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Pastier Ennis, and father Rowe. but the messenger ilil not go. ! were abet some rucks of violenec on the body. The contusion TM
Cannot recollect who it was be desired to go; cannot say why, eon- the cause of the child's death ; carrot say how it was inflicted ; it
wderuig that the pricer oda mad, be did not go himself. Tout: to mieht have been by a blunt instnitnem.
11 to-
nes" to interfere when he ri.w eartall sitting on the tub, though he' eruss.examined by Mr. LIEN a LTI —Attended Mr. Cairn pi:, I
thought bias mad. The child he knew to be under the tub. Sas : fe.sier.ally ; saw him for the Met time on the evening of the I t 1
he person at Sinnott's try to pretreat the priest from sitting un the !,y. The circumstance which is the subject of the present in.
lob. When witness was going hod the rootn, para, nee of ente , vestigation terminated at 4 o'clock, on thc morning of that day
prisoner', asked hint whether be was mad err
drunk, and (1...1ed; found hint so insane that he was obliged ti. nut him under restraint.
Moe to keep eat of the we', ari the prie•t was at that moue
going' Ile did not put him in a *trait waiatcoat ; Wed him profe•ely in
Si enTel the devil, and that lie (the devil) might hurt winter& in ! the temporal artery; Mr. Carroll removed the dressiugs, and wit-
kia Waage out of the room. At this time the people had formed ; ness was therefore obliged to place handcuffs upon him ; he was
it passa to let the drvil pain. This occulted long after he had 1 raving, and speaking very incoherently, particularly about the
beers first ge,
in the room. I The witiass here identified Panel, one of devils tibia he bath driven nut of the people.
lstionoers, in the &Krt. Sow Wickham, another of the prison...y.l,l Mr. lieu it ETT here remarked, that there was such a thing as a
le Stamm's. Ile (Wicklina ) had a candle in his hand at the time, ' second slight` believed in Scotland, and in the Noeth of Ireland
atollhe
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and •Vrao standing mar the priest. Did tot see Father Carroll , existence of tches etas believed, and it was therefore not
since be rode away that, morning, until he saw him in Court I wonderful that our poor peasantry should have their miracles.
"eetudy. I Witness re.eXaMiliel by_ Mr. Donamew.—Aftee Mr. Carroll
Ely the.
CgA;lll.. Saw the child dead in ii.r. morning ; heard it had been bled, be tore off the bandage. and therefore he was
cry •wheo hr that ertered the house; (lid not interfere. as be, obliged to have recourse to restraint. Ile considered him pa-
ths:what the prime could pdfornt a miracle, although he certainly feel) innine.
vrousht him defense& I Dir. MIIISCOI.I. said, that the ease fir the Crown closed here.
Mr. tfaxon.—Nothing can be fairer than the way in which the , Mr. Distust.-31y Lord, the Counsel fur the prist
ner. consider
veseles 'beat stated for the crown, or the manner in which the that the witnesses fur the prosecutina have proved quite sufficient to
elamtee of the witness ce
ntsa conducted. It will, however, warrant the Jury in acquitting the Rev. Geetleman. They shall,
be trii d.&ty, in *taw to my cliets, to put a rcw questions to the; beaten', with e witness, a medial Gentleman, with has been
w•aness. acquaintepawner toe several Taint.
Crom-examined by Mr. as
arc Father Carroll since I FOIL THE DLFENCE.
