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Ned Kelly the armored criminal
bushranger 1855 to 1880 Edward Ned Kelly
is Australia's most famous bushranger
that was born in June 1855 at beverage
Victoria Australia he was the eldest son
of 8 children - John red Kelly an Irish
convict exiled to Australia and Ellen
Quinn in 1869 Kelly found his first
brush with the law when he was arrested
for assaulting a Chinese farmer and was
held in police custody for several days
in 1871 he was arrested for riding a
stolen horse in fighting the police as a
result he was sentenced to three years
in prison at age 16
Kelly was released six months early from
Penn Ridge prison on the 2nd of February
1874 for good behavior in April 1878 Ned
and his brother Dan Kelly went into
hiding from the police after Ned was
accused of shooting constable
Fitzpatrick when Dan was being arrested
for horse theft there are different
accounts from Holt's eyes as to whether
Kelly Shoppach constable or whether the
wound was self-inflicted Ned Kelly's
mother and the others were arrested for
abetting the attempted murder of
Fitzpatrick Ned and Dan Kelly now on the
run were joined by fellow Bushrangers
Joe Byrne and Steve Hart forming the
Kelly Gang in October the gang killed
three policemen who were tracking them
during a shootout at string G bark Creek
one of the police troopers constable
McIntyre escaped out of horse and
reported the killings the Victorian
Parliament outlawed the gang and the
reward for each gang member was raised
to 500 pounds dead or alive the gang
committed a series of armed bank
robberies at the end of 1878 and early
1879 in rural towns during this time
there was sympathizers for the outlaws
who kept an eye out for the police some
supported the gang because Kelly was
seen as a man of the people a poor
working-class man against the wealthy
landowners others because of fear of
reprisals - giving away the whereabouts
of the gang - the police
as a form of protection for potential
future bank robberies Ned Kelly and his
gang constructed armor made from plow
mould boards the padded iron armor
featured a headpiece breast and back
plates and an apron which all together
weighed about 97 pounds or 44 kilograms
in June 1880 the gang after killing a
police informant named Aaron Sherritt
tried to derail a police trained England
Rouen by forcing two railway workers to
damage the tracks dressed in the armor
they had made they had took hostages in
the hotel there when the police train
arrived it was stopped before it could
be derailed as schoolteacher Thomas Kerr
now had warned the driver earlier Curnow
had convinced the sleep-deprived Ned to
release him Ned did so and told him to
go quietly to bed and not to dream too
loud otherwise they would shoot him the
police surrounded the hotel and a
shootout commenced during their last
stand
gangs lack of sleep and alcohol
intoxication caused an overconfidence in
the armor the three gang members were
killed except for Ned that had fired at
the police with his revolver and the
police's bullet fire bounced off his
armor however he was incapacitated when
the police ended his legs which had no
protection Ned Kelly was put on trial
and sentenced to death by hanging his
last words were reported as my well I
suppose it has come to this and my other
accounts as such his life
Kelly was buried in an unmarked grave
and it is presumed that his remains were
dug up by souvenir hunters in the 1970s
Ned Kelly skull was stolen from a museum
display and has not been found this day
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