The news blog at the State Library of Victoria has a post entitled "Eyewitness Letter to Ned Kelly's Capture Donated to State Library after 133 Years."
It begins with:
After 133 years, a letter containing an eyewitness account of the
dramatic capture of Ned Kelly during the 1880 siege at Glenrowan has
been donated to the State Library of Victoria by the descendants of its
author – Scotsman, Donald Gray Sutherland.
The letter addressed to Sutherland’s family on 8 July 1880 proclaims
‘… the Kelly’s are annihilated. The gang is completely destroyed…’. It
continues describing Kelly’s famous armour and the gunshot wounds that
finally brought him down....
To read more and to be linked to the actual letter and the transcript:
http://news.blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/2013/10/09/eyewitness-letter-to-ned-kellys-capture-donated-to-state-library-after-133-years/#.UlS4vhBGY4J
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