The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-04-06 00:00:00

TWO MORE EXECUTIONS.

John Stanton, aged T.l, was executed within Stafford
Gaol, on Tuesday morning, for the murder of his uncle,
Thomas Nield, whom he stabbed to the heart with a shoe-
maker's knife, after an altercation at the Dog and Par-
tridge beerhouse. Stafford, on the evening of Saturday,
January 16th. The prisoner is said to have manifested
much penitence.
John Morgan, • young soldier, was executed on Tuesday
morning, at the county gaol, Maidstone, for the murder of
a comrade, at Shorncliffe camp. The convict admitted
his guilt to the chaplain, and divulged the motive, but
stipulated it should never be made known. The prisoner
exhibited extraordinary firmness to the last.

AN IRISH BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.
At the Cork Assizes, before Mr. Justice Lawson. bliss
Mary O'Leary, a young woman, living. with her mother
near Macroom, bniught an action agsunst Mr. Timothy
O'Shea, a fanner, residing on the lands of Knockshandon,
to recover damages for the breach of his promise to marry
her. The defendant denied the promise.
One of the witnesses for the plaintiff was Mr. Robert
O'Conner a gaslitter. Ile stated that the plaintiff was
related to him, and that on the evening after Cork races,
in September. 1572, she brought the defendant to his
house. After I had called them up stairs, and told the
servant to give them their dinner—which was shut lamb
—(laughter).
Mr. Heron—Tender food.
. . . . . .

Witness : But which was cold, my lord (more laughter).
—lt was after dinner that I said to him, "Shame on you
to be so treating this woman so long; why don't you
marry her r when he swore in the words as solemn as
could he uttered that soon as his sister was married he
would marl, no other girl but her. When she came up
she hail another glass of wine awl he a tumbler of pouch,
and after that we had our tug and after that, say lord, we
had another glass of punch (more laughter). But, mind
you, my lord. I put the question three times—three times,
my lord (laughter). Are you satisfied to marry the girl f"
and when the hook was put into his hands he swore he
would marry her. And when he was separating, my lord,
he put his hand round her neck and kissed her, and they
separated, she remaining at my house, and he going to a
cousin's.
Miss Mary O'Leary. the plaintiff, said: I have lived all
my life with my father and mother. Denfendant WWI
paying attention to me for eleven years, and for the last
six or seven years he was always promising to marry me.
Ile always said he was in dread he could never marry me,
as his soother was against me, and that it would be better
to elope. I said it WM no matter about my fortune, for I
would never care about his mother's means as it was for
love we were going to be married. My fortune was shout
£lOO. While we were speaking of the elopement he took
a Prayer-book out of his pocket and swore he never would
i marry a wife but me, and used an Irish phrase, which
meant that nobody else should be married to either one
or the other. I ultimately consented to an elopement,
and got dresses. Ile made an appointment in Cork that
we should elope and be married by the registrar in
Macroom, and by the priest afterwards. I went to
Macroom. lie did not 0)1111: that evening, and left me in
Mammon making preparations for the marriage. I gave
him the letter he wrote in my absence. I read the letter,
and in it he said he really felt pained at writing to sue on
such • subject, but that he could never conciliate his
fiends to that conduct of mine, and thst we should pass
one another in future like ordinary neighbours. Of course
when I Raw that letter I took it to him and tore it in his
face. I met hint afterwards and the promise of marriage
was renewed between us. That was before April, Iti74 ;it
was finally broken off in that month.
On <Tu.-examination. plaintiff said • man named
Patrick Callaghan tried to snake her his sweetheart, and
applied to her mother, who told him witness was engaged,
and that it was uselesa When they made the appointment
to elope she went to meet him. She was underneath his
window when he was going to b.', and he spoke to her
out of • little window which a child could not get
through. She did nothing at all but stay under his
window._ . . .

Mr. 0 Brien : Why, it was • regular Romeo and Juliet
businesti—(laughter). Was there any ladder there I
Witness: I did not see it there. I was waiting for the
hour he appointed for us to go off quietly.
Mr. ('Brien, Q C., on behalf of the defendant, said his
client was the eon of a widow, who had a farm in the
neighbourhood of Macrootu. He had w) interest whatever
in the property, and beyond his natural expectation of
succession to her he was at present entirely dependent on
his mother. His acquaintance with this young women
began in year IS:70 —not as she herself pretended, eleven
years ago—and it first arose from a message she sent him
that she admired him and was desirous of making his
acquaintance. Ile denied the alleged promise to marry.
The defendant said that after he had several times
declined to meet her he at length went with her to the
house of her uncle, who proposed marriage between them.
The plaintiff asked him that evening, after telling her
uncle to go out for a while, whether if she waited until his
sister got married he would marry her, and he replied
that he might never get married. Ile left the uncle's
house that evening by himself, and aid not meet her
afterwards until September, 1572, at the Park racecourse
As the last race was being run off she tapped him on the
shoulder, and spoke to him. They went to Mr. O'Connor's
house, but he never made any promise, or swore any
oath.
Mr. Heron, Q.C. —When she met you there at Mantis
key did you not know that she wished to marry you
Witness—l suspected so.
When you were kissing her did you tell her that you
would not marry hert—l did —(laughter).
Was there no talk of marriage that evening I—There
was I told her I would not marry her.
Before you kissed her I —Yes—(laughter).
And after it I—Yes—(renewell laughter).
The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, awarded
£5O damages and costa.

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