Site 9 - Site of the Residence and Printing office of the Jerilderi

Address: Enter via 45 Jerilderie Street (Jerilderie Library)

On Monday 10 February 1879, Ned Kelly tried to find Samuel Gill to print the “Jerilderie Letter”.  Mr Gill, on realising something was amiss in the Bank had taken off for ‘Carrah Homestead’ whereupon a messenger could be sent to ‘Coree Homestead’ and then on to Deniliquin to inform the Police. Ned tried to hand the now famous “Jerilderie Letter” to Mrs Gill who refused to take it, upon which Mr Living offered to take custody of it until Mr Gill’s return when it could be published. Mr Living did not give the manuscript to Gill, but kept it himself, and it did not re-surface until more than 100 years after the event.

Bolt Exhibition

Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm (closed Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday)

‘Doing the Bolt’ is an exhibition of convicts and bushrangers, including the town’s famous three-day encounter with the Kelly Gang in 1879. You can undertake a self-guided tour through the Old Printery (entrance via Jerilderie Library) to discover stories connected by ‘the bolt of a prison door’. The exhibition is housed in the former office of the Jerilderie and Urana Gazette run in 1879 by Mr Samual Gill. The Kelly Gang tried to track down newspaperman Gill on Monday 10 February 1879, to have Ned’s 56 page manifesto printed. 

Take the virtual tour.