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| B I R T H S . |
| Lady Charles Wellesley was safely delivered of a daughter
on Friday, at Apsley-house. |
| EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—Between
11 and half-past 12 o'clock on Thursday night, Mrs. Holder, of 166,
Blackfriar's-road, was confined with four children —two boys and two girls,
all of whom are living. |
|
| D E A T H S . |
| On Tuesday the 6th inst., at his father's house, Mardyke
Parade, aged 16 years, O'Connell Francis, son of Charles Sugrue, Esq. |
| At his lodgings, Cove, on Saturday the 3d inst., John
Daniel Harnett, Esq., of Laurel Hill, Blarney, deeply regretted by his family
and friends. |
| At Isle of Man, Jane, only daughter of the late Daniel
Cudmore, Esq., of Manister, co. Limerick, niece to the late Col. Hodder of
Hodders Field. |
| On the 30th ult., at Kingston College, Mitchelstown, in
the 71st year of her age, Miss Mary Raymond, daughter of the late Wm. Raymond,
Esq. |
| On the 30th ult., at his residence, Dorset-street, Dublin,
Maximilian Joseph Labat, Esq., in the 88th year of his age, upwards of
fifty-five years of which he was a zealous, faithful, and intelligent officer of
the Bank of Ireland. |
| At Baltimore, William Sullivan, a native of the county of
Cork, but for the last 20 years a citizen of the United States. |
|
| The Very Rev. D. M. Collins and the Rev. C. B. Gibson
gratefully acknowledge the receipt of 10l (5l each) from the
relief fund of the Congregational Union of Ireland, by the hands of the Rev.
Alexander King, which they will distribute, according to Mr. King's wishes,
amongst the very poor of Mallow. |
| Very Rev. Theobald Mathew gratefully acknowledges, for the
relief of the poor, from Mr. Commissioner Farrell, 5l. |
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L O N D O N P O L I C E .
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| LAMBETH.—EXTRAORDINARY
CASE OF BIGAMY.— |
| Yesterday, David Ahearne, an Irishman, upwards of 60 years of age,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, for final examination on a charge of
bigamy. |
| Mr. Roberts attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Games
for the defence. |
| The first witness called was Timothy Ahearne, brother of
the prisoner, who deposed, that in the year 1823 he was present at the marriage
of his brother with a young female named Ann Fitzpatrick, at Kensington Church.
The prisoner after that marriage lived with his wife next door to him, for about
two or three years, when they separated, and after this the prisoner went to
live with Catherine Joyce, then present. The prisoner and Joyce lived together
for some time before he (witness) became aware of their marriage, and when he
was told of it by Joyce, he said, “A pretty job you have made of it with a
married man.” Joyce then replied, “Married or single, the job is now done.”
At this time the prisoner's first wife was alive, and he recollected her dying
some years afterwards, when he attended her funeral. |
| In reply to the questions of Mr. Games, the witness said
that the woman Joyce was perfectly well aware that the prisoner was a married
man when she married him, as several members of his family as well as himself
had told her. |
| Mrs. Catherine Joyce, alias Regan, deposed that in
the year 1828 the prisoner visited her as a single man, and made a proposal of
marriage to her, which she accepted, and they were married at the parish church
of St. Martin in the Fields, on the 12th of October, in the same year. Soon
after he commenced to ill use her, and scarcely allowed her the common
necessaries of life, and on one occasion he was committed from Bow-street for a
month for ill treating her. He had also deserted his home two or three times
before he finally left her. Before finally going away he had nearly starved her. |
| Cross examined by Mr. Games—Had not been told by the
last witness or any of his family that the prisoner was a married man before she
had gone to St. Martin's church with him. She was aware that he had lived with a
female, as he, the prisoner, had told her so himself. He had also told her that
the female was married and that her husband, who was a soldier, had come and
took her away from him. Her name at the time of her marriage with the prisoner
was Regan, and she was a widow, but the prisoner in putting up the banns had
given her maiden name. |
| Sophia Craddock, a well-dressed middle-aged female, stated
that during the summer of last year the prisoner paid his addresses to her as a
single man, and believing that he was so, she consented to be his wife, and they
were married on the 19th of July, at Battersea Church. Soon after she discovered
that she had been much deceived in him, for instead of being a kind old man he
was quite the reverse—a stingy old brute—and had actually commenced to
dispose of her property by piecemeal, when she fortunately discovered that he
had another wife living. She sought her out, and gave the prisoner into custody. |
| The policeman who took the prisoner into custody produced
the certificates of the three marriages. |
