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Ned was was taken from the Kimberley with cattle and abandoned in Fremantle when he was no longer needed. He started drinking and fell asleep on railway tracks and lost his arms when a train ran him over. He made his way to Forrest River Mission arriving in 1915 where he married Edith Jaymunda in 1919. He passed away in 1950 when a launch sank in the Cambridge Gulf.
