Edward Kelly, was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
At dawn, clad in armour and armed with three handguns, he rose out of the bush and attacked the police from their rear.

Police returned fire as Kelly moved from tree to tree towards the hotel, at times staggering from his injuries, the weight of his armour and the impact of bullets on the plate iron, which he later described as "like blows from a man's fist". Due to these factors, Kelly had difficulty aiming, firing and reloading his guns.
Eyewitnesses struggled to identify the figure moving in the dim misty light and, astonished as it withstood bullets, When Kelly appeared out of the mist-shrouded bush, clad in armour, bewildered policemen took him to be a ghost, a bunyip, and "Old Nick himself".

With the steam rising from the ground, it looked for all the world like the ghost of Hamlet's father with no head, only a very long thick neck ... It was the most extraordinary sight I ever saw or read of in my life, and I felt fairly spellbound with wonder, and I could not stir or speak.

The gun battle with Kelly lasted around 15 minutes with Dan and Hart providing covering fire from the hotel.
It ended when Steele brought down Ned with two shotgun blasts to his unprotected legs and thighs. Ned was disarmed and divested of his armour by the police while Dan and Hart continued firing on them. Dan was wounded by return fire, and Ned was carried to the railway station, where a doctor attended to him.
He was later found to have twenty-eight wounds, including serious gunshot wounds to his left elbow and right foot, several flesh wounds caused by gunshots, and cuts and abrasions from bullets striking his armour, which showed a total of 18 bullet marks, including five in the helmet.

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