News: Compendium of Crime, Nenagh Guardian 1838-1839 Part 2 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Tipperary Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Mary Heaphy COMPENDIUM OF CRIME, NENAGH GUARDIAN 1838-1839 PART 2 A Compendium of Crime from the 21st July 1838 to the 13th. of March 1839, comprising a period of nearly 8 months. Continued. Rule of Court. Summer Assizes 1838. Sentence of death recorded; John Donohue for assaulting a female child. To be transported for life; Patrick Ryan, manslaughter. Patrick Delahunty, manslaughter. To be transported for 14 years: Mary Dwyer for putting away a forged bank note. John Hennessy for manslaughter. To be transported for 12 years; Edmond Cahill, cow stealing. To be transported for 7 years; Mary Ryan, stealing promissory notes. John Trassey, manslaughter. Alice Dwyer, stealing shoes. Michael Casey and Michael Bourke, for stealing pigs. John Cavanagh, manslaughter. John Kelly, Perjury. To be imprisoned for 18 months at hard labour: James Martin, cow stealing. To be imprisoned for 12 months at hard labour; John Kelly, demanding fire arms. Patrick Dwyer and Judith Dwyer, for felonious assault. Patrick Whelan and Michael Doran, for manslaughter. Michael Dunphy and John Corbet, grevious assault. John Sauce, Andrew Fox, Richard Dunn, and Thomas Finnane, for manslaughter. To be imprisoned for 9 months at hard labour; Thomas Rochford, John Rochford, James Tobin, and Thomas Mooney, for manslaughter. To be imprisoned for 7 months; John Mara, assault. To be imprisoned for 6 months; Patrick Clerk, Thomas Carbery, and Samuel Holmes, for assaulting a habitation. Julia Scully for procuring base coin. To be imprisoned for 4 months; Martin Ryan, Mary Cavenagh, snr, and Mary Cavenagh jnr, and William Cavenagh, manslaughter. To be imprisoned for 3 months with hard labour; John Hayes, manslaughter. To be imprisoned for 3 months; Michael Ryan, pig stealing, William Quinlan, Patrick Murnane, Edmond Fitzgerald, escaping from the house of correction, in addition to their former sentence. To be imprisoned for two weeks; John Ryan, for manslaughter. To give security to abide their trial at the next assizes; Thomas Luddy, embezzlement, Michael Tierney, Laurence Salmon, and Thomas Dwyer for murder. Maurice Cahill for grevious assault. Michael Ryan, for pig stealing. James Burke for murder. John Ryan, Patrick Madden, Richard Madden, John Flaherty, Thomas Carey, William Carey, Joseph McGready, Daniel Whelan, and Pat. Kennedy, for manslaughter. To remain to abide their trial at next assizes; John Maher for manslaughter, Edward Flannery, for threatening violence to the person, James Fogarty and Thomas Looby for rape. To give security to abide their trial at the next assizes, on receiving due notice;-John Dwyer, Catherine Dwyer, James Russell, Wm. Brien, Jeremiah Ryan, Matthew Carey, Edmond McGrath, Richard Carey, Laurence Wade, Jeremiah Ryan, William Kennedy, Thomas Lee, Philip Hayes, John Ryan, Rhody Kennedy, John Carey, and Daniel McGrath, manslaughter. To pay the prosecutor £3 and give their own security to appear, for judgement, at the next assizes, if called upon. To give security to be of the peace;-John Hogan, Mary Hogan, and Martin Donohue, for breaking into a dwelling house. Wm. Pollard and Wm. Dwyer , for manslaughter. Grievious assault;- James Coffee was grievously assaulted by Martin Roughan, within a quarter oa a mile of Nenagh. Edw. Woods, Thos. Grace, and John Grace, assaulted by John Kennedy, Pat, J. and Mal. Grace. 11th. -John Guilfoyle, dangerously wounded in the head by two men, named McNally and Brien, who threw large stones at him in his house in Roscrea. Armed Gang;-Two men arrested by police-they were part of an armed gang of 8 who were on the road when the police hid behind a ditch until they passed, followed and captured two of them. Grievious Assault and Waylaying:-15th. Edw. Shea, grievously assaulted by two men named Gleeson and Quigley at Clanchilty. Michael Meara, waylaid between Roscrea and Borrisoleigh, and dangerously wounded. Thomas Harrington of Glenkeen, assaulted and severely injured by Michal and Morgan Meagher, John Dwyer, P. Kenna and others-the three first are charged with the murder of Michael Kennedy last November. John Meagher of Glankeen, assaulted with stones, by Pat Butler, and Bryan McCann, received two large wounds in the head. Denis Ryan, beaten with a tongs by Tim. Hogan, his head is dangerously fractured. Pat Hogan, waylaid, assaulted, and his skull badly fractured by John Bourke, Jerry Ryan, and others. The house of a man named Browne, at Ballymore, was violently attacked, and the windows broken by a large party. Two houses on the lands of Bawnmore, entirely burned to the ground, they were recently let to a new tenant, but not occupied. A man named Morony, found drowned at Poultrelagh, several bruises on his face and head. A Stewart of George Walpole, Esq, of Brusna? Or Brosna?, served with a threatening notice to quit, or to prepare for a bloody death. Murders;-Aug. 18th. J. Toohy, of Cappanamuck, near Borrisokane, murdered by Delahay, Baskerville, and Herons, verdict of coroner's jury, wilful murder against