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unless she really hattgkeisAitkas she said she had.
I proposed it as a tfst of the ruth of her story. I
merely showed her the tube, and said if you have taken
poison, that is .be. only thing which can save yrur
She said she would not allow me to 11,e it. I wee pre.

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sent when the prisoner was examined before the Magis-
mite% He was charged with having met his wife and
given her something to eat. He denied it, and said he
had not been out of Long Compton either ou Saturday
night or Sunday morning. I saw the prisoner on the
next day at Edgington's house. Besides him and me,
there were present Mr. Scolefield, the Magistrate, the
constable, the prosecutrix, and Mrs. Print. He was
charged with having purchased arsenic. He said he
had given it to Thomas Sims, of Long Compton, and
could bring him forward as a witnes,. He said he had
intended it first for his lather, but meeting with Sims,
who told him he had a great many rats in his house, lie
gave it to him.
Elizsbeth Print described the state in which she
found the prosecutrix on Sunday, when she saw her
about 12 o'clock. She was very ill.
It was here proposed by the Learned Counsel for the
prosecution, to give evidence of the contents of the
letter sent by the prosecutrix to the prisoner.
The Learned JUDOx was of opinion, that as there
was no proof that the letter thrown into the fire by the
prisoner was the same which he had received from her,
and as no notice had been served upon him to pro-
duce it, secondary evidence of its contents could not
be admitted.
Jane Hall said, that on the evening of Tuesday, the
11th of March, the prisoner called at her house, and
inquired where Sarah Bennett lived. He said she had
sent him a letter. He said," D—n her eyes, I wish she
was dead, and Wolford farmers would be as glad as I
should be." Barrett, my nrighbour, had previously
asked him what was in the letter which put him in such
a passion? The prisoner replied, that it was put in the
that he was to come forward, or else the Wolford
farmers would fetch him in the course of a few days
for another of her d—d bastards. He added, " D—n
her body, I should like to kill her, for she has cost me
many a pound." Barrett then went with him to show
him where his wife lived. The prisoner was very fresh
in beer.
Jahn Hall, constable of Wolford, apprehended the
prisoner on Sunday, the 16th of March. Witness told
him that his wife said he had been poisoning her. He
said he was innocent, and got up and came with wit-
ness immediately. He said he had tiever been out of
that end of Long Compton on Saturday night or Sun-
day morning.
William Warner, labourer, saw the prisoner at about
nine o'clock on the Sunday morning, on the road lead-
ing from Wolford Heath to Long Compton, about
three-quarters of a mile from the latter place. He al-o
observed a woman going across the heath at the sam
time towards Wolford.
John Walker, a farrier and cow-leech at Long
Compton, said, that on Thursday, the Mit cf March,
the prisoner called at his house for twopenny worth of
stuff for'his father to kill rats with. Witness told him
he had none made, and he must therefore call arnaher
day. On Saturday he came again, and it not being
teddy, Le Promised to call in halt an hour for it. Wit-
ress then mixed a drachm of white arsenic, nearly a
drachm of white lead, and a small quantity of sugar
of lead, in all nearly a quarter of an ounce, and left it
with his son for the prisoner. Ritstess had known the
prisoner well.
Joseph Walker, son of the last witness, received the
powder from his father, wrapped it up in raFer, and
gave it to the prisoner, who called for it about eight
o clock. He gave nu directions with it.
Cross-examined—The prisoner's father lived about
two miles off, and prisoner was in the habit of going
there with Webb's team.
The prisoner put in a written defence, protesting his
innocence of the foul clime imputed to him, and ar-
guing that the prosecutrix's story Mas inconsistent with
itself and with probability.
--Webb, his employer, was then called, who gave
him a good chat acter for humanity.
The Learned Juons having very minutely summed
up the evidence,
The Jury deliberated for about a quarter of an hour,
when they returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The trial lasted flout nine o'clock until near six;
and with it teinsinased these Assizes.
CLONNEL, Arial. 5.

