From: Turtle Bunbury <turtlehistory@gmail.com>
Subject: Byrne - Pollard - Dalton - Valentine - Gibbon
Carlow Assizes - Trial for Murder.
Freeman's Journal, 23 March 1839:
Carlow, Wednesday Night.
At the sitting of the court
this morning Patrick Byrne, a respectable-looking countryman, was
arraigned for the wilful murder of Henry Pollard, at Tankardstown,
near Tullow, on the 11th of September last.
Martin Dalton examined I recollect the day
that Pollard was murdered; on that morning I saw a man name James
Gibbon; he came into my house at five o'clock in the morning; he was
bleeding from the head; in about a hour I went out of my house, and
saw a person lying on the road side; I did not know him at the time,
but I found afterwards that it was Pollard.
Jane Dalton examined; I am sister to the last
witness; about five o'clock on the morning in question I saw three men
pass by our house, going on the road towards Tullow; I did not see
anything in their hands; the prisoner was one of the persons; after
they passed, I saw a person lying on the road; I saw Byrne standing on
the road at Mr. Doyle’s iron gate; he had two men with him.
Edward Valentine examined; On the morning of
the 11th of September I was going, in company with other persons, to
Tullow to sell turf; there were a great many cars on the road, and it
was not day light; Pat Whitty was [in] company with me, and we stood
behind at a stream to give our horses a drink when the prisoner came
up to me and asked me had I any oats on my car; I said I had not; he
was going to search it when I prevented him; he then collared me, and
I struck him twice with a loaded whip, and knocked him down at the
second blow; he still kept hold of me, and I told him if he did not
let me go that I would give him a kick; he did let me go, and I drove
on my horse pretty lively, and passed the others who were on the road;
I was about half-a-mile on when Byrne came up accompanied by two men,
overtook Henry Pollard, and knocked him down; he had something like a
stick in his hand, with which he beat him most unmercifully; he cried
out murder; James Gibbons, who was with us!, was also beaten.
Cross-examined by Mr. Berwick; I had no corn
on my car that morning; I heard that the car-boys going to the market
with turf before day-light used to steal the corn along the road, and
that some of the prisoner's was taken a few mornings before that; the
reason he arrested me, or took hold of me at first was, because he
suspected that I stole his corn; I struck him so hard that the lead
flew off the end off my whip; I cut him severely in the head, and
knocked him down.
The jury, after a few minutes' consideration,
brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter; and the sentence of
the court was that he should be transported for life.
Arthur Kinshella was indicted for a malicious
assault upon Patrick Byrne. It appeared in this case that the parties
were at a funeral, and when coming home they went into a public-house
to drink; a fight ensued, when the prisoner was knocked down, and
whilst Byrne was standing over him, and holding him down, he took out
a penknife and stabbed him in two or three places. The jury brought in
a verdict of guilty.
(PS: I think second Patrick Byrne, above, who
is stabbed by Arthur Kinsella may be a different man!)
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