| The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that when he
married Joyce she was perfectly well aware that he had another wife living ; but
her reply was that she did not mind that. With respect to Mrs. Craddock, he
would admit that at first when he met her she might not be aware he was a
married man ; but when she asked him to have her he acknowledged that it was no
use in thinking of such a thing, as he was a married man. Her reply was that she
did not mind, and that if the other wife did not trouble them they should not
trouble her, and upon these conditions he married her. |
| The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial on
the charge of marrying Catherine Joyce, alias Regan, his former wife Ann
being living at the time ; and the evidence of the third wife, Mrs. Craddock was
also taken, and she was bound over as a witness in the case. |
| Mr. Games applied to have the prisoner admitted to bail ;
but Mr. Norton refused to comply with his request, particularly as the
proceeding, at the Central Criminal Court commence next week, and his period of
imprisonment before his trial will be of short duration. |
|
| The Repeal Association owes Mr. O'Connell £1900, £600 to
Mr. Browne, the printer ; £300 to the Freeman's Journal, with several
other heavy items. Mr. O'Connell has sent over £50 weekly to keep the doors of
Conciliation-hall open, otherwise they must have been closed.—World. |
|
| DEATH OF A REMARKABLE
CHARACTER.—On Sunday, the 21st instant, at the age of
100 years, died Ann Murray, in her well-known cave at Red Bay, on the north
eastern coast of the county Antrim. At the base of that lofty headland called
Lourg-Eden, which forms the northern boundary of Glenariff, and which runs down
to the coast road immediately adjoining the sea, are two natural cavities—one
of these is occupied as a smith's forge ; the other has long been used as human
habitation. Few tourists to the Causeway have passed by these caves without
paying a visit to Nanny, who, in her personal appearance and in the originality
of her manners, was as great a curiosity as the cave itself. To those who have
never seen the interior of “Nanny's Cave,” it would be impossible to give
anything of an accurate description— cold, damp, and dreary, extending about
20 feet into the rock, and not more than six feet from the ground to the roof in
the highest part, with perpetual drops of water oozing out of the upper stratum
and so dark as to require, even at noonday, the light of a candle in order to
explore it ; with no vent for the smoke except the mouth of the cave, which was
protected from the violence of the storm in the winter season by a small wicker
door. Yet in this cave, where to have spent 24 hours would have taken the life
of an ordinary being, this remarkable woman passed a solitary existence of fifty
years, destitute of every human comfort ; but in the enjoyment of excellent
health, which she retained until a short period before her death. Although
living in such a miserable habitation, Nanny has received more distinguished
company than many who dwell in the most splendid palaces. The greater part of
the nobility and aristocracy of the three kingdoms have called to see her, and
she could boast of having received presents from some of the first families in
Europe. Her only means of support were the voluntary offerings of the curious,
who were attracted to her cell, and whose liberality she invariably continued to
call forth by her simple and unostentatious hospitality, as she insisted on
every one who paid her a visit to partake of a small quantity of the best “mountain
dew” the country could afford.—Belfast Vindicator. |
| A Bad Leg of several Year's standing
cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mr. Turpin Prowse, Richmond
Cottage, Widcome, Bath, has made a declaration to the following effect:— “That
he had been suffering for more than five years with an ulcerated leg, covered
with fourteen wounds, and that he had been a patient at the United Hospital, at
Bath, for three or four years, and that he had also used the sulfur bath every
other day for six months, and all to no purpose, but that he is now perfectly
cured after every other means had failed, and by the use of Holloway's Ointment
and Pills.” Mr. King, Chemist, Bath, will vouch for the truth of this
extraordinary case. |
KILNAMARTERA AND BALLYVOURNEY.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER |
| Macroom, April 5, 1847 |
DEAR SIR—I
regret to inform you that from dysentery and dropsy, the necessary consequences
of famine, are making frightful havoc amongst our emaciated poor people. I have,
this day, been called on to attend ten sick, where in many instances I found
the living and dead thrown on one common litter of filthy straw. The dead
are left unburied often four days, and then taken by stealth at night, without
coffins, to the graves. It is truly mournful to see the whole country on the
verge of desolation. Every man who is able is flying to America ; and I fear our
entire brave and hardy population will be in a very short time annihilated,
unless a merciful providence interpose to avert the awful calamity.
