"Ned Kelly was descended on both sides from bad stock—his father was an ex-convict and present cattle-stealer. When Ned was born at Beveridge, near Kilmore, Dean O'Hea, of Coburg, sent word that the child must be baptised. [Kelly's father] swore a great oath that no clergyman should come near his place. Dean O'Hea, when he heard this, resolved that the child should be baptised. So he rode one Sunday up the Sydney-road to Beveridge, stopped at Kelly's house, and said, "You have got a child to baptise; bring him out to me immediately." The rite was performed. When, years afterwards, Dean O'Hea told the matured Ned Kelly, then awaiting execution, of the incident, the bushranger "cried like a child.""