transcribed & extracted from the Saunders Newsletter Wed. 28 Apr. 1802 At General Assizes held at Downpatrick
the 10th instant, before the Hon. Baron GEORGE the following persons were tried and found guilty: William CORRAN for the murder his wife Margaret CORRAN on the 3d of April, instant at Cleomach in the county Down, by giving her several kicks and bruises on the body of which she died. It appeared that the prisoner had been married to the deceased about a year; that a short time prior to this transaction the deceased had been brought to bed, and being then but in a weak state, was dragged by the prisoner on an open car, in the dead of the night, with no covering but a thin quilt, to the house of the deceased’s mother, about three miles distant from the prisoner's, beat and abused by the prlsoner, and there left at the door. The prisoner endeavoured to shew, in his defence that the spots apparent on the body of the deceased, from the abuse she received, were the result of the spotted fever. Yet, as the learned Judge observed, supposing that to have been the case, under the circumstances above stated, taking his wife in such a state on an open car, and bringing her the distance of 3 miles, exposed to the cold, instead of extenuating, rather aggravated his guilt. The Jury brought a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was ordered to be hanged and dissected. William DICKSON for passing bad coin at Castlewellan on the 10th Aug. last -ordered to imprisoned 3 months. John JOHNSTON, for stealing a watch the 12th of February last at Newtownards, in the county of Down - ordered to be transported for 7 years. Francis HALES for stealing damask at Ballymurphy on the 17 July last the property of John and William COULSON - ordered to be burned in the hand and imprisoned 6 months. Richard CRIEMY for tendering bad money to one Jane HENRY at Ballyblack on the 9 Aug. last - ordered to be imprisoned 6 months. Happy Hunting Teena _______________________________________________ [email protected] UlsterAncestry Mailing List Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.cotyrone.com/mailman/listinfo/ulsterancestry Website: https://cotyrone.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CoTyroneIrelandGenealogy/
