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Outlaws

NED KELLY – THE Outlaw’s head
putondisplay
NATION’S HERO USA 1853

AUSTRALIA 1800 Abandofdesperados
known as The Five
Despitebeingacold-blooded
Joaquins terrorised
killer, Ned Kelly was celebrated by
CalaverasCountyin
some as a champion of the poor
California, cattle rustling
Irish-Australians.
and murdering lawmen.
The son of an
Joaquin Murrieta, thought
Irishman who was
to be from Mexico, was
shipped to Australia by
their leader. In response,
British authorities for stealing
Ned Kelly pigs, Kelly followed in his father’s thegovernorformedthe
wore his California State Rangers and
suit of footsteps. He became a fully promised them a $1,000
homemade fledgedfugitivein1878 and went
armour reward if they could capture
during his ontoleadagangofmurderers the men. When the rangers
last stand andthieves.But,after gaining
finallycorneredthebandits,
notoriety for his exploits, the
they cut off Murrieta’s head
image of Kelly in his homemade
as proof, preserving it in
armour captured the imagination
a jar of alcohol. The head
of the public, and he came to wastakenonatouraround
representafightbya flawed Murrieta’s head ended up in the San thestateandpeoplewere
hero for ‘justice and liberty’ and Francisco Museum, where it was destroyed charged $1 to see it.
in the earthquake of 1906
‘innocent people’.
O Outlaw becomes O Satsuma O Rule of Law O Nuremberg Trials O The most-wanted O UAE outlaws 82
emperor Rebellion The Rule of Law is the British jurist and Lord Wanted poster terrorist groups
Kassa Haile Darge Saigō Takamori, idea that society should Chancellor John Simon AMostWantedposter TheUnitedArab
began his career the so-called be ruled “by law, not tries to bring back the for Jesse James Emirates blacklists
as an outlaw, but, ‘Last Samurai’ men.” The phrase is Medieval concept of sells for $42,000 82 organisations as
after becoming a and leader popularised by British outlawry to execute in Denver, US. The ‘terrorists’ to increase
political leader, is of imperial jurist AV Dicey. captured Nazi war reward offered was awareness of threats.
crowned Emperor forces, rebels 19th century criminals, but he is $5,000, a huge sum 2014
Tewodros II of against central The 2003 movie The Last overruled. in the 1800s.
Ethiopia. government. Samurai starring Tom 20 November 1945 – 2012
1855 1877 Cruise was inspired by the 1 October 1946
Satsuma Rebellion
1900 1920 1950 2000 2010 2015

O The Felons Apprehension Act O Billy the Kid escapes O The FBI’s first O Outlaw motorcycle
The Australian government While climbing the steps to ‘Wanted’ poster gangs at large
declares that a person who does his prison cell, Wild West When the precursor to A report by the FBI
not turn themselves in to police outlaw Billy the Kid grabs the FBI is enlisted to find estimates there are
custody before a certain date is an a six-shooter, shoots his an escaped soldier, they 44,000 members of
outlaw and can be apprehended guard and bolts on a compile a memo and label outlaw motorcycle
“dead or alive” by anyone. horse. 1881 it ‘Identification Order No gangs in the US.
1865 Billy the Kid was only 21 years 1’ – essentially the first FBI 2011 The Hell’s Angels are classed as
old when he was shot. He was Wanted poster. one of the big four motorcycle
17 when he killed his first man 1919 gangs in the US
America’s most wanted Robbers get 300 years
USA 3 APRIL 1882 ENGLAND 8 AUGUST 1963
Jesse James and his brother Franklin In the early hours, a gang stopped and robbed
learned to kill in the civil war and a Royal Mail train, stealing £2.6 million
never looked back. They joined a gang (nearly £50 million in today’s money) from
of ex-soldiers and common thieves inside it. The 12 men were given some of the
and stole from banks, stores and trains, longest sentences in British history, totalling
murdering and maiming as they went. 307 years. The heist was on such a scale
But James didn’t go out in blaze of that it recalled the rail robberies of the Wild
gunfire, he was shot in the back of the West, but the judge said that the crime was
head while dusting a picture. Pulling the “not romantic” but motivated solely by greed.
trigger was a new recruit into his gang, Two gang members, Charlie Wilson and
Bob Ford, who had struck a deal with the Ronnie Biggs, escaped from prison; Wilson
The media turned Jesse James into a governor of Missouri to be acquitted of a was captured in 1968 and Biggs returned to
Robin Hood-like figure who gave to the Bruce Reynolds masterminded
poor, but historians say this is false previous crime. the 1963 Great Train Robbery Britain voluntarily nearly 40 years later.

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