Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-06-19 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE FENIAN OUTRAGE IN DUBLIN. _ _  James Carroll, a tailor, was put on his trial in Dublin in the Commission Court for attempting to assassinate John Freeman, a pensioner, on the night of the 16th of January, in Marlborough-greet, by , shooting him with a revolver. The case excited considerable interest, 1103 the attempt was evidently due to Fenian vengeance, the prosecutor having been mistaken for a man named Gillespie, who gave evidence during the Fenian trials and afterwards went to America, but was believed to hare returned • and to be living in the house, 50, Marlborough street, with his sister, Mrs, Glennon. Freeman had a miraculous escape, having received six wounds and having a bullet still lodged in his head. He deposed that he Was kitchenman in the Shelborne Hotel, and on the night of the 16th of January he returned home about a quarter-past ten o'clock. His brother occupied the top back room, and he hail been sleeping there since the 2nd of January. The front room was occu pied by the Glennons, who were no relatives. He had his face turned towards the door, and, having knocked, was waiting for it to be opened, when he received a shot with a bullet in the side. He staggered a little, and then was shot in the side of the head, lie reeled off the footpath, and could feel some person rush towards him, but the sight had then left his eyes and he could not clearly distinguish anything. He thought there were two persons. He lost conscione• new and could not recollect being stabbed. He did not know Gillespie. Isabella Glennon said she saw the prisoner three times in the house before the night of the outrage, and on those occasions he had spoken rudely to her, and desired her to get out ef his way, calling her family informers. Be!ween six and seven o'clock on the evening of the 13th of January she again saw him leaving his father's shop add going towards the greet. lie said to her," Take care of your uncle." She said, " What uncle." He replied," Denny Gillespie, the informer." She answered, "That is not my undo; it is Mr. John Freeman." He said, "That is what you all would say. lam going to tale his life." She saw something in his hand and his sleeve over it. Witness saw him again at ten o'clock. She was at the hall door, and he was walking up and down the opposite footpath with two other men. She saw Freeman then coming from the direction of Britainstreet. A shot was fired from where Carroll was standing. She saw a third man on the opposite side of the street. He went towards Freeman, who had fallen partly on the pathway and partly on the road. The trial was adjourned. On the trial of Carroll being resumed in the Commission Court, evidence in support of an alibi set up by the prisoner having been given, Mr. Curran addressed the jury for the defence. He contended that it was a trumped-up ease on the part of Isabella Glennon in revenge for Orirroll's coxduet to her, and that her story was in the highest degree improbable and contradicted by fazta sworn to. He challenged the Crown to allege anything against the prisoner's character. Counsel for the Crown stated that they had no charge against him except the one for which he was tried. The Chief Justice in his charge asked the jury to believe that the outrage woe committed for motives of revenge, and said he did not think it would be perpetrated in any town in Christendom save in their own unfortunate city, where murder had been attempted, as thin case showed, within hearing of the police, in a crowded thoroughfare, and by persons who expected to escape. The jury, after being absent only a quarter of an hour from the box, acquitted the prisoner. The verdict was received in the crow4ed gallery of the Court-house with loud applause, which was renewed when a voice exclaimed "God rave Ireland!" The Crown Solicitor directed the constable to take the man who uttered the cry into custody, but the hand ef some person hidden from view by a pillar was seen seizing the man by the shoulder, and troth escaped down the stairs.