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A. I do not know but I might have said so; but you insisted on taking me to Vinegar-hill, which could not have been to save me.

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at that time the common place of execution. Q. Were not your senses in that disturbed state as to be liable to mistake my conduct?

A. It is impossible. I certainly was agitated as I thought I was to be murdered, but I never lost my recollection. I remember you observed me, and, winking at one of your companions, desired me not to be so agitated, for when I were once arrived at the hill I would be quiet enough. Q. Was there any other person brought away from Mr. Wheeler's?

A. None but Mr. Wheeler and I.

PRISONER'S DEFENCE.

James Hunt sworn.

Q. by the prisoner. Were you on Vinegarhill on Whitsunday in the rebellion ?

A. I was. I was a prisoner to the rebels, who kept me just outside the mill door.

Q. What did you see done there?

A. I saw a man, called Mr. Pentland, brought out, and put to death by one Conners. Q. By whose order was he brought out?

A. By order of Morgan Byrne, who was outside the mill door.

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Q. Did you see me there?

A. I did not.

Q. How many did you see put to death?

A. Mr. Hornick, Mr. Pentland, and another nian. I was then taken down to the bottom of the hill.

Q by the court. Might not the prisoner havè been in the mill without your knowledge?

A. He might; but I did not see him, nor hear tell of him.

Q. Are you now a prisoner?

A. I am.

Q. For what?

A. For suspicion of robbing my next neighbour.

John Rogan sworn.

Q. by the prisoner. Were you on Vinegar-hill on Whitsun-Tuesday?

A. I was not.

James Bryan sworn.

Q. by the prisoner. Were you on Vinegarhill on Whitsun-Tuesday?

A. I was.

Q. At what time?

A. I was on every part of the hill from nine o'clock until three or four in the evening, and did not see you that day.

Q. Did you see any one taken out of the wind-mill?

A. I did not, but I saw a man dead that had been taken out.

Q. Who was the man?

A. A Mr. Pentland. I was lying on the hill when I heard that Mr. Pentland was to be killed. I ran to save him, but was too late. He was dead when I got up. I heard that one Connors and one Byrne had killed him.

Q. by the court. Where do you live and what is your religion?

A. I am a Roman catholic, and live in the parish of Killann, of which Mr. Pentland was minister.

Q. What was his character in the parish?

A. He bore a most excellent character; a quiet mild man.

Q. Are you a prisoner now?

A. I am for suspicion of a rape.

William Wilkinson sworn,

Q. by the prisoner. Did you see me during the rebellion?

A. I did.

Q. Did you see me in the guard-house at Enniscorthy?

A. I did. I was a prisoner there.

Q. What was my conduct there?

A. You used me civilly, You took me and seventeen more out, and saved us, the day that we were ordered to be murdered by Kerns the priest.

Q. Were you with me during the rebellion?
A. I was very often; almost every day.

Q. What was my character during the rebellion?

A. You saved those I spoke of, but I cannot say any thing farther.

Q. by the court. Did you carry a pike?

A. I did not, nor a gun.

Q. What arms did you carry?

A. I had a stick with a piece of a nail rod in the end of it.

Q. Would it kill a man?

A. It would.

Q. Had you any conversation with the prisoner lately with respect to the evidence you were to give?

A. Not one word. I had no conversation with him on any subject.

Q. Were you not in the gaol with the prisoner?

A. I was not; I never was in the gaol.

Q. Do you swear that you had no conversation at all with the prisoner?

A. I had at a window.

Q. Where was this window? ?

A. I do not know whether it looked into the gaol yard, or into the street.

Q. Was it not the grated door of his cell you spoke to him at?

A. I do not know whether it was a door or a

window.

Q. Were you not drinking with the prisoner? A. He put a bottle through the bars, and bade me take a sup.,

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Q. Did not the prisoner give you money
A. He gave me some to bear my expences.
Q. What expences?

A. The expences I was at to stay for his trial.
Q. When was this?

A. The day before yesterday,

Mary Hall scorn.

Q. by the prisoner. Did you see me during

the rebellion?

A. I did. I saw you very often, but I do not recollect any particular day except WhitsunTuesday.

Q. Did you ever see me guilty of any outrage or crime?

A. I never saw you guilty of any thing but breaking open a house and robbing it.

Q. Whose house was it?

A. Mr. Joseph Sparrow's, where you took every thing, even the sheets under two cripples that lay in the house. You behaved civilly to my little boy, and made the butcher give him a good bit of meat.

Q. by the court. You say you saw the pri soner often; in what capacity?

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