The Dock and the Scaffold: The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the JacknellSullivan, T. D. (Timothy Daniel)
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The Dock and the Scaffold: The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell
Sullivan, T. D. (Timothy Daniel)
Erin's Hope (Brigantine); Fenians; Ireland -- Biography; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 19th century
When General Halpin took his place in the dock with, his fellow
"convicts," Colonel Warren and Augustine E. Costello, to receive his
sentence, he appeared calm and uuimpassioned as ever. The question why
sentence should not be passed on him having been put--
The Prisoner said that before he spoke to the question put
him by the Clerk of the Crown, he wished to say a few words on
another topic. The day before yesterday he was handed by the
governor of Kilmainham a letter which had come from America,
and enclosed a draft. The draft the governor refused to give
up, and also refused to state what disposition he intended
to make of it. The deputy governor had other moneys of his,
and he requested that those, as well as the draft, should be
restored to him.
The Attorney-General, in an undertone, having addressed some
observations to the bench.
The Lord Chief Baron said that the prisoner, having been
convicted of felony, his property was at the disposal of the
authorities, and that any representation he had to make on the
subject should be made to the government.
Halpin said he wished that the money might be transferred to
the governor of whatever gaol he was to be imprisoned in,
so that he might have the use of it to purchase necessaries
should he require them.
LORD CHIEF BARON--If you desire to make any representation it
must be through the government.
PRISONER--I don't wish to make any representation to the
government on the subject. I will permit the government to add
robbery to perjury.
The Prisoner, in reply to a question asked by the Clerk of the Crown,
said that justice had not been dealt out to him as he thought it might
have been. He had been prevented by the Crown from getting witnesses
for his defence, and from seeing his witnesses, while the Crown had
taken four months to get their witnesses properly trained, and to
ransack all the Orange lodges of Dublin for jurors. He complained of
the rules of the gaol, and of the law that permitted them to be in
force, and said:--
I deny the jurisdiction of this court in common with Colonel
Warren. I owe no allegiance to this country, and were I a
free man to-morrow I would sooner swear allegiance to the
King of Abyssinia than give half-an-hour's allegiance to the
government of this country--a government that has blasted
the hopes of half the world and disgusted it all. I am not, I
suppose, permitted to speak of the verdict given against me by
the jury. It was entirely unnecessary for the Crown to produce
one single witness against me. The jury had their lesson
before they came to the box.
THE CHIEF BARON--It is impossible for me to allow you to
proceed with this line of observation.
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