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O'Connoi-j at Palace Anne, in the 

 couiity of Coik, tiie house of Mr. 

 Birnard, a magistrate of that 

 county. He shewed the warrant to 

 Barnard. Whon Mr. O'C. saw it, 

 he said it was illea;al, inasmuch 

 as the word " fehjnious" was not 

 in it. He believed Mr. O'C. 

 made that observation for the 

 purpose of showing the offence 

 with wliich he was charged was 

 biiilahle. \\'^itness thought it wa.^ 

 bailable. He did not kniw against 

 whom he had tiie warrant, until 

 he we'it to Cork, and thought, 

 when he saw Mr. O'Connor, and 

 the respectable house lie was in, 

 he might have maJe a mistake as 



I to the person. On asking Mr. 

 O C. whether he was of Dangan, 



I he answt'red he was. 



I On his cro<.-<-ex imination tiiis 



I witiie'^s admitte:! Mr. O'C. was 

 repeatedly out of his custody. He 

 thought that if Mr. O'C. had re- 

 sisted he woulil have been unable 

 t') bring hiui to Dublin, though 

 he was determined, if there had 

 been any serious opposition, to 

 have shot Mr. O'C. While Mr. 

 O C. had been out of witness's 

 custody, he was in that of a Cap- 

 tiin '.Vhte VVituess was askeil 

 whetlier he had not brought hand- 

 cuffs with hiui from Dublin, and 

 was not of opinion that he woul(| 

 render himself agreeable to per- 

 sons in power if he had treated 

 his prisoner with indignity. He 

 answered, that bringing the hand- 

 cuffs Wits accidental, as when he 

 left town he knew not whom he 

 was going to arrest. He received 

 no instructions respecting treat- 

 ment when he set out. 



The case on behalf of the Crown 

 having closed, Mr M'Nally, as 

 counsel for M'Keon, said it was 



not necessary for him to call a 

 single witness 



Mr. Wallace, as leading counsel 

 for Mr. 0'Coim()r, said he would 

 pursue the same course as Mr. 

 M'Nally, if life only was at stake; 

 but heie, the honour of a gentle- 

 man, which was more dear than 

 life itself, was at stake, and for 

 that purpose alone he would call 

 witnesse-, by whom Mr. O'Con- 

 nor's cliaract -r would be so 

 purged, that malice itself dare not 

 raise its shaft against him. 



Francis Burdett O'Connor, Esq. 

 was then called. The two blun- 

 derbusses above s,)oken of were 

 produced ; he stated that he had 

 found them in a rabbit-hole in the 

 den^sie of Dangan, in the No- 

 vember folio ■ ing the mail rob- 

 bei7 ; they were then in their 

 pre.sent state, without locks. He 

 brought them to a house occupied 

 by I lis brother and two sisters. 

 Subsequently his brother jemoved 

 to a new house, and these blun- 

 derbusses, were luought away, he 

 supposed by the woikmen, with 

 other lumtier out of the store- 

 room in which they were oiigi- 

 nally deposited, a; d put into the 

 room where his brother slept in 

 the new house, and laid against 

 the fire place He was present 

 when the plundered mail-'oags 

 were discoveieil in the wood of 

 Dangan, and information of the 

 circumstance was sent to the post- 

 office. 



There was no cross-examination 

 of this witness. 



Leonard M'Nally, Esq. de- 

 posed, that he attended at the 

 Naas Assizes, where the Owenses 

 were tried. Mr. O'Connor was 

 there, and examined as a witness. 

 He said he once thought the pri- 



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