the parties. A Coroner's jury brought in their verdict against Jeremiah Daniel, for the murder of a man named Morrissy in Irishtown, Clonmel. Michael Flynn, assaulted, and his head severely fractured at the fair of Cloughjordan, by Michael Fogarty, John Keeffe, and William Meara, which ensued his death a few days after. The verdict of the jury was wilful murder. Mr. Walshe's House at Walshe Park, was for a second time attacked by a party of men. Mr. Walshe on this occasion, opened a window, and presented a pistol at them, when they fled. August 22nd. Pat. Kilroe, a stewart of Dean Holmes, was waylaid at Dromineer, and knocked down with stones, and his head severely fractured by a man named Gaynor. Edmond Hayden arrested, and charged with the murder of Michael Kennedy, at Rosnas Multeeny, nov. previous. August 25th John Kenna, murdered near Moneygall, he was in the company of another man named Tim Kenna, a bailiff having Latitats? To serve on two people in that area. Michael Ryan, of Knockenavoola, had his skull severely fractured, he at first accused one Quigley, but afterwards denied it, either from a wish not to prosecute, or to take a wild and retributive revenge himself. He died in about 6 days after, and the Coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder. Thomas Lowry, was waylaid and unmercifully beaten in the neighbourhood of Thurles, by Patrick Bourke, whom he identified before his death. John Hayes arrested, charged with being one of the party who burned a house, the property of Caleb Going. Esq. Patrick McNamara, savagely beaten by Michael Mannagh, on the 15th inst. At Dromineer, the Surgeon pronounced McNamara's life, to be in imminent danger. Two men named Gleeson, of Curraghneddy, attacked on their way home from Nenagh by an armed party, who presented a gun and pistol at them, and threatened to shoot them. 29th. A notice served on John Slattery, a farmer, that he would get the death of Kennedy, whose murder appeared in this paper 21st. ult. A notice served on Mrs. Llyod of Templemore threatening her life unless she discharged a person in her employment. A shot was fired into the house of Denis Tierney, in the Parish of Clonmore. Sept. 1st. Four armed men with their faces blackened, broke into the house of a man named Blake, at Ballinderry, they dragged him into the yard, and beat him in such a manner as to leave him for dead. A number of peasantry well armed, met at the bog of Lagganstown, and went through the regular military exercise. 5th. The house of Catherine Moran, of Uskane, in Lower Ormond, set on fire and burned to the ground. A woman named Quinlan, struck with a stone on the head by James Ryan, her life despaired of. Michael Carty, and John Dunn, of Eglish, waylaid on their way home from the fair of Parsonstown, by a large party of men, the latter dangerously wounded. A man named Mara, was injured with a reaping hook, by a fellow named Mooney, on the lands of Coolbawn. John Leonard, of Drum, struck on the head by a ruffian named Butler, his life is despaired of. The editor of the Nenagh Guardian, threatened by a fellow who was suspected of the murder of John Kenna, for having recorded the event in that journal. 8th. Edward Meagher, struck with a stone, by John Ryan, near Lyttleton, (Probably Littleton), which caused a serious fracture in the head, which the Doctor pronounced dangerous. A respectable man from Roscrea, on returning from the fair on Templemore, waylaid and assaulted by a man named Franklin-little hopes are entertained of his recovery. 12th. Three armed men went to the house of Mr. Ballane, in Lorrha, put a pistol to his chest, and swore him not to turn away an under-tenant he had served with notice to quit. James Herbert of Templekelly, was sitting in a friends house, when a ruffian named Wm. Henly, walked in, struck him on the head with a large stone, which fractured his skull. Threatening notice served on the gentlemen working the Dunalley and Tipperary mines, to discharge a man out of their employment. A herdsman of Mr. James Scully's, named Burke, on his way home, was brutally murdered about 20 perches outside the town of Tipperary. A man named Ahern, proceeding home to Donaskea, with a pair of shoes in his hand, was attacked and murdered at Grenane, by two men. 15th. A threatening notice served on Dan Lee, of Upperchurch, to give up the land he held, and quit the neighbourhood, or else he would meet with a bloody death. James Scully of Kilfeacle, Esq. A Roman Catholic magistrate, was pursued by a large party near Mantle-Hill, and had to take refuge in the Military Barrack. 18th. Wm. Hogan of Ballygibbon, waylaid and beaten by two men, named Wm. Kennedy, and John Darcy. A threatening notice posted on the gate of the lands of Balylinar, stating that immediate death would be the result of any person daring to reap or cut the corn then on the ground. A man named Mara, at Clona, within a mile of Roscrea, was savagely assaulted by a man named William Talbot, who with a pitchfork inflicted two severe wounds on Mara's head, and broke one of his ribs. Michael Seymore, struck by his brother William with a stone in the head, while disputing about land.