Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-30 00:00:00

AN IRISH TRIAL.

At the Cork Assizes, on Saturday, one Patrick Coleman
was indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of one
John Mullane, on the night of the Sad of July last.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Margaret Ahern was the first witness sworn. Ex-
amined by Sir C. O'Loghlen : I live in Church-street,
Mitchelstown ; I live with my daughter and an old man, a
cripple ; Mr. King owns the house.
Sir Colman O'Loghlen called ltpon his loriship to
amend the indictment under Lord Campbell's Act, as the
house was wrongly described.
His lordship accordingly caused the indictment to be
amended,
Examination,continued : When was your house entered?
He came into it three weeks on Thursday.
Did anything occur to you that night? I don't know
whether there did or not. (Laughter.)
Were you awoke in the night ? I was not awake when
he came, or if I was I would not let him in.
Did you find any one in the room ? There is no room,
but a kitchen.

What did you find in the kitchen ? I saw him with the
old man.

Do you know him ? Idoto be sure (pointing to the
dock.) There is the very lad there (laughter); I know
him very well, for I ought to know him, because he
frightened the life out of me.
How did he frighten you? Because he came in between
one and two o'clock, and handled me from head to foot.
(Laughter )
What did you do to him ? I caught him and held him
between the door until my daughter went for the police
and brought them up.
Was the door locked that night? It was not locked
at all, because there was no lock on it.
How was it fastened? 'There was a little staple down
in the door, and another little staple down in that.
(Laughter.)
Is the door in two halves ? 'Tis indeed in two halves.
Cross-examined by Mr Fitzgibbon 4,Now, Peg, are you
sure there was a door at all to the h4tee ? lam sure
there was a door to it, and I fas'eaed it myself.
What, an hook and eye ? Aye, hook and eye.
(Laughter.)
Come, now, was it an hook and eye? There was an
" asp" on it, and a " stable" put down in that.
When did you get the old house? TSO years next
May.

What did you give Jack Mullane for L.? 1 gave him
a place in it : he is an old cripple man.
Were you asked for a mad fire ?
Oh ! no, he did'nt.

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Did he want to robyou ? I could not tell what he was
ir cliued to do ; I won't swear robbery, but let the law do
what they like with him.
Who was in bed with you ? (Laughter.) My daughter.
Was the cripple in bed with you ? He was at the foot
of the bed.

Was he in bed with you ? Why that would be a con-
trary thing—(laighter) —he has an oil woman of his own.
Was Biddy in bed with you ? She was.
You felt a man feeling all over you ? I did.
It was you he was feeling ? 'Twas me he was feeling.
(Langhter.)
He mistook you for th 3 daughter ? I suppose so.
(Laughter.)
You ware wide awake ? I was not awake till he fright•
ened me.

You ware frightened ? To be sure ; a woman kind
ought to be frightened, for a fallow of that kind to come
into me.

Was he about to rob you? I can't swear it, because I
can't say what was in his mind, either to rob me or do
what he liked to me. (Laughter.) I was never in a court
before.

Did you know what expenses are at assizes. I
want no expenses at all, but let him have the course of
the law.

You won't swear he was wanting to nb you ? I don't
know •, you won't catch me there. (Laughter. )
Eh? Eh ?. (Winking, laughter).
To Court : When he cams in, I said who is that, and got
no answer, and then my daughter said I was dreaming.
He (the prisoner) said, "she is not dreaming, it is a lump
of a man is in the house." (Laughter.)
Bridget Ahern daughter to the last witness, was next
sworn. She recollected the night the man went into the
house. Her mother called her out of her sleep, and told
her there was some one in the house, and she (witness)
said she was only dreaming, when the man said, " no, she
is not ; you have a lump of a man with you." The old
man and woman held him while witness was going for the
police.
Andrew Mockler, constable at Michelstown, swore he
found the man in the house sitting c n the grass.
His Lordship, in charging the jury, said they should be
satisfied of two things before they brought in a verdict
against the prisoner. First, that he had actually broken
into the house, and secondly, that he broke into the house
with intent to steal. If they, were •of opinion he had
broken into the house with the intention of steeling they
should bring in a verdict of guilty.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.
Court : He may be discharged.
Prisoner (tapping his os frontis) : I thank your Lord-
ship.

A letter from Sil,m;ca states that the ban] of a noted
brigand chief had carried off into the mountains Bessim
Bey, the Cadi of Caraferia. They demand for his ransom
a sum of 200,000 riAstres and the release of two of their
band, who are in the prison of Salonica.

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