I could not suffer them blowing me to pieces in my own native land…

If the public do not see justice done I will seek revenge for the name and character which has been given to me and my relations, while God gives me strength to pull a trigger.

Everyone looks on me like a black snake.

I threw big cowardly Hall on his belly I straddled him and rooted both spurs onto his thighs he roared like a big calf attacked by dogs ... I used to trip him and let him take a mouth ful of dust now and again as he was as helpless as a …

My mother, with an infant baby, and brother-in-law and another neighbour, were taken for aiding and abetting and attempting to murder [Fitzpatrick], a charge for which they are as purely innocent as the child unborn.

The ignorant unicorns even threaten to shoot myself But as soon as I am dead they will be heels up in the muroo.

This cannot be called wilful murder, for I was compelled to shoot [the police] in my own defence, or lie down like a cur and die.