PEN AND INK SKETCH OF NED KELLY.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 89, 13 November 1880, Page 3

PEN AND INK SKETCH OF NED KELLY.

I went to the Criminal Court to see ~he&. Kelly (writ e3 the Melbourne correspondent of tl!e Sydney Bulletin), and, being furtunal c enough to have " a friend among the powers that be, I got m. There is nothing especially vil llano 113 about the outlaw's appearance. He is a rather handsome and essentially manly-looking fellow — just like many another young colonial Irishman who has tuken to hard work instead of bush» ranging. His principal characteristics are his height, which is above the average, and t!ie largeness of his eyes, which are of a pale blue or steel grey hue, and are guarded by remarkably long eyelashes. His eye-^ brows are heavy a»d almost straight, and his lips, so far as one could see 4 are so thin and determined-looking a3 to seem m some neg.isds out of keeping with his Celtic cheekbones/ No on© could see m his face eviden eof the ferocity with which he is credited, and after looking at him for a moment I could not, m. xiew ;>f all the sensational descrip! ions 0* Ins appearance, help thinking of wind Mr Ddlley said on a me-. monible occasion : — " Place the most honest and pleasing I'aee behind these, rails, and it aL once becomes a face that expresses every passion." Perhaps the Force won't take it as a compliment when I say Ned Kelly looks suspiciously lik.e a tall policeman m plain clothes.