![]() ![]() James Ryan was run over and killed by a coal train at Ipswich on 29 July 1948 while making his way home after a short stay at Brisbane General hospital where he was treated for dermatitis. It was too late then to worry about education the police were after us." I cannot read or write, and the nearest I ever went to getting education was one night when I slept in a deserted schoolhouse. Neither Ned nor myself ever spent a day in a schoolroom. It is 53 years since I had to clear out from Victoria, after Glenrowan, and I am now in my eightieth year. ![]() My memory is a bit hazy as to my earlier years. ![]() I am here now to prove that I didn't die in the fire at Glenrowan, and to tell the whole truth before it is too late." "My earliest memories are of Benalla, but I cannot think back further than when I was about 10 years old. For 53 years I have been a fugitive, with murder on my head. With a gnarled but steady hand he rakes over the ashes of a shock phase in the history of the colony, more than half a century ago, when red terror reigned in the bush and outlawry was a momentous, critical problem for the forces of law and order. Out of the lurid past he claims to step, heavy-jowled, bullet-headed the strength of an ox in his stocky frame and the tang of nearly four score of perilous years in his iron-clad philosophy. ![]()
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