‘Burnt to a Cinder – Was I?’

The escape & life of outlaw Dan Kelly member of the notorious Ned Kelly Gang

by Vince Allen and Carolyn Allen

Artisans Attic, 2002, [First Edition], ISBN 0958120803, paperback  

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, uncreased spine (see photographs)

“I have told this story just as Dan Kelly told it to me when I met him – the outlaw never died in that fire at the hotel in Glenrowan, Australia, and all those reports about his charred body being found are not correct.  That body belonged to someone else.
My grandfather, Jack Allen, knew the Kelly’s well – I have a newspaper (The Truth) photograph of Grandfather and Dan chatting at the Redbank Hotel on 29^th December 1935.  This photo is in the John Oxley Library for anyone to see.
So you can see I’m not kidding about Dan escaping from that hellish blaze in 1880.  Grandfather wasn’t the only one to recognise Dan in 1935 and I wasn’t the only one to meet him.  And Dan told me his story because of Grandfather.
Ned Kelly is an Australian hero.  Australians have not forgotten the Kelly Gang and their fight for justice.  Bushranger or Revolutionary?  That’s not for me to decide.  Dan Kelly wanted the story of his extraordinary and unusually wild life told, and I have told it.”