Friday, 29 June 2007

On This Day

Many thanks to Leo our morse code guru at the Beechworth Telegraph Station for the interesting information about Beechworth.

On Tuesday 29th June 1880
9.00am Ned Kelly carried to the train for the journey to Melbourne, taken from the train at North Melbourne and conveyed by horse dawn vehicle to Melbourne Goal.

11.00 Telegraph sent by John Arundel of the Beechworth Burke Museum to the state secretary requesting that Kelly’s armour be given to museum.

Dan Kelly and Steve Hart buried at Greta Cemetary.

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