with impunity. J. J. Kenneally writes that the police 'allegedly' mistook Kate for Steven given that women of course should have little or no horsemanship skills. They also 'mistook' Mrs Skillion (Margaret Kelly), with whom they were not acquainted, who had considerable horsemanship skills, for Kate. Following Ned's arrest, Kelly would often attempt to visit him in prison, as well as raising money for legal fees. She joined the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, which campaigned for Ned's death sentence to be changed. Kelly collected signatures for a petition of clemency and later presented them with a personal appeal to the Governor, the Marquis of Normanby. Despite the huge public outcry and vast mass public street demonstrations, all appeals for clemency for Ned Kelly were refused. Ned was hanged on 11 November 1880. The night before the execution a visibly affected Kelly appeared in a public silent vigil. Ned Kelly was just 24 when he was killed, and despite limited schooling, was provably a highly intellectual and articulate writer against the right of the wealthy privileged few to oppress the masses. Ned Kelly had to be silenced. In quiet dignity upon hearing his sentence, the young Ned Kelly said to Redmond Barry "I will see you where I am going, then we will see who is right and who is wrong". Three days later Redmond Barry dropped dead. Ned had asked the prison photographer, just before he died, to take his photo 'so his mother would have something to remember him by'. The handsome intelligent Ned has a quiet dignity, hiding his massive injuries, his broken hand posed on his hip, for the photo. 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". Kelly present at the Kelly home, with the Fitzpatrick assault upon her aged 14, being the catalyst for the escalation of poisonous police vendettas. Police/ex-convicts were used to acting with impunity. Kate had tried to seek justice for