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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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