Ned Kelly: Hero Or Villain?

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Ned Kelly is a villain, he is a thief, murderer and he was smart. He was smart enough to think for his family and ride horse. BUT he was a robber, with a gang, with guns and horse. He was a cattle thief, a mean outlaw. He had also robbed banks, but wait that’s not all, this will really get him killed, he had shot and killed 3 police man. In 1869, while a teenager, Kelly was arrested for assaulting a Chinese merchant. Kelly and his gang eluded the police for two and half years. Thieving, in 1880, when Kelly’s attempted to derail and ambush a police train failed, he and his gang, dressed in armor fashioned from stolen plough moldboards, engaged in a final gun battle with the police at Glenrowan. Kelly was tried, convicted and sentenced to