TRIAL CI THECONbEIRATORS TO MURDER DANIEL MARA.
The lion. Justice Moose presided.
The Court was crowded to excess to hear this trial.—
The prisonerr, in number four, were put forward, but
not agreeing in their challenges of the jor,rs unless 'hey
were allowed to select 12 men out of 40, to which the
Crown would not assent, the SOLICITOR GENERAL de-
sired that John Keogh and Patrick Keogh should be
put forward alone. This was done, and the indictmeot
on which they were to be tried read. it contained two
counts, the first setting ft rth the murder of Daniel Mara,
by Patrick Lacy, on the Ist of October, in the eighth
year of the Kmg. The second count set forth that they,
the prisoners, before the said felony and murder were
committed, in manner aforesaid, on the day and year
aforesaid, did unlawfully, maliciously, and feloniously,
abet, procure, help, mairtain,- and counsel the said
Pa:r ck Lacy and John Welsh, in the felony and murder
aforesaid, &c.
Both prisoners pleaded " not guilty," and put them-
selves for issue on their country.
Th.,. SOLICITOR GENERAL dm opened the eve for
the Crown. He :chill:et! the Petty Juries fir their re•
luctance to come forward on these trials. He had been
more than onte ob.iged to postpone trials of great int.
portence cn account of their apathy—criniir al, he should
call it, in the present stile of the country. The Learned
Solicitor then proceeded to detail the facts of the con•
spiracy, for a participation in which the prisoners were
now on the trial for their lives. He minutely traced
the connexion of the prisoners therewith, and concluded
an address, which occupied nearly two hours in the
delivery, by calling on the Jury fearlessly, but con-
seentiously, to discharge their duty.
The first witoess called was Patrick Fitzgerald. the
accomplice, on whose testimony the murderers of Mara
had been convicted on Tuesday. llestated, that on
the 17th of September last year, he and Patrick Lacy,
one of the men who was executed for the murder on
Thursday, went to the house of a man named Maher,
litho lived near Golden. When they came there, they
met Pierre Grace, brother d Patrick, the man who had
been hanged the Assizes before for the murder of Mr.
Chadwick. Lacy and he shortly atter leit M4her's house,
and weut to Bally trusna, the residence of old Grace, fa-
ther to the young men. P.Grace was with them ; on the
way they began to talk about Maher, ulso gave evidence
on the trial against Patrick Grace. P erri said " that their
-stk r be • understood to mean
v )000. After they
wo strangers on
recd--tile witness
lunderbusses, and

