Ned Kelly's Proceedings.
The morning broke beautiful and clear. The police wore disposed all round the hotel, when they we c beset by danger from the rear. Ned Kelly was the cause. It apx^ears he was the man who shot Superintendent Hare, and he himself was wounded in the arm by the fire which was returned. He could not without danger get into the hotel, so he sprang upon his horse, and during the excitement which followed he got away towards Morgan's Look-out, but it was not the intention of- the ruffian to dcs rt his comrades, and he returned to fight his way to them at nearly 8 o'clock. When his tall figure was seen close behind the line of police, it was at fir&t thought he was a black-fellow. He carried a grey coat over his arm, and walked coolly and slowly among the police, his head, chest, back, and sides all being protected with heavy plates of quarter-inch iron; When within easy distance of Senior Constable Kelly, who was watching him, he fired. The police then knew who he was, and Sergeant Steele, Senior Constable Kelly, with Dowsett (a railway guard), fired.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 July 1880, Page 3
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