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The Police got great credit and praise in the papers for arresting…
Quote byNed Kelly · 1854–1880
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Jerilderie Letter (1879).
English (original)
The Police got great credit and praise in the papers for arresting the mother of 12 children one an infant on her breast and those two quiet hard working innocent men who would not know the difference a revolver and a saucepan handle and kept them six months awaiting trial and then convicted them on the evidence of the meanest article that ever the sun shone on it.
— Ned Kelly
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Everyone looks on me like a black snake.
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