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• Kelly's Armour
  ...rts of the story of the '''KellyGang'''. The '''KellyGang''' only wore the armour once, at the siege of Glenrowan. === The idea for the Armour ===
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• Government and other documents
  | possible making of more armour
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 17 page 1
  ...ebruary Mr Nicolson had learnt of the theft of plough shares and [[Kelly's Armour|mould boards]] from several farms in the neighbourhood of Oxley, about nine ...ation is that the stolen portions of the ploughs were being converted into armour for the Kellys. That it fitted splendidly, and was proof against bullets at
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 4
  ...ck room the rattle of iron, for the Kellys were dressing themselves in the armour made from stolen ploughshares, preparing to do battle with any of the polic
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 19 page 4
  ...escape was gone, for, with the door locked, the outlaws went to don their armour, and, later, the people dared not venture out in the darkness in the face o
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 20 page 3
  ...suit, made of ¼-in. iron plates, weighed nearly 100 pounds. Unhampered by armour, the Kellys might at the last minute have made a bolt for liberty, and at a ...d. His career as an outlaw over for ever, he was presently stripped of his armour and carried to the railway station where a doctor attended to his wounds.
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 20 page 5
  ..., lying side by side in another part of the house. They did not wear their armour, which was, however, near them, and it may be that they shot one another ra
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 21 page 1
  ...pular theory was that, finding the case hopeless, they had taken off their armour and shot one another to prevent falling into the hands of the police. Reard
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• Cookson, 31 08 1911 2
  ...famous outlaw made his last stand, and secure in the belief that his heavy armour was invulnerable, fired away at the police so coolly that they might be exc
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• Cookson, 02 09 1911 2
  ...t pretty drunk. They started preparing to go away, putting their [[Kelly's Armour|iron clothes]] on. But they got wandering all over the house, and some of t
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• Cookson, 03 09 1911 1
  ...or pistol. It was no use trying to reach a vulnerable place in that man's armour with a bullet. Shot was the stuff for that job; good big shot. And that's w
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• Cookson, 06 09 1911 2
  '''THE PLOUGHSHARE ARMOUR''' ''BY WHOM WAS IT MADE'' The iron [[Kelly's Armour|armour,]] thanks to which the Kelly outlaws were enabled to ward off death, dozens
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• Cookson, 06 09 1911 3
  There is a popular belief that the name of the maker of the Kellys' [[Kelly's Armour|armor]] is unknown to any save one or two intimate associates of the outlaw ...rts of spirits, that the Kellys stuck up the Melbourne Museum and took the armour out of there. He remembered, he said, having seen exactly similar armor the
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• Cookson, 13 09 1911 2
  ...and beyond the question of how, where and by whom the heavy iron [[Kelly's Armour|armor]] worn by the outlaws on desperate occasions was manufactured.
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• Cookson, 24 09 1911 1
  ...ucted by some country blacksmith out of ploughshares. The marks on Kelly's armour showed that he had been hit 17 times with bullets.
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• Cookson, 24 09 1911 5
  ...rom the appearance of the bodies of Hart and Dan, they had taken off their armour and committed suicide. Their identity has never been called in question dur
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• Cookson, index (2)
  | '''THE PLOUGHSHARE ARMOUR'''
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 5
  ...other outlaws was also present. Kelly at the time had his [[Kelly's Armour|armour]] on, with a waterproof coat over all. They made Bracken dress himself, he ...The outlaws at once went into an adjoining room and began to put on their armour, but no one knew what they were doing. About ten minutes afterwards the tra
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 9
  ...ch they presented. I had then no knowledge that the outlaws possessed iron armour. Each one carried a bundle in front of him, and in one hand a gun or a rifl
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 4
  ...ried a grey coat over his arm, [he wore the coat over his [[Kelly's Armour|armour]]], and walked coolly and slowly among the police. His head, chest, back, a ...ith savage ferocity, cursing the police vehemently. He was stripped of his armour, and then became quite submissive, and was borne to the railway station by
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 1
  ...ucted by some country blacksmith out of ploughshares. The marks on Kelly's armour showed that he had been hit seventeen times with bullets.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 4
  ...found one revolver on him, and a bag of ammunition. We divested him of his armour. I was strained after the scuffle which ensued." ..., in which he still held his revolver. He fired it, but did no damage. His armour was taken off, and he was carried to the railway-station, where he was sear
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 14 page 1
  ...I have no hesitation in saying that had they been without [[Kelly's Armour|armour]] when we first attacked them at the hotel, and could have taken proper aim ...l the banks, and probably secured £4000 or £5000. If they had worn their armour with overcoats they might have been shot at fifty times without being injur
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (52)
  '''THE ARMOUR AND AMMUNITION''' The Kellys decided to get some kind of [[Kelly's Armour|covering]] that would resist a bullet at the close range of ten yards.  Th
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (53)
  ...eet, Melbourne, and it was arranged that the cousin who helped to make the armour should go with Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]] and a friend from Glenrow ...r.  The outlaws were now fully equipped with arms and ammunition and with armour; but they were in no hurry yet awhile to levy tribute on the banks.