I am Sir, very respectfully yours, |
| P. BURTON, P.P. |
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER
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| Fairy Land, Macroom, April 3d, 1847 |
DEAR SIR—The
observations of Mr. Baron Richards on the trial of John Cronin, for stealing a
pannier of turf, in which my name was introduced, having been reported in your
paper of the 29th ult., and having received a letter from Mr. R. Donovan (Clerk
of the Crown) on the subject, by directions of Mr. Baron Richards, I will feel
much obliged if you will with your usual kindness give the following
correspondence in reference thereto a place in your columns, at your earliest
convenience. The first sentence in my answer comprises Mr. Donovan's letter
to me.
I remain, dear Sir, your much obliged, |
| ROBERT WARREN. |
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The Queen v. John Cronin. |
| SIR—I have received your
communication of the 30th ult., in which you state that you have been directed
by Mr. Baron Richards, Judge of Assize, to express his disapprobation and regret
that such a case should have been sent to the assizes, as the party being bailed
ought to have been returned to the next Sessions held at the West Riding to take
trial, and not to assizes, where the prosecution was attended with considerable
expense. |
| The reason for returning the information to the assizes
was its taking place some time before the next sessions for the West Riding, and
as to the expense, I am not aware that there would be any difference. Skibbereen
will be the next sessions, where starvation and death are making such sad havoc,
that I am of opinion the poor man (Cronin) would much rather go to Cork to be
tried, where he would be taken much better care of than in Skibbereen Bridewell. |
| I did all that I could to persuade the prosecutor not to
swear any informations, as I thought, from the circumstances, the case very
trifling indeed. Cronin offered to pay for the turf and give the prosecutor any
satisfaction he required, but he said that nothing would satisfy him but to
prosecute, be the expense and inconvenience what they might. |
In conclusion, I think it rather a little strange that the
worthy Baron should think it necessary to single me out of the number of
Magistrates of the county for censure, for sending such a case to the assizes
for trial, where several of as great hardships were sent, such as stealing a
goose, a hen, a shawl, &c., which I perceive by the newspapers.
I
am, Sir, your obedient servant, |
| ROBERT WARREN. |
To Richard Donovan, Esq., Clerk of the Crown,
Crown
Office, Courthouse, Cork. |
CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY.
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STARVATION IN KERRY.
