Clergyman Dies Trying To Save Carlow Men from Execution -
1823
Most Melancholy Occurrence:
-
A
Roman Catholic clergyman of the
name of Donovan who officiated, we understand, at Blessington, learned in the course of his vocation some
circumstance
tending to remove the imputation of guilt, if not to prove
the innocence, of two unfortunate men sentenced to death at
Carlow a day or two back.
Such was this excellent man's anxiety
to turn this information to the advantage of
the unhappy accused, that though near 70 years of
age, he rode on Saturday upwards of 60 miles on this
praise-worthy business, and reached the Vice-Regal Lodge at
the Park on Saturday evening last (12th inst.) too late to
see the Lord Lieutenant. The reverend gentleman was promised
an audience on the following morning at 10.
He put up at the Queen's Head Hotel,
in Bride's-street (Dempster's) for the night and rose at
half-past seven yesterday morning (Sunday), 13th inst.,
though still labouring under all the efforts of his great
exertions, and dressed himself.
Wearied! with anxiety and exhaustion,
he just sat down to
wait the proper moment for starting, in order to be
at his destination in time and, melancholy to relate,
without evincing the most trifling struggle, and as he sat,
yielded up his pure spirit.
Every exertion was made to reanimate
him, both by the family and Surgeon Wright, who instantly
attended but we regret to say, without t effect. Exhausted
nature could bear no more than he had endured on this
mission of mercy.
Dublin Evening Mail.
The Times, July 19, 1823, p. 3.
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