; en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A...

[@simplesimon4717]

It's interesting that when asked by Nixon why he took to the Bush Ned said that it was the Police persecution of his mother and a policeman dishonoured his sister. Well worth a listen, it is a great insight. It shows that apart from the speech, people just went about their business like we do today!

[@mondomacabromajor5731]

brilliant recording .... such a dark but pivotal period of australian colonial history ....

[@trevorcheeseman2356]

Great recording. Pity there is not many more of these eyewitness accounts recorded, to verify what actually took place.

[@aquablue8028]

Wow! What a find! Thank you for uploading this. 😀👍

[@eliotreader8220]

i find that mentioning of the policeman's pocket watch to be very interesting i understand ned's family returned it to his family some years after he was hanged

[@1959DJW]

Finally!

[@gogogeedus]

This old guy must be a good example of the original Australian accent, a lot of people think they know how Aussies should sound but we have had so much migration in the last 100 years that has influenced the Aussie accent, I know the guy is 92 so it is not the voice of an average aged person but it's a great insight into how Aussies were in those days. I had a person once who could not understand the word TAP when I said it. I had to repeat it ten times and do that action of turning a tap before the person understood what I was saying, She looked like an Aussie but couldn't understand the word TAP spoken in an Aussie accent.

[@a1176789]

Very interesting. What year is this recording from?

[@stevejager8088]

Recording was made around 1946

[@JosieHodl]

This eye witness seems to know too much....