Over Ned Kelly’s Grave.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10871, 15 April 1929, Page 5

Over Ned Kelly’s Grave.

SCHOOL TO BE BUILT AT MELBOURNE.

END OK HISTORIC GAOI.

Tho gloomy walls ot the old Melbourne gaol. 20.000 tons of hhiestmio, are thundering down about the graves of Ned Kelly. Albert \\ ill am Deeming, Martha Needle, and others notorious in Australian criminal records, to make way for the now engineering school at the Working Men's College The yard in which were buried those who no d ti e last grim p<-na'ty for their crimes is a lung r.-tangular one. surrounded by walls, aqpa:cntly built to last- eeiifuries. New tins area, long given over to the correction of bad citizens, is to he dedicated to the making and framing ot good citizens. The cheerful shouts of students will ring out where cnee prison belts tolled, and light feet will scamper through a bright new modern building. over a place- where once only furtive whispering, the wails of the condemned. and the rattling of irons could be heard. - That which is believed to b<i : cd Kelly's grave lies by itself, and the initials “E.lv.” with’ an arrow are on a wall some distance from the others. In tlih last few (lays, while tho workets have been tearing down the wall fronting the street, many curious passers-by have peered through the bicycle shed trying to the initials 'carved on the wall—.T.V.P., F.K., J.Ci, E.M.N., and manv others. ’ , Among the graves are those ot William Barnes. 1885; Freeland Morrell 1886; George SYme. 1888; Fdipi Castillo 1889; Robert Landfills. 1889.