be has been able to walk ;be has been Curate of the parish of Kit. Doctor Metall: examined by Mr. lb xow.—ls a physician ;
hi
fee several years; always hisnl that lie was a pious good has known Father Carroll for the hiss fourteen years; rensembers the
a, sad that he strove to kecp the lower orders down ; the potpie unfortunate transaction now under discussion ; kat been for the
hod great confidence in him, as a holy man, and considtircel that he . lest three years in laiendalite on ale. Cana, with the exception of
...Mid work miracles ; he was considered to be a kind and humane I two mouths previously to this transaction, and during that period'
wan; witness thought him capable of an ace of emery (a laugh); he had not seen hien. To a (residua of what he shovglit of Mr. I
imacr that he was not capable of an act of cruelty ; witness first i Carroll's state of health,
the witness replied that l.: lateen:id under
time 'tip vilest airs. Moran was lying on the ground ; heard the ! a determination of blood to the head, a confusion uf ideas, and ini.•
pro* say that Father Carroll had • few minutes before that cast ! Paine' memory, and he considered him incapable of understanding
eat 4 41.1 from a man at Widow Neal's house :is Melte sure the • even delete subjects. Ile wax what ntedical men eall having a
people oath ii tau a devil, of a serpent, or sumo /yen thing g the 1 predisposition to insanity, but was always relieved by nietheine-
people heiblicitly believed it; witness was somewhat doubtful as he ; Mr. Cason had ceased to take medicine fur two months previously
bad het aeon it. The people theught that Father Carroll could ito this unfortunate act. Witness saw lei 111 by accident a the day
"reek •inirS.:lee. It was reported in the country that he had worked lof the 9th of
July.Jl kneeling in the gripe of a ttitch by the road side
a miracle on 'Slim Browne. That belief was tiros. It sc,ts alto he. ! with his hat n covered h ;he was then apparently
herd that Father Carroll had been called upon by Neal's family to very much deranged. This (wearied between four and five o'clock
south a miracleon Neal, who had been I
bed-ridden for a long time, in the evening, and before any part of the occurrence now Velure
and than the priest had effected his cute. Sinnott's child was the the Court had taken place. He had knoan the prisoner for four.
sad a bah years old. The child was troubled with tits. It was the teen years, and during that period he had borne the character of i
...NUMMI belief in the country, that when a persoa had firs, it war, beingmost exemplary man, and A Mini: Vla ClAlly map' ;
rased by the devil. From all be saw and heard, he believed that ; witness thieks that his having (minted for two months to take the
et Wits radar Carroll's imentirm to cure the child. All the )ul- , medicine which had been pre- ^rased fee him, led him nation state
snore believed that he with! and would cure the child, butt faith !of fanaticism which deluded hire into the idea that he mind work
he. the Times., did not think it. None present, as be slily, helped 1 miracles. Knows Nies Jimmie ; attended her; there was, to
him in hb operations. The reason why a passage was made in the , withess'e knowledge, a delusion among the people as to sure:mate.
crowd wars to allow the devil to pass from the child. [The whole I eel powers being vested in Fetid Carroll, as well as in other Ro-
of the prisoners here. with the exception of Carroll, burst out ' roan Catholic priests; witness's profession lead* him'w mingle
laughing.' The house was at the time crowded. Dog net know with the lowest orders, and he ran therefore swearnhat he limb; a
whether the priest was at that time under the care of a physician. peat proeeness in diem to believe in miracles, and also that people
I'; a .Inror.--!Suitered the priest to sit upon the child though he are possessed by the devil, and that the priests have the potter po oft
thounht him mad. banishing hint.
Philip Walsh examined by Mr. Flu ._.Lives in the parish of i l'neis-exantincti by Mr. Fox—Mr. Carroll ceased to take me.
liallieleh. Knows Mr. Carroll the ptiNt. Knows Sinnott. He , divine for two months previous to this transaction. Witness be.
lives near Mn. Knew Catherine Sinnott the child. liecolkets herd that his so ceasing to take medicine occasioned his derange.
seeing Father Carroll at Sinnott's house. Went to the house after MOIL About three years ego alt. Carroll was affected, but lead no
nigh:-Lll. Thinks it njght have been eleven o'clock when he particular delusion at the time ; witness lives in Wexford, and the
testa,. Went there, and hoed a noise mime jostle, and then went ',flannel in the parish of Killinick,, within four miles of lifearord,
in. The ?sonic was •full of mohs Saw Father Carroll in the and continued to officiate as a priest in it up to the vernal of this
bed. liid not see the chill at that time. Carroll was sitting in tiansaction ; never apprised Carroll's friends of his tendency to in.
