The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-08-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MORE CAPITAL CONVICTIONS. Dl:Timm, August 1.  Two men, named Larkin and Daniel, have ten convicted at Kilkenny, of the dreadful murder of Mr Prim, the pay clerk, and Constable Gates, the particulars of which were reported when the crime was committed in March last. Yesterday the unfortunate convicts, together with a man named Walshe, found guilty, of another murder, were brought up to receive the awful sentence of death. The dreadful scene is thus reported in the Kilkenny Moderator:— On this day Baron Penuefather, as usual, opened thewart at ten o'clock. James Larkin, James Daniel, and Henry Wa!she, were placed at the bar, and the indictments uponwhioh they had been convicted (Larkin and Daniel for the murder of Arthur W. Prim, and Walshe for the murder of John Walehe), were recited by the Clerk of the Crown, who called on the prisoners to state if they had anything to say why sentence of death and execution should not be passed on them. Larkin.—My lord, a long day is all we want. Daniel.—l have this to say, we got no sort of fair play in the prison from the moment we went in. Court —What is the prisoner saying! Baron Pennefather—James Larkin, James Daniel, and Henry Walshe, you have all after • very patient and full examination of your oases, and after a very, able defence by your counsel, as well as the fullest consideration I could give of your case—you have been found guilty, and I must say on evidence extremely clear and conelusive, of the foul crime of murder— murder which appears to me in all your cases to haveoriginated in a desire for plunder—of obtaining me ney which did not belong to you. After some very affecting observations, Baron Pennefather assumed the black cap, and continued—lt is now my painful duty to pronounce the awful sentence of the law. (The prisoners here all cried out "A long day, my lord.") That sentence is that you, James Larkin, James Daniel, and Henry Walshe— Larkin—Give us the longest day you can, my lord, The Court resumed—That sentence is, That you, James Larkin, James Daniel, and Henry Walsbe beeach of you singly hanged by the neck till you are dead, and that your bodies be buried within the precincts of the gaol in which you have been confined since your conviction, on a day that shall be named hereafter. Sufficient time shall be given to you to make your peace with God, but it will not he long enough to hold ont to you any hope of a change in the sentence. Walshe.—l have only one request to make, my lord. Let my body be given to my father. Court.—lt is impossible. I cannot do it. [Here Walshe, who exhibited much unconcern all through, retired from the bar.] Daniel.—Mr Greene, I must acknowledge before my God that you are the man that took my life. Weise (returning to the front of the dock).—l lay mine on Jones and that little man there (pointing to some person in the Clerk of the Crown's box) The court ordered the prisoners to be removed, which was done immediately. • The learned Judge subsequently directed that James Larkin and James Daniel should be banged on Wednesday, the 25th day of August next; and Henry Walshe, on Wednesday, the lit September.