Australia, a British colony. In the middle of the 19th century, in this small country northeast of Victoria, poverty and suffering were permeated, and Ned Kellylived here. His family is Irish. He was exiled because his father had violated British laws and was forced to immigrate to Australia. Life can be imagined. After the shock, his father became decadent and negative, while Kelly's mother, Ellen, had a fierce temper and a strong personality. Affected by this, Kelly was very brave and resourceful when he was a child. After falling into the water, his classmates did not hesitate to risk his death to save him, winning the love of classmates and praise from adults. At the age of 11, Kelly's father died, and his mother had to take a few children to work on a remote farm. Kelly dropped out of school. At the age of 16, Kelly was framed for stealing horses and was imprisoned in Melbourne's notorious Pentuidge Prison. After coming out of prison, Kelly decided to behave properly and assume family responsibilities. Although he was still young, he was the eldest man in the family. In order to make his family live better, Kelly worked on the farm during the day and went to the club to fight for money at night. However, Kelly's dream of living honestly with his own sweat was also shattered-a policeman attempted to rape his sister Kate. Kelly couldn't bear it and beat the policeman severely.
After this incident, Kelly was forced to go into exile. He and his brother and two friends, Steve Hart, Joe Barnorganized the Kelly Gang topolice and the government together. The government offered a reward of £100 to capture the Kelly brothers. At the same time, Kelly's family was taken to prison. His mother was also sentenced to 3 years in prison. Kelly and the police began a more fierce battle. In the Bark River Battle, Kelly killed three of the four police officers who came to arrest him, including Sergeant Kennedy and two police officers, Ken and Lonigan, the police officer. Mackintosh escaped by chance. He immediately gained fame, and the authorities stepped up the round up of Kelly, threatening to reward Kelly with a reward of 500 pounds no matter whether he was caught or not.
Due to the disparity in power, the Kelly Gang had to hide in the Wombat Mountain. In June 1880, Kelly heard that someone had betrayed them, and the police had already taken a train to hunt them down. Instead of passively hiding in the mountains, he decided to go out and fight. After coming out of the mountain, Kelly's gang captured the town of Greenlawn in Victoria, took more than 60 people from the town into the hotel as hostages, and demolished the railroad tracks. Here, Ned Kelly passionately dictated a long letter of more than 7,000 words. In the letter, he counted the unfairness of the law, the government's persecution of him and all Irish Catholics, and the process of his being forced to go to Liangshan. He also mentioned the need to force the rich to divide the money between the widows and orphans and the poor, and to take revenge against the authorities: the British Empire has provided me with endless potential followers, among them, the sons of some have been charged unnecessarily. In prison, some people witnessed their hard-earned land being taken away by the host. They have no sins except for being my friends. This letter caused a huge sensation and had a great impact on the people and the government.
Kelly's purpose of helping the villagers as hostages is to attract the police, and then fight the police midway to defeat the police who besieged them. Regrettably, out of pity, Kelly agreed to a village teacher's request to send his sick wife home. Unexpectedly, this person ran to inform the police. Police immediately swarmed in from everywhere. At the Greenlawn Hotel, a fierce gun battle broke out between Kelly's gang and the besieged police, which lasted from night to dawn. In the end, the ammunition ran out, Ned was chopped down and captured alive, and the other three of the Kelly gang died in the battle. Kelly was put in jail. Six months later, Kelly, who was only 25 years old, was hanged in Melbourne
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