Ambush: Ned Kelly and the Stringybark Creek murders

An exciting new temporary exhibition, Ambush: Ned Kelly and the Stringybark Creek murders will open at
the Victoria Police Museum on January 4, 2010.

Focusing on the police murders at Stringybark Creek by the Kelly Gang in October 1878, the exhibition
showcases the museum’s significant collection on the history of the ‘Kelly outbreak’.

Many of the documents shed new light on the immediate aftermath of the police murders and provide us
with unique insights into how the community and police dealt with this dramatic turn of events.

A highlight of the exhibition will be a number objects that have never been seen before, including a map
depicting the site of the Stringybark Creek ambush, hand-drawn by the sole surviving police officer,
Constable Thomas McIntyre.

"I said to Kennedy, ‘Oh Sergeant…I think you had better surrender for we are surrounded’. His face
immediately assumed a serious look. I turned round to look at Kelly, who was in the act of changing
his rifle…his mates just now broke cover and advanced"

Thomas McIntyre

Also on display for the first time will be Ned Kelly’s blood-stained cartridge bag recovered by Sergeant Steele
at the Glenrowan siege in 1880.

"That is Ned Kelly’s cartridge bag. That is the one he was

wearing at Glenrowan...And that stain is his blood."

Sergeant Arthur Steele