Q. Did you not then fay you did not know it was I that killed your father?

A. I did not. I faid you dragged my father out, 'but I did not know who fhot him, as I ran away.

Prifoner's Defence

Is, that his witneffes do not appear, and he has nothing farther to say than that he was not on the hill when Hall was murdered.

The prifoner was hanged.

TRIAL OF JOHN HAUGHRAN:

WEXFORD, SEPT. 26, 1799.

William Bridges, (private in the invalids) fworn, SAYS, that he heard the rebels call the prifoner captain. That the prisoner took witness to be christened; and about two days before the battle of Horetown the prifoner gave him up to a man whom prisoner called ferjeant Keating. At that time prifoner was armed with a fword, and appeared to witness to be in command. Witnefs never faw prifoner command a party, but he always feemed to have the chief command at Tintern.Witness was there till two days before the battle

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mand.

Cross-examined by the prifoner.

Q. Do you

believe that there were men who

were not captains, and wore fwords?

A. I cannot fay.

Q. Could any other person than the prisoner have the command at Tintern ?

A. There might; but the prifoner appeared to me to have the chief command.

Q. Did you ever hear the prifoner called ferjeant?

A. I heard feveral people called ferjeant, but never heard the prifoner called fo.

Q. Were there any threats or promises held out to you to swear against the prisoner?

A. There were not any.

Sarah Smith, fworn,

Says, that on the 3d day of June, in the rebellion, a party of rebels came to her house at Saltmills, near Tintern. That the prifoner was one of the party, and seemed to witness to be their leader. They asked for her husband. She told them he was not at home. They then paffed her door, but the prisoner stopped them, and ordered them to go into the house and try. They went in, and brought out her husband, whom they left guarded, while they went to search for another proteftant family. On their coming back, witnefs begged they would

permit her husband to ftop and get his breakfast; but the prifoner faid he fhould not ftay; and gave orders that he and all the proteftants they could find that day fhould be brought to Sculla bogue.There were twenty-four, young and old, of the parish of Tintern, fent there, and murdered on the 5th of June, among whom was the husband, the brother, fifter, and niece, of the witnefs. Witnefs. received several orders from the prifoner relative to diftributing milk, and never knew any one in command at Tintern except the prifoner. Once, on a complaint being made against her, she went to the prifoner to know what the fhould do, who defired her to diftribute the milk to the rebels every morning as far as it would go. When the account came to Tintern of the murders at Scullabogue, the widows and relatives of thofe that were murdered got together, and were lamenting in the ftreet, when the prifoner came up to witness and faid, if he heard any more of it, he would collect us all together, and send us after our hufbands. A few days after, the prisoner gave a pass to witness to go and get herself chriftened, and told her they muft all be of one religion, for it was that they were fighting for. The pass was figned by the prifoner. Witness never knew any one give a pass but the prisoner.

Q. Did

Cross-examined by the prifoner.

you know Patrick Stafford? A. I knew him by fight, but had no acquaintance with him.

Q. Did you not hear, and do you not believe, that Patrick Stafford was the captain of the Tintern corps?

A. I did not hear it, and I don't believe it.There were two Tintern corps. One went from Tintern to murder, and the other staid at home to fend the proteftants to them, and to plunder.

Q. Did the prifoner go the whole way to Scullabogue with your husband?

A. I do not know. I faw him as far as the church.

Q. Did you fee the prifoner, at Tintern on the 5th of June?

A. I did not-I am pofitive I did not.

Q. Did you ever hear the prifoner called ferjeant?

A. I never heard the prifoner called by any title.

Catherine Poor, fworn,

Says, that she was a prifoner at Tintern during the rebellion, and always understood that the prifoner was a captain and juftice of peace: has heard the rebels call him captain. Witnefs went to get fomething to eat. He faid he would not give her any unless fhe became a chriftian; for if he did, he would break his oath.

Q. Did you know that Stafford was captain of the Tintern corps?

A. I heard he was captain of the corps that went to the battle of Rofs, and was killed there.

Q. Did you ever hear the prisoner called ferjeant?

A. I never heard him called any thing but captain and juftice of peace.

Jofeph Kelly, fworn,

Says, that his father was burned at Scullabogue, and that he, not being able to get away, joined the rebels to fave his life. That before he was permitted to join, he was advised to take the united oath. That the man who advised him took him to the prisoner, as being the first in command at Tintern. The prifoner then administered the united oath to witnefs. When general Lake's proclamation came out, witnefs heard the prisoner address a party of the rebels and say, “boys, we "may as well lay down our fpears for a few days "to fave our lives, as the proteftants turned to "mass to save theirs.'

Jeremiah Boyce, fworn,

Says, he never knew the prisoner to be called captain, but knew no other perfon in command at Tintern. He ordered witnefs to the camp at Lacken, and gave paffes, which paffes protected those they were given to; has heard him called ferjeant. Witness was with the rebels from the battle of Rofs until the day before the battle of Horetown, and never knew a rebel ferjeant with the command, the prifoner excepted, at Tintern. Witness was fworn a united man.

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