Ned Kelly

early period

Ned Kelly was 5'10" tall, weight 11st 4lbs, medium build, sallow complexion, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, scar on top of head, two scars on crown, scar on front of head.

He was finally captured at the Glenrowan pub - later hung at Old Melbourne Jail.

He was captured during the Glenrowan Seige. Ned and his gang had planned to derail a police train and kill all the policemen on board, including the Queensland black trackers who had been running him down, but a school master (Curnow) escaped from the pub where Ned was buying drinks for the townspeople (who were being held as hostages so to protect them from the danger) and alerted authorities.

The train was stopped before it was derailed and Ned, Joe and Dan Kelly and Steve Hart were eventually surrounded in the pub along with the hostages. After the police superintendent was shot, the leaderless police fired indiscriminately at hostages trying to leave the pub until one of the constables threatened to shoot the sergeant (Steele) who was leading this murderous fire.

The armour the gang wore was well constructed, but did not cover their arms or legs, which the policemen quickly figured out and aimed for. Joe, Steve and Dan all lost their lives during this night, and Ned was captured, badly wounded from the fighting (Steele again had to be threatened with being shot as he attempted to murder the captured Ned).

While the conduct of some of the police was criminal, this did not apply to all. Nor does it discount the murderous careers of the gang.

Ned was transported by train to the Melbourne Gaol, where he awaited trial and was then hanged - his final words "Such is life".

For a full account see:

http://www.glenrowan1880.com/siege%20story.htm

Sydney Nolan

In a box

yes out of his other 7 brothers and sisters who are catherine maggie grace ann mary james and daniel.

Ned Kelly faced trial in October 1880.

yes but then he brock up and found someone alse

He used Ripolin which is a type of paint packaged as house paint- it was what he had available at his station in the Army at the time. It outlasted some brands of Artists Acrylics that have deteriorated from the same time period.

He used the bit that u use for plough that digs and turns

He Saved drowning boy ooooo ooooooo ah ah

Ned Kelly was a murderer, responsible for the deaths of several people. Whether or not one believes his punishment was fair depends on whether one believes a man should hang for the crime of murder.

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Yes he certaintly was captured by the police.

Kelly was only young - twelve - when his father died, and he was subsequently required to leave school to take on the new position as head of the family. Shortly after this, the Kellys moved to Glenrowan. As a teenager, Ned became involved in petty crimes, regularly targetting the wealthy landowners.

The story goes that Ned Kelly was influenced to become a bushranger. His family was not particularly liked by the law, being Irish, and so when he was persecuted by a few of the policemen, he reacted and decided to become an outlaw. He figured that if he was going to be charged for something, he would give them a real reason.

Kelly became a protege to another bushranger, Harry Power who was a notorious bushranger of Victoria, originally transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1841 for stealing shoes. Upon his release, he continued his life of crime, which landed him in Pentridge Gaol. He became a bushranger when he escaped from Pentridge in 1869. At first he worked solo, but decided after while that he would like an accomplice. A friend of his named Jack Lloyd had a nephew, Ned Kelly, just 15 years old and already embittered by frequent run-ins with the police. Lloyd recommended the young Ned Kelly to Harry Power. Power became a mentor to Ned Kelly, taking him on as an apprenctice in 1870, and teaching him the finer points of bushranging.

Ned Kelly gradually progressed to crimes of increasing seriousness and violence, including bank robbery and murder, soon becoming a hunted man.

ned kelly got in trouble by the police because he shot 3 police men, robbed 2 banks and stole cattle.

There is no record of Ned Kelly taking drugs.

Ned Kelly and his gang robbed the National Bank in Euroa on 10 December 1878. The reason was in order to gain some money, of course, which was about 2000 pounds.

Ned Kelly wore armour made from steel mould boards. Mouldboards are the metal part of a plough that digs into the soil and turns it over. Ned Kelly and his gang spent some months before their final siege fashioning these mouldboards into four suits of wearable armour.

The armour consisted of a helmet, a frontpiece and a backpiece. There was another separate plate, hung on straps, to protect the groin area. The plates were held together with straps and wire, one with shoulder tips and the other with side plates that joined the front and back plates. Ned Kelly was believed to wear a skullcap, possibly knitted, underneath the helmet. The helmets had holes and were thought to have been lined.

There are numerous sources which have different weights for Australian bushranger Ned Kelly's armour, most of which suggest it weighed between 41 and 50 kg.

he used a 55 calebire rifle

Yes.

On 10 December 1878, Kelly and his gang rode into the Victorian town of Euroa, where they robbed the National Bank of about 2,000 pounds.

Nedy Kelly robbed banks such as National bank of Euroa and had a number of hostages held at Faithful Creek. The outlaws including Ned Kelly went to a local police station and imprisoned police officers. Ned was a wanted man, The Victorian Government was offering $400,000 Australian Dollars for the capture of Ned and his gang. Ned Kelly was senteced to death because of murdering of three policeman sent to arrest the two Kelly brothers and as a result implicated two of their friends. The robbing of two banks at Euroa and Jerilderie which netted them approximately £4,400 and the manufacturing of suits of armour to be worn by members of the gang.

Kelly was hung at the Melbourne Gaol (now called Old Melbourne Gaol) in Russell Street between Victoria & Latrobe Streets Melbourne. His death mask and the gallows can still be seen there.

Some view him as a cop killer, whilst others as a folk hero.

However, most people who have not looked too deeply into this mans life will remember his steel armour - probably only the helmet.