Newspaper: Items from the Freeman's Journal 5 April 1817

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ITEMS FROM THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL 5 APRIL 1817

Limerick.
April 2nd.
Monday night, four houses at Morelands, near the canal, were 
entered by a large party of fellows, armed with 
blunderbusses and pistols, and swore the owners to deposit a 
certain sum of money at a place they had named-however, it 
is supposed that their real object was to obtain fire arms, 
which they particularly enquired for. Wednesday night, James 
Clogan and Michael Shendy, under sentence of transportation, 
cut their bolts, and attempted to escape from the County 
Prison, but were fortunately discovered by the gaoler.