Accomplice
Joe Byrne
- Born
- November 1856
- Died
- 28 June 1880, aged about 24
- Record
- Wikidata Q3545985 · Wikipedia
Accomplice in Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang
Wrote out Kelly's letters; killed Aaron Sherritt and was shot dead at Glenrowan.
1878–1880 · North-eastern Victoria and Jerilderie, New South Wales · Executed
Three police dead at Stringybark Creek, two bank raids and a last stand in plough-iron armour: how the Kelly outbreak ended on a Melbourne gallows. Read the case.
Dated events
Joe Byrne shoots police informer Aaron Sherritt in the Woolshed Valley.
The siege of the Glenrowan Inn: Ned Kelly is captured in his armour, Byrne, Dan Kelly and Hart die, and the inn is burned.