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He was only wounded, and appeared still determined to carry on the desperate conflict, but Steele rushed him, and seized the hand in which Kelly held his revolver, the only weapon with which he was armed. He fired another shot after that. When on the ground he roared with savage ferocity, cursing the police. Kelly was then overhauled, and it was found that he and his gang had improvised armour for head, chest and arms, out of stolen ploughshares from neighbouring farmers, manufactured, as is supposed, by confederate blacksmiths in their neighbourhood. The attack on the Glenrowan Hotel was still proceeding. That house was a weatherboard building, having six rooms, with brick chimneys, and a kitchen behind of slabs. The point the police wanted to know was, whether they could attack by burning the house down? They telegraphed to Captain Standish, the head of the Victorian police, asking whether they could fire the building. The reply was that they could, if all persons, other than the gang, were out of it. It appears that when this answer came such was the case. On the receipt of this sergeant Johnstone, under a final covering police volley, approached the house with a huge bundle of straw, which he placed against the walls, ignited it and retired safely. At first it was thought this firing had failed, but very soon it was seen that it had been effective, for the inside lining being of calico, the flames soon found an entrance, and very soon smoke first and flames afterwards, governed the Glenrowan Hotel in mastery. Just then a Roman Catholic priest, Father Gibney, who, travelling on the line, had remained at Glenrowan to witness the encounter, rushed into the house and was the means of bringing out a man named Cherry in a dying state, and the body of Byrne—Dan. Kelly and Hart being dead and their bodies almost consumed.

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