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| THE following inquests were lately held in the county
of Kerry: the first on the body of Mary Kennedy, on 27th March, at Derrymore. |
| Catherine Moriarty sworn.—Deceased, Mary Kennedy was her
sister. She, deceased, and three children were sent on a car from Inch, to the
Tralee Poor-house by the Rev. George O'Sullivan. They were not taken into the
Workhouse. Denis Sears was the carman who brought them. He carried them back
part of the way, and about two hours after nightfall he turned them out of the
car and left them on the road. Jeremiah Flyn let them into his house at
Derrymore that night. They then came on to the house of the Widow Layne, who
refused to let them in, and they remained near the wall which was close to the
house. Deceased died the next morning. On the way from the poor house they got
some bread at Tralee. They used to be two days without any food before they were
sent to the poor house, and is of opinion that if deceased had food, she would
not now be dead. |
| Richard Blennerhassett, M.D., deposed that the deceased
Mary Kennedy came by her death, to the best of his judgment, from starvation.—Verdict,
died of starvation. |
| The same verdict was returned on the inquest of Daniel
Griffin, one of the children, who also died on that occasion. |
| On the 29th of March a third inquest was held near
Derrymore, on the body of Catherine Moriarty, the witness on the two former
inquests. |
| John O'Donnell deposed that he yesterday saw the deceased
Catherine Moriarty and two children with her by the wall in the same place she
now lies ; did not speak to her but spoke to the boy that was with her, who told
witness she could take no food. In about two hours after he saw her, at which
time she was not dead ; the two children came to the house of witness after
nightfall, and told them she was dead ; he put the children into a house of his
and gave them some straw for a bed, and went to where she was, and found her
dead.—Verdict like the preceding. |
|
| ENCOURAGEMENT TO EMIGRATION.—AUSTRALIA.—
Extract, Sept., 1846:—“The thing we are in the greatest want of is labour.
We are now giving £35 a year for a man and his wife, and £25 a year for
shepherds, besides rations, which consist of 10lb. of flour, 12lb of beef, 2lb
of sugar, and ¼lb of tea per week, and a house to live in, and by no means hard
work. We have a great many working men earning from 30s to 42s per week.” |
| ——<•>—— |
| A prisoner was brought into this city on Friday morning,
by the Dublin coach, having been arrested in Liverpool, on a charge of being
connected with the late barbarous murder of Mr. Prim, the pay clerk, and
Constable Yates. The prisoner is lodged in the county jail, and the charge is
being investigated.—Kilkenny Journal. |
|
CORK SPRING ASSIZES-1847
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CITY COURT—MONDAY. |
| MR. SERGEANT STOCK
took his seat on the Bench this morning at 10 o'clock, and proceeded with the
hearing of |
| CITY CRIMINAL CASES. |
| John Morrisy, Joseph Healy, Denis Finnegan, Catherine
Finnegan, and Julia Murphy were given in charge, the first two of the
prisoners for stealing 50 yards of cloth, value £30, the property of George
Cannock and others, and the other three prisoners with having received same,
knowing them to be stolen. |
| The prisoners pleaded not guilty. |
| Michael Hurly was sworn and examined by Mr. Walsh and
deposed that he was a carman in the employment of Mr. Lefebure ; knows the
prisoners ; remembers the Nimrod coming in to the quay, on the 25th of January
last ; Morrisy and Haly [sic] were then employed on the quay ; a bale of cloth
was lying on the quay, having been landed from the Nimrod ; they told him that
the bale was lying there since morning ; they all agreed to take it, and Joseph
Healey [sic] desired them to remove it to Carter's, and that he would come and
carry it away from that ; they took it to Carter's ; it was arranged between
them to take it after that to Healy's house, and to meet there and divide it
amongst them ; when they opened the bale, they found nine pieces of cloth in it,
which they divided between them ; Finnegan's wife is sister to Healy. |
| The Witness was cross examined by Mr. Scannell, but
nothing of importance was elicited. |
| Jeremiah O'Callaghan was examined, and deposed that he was
in the employment of Messrs. Cannock, and that a quantity of cloth was to arrive
to the Messrs. Cannock, per the Nimrod, from Liverpool, which witness had
purchased at Leed [sic] ; witness saw the cloth in the Station House in Cork,
and identified it ; part of it was then cut, apparently by a person not in the
habit of cutting cloth. |
| James Breen, clerk in the employment of Messrs. Hirst and
Co. of Leeds, deposed to having prepared an invoice of the cloth sold by him to
the former witness. |
| Jeremiah O'Callaghan was re-examined—There were about 50
yards of cloth less in what he saw at the Station house than what was mentioned
in the invoice. |
| William Morrissy sworn and examined—Deposed that he knew
the prisoners, and that on the 25th of January Hurley came to him at Mr.
