Dramatic letter details Australian outlaw Ned Kelly's capture

A letter has emerged giving a graphic account of the capture of the notorious Australian bushranger Ned Kelly after his last desperate stand 133 years ago. The letter, by a young Scottish bank-teller Donald Sutherland to his parents, provides a dramatic description of the final siege in which police shot at Kelly but struggled to bring him down because of his famous makeshift metal body armour. "They were firing into him at about 10 yards in the grim light of the morning without the slightest effect," the letter says. "The police thought he was a fiend seeing their rifle bullets were sliding off him like hail… The force of the rifle bullets made him stagger when hit, but it was only when they got him on the legs and arms that he reluctantly fell exclaiming as he did so, 'I am done. I am done'."

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