Dimensions
170 x 235 x 20mm
On the night of 26 June, 1880, outlaw Joe Byrne, lieutenant of the Kelly Gang, shot his lifelong mate, Aaron Sherritt, declaring to the dying man's mother-in-law and pregnant bride, "The bastard will never put me away".
It was almost too good to be true - a fitting end for the story's Judas and one that immediately guaranteed his place as the classic traitor of Australian history and folk lore.
The symmetry of the Byrne/Sherritt/Kelly story was so perfect that the verdict on Aaron Sherritt remained unchallenged for almost 90 years. In fact, it was 112 years before Kelly authority Ian Jones finished the enthralling and complex story that lay behind the murder of Aaron Sherritt: a story of betrayal and deception in which Sherritt became the victim - and the unwitting destroyer of the Kelly Gang.
