The Irish standard., 1899-07-29
ENDURED UNSPEAKABLE SUFFERINGS
Proof Against Bribery, Torture
And Brutality.
A CLOSE PRISONER FOR TWO YEARS
A Long Life Of Hard Drudgery
And Privations.

The following sketch OF Anne Dew
lin, the faithful servant OF Robert En-
met, is given by DR.. Madden, the au-
thor of "The Lives OF the United Irish
men,"
"The day after Emmct and his COM
panions went away from Butterheld
Lane a troop of yeomen came with a
magistrate, and searched the house.
Every place was ransacked from top to
bottom. AS for Anne Dcvlin, she was
seized on when they first rushed in.
She was kept below by three or four OF
the yeomen with their fixed bayonets
pointed at her, and so close to her body
that she could feel their points. When
the others came down she was exam
ined. She said she knew nothing in the
world about the gentlemen, except that
she was servant maid. Where they
came from, and where they went 10, she
knew nothing about, and so long as her
wages were paid she cared to know
nothing else about them.
"The magistrate pressed her to tell the
truth; he threatened her with death if
she did not tell; she persisted in assert
ing her total ignorance of Mr. Ellis acts
and movements, and of those of all the
other gentlemen. At length the mag
istrate gave the word to hang her, and
she was dragged into the courtyard to
be executed. There was common car
there; they tilted up the shafts, and
fixed rope from the backband that
goes across the shafts, and while these
preparations were making for her exc
cution, the yeomcn kept her standing
against the wall OF the house, prodding
her with their bayonets in the arms and
shoulders till she was all over with
blood Ga young woman then about
twenty-six years OF age), and say
ing to her at every thrust OF the bayo-
net, Will you confess now; will you tell
HoW WilClC Ml. IIlllS Is IlcI CONSTANT
answer was, 1 have nothing to tell, |
will tell nothing
"The rope was at length put about her
neck; she was dragged to the place
where the car was converted into gal
lows; she was placed under it, and the
end of the rope was passed over the
backband. The question was then put
to her for the last time, will you con-
fess where Mr.. Ellis is?' Her answer
was, You may murder me, you villains;
but not one word about him will you
ever get from me- She had just time
to say, The Lord Jesus have mercy
upon my soul' when a tremendous shout
was raised by the yeomen; the rope was
pulled by all OF them, except those who
held down the back part of the car, and
in an instant she was suspended by the
neck. After she had been thus suspend
ed for two or three minutes, her feet
touched the ground, and savage yell
OF laughter recalled her to her senses
The rope around her neck was loosencd
and her life was spared-she was let off
with half hanging. She was then sent to
town and brought before Major Sirr
"No sooner was she brought before
Major SIR than he, in the most civil
and coaxing manner, endeavored to pre-
vail on her to give information respect
ing Robert Emmct's place OF conceal
ment Ihe question continually put to
her was, We'll, Anne, all we want to
know is where did he go to from But
terfeld Lane?' He said he would un-
dertake to obtain for her the sum Che
did not call it reward) OF f5oo which,
he added, was fine fortune for young
woman only to tell against persons who
were not her relations; that all the
others of them had confessed the truth
(Which was not true), that they were
sent home liberated (Which was also
lie).
"Thc author said to her with becom-
ing gravity: you took the money, OF
coursc?' The look the woman gave me
was one that would have made an ad-
misable subject for painter-a regard
in which wonder, indignation and mis-
giving Of the seriousness Of the person
who addressed her were blended: me!
take the 1noney-the price OF Mr.. Rob-
ert's bloodl No. I spurned the ras-
calls OFFER
"The Major continued coaxing and
said everything had been told to him by
4 ono Of her associates. Nay, what's more,