Catherine Sullivan was found guilty of stealing, on the 29th July, at Bantry, 10 yard of calico the property of George Barry.

Richard Barry was acquitted of a charge of stealing on the 1st of December at Millstreet, 3 yards of Corduroy, and 1s. 6d.

Denis Lucey and others charged with a similar offence, having entered into the required security, were allowed to stand out until the Assizes.

Court—Would goats stray.

Witness—Sometimes my lord; they were spancelled. [?] The Jury returned a verdict of guity.

Johanna Faulkland was convicted of having on the 30th of June, stolen some wearing apparel, the property of Denis Touhy.

Ellen Cotter pleaded guilty to stealing two shirts, the property of John Daly.

Ellen Murphy also pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing a blanket, the property of Cornelius Jeffreyes.

Margaret Curtin was convicted of stealing a gown, the property of Mary Tuomey.

Ellen Condon sworn—I live at Whitebog, near Youghal, in May last; my mother is alive; I have £110 fortune left to me by my father; I know the prisoner and knew him before that time; he kept a public house in Youghal; I had been in Youghal on the 15th of May, with milk; coming home about ten o'clock at night, I met two men who were strangers to me about a quarter of a mile from my own house; when I got nearer the house they laid hold of me and carried me away from my mother; they put me in a covered car upon the road; the prisoner James Ahearn was in it, and a driver outside; I was crying, and wonder that he did not smother me by putting his hands upon my mouth; another of the men who stopped me also came into the car and they would not leave me out; my mother was crying upon the road; there was a girl living with her at that time who immediately after left her and is now living with the prisoner; he told the driver to drive on as fast as he could to Cork and he did so; he told me he was going to marry me; my sister was married some time before that and had £200 fortune; he never spoke of marrying her.

Mr Bennett—Did he ever court you? I don't know.

Court—Don't you know what is courting? I don't know. Did he ever speak a kind word or two to you? He used to be asking me to go to his house; I went to a dance there with another girl last winter; I was overtaken between Glanmire and Cork by my brother and a cousin of mine who took me away from him; when my brother jumped off the horse he rode Ahearn swore he would have either me or my brother's life; Ahearn beat him and knocked him down upon the road; he brought me into Cork and I returned to Youghal upon the coach; he went into a house in Castlemartyr to get another car as the car broke down.

Cross-examined by Mr. O'Hea—I think you said this amorous youth never spoke to you upon marriage? He didn't. You never thought of going away with him? Never. You were once at his house? Twice; his sister once asked me in. Did he offer you any refreshment? I took a glass of punch with him. I am told you dance the Polkas with exceeding taste and grace? I do not, sir. You swore in your informations that it was after 10 o'clock when you left Youghal? I did, sir. I did not think that a lady of your propriety would be out at so late an hour? My mother knew I was out. You never said you would give a little screech to gratify mamma? No, sir. Now, was it a refusal you sighed out all along the road? Yes, sir, I was afraid to call out at Killeagh lest he should smother me. You did not cry out when the car broke down? No, sir, it was a lonely place. Did you take anything at Castlemartyr? I took a little drop of spirits and water. Perhaps you descended from the chariot at the village of Glountane? Yes, sir; I took a glass of cordial there; I made no noise about it, I first stepped into the car. Now when your brother came up you detested this rapparee, you thought him the greatest scoundrel that ever breathed? I did, sir; I drank a tumbler of porter from the prisoner upon one occassion about three months ago in Ryan's public house in Youghal.

Witness in reply to Mr. Bennet—There was nothing to prevent my marrying him if I wished; the prisoner was standing at King-street when the Youghal coach upon which I returned came up, and he went as far as Midleton on it.

The mother of the prosecutrix was placed upon the table and soon after burst out crying, but was comforted by his lordship's assuring her that there was no injury done to her daughter. In her account of the commencement of the attempt, she nearly concurred with the evidence of her daughter.

Patrick Condon was sworn and related what happened upon his coming up to the prisoner, and a female acquaintance of the prosecutrix proved that he offered her a sum of £9, if she would coax her to his house, and there make her drunk at his own expense, which he promised doubly to repay.

Head-Constable Richard Cole, deposed that he had searched himself, and directed frequent searches to be made for the prisoner between the 14th of May and the 17th of June last in vain, at the latter time he surrendered himself.

Mr. O'Hea said it was his intention to apply himself both in the observations he should make, and the evidence he should lay before the jury, to show that it was with the full and free consent of the girl, and not against her consent, that this whole proceeding took place; and, under his Lordship's correction, he told them, that, if they did not believe beyond doubt that it was a forcible taking away against her consent, in the whole and every stage of the transaction, his client was entitled to an acquital. Before, however, entering upon the evidence upon which the crown rested the prosecution, they would allow him to make one solitary remark upon which the entire case hinged. Men were naturally anxious and properly anxious to protect females from aggression of this description, and there was an anxiety, also, in every honest man's breast to suppress such outrages. It was because he was convinced that that solicitude existed in the breasts of the Jury in common with other men, that he implored them, when they would weigh the evidence, to take care lest that anxiety become in their minds a prejudice, and that prejudice determine their verdict. He would not however suppose that they would be deterred from performing their duty by either the enormity of the crime, or by a sense of the punishment which would necessarily follow it. Mr. O'Hea then commented at great length upon the evidence for the prosecution, and concluded by expressing a confident hope that when they compared with it the statement he was prepared to submit to them they would not subject his client to the dreadful penalty of the crime of which he was alleged guilty.

Counsel then called three witnesses to show the existence of amicable feelings between the parties during the alleged abduction, but, from circumstances discovered in their cross-examination, much doubt was cast upon their credit or memory. Mr. Plunkett replied to evidence. After half an hour's absence the jury returned with a verdict of "guilty with intent to marry."