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Subject: [ARMAGH] Armagh Guardian: County Armagh Assizes - Mar 1845 - Part 4
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 07:48:14 -0400


Armagh Guardian: County Armagh Assizes - Mar 1845 - Part 4
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The following article was transcribed from The Armagh Guardian (4 Mar
1845; microfilm), by permission of The British Library.
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NOTE: This article is very long and shall be published in several
parts. Part 4 provides the names of the persons called to serve on the
Petty Jury on Friday of the assizes, then lists persons tried in the
Court, together with the charges and subsequent discharges or penalties.
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COUNTY ARMAGH ASSIZES.
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Friday.
The Court opened this morning at nine o'clock, when the
following persons were sworn as a
PETTY JURY:--Messrs. Wm. Running, John Corry, Thomas
Sinclair, John H. Cardwell, Alexander Kinmouth, Wm. Boyd,
sen., George Scott, John Simpson, Robert M'Endow, Simon
Sinclair, Crozier Christy, and John W. Redmond.
Robert Fitzsimons, indicted for stealing a pair of shoes, the
property of Andrew Davidson; a blue body coat, and a pair of
drawers, and a castor hat, the property of J. Gass; and a pair
of trousers, the property of Mr. Steel, on the 27th of December
last.
Pleaded guilty--sentenced to two calendar months to hard
labour.
John Carvill, for stealing a quantity of turf, the property of
Robert Ellis.
The prisoner pleaded guilty; to be imprisoned two calendar
months, and kept at hard labour.
Michael Madigan, alias Madden, stealing a heifer, the
property of Hugh Hagan, sen., near Cookstown, on the 9th ult.
Hugh Hagan, sen., examined--Lives at Cookstown; purchased
a cow at Lurgan on the 9th January last; gave her in
charge to his son to bring to Cookstown; (this was on Thursday
evening;) did not see the cow again till the following Sabbath,
when he found her in Martin Gartland's, near Blackwatertown;
found her tied to a tree in Gartland's orchard; brought the cow
back with him.
Hugh Hagan, jun., corroborated the statement as to receiving
charge of the cow; when he was about a half mile from Lurgan,
the prisoner overtook him; witness asked him how far he was
going; prisoner said to the Birches; witness said he was going
there also; (the Birches is situate between Verner's Bridge and
Portadown;) went there in company, when prisoner proposed
to go to Loughgall, as by Verner's Bridge would be out of his
way; witness gave him 8d. to accompany him; when they
reached the porter's gate at Colonel Verner's, prisoner told him
to go in and warm his feet, saying he would mind the cow while
she was feeding; witness remained about 15 minutes in the
gatehouse; when he came out prisoner and cow were both gone;
next place he saw prisoner was at Portadown, in custody of two
butchers, who had given him in charge to the police; saw him
on Sunday afterwards; witness, police, and prisoner went soon
after to Gartland's, and there found the cow, as stated by
preceding witness.
Patrick Gartland, is son to Martin Gartland; remembers
prisoner coming to his frther's [sic] on a Friday morning with the
cow; prisoner said there was a decree for him, and wished the
cow put out of the way till it was settled; left the cow, saying
he would take her in a few days; saw him next on Saturday
night in custody with the police, who came with Hagan and
his son to witness' father's; Hagan claimed the cow as his
property; his father's residence is six miles from Verner's bridge.
Thomas M'Caffrey, Sub-Constable of police, is stationed at
Portadown; took prisoner into custody on the 11th of January
last; prisoner was left in his charge at the police office; sent
for the head-constable at prisoner's request, when he stated
that the cow was at Martin Gartland's; whereupon he and the
head-constable went and found the cow as prisoner described.
To the Court--Went to Gartland's about 10 o'clock at night,
and brought the cow from Gartland's to Blackwatertown.
James Prunty and Francis Harvey gave the prisoner a good
character, having known him since he was a child.
His Lordship charged the Jury at considerable length, who
returned a verdict of guilty--Sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment, and hard labour.
Edward Carroll, for stealing a cow, on the 28th of December,
at Newtownhamilton, the property of Patrick Denv?r. Pleaded
guilty; to be imprisoned for eighteen months, and kept at hard
labour.
Patrick McCoy, for assaulting Ann Grimes, on the 27th of
December, at Forkhill, with intent, &c. [The prosecutrix did
not appear, and the prisoner was consequently discharged.]
Robert Gibbons, for assaulting Michael Patton, at Newtown-
hamilton, on the 7th of February. Pleaded guilty; two months'
imprisonment, and to enter into his own recognizances to be of
the pence.
John Chambers and Brothers Chambers, for making base coin,
at Derrycrew, in the months of June and July last. There
were several counts in the indictment, one of which charged the
prisoners with making crucibles and moulds in their possession,
for making counterfeit coin.
Sir T. STAPLES said the Crown could not sustain the indict-
ment; and the prisoners were acquitted.
Edward Byrne, for stealing a cow, on the 11th of July, 1842,
the property of Susana Murphy, of Derrynoose. [Trial post-
poned till next Assizes, in consequence of the illness of the
principal witness.]
Hanna Sullivan, for stealing several blacksmith's tools on
the 13th of January, the property of James Gallagher, of
Lurgan. Acquitted.
Mary Quinn, presented by the Grand Jury as a vagrant, was
found guilty. To give security herself in £10 and two sureties
in £5 each, in the course of one month, and to be of good
behaviour; or at the expiration of that period, to be transported
for seven years.
William Curran, for stealing a waistcoat and two brushes, on
the 5th Feb., the property of Mr. Henry Lindsay, of Armagh.
Guilty; six months' imprisonment, and to be kept to hard labor.
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[.../continued under Part 5]
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