the bed, and was altering something. Ile thenetot up on his feet, sahity the Recite of the parish heard of the circumstance paced-
ad stood on the itils lizard the child cry " ltlammy, mammy, ing the occurrence far which the misoner is now standing Ins t.yial, •
epee ins." Saw the child fur the first time next morning. The but he did not interfere to prevent the prisoner from uffidating. •
child was then dead. Saw a tub in the room. Was there before Witness considered Mr. Carroll as a person incapable of dislin. I
the tub was brought in. Could not at this time get near the bed. guishing between right and wrung.
the crowd FRS so great, bet heard the people say the child was in The case being now closed on both sides,
it. Cannot say who sent for the tub. Heard tattier Carroll call Mr. Justice JOH X,Oti proceeded to charge the Jury. His Lord.
tor some water. A bowl of water was then brought in, and the ship, after recapitulating the evidence, proceeded to state the haw
West desired that to be taken away, and a tub of water to be as applicable to the arts of insane persons. Wide regard to the
Weaught. The tub was brought in h,i witness and James 1/eve- other prisoners who were indicted, his Lordship observed, that if an
re.d, one of the prisoners at the bar. Itness carried the tub close insane person commit a murder, and if he be asaistml by any other
t where Fether Carroll was. when the priest desired him to lift it persons in the perpetration of it, though lie may be innocent in the
ott the bed. The priest was et this time standing on the bed. When eye of the law. yet they must be found guilty of murder. Daiwa,
the tell was settled on the bed, Father Carroll said some words over however, the Jury could find the other prisoners at the bar guilty
IS a d duce some salt into the water. The priest then put his foot of murder,, they must satisfy their meth; that they did actually
u-i :he near handle of the nob, end upset the water, some part of it assist—beng present is nut alone suificient. The witness Fur.
on her avn feet, and the tenon the bed. The tub was turned upside lung stated positively that he PM prevented by sane person from
ibw:i. The priest thee said with a loud voice, " Bury him, Jesus, interfering, and was naked whether he was drunk or mad. Any
ii the depth of the Red Seat" meaning, as witness believed, the person preventing anuther from Muttering to preserve the life of a
Devil. tic said this while he was overturning the tub. Saw the fellow-creature, would undoubtedly be eunvidered as aiding and
nit; alter that. The priest sat upon it first, and then stood and assisting in the murder ; but there ere no facts to show that any
(fenced on it. The child all this time was under it. The priest of the prisoners at the bat did so interfere. The most that eta
etsystl in the house till day-light. The priest ordered the pimple proved against thou was that one prisor.er brought a candle and
out of the room, and he, the witness, immediately went out; The another a tub ; but these CifettillatalUca were not sufficient to war.
ehiset desired them in a loud voice not to touch his clothes, on taut the Jury in caning to the conclusion that they had aided in
;thigh the people rushed out frightened, as they thought the Devil the eollllllilb4 of the murder. The questions which the Jury would
'fins then escaping. Saw the child's leg, and supposes the body was have to consider were—first, whether the homicide had been corn.
lard‘r the tub, Saw the child dead in the morning. It was Sin- niitted, and then whether the prisoner, Carroll, was capable at the
nint's child. Looked into the room after the priest turned the pear. time of distinguishing right from wrong. If the Jury believed,
):n (set, and saw the priest sitting on the bed. Identities (;a roll, him to have beat insane, they must acquit him ; if not, they must
o/evei.anx, and Wkkham. find hint guilty. There was to evidence that the other prisoners
CrOss-examined by Mr. lle liver. Tv.—Knew Father Carroll a had been aiding and assisting, and therefore his Lordship thought,
.VS time. Thought he wee toning wildly on the day in question. the Jery ought to acquit them.
er appeared to witness to be insane. Thou"lit it swarge that he At two o'clor1( the Jury retired, and in a few minutes returned
moold throw water on the bed. Mr. Carroll was a humane, mild with their vere.e; of Nut Guilty against five of the priseuers, and
:ran. Never heard of his being cruel. Wm sure be never intended of And Craig against Carton, lie being at the time insane.
