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CANBERRA, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Bushranger Ned Kelly's headless body has finally been identified in Australia, more than 130 years after his execution in the Old Melbourne Gaol1, Victoria's Attorney- General Robert Clark announced on Thursday.
Clark said the bushranger's remains2 have been identified by doctors and scientists at the Victorian Institute of Forensic3 Medicine (VIFM).
Kelly was an Irish Australian bushranger, considered by some merely a cold-blooded killer4, while by others a folk hero and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against oppression by the British ruling class for his defiance5 of the colonial authorities. He was hanged for murder in 1880 at Old Melbourne Gaol. His daring and notoriety made him an iconic figure in Australian history, folklore6, literature, art and film.
The project involved collaboration7 with the ancient DNA8 laboratory EAAF in Argentina, which has worked with the VIFM on other forensic projects.
Clark said "This is an extraordinary achievement by our forensic team here in Victoria," he told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.
"To think a group of scientists could identify the body of a man who was executed more than 130 years ago, moved and buried in a haphazard9 fashion among 33 other prisoners, most of whom are not identified, is amazing." The investigation10 started when a skull11 believed to belong to Kelly was handed to the VIFM on Nov. 11, 2009.
The skull handed in in 2009 was found not to be that of Ned Kelly, and Glenrowan historian Gary Deans said the next step is to find Kelly's skull.
"The Government should put a request in the public arena12 for the return of Ned Kelly's skull," he told ABC News.
"We know thanks to Jack13 Cranston, who held the skull around 1929, that it was sitting on a detective's desk. This was around the same time that remains were dug up in the Old Melbourne Gaol.
"I imagine that that detective or somebody else took it home."
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1 gaol | |
n.(jail)监狱;(不加冠词)监禁;vt.使…坐牢 | |
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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4 killer | |
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者 | |
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5 defiance | |
n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗 | |
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6 folklore | |
n.民间信仰,民间传说,民俗 | |
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n.合作,协作;勾结 | |
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(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸 | |
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adj.无计划的,随意的,杂乱无章的 | |
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n.调查,调查研究 | |
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11 skull | |
n.头骨;颅骨 | |
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n.竞技场,运动场所;竞争场所,舞台 | |
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n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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