Ned attended school at Avenel until his father died they then moved between Greta and Glenrowan in northern Victoria on a farm
Ned was arrested for alleged assault on a Chinaman and held for ten days on remand but the charge was dismissed
ned was convicted of summary offences and imprisoned for six months•
the year after assualting a chinaman he was arrested and held in custody for seven weeks as a suspected accomplice of the bushranger, Harry Power, but again the charge was dismissed.
Ned's younger brother, James was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for cattle stealing in 1873; released in 1877 he went to Wagga Wagga where he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for stealing horses
Kelly worked for two years at timber-getting but in 1876 joined his stepfather in stealing horses
On 9 December the Kelly gang took possession of a sheep station at Faithfull's Creek
where they held up the National Bank, taking £2000 in notes and gold. This crime resulted in a doubling of the reward, the gang struck again, this time at Jerilderie,
in Melbourne Kelly was tried for the murder of Constable Thomas Lonigan at Stringybark Creek. He was found guilty and the judge and sentenced to death.
