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the rider, bound him to his back. They thus proceeded 

 towards Nenagh, and on their way met the cavalry, who 

 had made a mistake as to the time, and delivered the 

 prisoner into their charge. 



Some years after this Mr. Bay ley was the victim of a 

 dastardly outrage. He was leaving Nenagh in company 

 with Mr. Michael Head, when a shot was fired, and he fell 

 to the ground with one side of his face and jaw blown 

 completely away. He was carried into a cottage close by, 

 and so effectual did the shot appear to have been, that when 

 the man who had fired came to the door a few minutes after- 

 wards and levelled his gun to " finish him off," he took it 

 down again without pulling the trigger, remarking " that it 

 was no use to shoot a dead man." This crime was 

 committed because the tenants thought that Mr. Bayley 

 was standing in the way of their receiving a reduction of 

 rent, whereas, in reality, it was the landlord who was 

 opposed to the reduction, but sheltered himself behind the 

 agent's name. Mrs. Bayley was soon informed of the 

 accident to her husband, and quickly arriving took her 

 place by his side, stanching the flow of blood by com- 

 pressing the severed blood vessels with her fingers. 



Mr. Head galloped off to catch the night train at 

 Portarlington, a distance of about forty miles, and on 

 arriving in Dublin went straight to the residence of Sir 

 Philip Crampton, the celebrated surgeon. They returned 

 by the next train to Portarlington, from whence they 

 proceeded by car to Nenagh, arriving some twenty-four 

 hours after the outrage had been committed. 



For the whole of this time the heroic wife had sat 

 compressing the great veins of the shattered neck, and 

 deservedly reaped her reward by saving the life of her 