is ham the child. Was quite certain that the prisoners at the bar Some inacestracy having occurred in the wording of the verdict,
d:d not inter.d to aid in murder. Saw Neal that night, who had his Lord:hip desired that the exact words of the Act of Patna.
been cured by the priest- Sow a woman of the frame of Peg Fuse. inept dwelt! be copiud and eubmitted to the Jury ; as, according
hotel. She appeared to witness at one time to be dead, and lathe? to the Ist and Llel of George the Third, lie would nut be war.
Canoll upoke over her, and shook her, and the recovered. Saw ranted in detaining the prisoner, unless the precise words of the
Neal bed-ridden for several days, and he priest cured him. Neal Act were specified in the finding of the Jury. The Jury again re-
can't speak plain; but when witness went to hint, after the priest tired, and miunnhately returned the following verdict, winch was
nen kit hint, he sat up in the bed and said, " PM!, I am quite recorded:—
reelected." Did not tell this on the inquest. He seas sworn 'hove •• We find Nicholas Wickham, James Devereux, Patrick Patel,
olly to answer such qualities as should be put to him, and no Nicholas Corrish, and Walter Scams, No:Cosine—and weturthcr
4i:tattoo of the kind was *sized him. Sae the priest go from Neal's find that the said John Carroll, at the time of the connubial of the
house with Ms arms extended, and his hat off. Would have in. offence in the said indictment charged, was a person insane, and the
;eared at Sinnott's to rive the chili, but that he thought the said Jobe Candi has been acquitted by us of the said offiarce on
lariat would have cured her. amount of the said insanity."
Ile-examined by Mr. Fox.—'l"
.•e person cured was Neal ; The pritoner apps sed at the bar with a darktoloured broad
thir.ki the cure a very two:wine-ay one. Will not 'wear that ribbon bound round his bead close across his forehead, fur the
he does not think Carroll now capable of working miracles- purpose of keeping on the plageta which had been applied, in
Mr. SitErL here interfered, and said, that Connect on the op- eenSeqUente of the temporal artery having been recently i:und.
perdu slde had no right to cross-exensine one of their own a it- , Ica count-mance was deathly. pale, but cam and composed, and
eases. I rcely r muscle moved during the trial. His eyes were some.
AIL Fox—Mr. Shell most surely be aware of my object. The' *hat Isloalabot, and he occasionally fixed them with a lion and
wimat is a very itstelligrnt mart and I wish, as Counsel for the 1 steady gaze on several portions whom he appeared to recognise
pasoneri have cliched from him, injudiciously, I think, in his in the Conn. The only citcumetatice which occurred durmg
ertarnexaminatlon that he believed Mr. Carroll capable of work- the trial that could induce a spectator to suppose him interested
thug nilmlne, that 'he should correct himself, and thus prevent a In what was going forward, was the extreme nervousness which
very mieNevous fact frau going to the world. Mr. Fox then re.! he exhibited when taking snuff, which he frequently did dur-
.:orted the examination--Cali t account for the way in which the' ing the day. Ilk hands, on these occasions, shook perceptibly,
eiee of Neal was performed ; Neal was bed-ridden, arid exceed- hut, with ihi, trifling exception, lie deported himself with md-
mely it e the
_priest came end prayed over him, and he intenedi.l maw, end with a souls:tints approatiptig to dignity. He was
itsly recovered ; these were facts which came within his own ob. dressed Is • blue suriuut on being
,placed at the bnr, but in $ short
meanie, and lie therefore could not help believing that a miracle tints' he dieeneosibered himself' of this garment, and appeared
hid been paronred. restectubly (hand in a black coat and waistcoat. In the pro.
Thomas Sinnott, the father of the child. examined hy Mr.l pees of the trial be was handed some leaves of cheerio', which he
1 tIIStarTT-IASCA at Killinick ; had a daughter named Cathe.. divided with I.is fellow-prisonere, all of whim] partook of them.
