Ned Kelly spoken by an eye-witness to Jerilderie robbery

Andrew Nixon the Jerilderie blacksmith interviewed in 1946 at age 92 regarding his personal eye-witness account of the Kelly Gang's visit to the small NSW town in February 1879
Thanks goes to Trevor Gordon for sourcing a copy of the audio to make this video possible and Joey Shogun for soucing the image of Andrew Nixon
More info; en.m.wikipedia...

[@trevorcheeseman2356]

Great recording. Pity there is not many more of these eyewitness accounts recorded, to verify what actually took place.

[@mikecoulson9709]

An eyewitness account recorded many years later is neither to be discounted or totally accepted without supporting evidence. Eyewitness statements taken immediately after the event are notoriously unreliable, an old man relating events that took place many years previously cannot be expected to recollect all the details of what occurred. He may be substantially correct, I think he is, but he may have misremembered.

[@shaundouglas2057]

Legendary stuff.

[@mondomacabromajor5731]

brilliant recording .... such a dark but pivotal period of australian colonial history ....

[@aquablue8028]

Wow! What a find! Thank you for uploading this. 😀👍

[@simplesimon4717]

It's interesting that when asked by Nixon why he took to the Bush Ned said that it was the Police persecution of his mother and a policeman dishonoured his sister. Well worth a listen, it is a great insight. It shows that apart from the speech, people just went about their business like we do today!

[@1959DJW]

Finally!

[@gogogeedus]

This old guy must be a good example of the original Australian accent, a lot of people think they know how Aussies should sound but we have had so much migration in the last 100 years that has influenced the Aussie accent, I know the guy is 92 so it is not the voice of an average aged person but it's a great insight into how Aussies were in those days. I had a person once who could not understand the word TAP when I said it. I had to repeat it ten times and do that action of turning a tap before the person understood what I was saying, She looked like an Aussie but couldn't understand the word TAP spoken in an Aussie accent.

[@a1176789]

Very interesting. What year is this recording from?

[@stevejager8088]

Recording was made around 1946

[@eliotreader8220]

i find that mentioning of the policeman's pocket watch to be very interesting i understand ned's family returned it to his family some years after he was hanged

[@JosieHodl]

This eye witness seems to know too much....

[@mikeoz4803]

You can never know enough!