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Dennis Ahern
From The Irish Times, 12 July 1876 --
COUNTY CLARE
Mr. Justice Keogh took his seat on the bench yesterday
morning at ten o'clock, and proceeded with the trial of
prisoners.
Indecent Assault
John Sheehan was indicted for an indecent assault upon
Anne Ryan, at Sixmilebridge, on the 21st April last.
Messrs. Coffey, Q.C., and Percy Lynch, instructed by Mr.
Morphy [sic], Crown Solicitor, defended.
The prosecutrix, an elderly woman, about 50, deposed to
the prisoner coming into her house late on the evening in
question, and attempting to commit the assault complained of.
On cross-examination she admitted that she was a tenant to
the prisoner, and that he had distrained and sold all her effects
for rent some time before.
The jury brought in a verdict of "Not Guilty."
Threatening Letter
Patrick Ryan, alias "Rory of the Hills," was put forward and
arraigned on several charges, viz., appearing in arms in a
proclaimed district, and stealing two pistols from Michael
Gaigley, on the 16th of January last, sending a threatening
letter to William Ahearn, on the 21st December.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the first indictment and not
guilty to the others. He asked his lordship to provide him with
counsel.
His Lordship said he had no power to do so.
Mr. Coffee said they considered the threatening letter case
the most important, and would try him on that indictment.
Wm. Ahearn deposed to the prisoner coming to his house
on two occasions, and threatening that his comrade was to
meet him and give him a ball unless he gave up some land
which a man named Murphy held before witness. Identified
the letter sent him, which was couched in stereotypical
phrase, and headed by a coffin containing a corpse, and
signed "Rory of the Hills." Said his name was Pat Ryan.
Evidence of identity with the prisoner's handwriting was
given by Mr. Teak, an expert.
The prisoner was convicted, and sentenced to seven years'
penal servitude.
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Question Quigley
Ryan in my family and he was married to a Catherine (Kate) Ryan. e was dead
by the 1911 census and Catherine had remarried (to a Patrick Keane) and was
living in Labasheeda, County Clare.
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: Is there any information on the home town of Patrick Ryan? I had a Patrick
: by the 1911 census and Catherine had remarried (to a Patrick Keane) and was
: living in Labasheeda, County Clare.
As this was published in the Irish Times in Dublin, you may get more
detailed information from a local paper of the same period, like the Clare
Champion. The National Library in Dublin may have copies, or you could
check with the County Clare Library. You could also check the
Transportaton database at the National Archives website to see if he was
transported for his crime. If so, there may be a location given.
-dja
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From The Belfast News-Letter, 3 January 1800 -
--SHIP NEWS--
The St. Patrick, Wm. Campbell, master, from hence for London,
arrived safe at Falmouth the 26th ult. and would sail for the Downs,
first fair Wind under convoy.
Dennis Ahern
THE SIAMESE TWINS.
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TIED YET DISUNITED.
The New York correspondent of the Morning Herald gives an
account of these extraordinary personages :--Singular as it may seem,
there are two persons in the South who have not been materially
affected by the war. For them conscription has no terrors ; politics
have no excitement. And yet these seemingly happy mortals are not
wholly blest. Gladly would they become humble privates in Lee's
battered army, if so they might change their condition. Physically they
are united, but morally and socially they are divided. Since their
withdrawal from public view, the "Siamese twins," as they were
properly termed, have resided upon their plantation near the town of
Salisbury, in North Carolina. In this world's goods they are well to
do, and among their "chattels" are several scores of negroes. For many
years they have lived in harmony with their wives and their children,
their families being periodically increased, until, after a certain lapse
of time, each became the happy possessor of five flourishing "olive
branches." Up to this time between the two there had been apparently
a perfect community of thought and purpose. But an "event" occurred
in the family of Chang, the larger of the two brothers, through which
great subsequent trouble arose. A sixth child was added to him, and
this "advantage" not only excited intense animosity in the mind of the
wife of his brother Eng, but led to a separation between that person
and Mrs. Chang, the two women occupying different houses, but
remaining on the same plantation. This jealousy had its effect upon
Eng, who is the smaller and feebler of the two, and he is now said to
look ten years older than his brother. The twins have as little to say
to each other as possible ; of course, such a thing as total silence is out
of the question. Their fate is certainly deplorable. Regarding each other
with feelings of bitterness, they are yet bound together by a tie, any
attempt to sever which would almost inevitably result in the death of
both. Through the ligature which connects them passes an artery as
large as the femoral artery, and it was the opinion of the eminent
London surgeons who examined them some years since that any
operation tending to free the brothers from this abnormal connection
would prove fatal. They are, it will be remembered, wedded to sisters,
which renders the estrangement still more unfortunate. Chang and Eng
have an ample fortune ; their deposits in various banks in the city are
very considerable. In agricultural pursuits they have prospered,
despite the war. Taken all in all, matter for a very respectable story
hangs about these world-famous twins.