especially to those whose only knowledge of the gang has been derived from folk tales and the reading of previous works of fiction founded on fact." His one criticism was that although the author seemed determined "to paint every action of the police as black as possible," the book throughout "has the ring of truth." Copyright infringements The book was plagiarised twice by J.M.S. Davies in 1930, the year after its publication, in serialised accounts of the Kelly Gang for Adelaide's Register News-Pictorial and for the Melbourne Herald. Kenneally had writs from the Supreme Court issued against both papers' publishers, and the latter were forced to pay him compensation. The Herald again managed to ignore Kenneally's copyright four years later in its publication of Roy Bridges' centenary history of Victoria and was again forced to pay Kenneally for breach of copyright. Book's legacy The book is now viewed as "a major contribution" to the understanding of Ned Kelly and early editions are prized by collectors. It has gone through nine editions: two self-published, six by four different Melbourne-based publishers, and one by Victoria's Standard Newspapers. Sidney Nolan, one of Australia's most iconic painters, used the book as inspiration for his famous 1946–47 Ned Kelly series. The series of 27 paintings including The Trial, at the National Gallery of Australia, feature the now-iconic figure of Kelly as his black iron helmet. The book appears prominently in the bonus features section "Ned Kelly in Popular Culture" of the DVD for 2003 Ned Kelly film starring Heath Ledger.<ref>"Ned Kelly in Popular Culture" in Bonus Features in Ned Kelly," 2004</ref> The title of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel, True History of the Kelly Gang (2000), references Kenneally's 1929 title. Personal life and family He married Emelie Winifred Deegan of Castlemaine, Victoria on 21 January 1903, sister of Poet and author, Thomas Patrick Deegan, in the resort town of St Kilda, a Melbourne suburb. They had three sons and two daughters. He and his brother Matthew maintained a close relationship with the Kelly family: Jim Kelly, the youngest of the Kelly brothers, served as pallbearer at Matthew's funeral in 1937. He died on 20 February 1949, in Royal Melbourne Hospital and is buried in the Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park. His wife died five years later, on 15 March 1954. Science writer Christine Kenneally is a great-granddaughter, and wrote a piece about the search for