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Aaron Sherritt was born in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran in August 1854, to Irish migrants John and Agnes Ann (née Nesbitt) Sherritt. He was the eldest of 13 children. He grew up at Woolshed near Beechworth and was a childhood friend of Kelly gang member Joe Byrne. On 26 December 1879, Sherritt married fifteen-year-old Ellen "Belle" Barry ...
26 June 1880 – Joe Byrne shot Aaron Sherritt dead because Sherritt gave the police information about the Kelly Gang in exchange for money. 27 June 1880 – Ned Kelly's Last Stand – The Kelly Gang held the town of Glenrowan, Victoria, hostage at the town's inn in an attempt to ambush police. The attempt failed, and a siege ensued on the 28th ...
Scene 4: Various gang members and supporters evade the police and the gang killing of Aaron Sherritt. Scene 5: The attempt to derail a train and scenes at the Glenrowan Inn. The police surround the hotel, Dan Kelly and Steve Hart "die by each other's hands" after Joe Byrne is shot dead. Scene 6: The closing scenes.
A Maryland man walked into a Baltimore police station and confessed to two murders he said he committed over a decade ago, according to the city’s police department. Scott Barnett, 45, entered ...
A teenage hunter allegedly shot dead his parents and younger brother before taking his own life in a horrifying murder-suicide. Clifford Hunt Jr., 19, is believed to have shot parents Michelle, 48 ...
Sherritt's murder. On 26 June 1880, Dan and Byrne rode into the Woolshed Valley. That evening, they kidnapped a local gardener, Anton Wick, and took him to Sherritt's hut, which was occupied by Sherritt, his pregnant wife Ellen and her mother, and a four-man police watch party. [122] Byrne forced Wick to knock on the back door and call out for ...
Instead of trying to solve why the athlete killed his friend, ... Aaron Hernandez was born in Bristol, Connecticut, on November 6, 1989. His father, Dennis Hernandez, was a former star football ...
The night prior to holding up the Curnows, gang member Joe Byrne murdered police informer Aaron Sherritt, near Beechworth. The gang subsequently converged on Glenrowan and, by evening, had taken some sixty-two people hostage, with men held in the Glenrowan Inn and women and children in the nearby home of stationmaster John Stanistreet.