Lacy had a gun also. The strangers went to the grove
near Keogh's house; and the whole party knew what
their intention in doing so was. The witness and Lacy
went to tbe..corner of Keogh's field, near the house
where they took their guns. The Keoghs were making
hay, and the prisoners at the bsr were cloth there. He
(i/fitness) left his pun with Lacy, at he wished to
speak to Keogh. Paddy, the prisoner, motioned his
hand to Fitzgerald not to come too close, and he re-
treated towards Lacy, who was then near the Dike.
Soon after they advanced, and entered into conversa-
tion with them. John Keogh, the prisoner, said to Lacy,
GOD d—n you, are there many of you come?" No,
said Lacy, there are only four of us, Fitzgerald, two
strangers, and myself ; John Walsh afterwards came up,
and the whole party determined to make Keaeh's house
their place of rendezvous. Shortly alter John Welsh, the
other man who was executed on Thursday, came up and
s rid, it was a pity that you were not up sooner, as the
Maras have only just passed by. They then all went to
the grove, where they were joined by Looby and Danis 1,
the two strangers, Fitzgerald and Welsh. Here they
began to talk about the disappointment. Looby said,
it must be put off till another time, as he had to
go to the fair of Thuile,. They ..were ail armed
with guns and pistols. Walsh said they expect.-ci the
Goldens (so called hom a village near where some of
the most desperate characters resided) to the number of
sixteen, and they had got arms for them all. Welsh
then said he was afraid he could not delay any longer,
as they had beets disappointed in the Maras; the pri-
soner John Keogh asked Looby and Welsh to stay ano
ther night at his father's house, anJ he himself would
go with them the next time. The fire-arms were kept
in Keogh's house for the party ; they were all given to
the prisoners to keep unal next day. He (the witness)
and the rest of the strangers slept that night at Keogh's,
with the two pi i, oters. They all got up early next morn-
ing, and went to Keogh's field, where they helped them
in their work. That morning they left behind them, in
Krogh's house, two men in the inside room, whose names
are Darby Bryan and Ned Ryan. They were making
cartridges of powder, and filling them; and they also
had a ballet mould, in which they were casting bullets.
He (witness) and the two prisoners were walking to-
gether nearly all the day, and their whale conversation
WAS about the Maras and their d sappointment the day
before, at not getting at them in tine. In the eveuing,
after dinner, John Keogh asked him (the witness) t . go
to Grace's house that night, and to bring the Goldens
next day, as they were re-olved to do for the Mar as, arid
lo,e no more rime abut the job. When he came there,
Gr. ce was not at home, as he had gone the evening
b fore to the fair of Caher, in order that if, as was
!Ire plan at first, the Maras were shot that night,
ne might be able to ger witne-ses to swear an alibi for
him. After twelve th it ni,:ht, the whole party, coasisang
of the v itness, Walter, Grace, Lacy, Fitzgerald, and
Ryan (the other approver) went to the prisoner Keogh's
r nose. Here the a itness identified botii press ners. J .hn
Keogh himself opened the door for them. This was
shortly after midnight. He desired them all to go into
the barn, and said, „Boys, I have locked up the dug,
so that he shall rot bark at ye." All the Keoghs sass
this. When they went into the barn, John Keogh
brought them out a bottle of whisky, and gave each of
them a glass. Nixt morning they were all fed by
Kate Costello, in the barn. She brought them out
their breakfast of bread and milk. John Keogh
then brought them to the grove, and tried all the-
arms, to see it they were loaded ; one of the blunder-
busses was not, and he charged it, saying—" 'That's
the sort fur the bleed or the informers." They were
in the grove all day, but could not obtain their atro-
cious purpose, as the Maras did not come to work
at all that day. Gra.e said, as they were coming
toaards Krogh's house that evening, " Every thing
is going against us, we must give up the business for
a few days more." They then separated for that time.
[Here the witness stated the names of several persons
wrom he met on the toad, and who were subse-
quently called to corroborate his testimony.j They
(the party *f conspirators) did not meet again until
the twenty-fifth, a week alter. They met at the house
of Keogh, but the Maras did not come that day to
work, as they had no scaffolding to go on with the
building, and they were again disappointed. Tois
was on a Tuesday. John Keogh then said they would
begin their work on the M nday after, and he appoint-
ed Sanday night to meet at his hope. On Sunday
night they met accordingly at Balljtrusna, where Ned
Ryan, of Golden, the man who wears the straw hat,
joined them, and they all spent the night there together.
There was a dance, at which Lacy and Walsh, Ryan
AI d Looby, joined. Next day they went to the house
of Keogh, a here Kate Costello gave them their dinner, ,
and John Keogh a couple of glasses of whisky a-piece.
They then went to the grove. Here the witness pro-
ceeded to detail the facts connected with the murder as
they were elicited on the trial of the murderers, and
detailed the proceedings of the party at Keogh's house
that night until they separated, leaving their guns in
his touse.

He underwent a long examination, which was chiefly
directed with a view to exhibit his terrible character, as
a plunderer of arms and a murderer, to the jury. He
would not, be said, hesitate to kill a man for the boys
when he was amongst them, but he would not do such
a dishonourable thing as to commit a rubbery. He had
been at mole murders than this; and until he wail
taken prisoner by Mr. Yokes, he was one of the boys.
lie did not give his evidence (or the reward, but to save
his own li;e.

Edmund Ryan, another accomplice, whom the
Crown had admitted as evidence, detailed the progress
of the conspirators at the house of the prisoners. His
statement agreed in substance with that of the for.
mer witness.

Kate Co.tello put into the witness•boz—l lived as
servant in the house of the prisoners, whom I know well.
(Here she identified them both). The Sunday before the
party came to my master's, John Keogh desired me to
go with him to Thurles, and bring the basket and some
bottles that were in the house. I did se. When we went
into Thurtes, I saw the other prisoner, Patrick Keogh,
in a shop with a female, who, I understand, is named
Grace, and is sister to the man that was hanged. They
were talking together. John Keogh put bread in the
basket, and bought three bottles full of whisky. He
tirade me bring them home on my back. The next
day he made me take some of the bread and the whisky
to the grove, near where the Maras used to work.
1 went there and saw the two men that were tried on
Tuesday fur the murder of Daniel Mara, and since
hanged, and Looby, Fitzgerald, and Ryan. They were
all alined. When I was there they ate the bread, and
drank a glass of whisky each. Lacy said to me while
I remained—" Our lives are in your hands if you are
not faithful to us." I said they need not tear,.as I would
never appear against them; and I came home to my
master's, who asked me if I had served the bays in the
grove? The whole party came into the house that night,
and some of them slept in the barn, where I brought them
something more to eat, at John Keogh's desire. She
then proceeded to detail the different times at which she