Carter's where he was employed, and gave him a bale of cloth, which he told him
to keep until Healy should come for it ; Healy afterwards called for it and got
it from him ; there was another man with Healy at the time. |
| A Clerk in the employment of Mr. Hegarty, Pawnbroker,
deposed that on the 28th of January a woman, whom he identified as one of the
female prisoners, Julia Morrissy, [sic] came into the office and offered him a
piece of cloth ; he asked her where she got it, and finally stopped the cloth,
and handed her over to the custody of Constable Graham. |
| Constable Graham deposed to having arrested the prisoner
Julia Morrissy, and having searched her house, where he found three pieces of
cloth ; one of which on being compared with the piece offered at Mr. Hegarty's
appeared to be that from which the latter piece had been cut. When she was
arrested, she gave her name as Julia Morrissy ; he had also found £4 10s in
money in a box in the prisoner's house ; witness got two pieces of cloth from
Mr. Thornhill, Pawnbroker, which Mr. O'Callaghan indentified at the station
house. |
| Head Constable Crowley deposed that he arrested the
prisoner Finnegan, and searched her house, where he and his wife were, but
without finding anything there. He got two pieces of black cloth from Constable
Graham, which he was told had been offered to Mr. Thornhill by Finegan. [sic] |
| Mr. Thornhill, Pawnbroker, deposed that he received from
the Prisoner Finegan [sic] two pieces of black cloth, in last January. The
prisoner on that occasion told him his name was Coveney, of Bandon. Witness gave
up the cloth to Constable Graham. |
| Ellen Leavis deposed that she was employed in the office
of Mrs. Miller, pawnbroker, where she was offered a piece of cloth in pawn by
the female prisoner, Finnegan, who then gave her name as Catherine Healy ;
witness afterwards gave up the cloth to Constable Crowley. |
| Some other witnesses having been examined to the same
effect, Mr. M. H. Conway was examined by Mr. Walsh, and deposed that Mr. J.
Leycester is one of the partners of the Cork Steam Packet Company, to which the
Nimrod belongs ; the cargo of the Nimrod was discharged on the 25th of January,
and witness was told by the landing clerk that a bale of cloth for Cannock &
Co. was missing. |
| The evidence having closed, Mr. Scannell addressed the
jury for the defence, after which his Lordship summed up the evidence. |
| The jury retired for a short time and then returned a
verdict of guilty against all the prisoners. |
| While the jury were engaged in finding their verdict,
another jury was sworn, and his Lordship proceeded with the hearing of the
following case:— |
| John Donelly was charged with having obtained a
loaf of bread from Miss A. Bastable, by presenting a forged ticket, signed in
the name of the Rev. Mr. Marmion. |
| The prosecutrix deposed that the Rev. Mr. Marmion had been
in the habit of sending persons to her shop with tickets signed by him to
receive bread, for which he used to pay. The prisoner one day came into her shop
and presented her a ticket signed in the name of the Rev. Marmion, for a loaf of
bread. She at first refused to give it, suspecting from the manner of the
prsioner that he was attempting to cheat her, but he, having left the shop for a
short time, came back, saying he had seen the Rev. Marmion since, and he had
told him to get the bread, and that he would call in himself in the course of
the day. Witness then produced the ticket, which she deposed she had kept ever
since. |
| The Rev. Mr. Marmion was sworn, and deposed that he never
signed the document which was handed to him. |
| The Court wished to know whether the prosection was to be
for obtaining under false pretenses or for presenting a forged document.? |
| Mr. Scannell said it was for uttering a forged document. |
| The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence—six
months' imprisonment. |
| James Connor was sentenced to three months'
imprisonment for stealing a quantity of brass and copper, the property of the
Cork Steam Packet Company. |
| Timothy Mahony was sentenced to two years'
imprisonment at hard labour, for having stolen the sum of £3. |
| RULE OF COURT |
| Sergeant Stock then proceeded to sentence the different
prisoners who had been tried. The following are the sentences which were passed. |
| William Reardon, who pleaded guilty to feloniously
receiving goods, 3 months' imprisonment with hard labour ; Ellen Riordan,
petty larceny, 3 months from the date of her committal ; Jeremiah Murphy,
same offence, 3 months with hard labour ; John, Tean, and Edward Whitford,
who pleaded guilty of burglary of the most extensive kind, to be imprisoned for
two years and a half from the date of the committal and kept to hard labour ; John
and Mary Duggan, for feloniously receiving the goods robbed, 18 months from
committal, with hard labour. The prisoners were brother and sister, and both far
advanced in life. |
