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Derry Assizes, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland April 1831

Extracted from the Strabane Morning Post, Tuesday, April 12, 1831
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com

 

The following persons were tried:

Name Details
Wm. Loague for stealing a cow’s hide, the property of Mr McCarter, Tanner, Waterside – Guilty, to be transported seven years
Susan Coulter for stealing a piece of Woollen Cloth in December last, the property of Mrs. William James Young, and John Hamilton, Coleraine – Guilty, Twelve months imprisonment
John McGee for stealing two sheep, the property of William Gallaugher, Derry. - Not Guilty
Laurence Keilt & Peter Connelly for stealing on the 21st December last, a bullock, the property of John Loughlin, of Magherafelt. - Guilty
Mary Mulherrin for stealing two hens, the property of ----------- Mercer, of Newtownlimavady. - Not Guilty
Thomas Williams for stealing, on the 27th December last, at Ballymena, two silver spoons, the property of Martha Downing. – Guilty - Two years imprisonment, and hard labour
Elinor Doherty for stealing a pound note from Hugh Hegarty, in Derry, on 3d January last. Not Guilty
Owen Kane for engaging in a riot, and assaulting William Macky, a police constable, while in the discharge of his duty, at Dungiven, on 24th November, 1829. Not Guilty
Francis McCloskey for an assault on James Mullin, on the 9th August last. – Guilty. Two months imprisonment and hard labour
Dominick McCoy, alias Boyle for stealing, in August last, a gun, the property of William Robinson. – Guilty. To be transported for seven years
John Crilly for an assault on Margaret Dempsy, with intent to ravish, at Downhill, on the 13th January last. – Guilty. Two years solitary confinement
Anne Gibben & Catherine Gibben for stealing stuff from the shop of Mrs. A. Lindsay and George Little, on the 9th March last - Not Guilty
William McClernon, Neal Diamond, & Patrick Gallagher for cutting two fir trees, at Moyagy, in September last, the property of Langford Heyland, Esq. - Not Guilty


 

APRIL 5. The Court commenced business at nine o’clock, when Thomas Orr, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, was arraigned for the murder of Philip McLaughlin, a constable of this city, on the night of the 25th August last. [Full details of the trial follow in the newspaper] Orr’s Counsel then urged that it would only be wasting the time of the Court to proceed further ; no criminating evidence having been adduced. This Sergeant Goold admitted, and the Jury returned a verdict of ~~ Not Guilty. Orr bowed respectfully to the court and retired.

RESURRECTIONISTS. Robert Morris, for exhuming and carrying away the body of Mary Thompson, out of the Meeting-house yard, near Kilrea, on 29th December last. A second count charged prisoner with stealing the linen, &c. which covered the body. The act was fully proved by William Maberly. Prisoner was one of three, (the others were not yet taken;) on the body being raised he took the cap off the head of the corpse, and put it in his pocket, saying “Old Moll Thompson, you will now have a passage to Scotland;” they put the body in a sack, and carried it away. Guilty, to be transported for seven years.


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