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (59)
  ...ritt’s house; they also had a pack horse carrying their [[Kelly's Armour|armour]].  As they issued forth they came across a German named Anton [[Anton Wee
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (61)
  ...think Kelly might: he looked very stout.  He had nothing on his head (no armour).  I could see his face.  I did not see them try to set the house on fire
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (62)
  ...ot be in close touch with their guns and ammunition.  The four outlaws in armour could, if resisted, rake the train from end to end.  It the train refused ...ses in the train; that it was no use fighting, as the Kellys were in steel armour and could rake the train from end to end, and everything in it; that the be
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (63)
  ...la on the main Melbourne to Sydney road.  Ned and Joe rode and wore their armour; Reynolds, the postmaster, and Gribbens, who was staying at Reynolds’, wa ...t their armour.  They now entered this room and hurried to dress in their armour.  The prisoners could hear the rattle of steel.  Mrs Jones’ interruptio
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (64)
  ...and watching for his opportunity, while the Kellys were getting into their armour, opened the door and escaped from the hotel.  The other prisoners feared b ...is horse to take charge of the train.  In doing so he broke a bolt in his armour and had some delay in repairing it.  By this time the police had rushed ov
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (67)
  ...of the back rooms, dressing themselves in their armour.  I could hear the armour rattling.  We could have got clear away if we had been allowed to go when ...ken saw where they planted the key, and at the time they went to put their armour on he went and took the key.  He put the key in his trousers pocket and ca
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (68)
  ...e armour several times.  Their lives were saved for the time being by the armour.  They fired many shots before that in the early part, but I believe from ...llenge him, and if he does not answer you, shoot him.” Ned Kelly, who in armour and helmet looked like a blackfellow, pulled out a revolver and fired at Co
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (69)
  ...Cherry, a wounded civilian, to pieces.  The police now had Ned Kelly’s armour and helmet, and could have used it on a constable to enter the house.  But
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (70)
  ...got a small gun with us; it would made them give in pretty quick, as their armour would be no protection to them, and the chimney would be knocked about thei
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (71)
  ...still in official custody, and is in Melbourne.  [[Kelly's Armour|Ned’s armour]], with a bogus helmet, is said to have been simply given away to [[Ruperts
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (72)
  ...e the youngest, and they were both cowed and frightened, and both in their armour. ...they, “Why do not they rush the hotel?” “Why do not they put on the armour?” and so on.
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (74)
  ...at full stretch side by side, and bags rolled up under their heads, '''the armour on one side of them off. ''' I concluded they lay in that position to let
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (78)
  ...want of generalship, bearing in mind that the outlaws were in impenetrable armour, and the difficulty of knowing in what part of the building they were hidin
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (79)
  ...oad daylight, overcome the fifty armed policemen, and then, carrying heavy armour, escape on horseback.
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (90)
  ...the extremities, was enabled to hold his ground, encumbered, too, by iron armour, until seven o’clock, when, in the effort to rejoin his companions, he fe
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (92)
  | The Armour and ammunition
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• Sydney Morning Herald
  ...give any, information is that of the name of the man who made Ned Kelly's armour.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 24/11/1905
  ...be prevailed upon to disclose the name of the person who made Ned Kelly's armour. For his reticence on this subject I can easily account by saying that Skil
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/9/1913
  ...tranger. It was Ned Kelly, the leader of the gang, dressed in bullet-proof armour from head to knees." ...glass to his mouth a bullet struck him in the groin, and he fell dead. The armour worn by Ned Kelly was found to consist of the mould-boards of ploughs. It w
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• Sydney Morning Herald (8)
  ...protect themselves from the bullets of the troopers., The [[Kelly's Armour|armour of Ned Kelly]] was worn by Mr Russell. It was lent for the occasion by Mr R
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/12/1931
  ...the hotel was fired by the police, and the three remaining outlaws who had armour also, perished.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/12/1931 (2)
  ...consider any of them mortal. No police wounded. Men very plucky and game. Armour the gang have on is formed out of plough shares. H W Saxe.
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• Sydney Morning Herald (13)
  ...saw Ned Kelly brought in by the police after he had been shot down in his armour by Sergeant Steele. He had a terrible hunted expression on his face. I will
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• Sydney Morning Herald (14)
  ...s he saw Ned Kelly after he was brought in by the police, shot down in his armour. "I well remember Ned Kelly's shock of red hair," he says, "
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/8/1938
  ...legs, rushed upon him, and seized the revolver. Kelly was stripped of his armour, and Sergeant Steele escorted him to the rail- way station to be taken to M
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• Herald (2)
  ...at it could be plainly seen that they were wearing some kind of improvised armour. After the capture of the leader of the gang, regarding which no details ha ...positively stated that the gang are wearing extemporised [[Kelly's Armour|armour]], breast plates being clearly perceptible.
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