Arizona republican., 1914-04-26

trial he had given false evidence against Orr. It was William Me keever who administered the oath and not Orr, and the British government knew this fact. but they wanted Orr as Q victim. The government had ue- creed his death even before he was ap- prehended
 Orr was kept in prison for about a year previous to his trial, to the in tense indignation of the inhabitants of the place who were so friendly to him that the people left the place during the proceedings as protest. Lord Av- onmore was the presiding judge at the trial, and Arthur Wolfe, afterwards Lord kilwarden. was prosecuting coun- sel. They were both humane men, but both concurred in the verdict of guilty as pronounced, after some delay, by the jury.
 When the jury retired to consider their verdict they were supplied with supper by the crown officials a liberal supply of liquors being included in the refreshments. In their sober state sev- eral of the jurymen, including the fore man, had refused to agree to verdict of guilty. It was otherwise, however, when the decanters were emptied and when threats of violence were added to the beWildering effects ofthe pota- tions in which they had indulged. Even when the jury returned the following morning, after their nights debauch, most of them were so under the in fluence of liquor that they could not sit up in their places.
 When Lord Yelverton concluded his death sentence it is said that he burst into tears. A motion was made by Curran in arrest of judgment. chiefly on the grounds of the drunkenness of the jury, but the judges refused to en- certain the objection. A short respite was granted the prisoner and Orr's brother obtained on the representation | that he had confessed his guilt. sev- eral influential signatures to a petition ! for pardon. Orr apparently signed confession but his brother afterWard declared that he himself had concocteG i it without the prisoners knowledge. and Orr strenuously denied respOnsi | bility for it.
 l Hardly had sentence of death been passed when compunctions seemed to seize upon those who had aided in se- ] curing the result. Wheatly. who sub | seQuently became insane. and is believ- cd to have died by his own hand. made an affidavit before a magistrate ac- 1 knowleding that he had sworn falsely I against Orr. Two of the jury made dispositions that they had been induced to join in the verdict while under the 1 influence of liquor. and two others swore that they had been terrified into 1 the same course by threats of violence.
 These depositions were laid before
 the viceroy. but Lord Camden. the then
 Lord Lieutenant, was deaf to all ap- peals. Well might Orr exclaim within
 his dungeon that the government had i laid down system of having for Its murder and devastation
 Orr was hanged on october H. 1797
 and il is relatca that on that day. as
 on the day of his trial. the inhabitants of the town quilted it to express their sympathy with the patriot who was being murdered by law. and to mark
 their adherence Of the conduct of the government toward him. His fate eX
 cited the deepest indignation and il
 was commented on in words of fire by
 the national writers of the period. and
 through many an after year the watch
 word and rallying cry of the United
 Irishmen was: Remember Orr"
 TOmorrow-Trial of Edwin F. Stokes