KELLY'S LETTER TO THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 314, 8 January 1879, Page 3

KELLY'S LETTER TO THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT.

4 A Melbourne paper has the following :—: — The long-talked-oi letter written by Edward Kelly was presented by the recipient, Mr- 1). Cameron, M.L A., to Mr. Graham Berry, at the Treasury yesterday. The Premier, on perusing the effusion, considered that no good could possibly follow by its publication, whilst it might have the effect of still further inflating the vanity of the ruffianly writer, who, at the foot of the rpistle, signs himself, in red ink, "Edward Kelly, enforced outlaw." The scoundrel in the letter accuses certain members of the police force of having committed grave offences against the chastity of certain female members of his family, and more particularly mentions the name of Trooper Fitzpatrick, whose evidence was mainly instrumental In convicting Mrs. Kelly of the murderous assault made upon him in connection with the attempted arrest of Dan Kelly, in April last. Edward Kelly accuses the police of having dogged him for years past, without any just cause, and he attributes the murder of Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lnnnigan and Scanlan to these circumstances. The outlaw, whose penman--^¦•iniF»*»«'by^Tio, means bad, niiii (k> m«it uablushing effrontry, and in the coolest manner, alludes to the assassinations, and states that murder was not contemplated by the gang— who merely, according to his statement, desired to possess themselves of the ill-fated troopers' arms and ammunition. The letter goes on to recapitulate the fearful scene of the three murders, and his account in the main agrees with the statements already given by Constable M'lntrye, the only survivor of the party who were despatched from Melbourne to arrest himself and his brother Dan. The desperado insists that the wrongs which he alleges his sisters have sustained at' the hands of certain constables thall be righted, and hints that if this plea be not attended to, still more sanguinary acts will be committed by himself and his confederates. Kelly does not ask for pardon, either for himself or his fellow-murderers.