:sae ; she is dead ; cannnut recollect precisely the day on which 1 Except in these instances, lie scarcely appeared to take the slightest
vYe died ; it was on the night that Father Carroll came to the' notice of thou, or of the procectlings in which lie himeelf might
how; the child was alive whet Father Carroll arrived. 14'hen I have barn supposed to have had so vital an interest. During the
greater Fart of die day, lie stood whit Ma ATMS folded, leaning over
Witress awe into the horse he heard an sensual noise; he stopped
aid listened for a while, and heard the child crying. lie made up the front of the dock. Bain;; subsequently acelmimodated with
to the child, but was atopped ; cannot say by whom ha was a chair, he, however, occasiorally sat down for a few minutes.-
ar. Saw Father Ca roll at the time; saw the head of the i When a witness was asked to point out Ikvereux, one of the,
doen not know at wheat hour the child's decease took place ; ' Prisoners who was standing in the back part of the dock, the wit.
did not see it but once ; saw it dead in the bed. When he first . netts said he did not see limn. Mr. Carroll turned suddenly rowed
tare tato the raw) he emir the head of the child; thought the' and looked at Dercieux, who immediately advanced, and was re.
child Was frighten(%) by the noise. home people desired hlm to ! cognised by the witness. When Sinnott, the father of the unfor-
Ole.) dean, which he did ; all the people knelt down and prayed ; . tunste iotant, appeared on the table, the prisoner sat down, and did
use the priest In the mean after die people had depleted. The I not rise until the sheds had left the table. While Dr. Rentick
child *tat then dead ; hr took the child in his arms, and strewed was under examination as to his insanity, the prisoner looked on
it to the priest. Father Carroll desired him to lay it down on the I him fixedly, and WWI apparently but hide concerned at his testi-
b.d. Dud not ask the priest why he killed his child, gibe thought ! mor.y. Time appearance of Dr. Descend., who was the only wit-
tie would return and being it to lite. At four o'clock in the morn. i fleas examived for the defence, and who had been intimately tie-
ing the primt called him into the room, and he remained sitting quainter) with the prisoner for fourteen year'', eppeared not in the
with him on the lied for about five minutes. Father Carroll made , leant to affect Ishii. During the charge of the Judge, lie paid the!
no observation to hint on the death of the child ; but, said the wit.; strictest attention, ar.d on several occasions, when his lordship'
awn, when I asked him what I was to do, he raid, resign it to the commented on the atrocious circumstancee of the case, the muscles
nits cf Had. .of the Owen upper lip appeared in cr nstant play. It was not,
'Collet-mateniner4 by Mr. Sn Kr I.—The child was subject to sick_ i however, until the Jury had returned to the box, after considering
neat ; hen no notion thin lather Carroll meant to injure the child ; • uf their verdict, that he showed any peculiar degree of interest is •
father Caveat had pseviously said prayers over the child ; it is the' the case. A slight hectic then mantles! o'er his heretufore pallid
Opinion of the people as well as of witness that persona subject to.!.eountenance. Ile frequently clenched the hand which rested on the
fin are possessed cf evil spirits. Witness, while the ptiest was I dock, while the other was applied to his forehead. This fading,
/teeing on the clod, knelt down and said hie prayers, and weld I however, only iitsnAl while die names of the Jury were collies over,
Ant have done so if he thought ant, mischief was intended. Saw , and before the verdict was announced he had again resumed his ap-
:clnirl that nay ; Neal had been bed-ridelen for some time, but rot ; pearance of composure. Ile heard the verdict 'evaded without
an that day after the priest prayed over him. It was the opinion • betraying the slightest emotion.
ia the people that Carroll hail ',Piked a miracle on Neel ; the people' The prisoner is about twenty-eight years of age, although he
rimaglithe would have cued witness's child, as hefted done nkil ; I looks considerably older. He is remarkably tall, and stout nude,
Pieter Carroll was cohsidered by the people to possess superiry and his features, which are strongly marked and regular, bear a
dower to uther priextm; Erred that Father Carroll had performed a! striking resemblance to those oldie late Napoleon Ilonapariz.