had given them something to eat and drink, which
she always did at her master's desire. She saw .
John Keogh give the party their guns, and load a
blunderbuss. The morning after the party came to the
house, Ned Ryan and Darby Bryan were filling up
cartridges of powder, and making ballets. The remainder
of her testimony consisted of minute corroborations of
the evidence of Fitzgerald and Ryan. She stated that
from the time when the first hint was given to the Keoghs
that Fitzgerald and Ryan were taken prisoners, she had
been obliged to hide herself in a distant part of the
country, only stopping a night or two in every place
where sl.e went ; and it was only on the day bet ire these
Assiz s commenced that sh.: had been apprehended by
constable Wilcox, who had kept guard upon her ever
since. She would not come forward as asv ;mess if she
was not compelleddo do so, as she is somehow related
to the prisoners.
A whole host of other witnesses were called, who de-
posed to small circumstances corroborative of the testi-
mony of both approvers—such as their having met'
them at pat titular periods to which they had deposed,
accompanied by some of the coaspirators and mur-
deters is different parts of the count! y-
The who!e of these items, in themselves of little or no
consequence, were gone into, as the Solicitor-General
ststed, in ord, r to demonstrate the accuracy of the
persons whom the Crown had admitted as witnesses
in this case.

The case, on the part of the Frosecution, closed
sho:tly alter nine o'clock, and the prisoners were put on
th:ir defence; they however called no witnesses, except
t‘ so or three Gentlemen, as to character, who stated
their ktrowled; e of the f -i~oners for a considerable time,
and that they mete always considered honest, indus-
tiiou., and control table men. They could hardly ci edit
the Mien oration when they heard of their apprehension
for this cr.m•!.

The Learned Judge (Moons) then addressed the jury,.
fir,t pointing out to their consideration the nature if
the crime ot w hid) the prisrmers were accused, which
the law visited with the same awful punishment as tha:
awarded to the perpetration of murder itself. The
Crown, in prosecuting the abettors of this crimc, had
acted wisely, for it IA wild be an example, to show the
delud-d people ot this count; y, that all who had an;
participation in the crimes which so disgraced it were
aniena!fle to justice, which, swift or slow, would cis er•
:ake them. He did nut utter these remarks with
the design of prejudicing their minds against the
prisoners, but in order that through them t!,.e tic-
keted peasantry should 1 arn, that to enter into
A combination or conspiracy to remove an 0b,,0x ous
individual by his murder, was equally criminal
and equally punished as the perpetration ot the crime.
His Lordship then proceeded with much minuteness
and laborious attention, to point out the different por-
tions ot the te.timony of the approvers and Kate Cos-
tello, which bore up-rn the respective cases of the pri-
soners. His Lordship concluded his charge by repeating
his advice to the Jury, if they entertained a doubt or
the identity of the prisoners, or of the veracity, where
uncorroborated, of tire accomplices, to give the prisoners
the benefit thereof by acquitting them.
The Jury ',tired to their :corn shortly before eleven
o'clock, and remained there until within a few minutes
of twelve, when they returned into Court with a verdict
of Guilty against both prisoners.
The prisoners, who had during the day appeared
quite unmoved, on hearing their doom shock with ter-
ror. John, who was a very fiae-looking man, and
dressed in a manner which evinced his possession of
means beyond the generality of the lthh peasants, ap
peared most affected.
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The prisoners' Counsel suggested that it was now the
Sabha li, and that perhaps his Lordship would defer
pronouncing sentence until Monday. The Solicitor Ge-
neral declared his acquiescence, and the Judge con-
sented to postpone the sentence accordingly.
In the Record Court, bd. ire Sergeant LEFROY, ano-
ther man, named Grace, was convicted of the murder
of Mara, anti sentenced to be hanged on Monday.

work must be soon cleric" This tos nude;
that the Maio' were all to be cut off 000 l
left the house of old Grace, they met tut
the toad, o ho, like themselves, were orate
had a gun, the ittillittS bad two, blum
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