| His Lordship observed that it appeared they had been long
engaged in this irregular and nefarious traffic, and had seduced children of
tender years into the commission of offences. |
| John Mullany, convicted of cow stealing, in favour
of whom Mr. Walsh read a memorial signed by the prosecutors, 12 months
imprisonment with hard labour ; Michael Griffin, found guilty of larceny,
was next put forward to receive sentence. |
| Prisoner, addressing the Court—I would be obliged to you
if you transported me. I am quite destitute of friends or relatives. |
| Gaoler—I must state that his conduct in the gaol has
been most outrageous. He tore up near a pound's worth of bedding, without the
slightest provocation, in order that he should be reported to your lordship. |
| Court—You are to be imprisoned for one year from the
date of your committal, and kept to hard labour. |
| The next prisoner brought up was Timothy Lynch, who
had pleaded guilty of sacrilege. |
| His Lordship said—You are, I understand, a Catholic, and
none but a man totally devoid of all religious impressions could be guilty of
such an enormous act as you have committed. It is an offence which rarely occurs
in this country, and when it does occur, it ought to be severly repressed. I
shall sentence you to 12 months imprisonment and hard labour. |
| Timothy Mahony, who was convicted of robbing a poor
countryman of a small sum of money, and who it appeared was the leader of a
wicked gang, and himself an incorrigible offender, got two years and a half's
confinement with hard labour. Michael Neville, a pensioner, found guilty
of manslaughter, was sentenced to an imprisonment of 12 months from the date of
his committal. Patrick Gallwey, convicted of the manslaughter of his
sister. |
| His Lordship said this prisoner had very narrowly, and
upon very doubtful evidence, escaped being convicted of the monstrous crime of
wilfully murdering his own sister ; but he had been found guilty of the
manslaugter of that near and dear relation. He had cruelly violated one of the
most sacred ties of human affection. His own character was bad in the extreme,
as it appeared from his conduct in the transaction, and he had therefore to tell
him that he was to be transported for seven years. |
| SENTENCE OF DEATH |
| James Buchanan, found guilty of wilful murder, was
then ordered to be placed at the bar, and he shortly appeared, wearing a brown
coat over a soldier's old undress. |
| The Judge then addressed the convict as follows:— James
Buchanan, after a solemn trial, and most patient investigation of your case, a
jury of the country has found you guilty of the murder of Robert Frizby. [sic]
That ill-fated man fell by your hand. He was your fellow-soldier, and in the
hour of unsuspecting security, whilst at his post and duty, in the midst of
peace, in his own quarters, he was slaughtered by you. The death of a soldier in
the field of battle, combating for his country, though it may be painful, though
it may be violent, is sweetened and consoled by the sense of honour, by the
thought that he dies discharging the soldier's sacred duty to his country and
his king. But the death of your victim was not accompanied with any such
consolation. Your wicked and abominable error hurried him to his last couch by
means of a cruel assassination, carrying with it for him no glory, no honour, no
military recompense in the remembrance of his brave companions, to alleviate the
agonies of a slow and painful death. What must now, and for the rest of your
earthly career, were your life spared, would for ever be, the pangs of
conscience which must torment your breast! Even if your fate reserved you for a
more lengthened period of existence, than the violated laws of God and man allot
you, that prolongation of your life would only transfer you from an ignominious
punishment in public to the avenging torments of your own mind. Frisby died by
your arm. Frisby was to you innocent and without fault. He might have had his
faults towards others ; towards you, his assassin, he was as unoffending as the
child that was born yesterday. Him in the sanguinary transports of your malice
have you slain. You intended not his death ; you harboured no anger, you had no
revenge to gratify, against him. Yet this your fellow man, your comrade, who
might, perhaps, in the course of that very day have become your friend—this
man have you deprived of life and being with a purpose as reckless, as if you
had been butchering him for your amusement. Your future life, even if you were
spared from the death you merit, could not, humanly speaking, be a life reserved
for any degree of happiness. Though that men's laws should have spared you, you
could not have escaped that inward tormentor, that dire remorse that dogs the
criminal at the heels, and at last, though late, though slowly, yet surely,
overtakes him upon the evening of his day. It is an awful warning and lesson to
all who hear of your wayward wickedness and the punishment which now awaits you.