Mirstle on Miss Itmwne ; it was the universes opinion that mimes,
qua mirsei.s laid been worked by Father Carroll ; witness's There is everywife'- -
1 probability of the Insurrection Act being
Wes in the house when Carroll arrived ; she continued in the room removed front the liberties of Cork.
a die time the priest was there.
fte essavisted u
nable PI. tt PI cuuT —Witness's wife is now so an. DARING MUMGl.ARY.—ltetarecu two mid three o'cloek on
well that she is uable to leave her bed. Sunday morning the house of Mr. Coyne. 4i, Wellneek.etrect, was
'Paul Crowe examined by Mr. ltateeot.e.—Knows Father Car- entatsl by some daring burglars, who eine-tett their purpose Iry
; was at Sinnott's on the night of the nth July ; raw Farber climbing Iron, the area railing, by the lamp-iron, to the ton it
om
t•si
I %Mini, on the bed ; the chill was in the bed, and the priest ; Inman. from which they could easily reach the staircase a indow.
g on her' saw the priest afterwards stand up in the bed en 1 which they raised, and thus gained admittance to the list thew of
Child, fitter 'which the priest went into the best ; heard the child ! ' the bonus They thence proceeded to the drawing-rooms and se.
ivy while the priest was sitting upon her ; saw a tab brought into vend room.; on the basement and ground-Hoors, which they con:-
the mom Lthere Wall water in it ; Father Carroll was the person : Pletely notuaked, with the exception of one small Clipboard. nor-',
mining a quantity of silver plate., which, from the key being Jett in
ifs; desired the tub to be brought in ; he spooled the water on the
and ; Father Carroll was wading in the bed at the time ; wit. ! the door, they protethly passed OS not worth the trouble of. extern:.
sea was near the bed ; Father Carroll said some words which I mug. Every other cupboard, closet, and drawer on thole two wrens(
witness did not rerelleet ; aumet say low long he remained in the they onened, and carried Dtr their enamel, including
erable tjuatititt-
g a small plate.;
rsam ; dor not know whether five minutes or tire hours ; thinks be j chest• containine about so!. earth of plate, a cnnsid
was there five min Litery- Millar, three limn; remained in the room i of wearing apparel, mostly new, and several very handsome rose-,
Mail th: Jelin onlend the people out ; the witness then went wood owes, and • writing-desk, with which, inerelible as it may
baste. Ail me ate Carrell ono, until he son him in the dock. appear, they succeeded in getting clear or, eluding the Meld of the
watchmen in the neighbourheod. They let themselves out by the
. Cross-essinsimel by Mr. Dixoss—'l'he child's mother was in the 1
street-thaw, the key of which they carried away, leaving behind
room while the priest was tt.ere ; every person present expected
them • chospheroue box, two bundles of matches, and a sect strut'
that Father Caernll wenld have worked a miracle ; kliOtes nothing '
e'en Prince Ilabenlelse. . ermillwrick, with the candle that had lighted them in their sea-dm for
This venom. during his direct, as well as his erms-atiminatior, I the Plunder. It is summed they most have hail a hackney
coach in waiting for them soniewhese in the vicinity. Inform:lo.n
thawed a decided reiuetance in ane•vering questions. so mush so,
that the Court at length interfered, and inanted upon his going of the robbery was given at the Agcy-la-bonne Police (Mice vestry.
flare into particulars than he &primed willing to do—his wawa day, and Staples, the officer, was sent to examine the preinises;
car almost every quention was, in the fiat instance, either No, Sir ; and from his reports it would appear that it must haw, beer. the
str. I don't know, Sir. I work of experienced depredators. The missing sit irks of plate are
, to keenke. e„mined 1,, Me. ien„,„*,_ J„ physkian , was marked with the initials G. F. T., the crest being a bird het* son
call .4 in to exaccane the body of a dead child on the morning ee two battk.axes sumourtneg a CCTUnet.