136 RETURN RELATING TO AGRARIAN AND OTHER CRIMES (IRELAND),
PROVINCE OF ULSTER.-County
Down—continued.
II.—Return
of the Number and Names of Persons made Amenable, but not Convicted—continued.
Whether Name of Name of Person No.
Date.
NATURE op OFFENCE.
Agrarian
or not.
Injured Person.
made Amenable.
18 17 Aug.
1879 Firing at the person -Not • -Hugh M'Mullan Samuel Rankin and
12 others.
19 18 June
„ Rape ----Not Lucinda Laverty Robert Gracey
Alexander Gracey.
20 19 Aug.
„ Assault, with intent to com¬
mit a rape or indecent assault.
Not Ellen Holmes -David Coulter
Hugh Morgan.
21 G Aug.
„ Infanticide -Not Male infant Catherine Brennan -
22 10 Feb.
„ Aggravated assault -Not John Anderson Joseph Anderson
Thomas Campbell -**j 23 17 Aug.
„
--ditto -Not Thomas M'Owen j John Robinson
William Cousins -
, 24 17 Aug.
„
--ditto -Not Arthur C.
M'Owen -1 Henry Magill
I Robert John M'Cord-1 25 17 Aug.
„ Assault endangering life Not Francis M'Creanor -Thomas West -
Joseph Brownlee.
Thomas Adamson.
26 10 Oct.
„ --ditto -ditto Not James Marshall John Cowan -
27 20 Nov.
„ --ditto -ditto Not Mary O'Neill -Jane Smith 28 17 Nov.
„ Desertion of children Not Female child -Susanna M'Gaffy -
29 3 Mar.
„ Concealing birth Not An infant Mary A.
M'Graw -
30 4 Feb.
„ Incendiary fire -
--Not David Ferguson William M'Cune 31 3 April „ --ditto -Agrarian William M'Nabb -Joseph Millar -
32 29 Jau.
„ Cattle stealing ---Not Michael Hanlon James Napier -
33 15 Nov.
„ Sheep stealing --_ Not William H.
Patterson John Patterson 34 13 July „ Riots and affrays Not The Royal Irish Con¬
stabulary and others
David M'Roberts -Joseph A.
M'Roberts James M'Roberts.
James Price.
Peter Markey.
Thomas Angus.
Patrick Shields.
Patrick Murphy.
John Reilly.
Philip Reilly.
Thomas M'Guigan.
Owen Murpliy.
Adam Swails.
Samuel Twedie.
Hugh Jennings.
John M'Nally.
John Hedgor.
Francis Goulding.
William Wiggans.
William Casey.
Hugh Casey.
Patrick Murphy.
John Moore.
Henry Trainor.
35 13 Aug.
„
--ditto -Not James Swayno
William Cochrane.
Agnes Cochrane.
Johp Morgan.
Selina Cochrane Hugh Quinn.
30 28 Aug.
„ Injury to property (party
riot).
Not Margaret Gorman -Henry Gamble
William Corbet.
37 30 May „ Injury to, or attempt to in¬
jure or obstruct, railway trains or highways.
Not County Down Rail¬
way Company.
Hugh M'Manus
RESULT.
Thirteen parties were summoned, but cases withdrawn, no evidence forth¬ coming.
Tried at Downpatrick Assizes, IQtli
July 1879, and acquitted.
Tried at Downpatrick Quarter Sessions,
7th October 1879, and acquitted.
Grand Jury found no bill at Belfast Winter Assizes in December 1879.
The injured man declined to prosecute his brother.
{Cousins and Magill returned for trial
to Armagh Assizes, and the others discharged.
Tried at Gilford Petty Sessions, 24th
September 1879, and case dig.
missed.
Tried at Newry Quarter Sessions, and
Grand Jury found no bill.
Returned for trial to Downpatrick Assizes in Spring 1880.
No bill found by Grand Jury at Down¬ patrick Quarter Sessions, on 1st January 1880.
Tried at Downpatrick Quarter Sessions,
17th June 1879, and acquitted.
Tried at Spring A ssizes, Downpatrick, 15th March 1879, and acquitted.
Tried at Downpatrick Petty Sessions,
10th April 1879, and discharged for want of evidence.
The Grand Jury ignored the bill at
Downpatrick Assizes, 14th March 1879.
Tried at Downpatrick Quarter Sessions,
1st January 1880, and acquitted.
All these men have been returned for
trial to Downpatrick Spring Assizes, from Newry Petty Sessions.
(See No.
38, in Table I.
of this Return, under "Assaults and Police;" this is the same case.)
Tried at Downpatrick Petty Sessions; Quinn dismissed, and against Coch¬ rane, adjourned for six months; her conduct in the meantime to be watched.
Tried at Newry Quarter Sessions, 25th October 1879, and both acquitted.
Tried at Newtownards Petty Sessions,
12th June 1879, and discharged for want of evidence.