You perpetrated a cruel and fatal attack on the person of one, towards whom you
bore no enmity, whom perhaps that very day you might have embraced. The law
hands you over to the pains of death, for malice directed against another man,
which you were not able, though you tried, to consummate. See how one short
interval of vicious indulgence of wicked passion consigns to irredeemable guilt
and the extreme punishment, him who in the morning of a day was without blame,
yet at night meets a felon's death. Yet, though I speak to you in severity, I
will not speak to you in cruelty. Even in the depth of your guilt, there is
that, which may be stated in your favour, as some mitigation of the horrid crime
of murder. It is not certain, except to the Searcher of human hearts, whether
that black form of malignant passion, which disturbed your spirit, when you
meditated the death of the sergeant who had reported you—whether it was the
sudden, unpremeditated outbreak of wickedness, or the fruit and growth of a
character completely depraved, and a horrid contempt of all laws. I have heard
that of you since you have stood under the reproof of general opinion, and have
been known as the man who shot Frisby, which induces me to think and hope, you
are duly contrite and repentant. The jury also have been touched with a sense of
compassion towards you, and have recommended you to mercy. That
recommendation I will submit to the head of the Irish Executive. But it is my
painful duty at the same time to say, that I cannot reckon upon the event of any
reference of your case to his Excellency, so as to flatter you with hopes of
commutation of your punishment. You must therefore, prepare for death, for a
brief period of time ; and severed once and all, as you now are, from that
society of men, whose laws you have violated, turn your thoughts and
meditations, for the remainder of your life, towards the eternity which is open
to receive you. The Judge concluded by repeating the form of sentence of death,
and fixed Monday the 10th of May for its execution. |
| During the delivery of this moving address, the deepest
silence reigned through the court ; and, while every breath was hushed, the eyes
of the audience, were engaged in attentively watching the demeanour of the
prisoner, at so awful a moment of his fate. But he received the announcement of
his doom, without betraying in the lines of his face, or by change of colour,
the least sign of emotion, nor was it possible for the closest scrutiny to
observe the slightest traces of falter or agitation in his whole manner and
bearing. For some time after the Judge ceased to speak, he continued to stand
statue-like at the bar, and looked intently towards the Bench, as if he wished
to say something ; but that not appearing to be his intention, he was ordered to
be removed. The prisoner is rather a young man, of strong form, and of dull, but
not sinister expression of features. The Judge himself seemed to be deeply
agitated. |
| John Morrissy and Joseph Healy, found guilty
of stealing a bale of cloth from the Packet Office were sentenced to 18 months
imprisonment each ; and Denis and Catherine Finegan, and Julia
Morrissy to one years imprisonment for receiving the property. |
| The Court soon afterwards adjourned and the Assizes
terminated. |
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| There were forty car loads and one boat of potatoes in
market this week. The supply was very eagerly purchased by farmers for seed, and
sold at from 11d. to 1s. 4d. per stone.—Limerick Examiner. |
| DEATH OF WILLIAM
MORRIS READE, Esq.—At Rosinara,
Kilmoganny, William Morris Reade, Esq., once (for a while) M.P., for this city.
He caught fever by over- exertion, whilst endeavouring to bring the murderers of
Mr. Prim into the power of the law.—Waterford Chronicle. |
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