During the hanging of Ned Kelly, his mother, incarcerated for three years sentence on the fake charge of being an accessory to "attempted murder" (trying to defend her 14 year old daughter from the ravages of Fitzpatrick), was forced to work as usual in the prison laundry next door while her son was hanged. A day or so beforehand she had been allowed to see him through a prison grille for a few minutes only. She quietly said "See that you die like a Kelly, my beloved son".