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had been held out to hhn, if he 

 would i;ivc information, and wished 

 to know whether it would be cri- 

 minal in him to give information 

 against his acconiplices. Dr. Lube 

 answered, it would be doing a 

 good act to rid the country of such 

 characters, and advised him to give 

 the information. Witness then 

 wrote to Captain Mockler, who 

 came to him ; and he disclosed 

 every thing. Mockler was ac- 

 companied by Alderman Darley, 

 who took witness's informations. 



On his cross-examination by 

 Mr. Bennet, witness said he knew 

 there were such places as hell and 

 heaven — that he expected to go to 

 heaven. He was at so many rob- 

 beries that he could not tell the 

 number of them. One of the 

 blunderbusses found atMr. O'Con- 

 nor's had been taken out of the 

 house of Richard Wairen, and he 

 was present on the occasion. He 

 assisted in taking the other blun- 

 derbuss from the house of Garrett 

 Dunn Richardson, in 1812. He 

 was also present at the carding of 

 a man named Walsh. He held 

 Walsh while Waring carded him. 

 The reason of his being carded, 

 was, his having been understood 

 to be a bad man in the parish, and 

 one who would not contribute to 

 the poor. He did not doubt but 

 Walsh was a Catholic. He did 

 not mind what his religion was, 

 though the oath administered by 

 Mr. O'Connor bound him not to 

 mind the moans or groans of 

 Orange-men. He did not know 

 whether himself or Waring (the 

 other approver) was the gieater 

 villain. He was robbing since 21 ; 

 he is now 27, and thought he de- 

 served hanging ; it would be better 

 for a man to be hanged than take 



a false oath ; it would, neverthe- 

 less, be better to bieak the Card- 

 ers' oath, which he had taken, 

 than keep it. He admitted, he 

 was never employed to work di- 

 rectly by Mr. O'Connor, but was 

 employed by M'Keon, who was 

 Mr. O'Connor's task-man; M'Ke- 

 on was not present at the dividing 

 of the booty, being employed in 

 keeping the other workmen from 

 the place where the booty, was 

 divided. M'Keon had advised him 

 to have nothing to do with mail 

 robberies, as it was a bad business, 

 and would cost him his life. When 

 he first called on Mr. O'Connor he 

 was not bound to secrecy. Mr. 

 O'Connor merely asked him whe- 

 ther he would join in robbing the 

 mail ; he was not in the habit of 

 going into Mr. O'C's parlour ; 

 when he met him on the demesne, 

 he generally put his hand to his 

 hat for Mr. O'C. ; when he took 

 off his hat, Mr. O'C. would desire 

 him to i)ut it on again. The party 

 proceeded to open the letters, &c. 

 about five in the morning, and had 

 finished at eight ; most of the 

 party remained in the demesne of 

 Dangan until evening. Three of 

 the men had been hanged since 

 the robbery. They died stout 

 men, and gave no information 

 against Mr. O'Connor, although 

 they were not very stout in rim- 

 ning away at the time of the at- 

 tack on the mail. He believed he 

 was the stoutest man amongst 

 them, but he was not appointed 

 captain of the gang. He had no 

 more conmiand than others. He 

 had taken potatoe-ground fiom 

 Mr. O'Connor; Mr. O'C. would 

 not allow the potatoes to be re- 

 moved until they were paid for ; 

 was not at home when the refusal 



was 



