The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-09-09
Irish Gallantry.


Ireland has made great progress in some
things during the last half century, and in
Others seems disposed to remain stationary,
and 10 stick to her good, old, glorious, gal
ans customs, as was indicated by case of
attempted abduction which took place a few
weeks ago in the world renowned county Of
Tipperary. The facts are about as follows ::
Mr.. John Garden, of Barnane, sometimes
called the lord Of that ilk, an educated,
wealthy, respected, and influential gentle
man. paid his addresses to Miss Louisa Ar
buthnot, young English lady of passable
personal attractions, and with fortune Of
thirty thousand pounds sterling-an attrac-
tion something more than passable. For
reasons best known to herself, the lady re-
jected his addresses at once, and so fatty as
to give no hope of successful wooing in
future. In such case, a phlegmatic Eng
lishman would have pocketed the insult.
left the damsel to her obduracy, and have
sought consolation in the bottle, the battle,
the turf, the card table, or in another affair
du ceur-the last being the best remedy
Not so with the amorous and impulsive
Irishman What could not be effected by
persuasion he resolved to effect by force, and
for that purpose provided a carriage, and
engaged four or five Observation-Disclosures the
judge called them--to aid him in carrying
off, NJ ct armiS, the rather too we'll and un-
wisely loved Miss Louisa. They were all
armed with pistols, and skulcrackers, y
which we take to be English for shillalah.-
There were, besides, large store of narcotic
and Supplying drugs and Preparations
among Others, chloroform; but it does not
appear that these were provided for any dis
honorable and felonious purpose, but rather
TO be administered as sedatives and stimu-
lants, if there should have occurred any
swooning or asphyxia on the part of the
lady. All the preparations being made, Mr..
Garden and his party attacked the carriage
in which Miss Arbuthnot, with her sister, a
Mrs. Cough and another lady was returning
from church on Sunday. The ladies were
all pluck, and offered stout resistance to the
assailants, who succeeded at last in forcing
Miss Louisa's companions out of the car.
riage, but failed to get her out, for she strug-
gled and fought like tigress; and in the
course of the melee gave Mr. Garden kick
in the stomach, which discomposed him not
a little, besides which, one of the ladies gave
him a blow in the face with her fist which
brought blood. The result was, that with
the assistance Of one or two servants, one
of which was severely wounded in the head
with skullcracker, Mr. Garden and his
gang were driven off, and finally arrested by
the authorities. Luckily, the pistols were
not used, though he had ordered that they
should be. His trial took place at Clonmel,
three weeks ago, and being found guilty of
an attempted abduction, he was sentenced
by Judge Ball to two years. Imprisonment
and hard labor. The judge. in his address to
him, was very severe--calling his experiment
a ruffianly attempt, daring outrage, ne
farious project &c, &c, which the prisoner
took very calmly, speaking of the occurrence
himself as heinous attempt" and admit
ting his guilt, but disavowing any malice
against the Coughs, or that the chloroform,
&c, was provided with any criminal inten-
tion. He was tried also for a felonious as
sault, but acquitted, to the great satisfaction
of the audience, and particularly of the la
dies, who waved their handkerchiefs in TO-
ken of satisfaction.
The English papers are much scandalized
at the sympathy which was obviously mani
tested for Garden in Tipperary-not among
the lower classes only, but among the higher;
and strange as it may appear, the young
lady made herself unpopular by the repug-
nance she had manifested in being carried
off in way which, though not uncommon
in Ireland seventy or eighty years ago, had
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