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entreaty, nothing of reward or 

 punishment, was sufficient to pro- 

 cure from the surrounding savages, 

 a car to convey Keefe to Dublin. 

 The sheriff went for military 

 assistance to the next station, and, 

 on his way, meeting a return car- 

 riage from Nine-Mile House, he 

 made use of that to convey the 

 sufferer. 



21 . Riots in Yorkshire. — We have 

 already given the particulars of the 

 attack upon Mr. Cartwright's 

 cloth-mill, at Itawfords, about 

 eight miles from Leeds, and now 

 subjoin the sequel of the narrative 

 of that sanguinary conflict, ex- 

 tracted from the Leeds Mercury of 

 Saturday last : — 



On the cessation of the firing, 

 the ears of the guards were assail- 

 ed with the cries of two unfortu- 

 nate men, weltering in their blood, 

 and writhing under the torture of 

 mortal wounds : — " For God's 

 sake," cried one of them " shoot 

 me — put me out of my misery !" — 

 " Oh !" cried the other, " help ! 

 lielp ! — I know all, and will tell 

 all." On the arrival of a detach- 

 ment of the Queen's Bays, which 

 took place about an hour after the 

 attack commenced, the men were 

 removed on litters from the field to 

 the Star Inn, at Roberttown, and 

 medical aid was called in with all 

 possible dispatch. One of them 

 i;roved to be a cropper, named 

 Samuel Hartley, formerly in the 

 employment of Mr. Cartwright ; 

 a young unmarried man, about 

 twenty-four years of age, and a 

 private in the Halifax Local Militia, 

 in which regiment Mr. Cartwright 

 is a captain. The other was John 

 Booth, a youth about 19, son of a 

 clergyman in Craven, and appren- 

 tice to Mr. Wright, of H udders- 



field, tanner. Hartley had receiv- 

 ed a shot in his left breast, appa- 

 rently while making a blow at 

 some part of the mill, which, pass- 

 ing through his body, lodged be- 

 neath the skin at the left shoulder, 

 from whence it was extracted with 

 a portion of bone. In this situa- 

 tion he languished till about three 

 on Monday morning, when he ex- 

 pired. Booth's wound was in his 

 leg, which was shattered almost to 

 atoms : it was found necessary to 

 have the leg amputated, but, owing 

 to extreme loss of blood before the 

 surgeons arrived, spasms came on 

 during the operation, and he died 

 about six o'clock on Sunday morn- 

 ing ; having previously observed, 

 that if he should recover, •« he 

 would never be brought into such 

 a scrape again." On Monday a 

 coroner's inquest returned a ver- 

 dict o?—justJJiablc homicide. None 

 of the wounded men, except Hart- 

 ley and Booth, have yet been disco- 

 vered. 



On the morning after the en- 

 gagement, a number of hammers, 

 axes, false keys and picklocks, with 

 two masks, a powder-horn, and a 

 bullet-mould, were found upon the 

 field, which was stained in several 

 places with blood : and it is evi- 

 dent that manyothers besides those 

 left on the field were wounded, as 

 traces of gore were distinctly mark- 

 ed in almost every direction, and 

 in one place to the distance of four 

 miles. Although the assailants 

 exceeded a hundred, the number 

 opposed to them was very incon- 

 siderable, and of that number one 

 of the military conducted himself 

 in so unsoldierlike a manner, that 

 he was placed in confinement, and 

 waits the issue of a regimental 

 court-martial. 



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