Ned Kelly

NED KELLY

Ned Kelly was an Irish lad; he had a gun but wasn’t fun but he wasn’t done. He stole some cattle, shot some police, and because of this there was a big battle. Stealing cattle was like stealing cars (those days were horrible). Cattle are cows imagine how much people use horse now compared to cars. About 99.9% people use cars instead of horses today in the olden days about 30% had horses and 70% didn’t even have horses.

So we went to where Ned Kelly got shot and there was a show. It was about how he died in a stand-off in a village called Glenrowan, and the life he had. He had a very terrifying life. The first room was about him holding people hostage until police came so Ned could shoot the police. There was computer animated life size figures, with different lights, noises and smells. It was like theatre but not with live people, but moving figures and prop.
The next room we went into was set out like an Inn, where Ned Kelly kept everyone hostage. It was chaotic, with animals, a band playing music, kids swinging off the ceiling, and mad other effects. It showed us what it was like to be held hostage in an Inn in Australia in 1880.
Then we went outside the house where we witnessed a shoutout. That made me jump, the banging of the gunshots. I learned that you had to be less than 20m beside your target to shoot it with the guns they used in those days. Ned Kelly wore an armour, which made him look like an alien or a demon to the people. The bullets bounced off his armour.
But one bullet went in between his arm plate and front breast plate. He got shot at the top of his arm, then his foot. The armour was heavy and he couldn’t get away. He stumbled and was caught.
They brought him by train to Melbourne, and news of his arrest spread all over the world, really quickly. People had been looking for him. Ned Kelly was hanged.