Wednesday, October 22nd, 1845
COMMUTATION
OF A SENTENCE
At the last Assizes of this County, an unfortunate man named
Edward Day, was tried for soliciting a person named Butler, to shoot John Duffy,
the Repeal Warden of Banagher, and having been found guilty, sentence of death
was recorded. Although Day was not a native of King’s County, and an utter
stranger in Banagher, yet, Mr. Henry Sheane, of that town, having become acquainted
with several local matters connected with the prosecution, and being impressed
with a conviction of the man’s innocence, very praiseworthily made a representation
of all the facts to the Hon Judge Crampton (before whom Day was tried), who favoured
Mr. Sheane with a reply, informing him that his jurisdiction on the subject of
the trial of Day was at an end, but that he had not failed to forward his representation
to the Government; and we are happy to add, that Mr. Sheane’s exertions have
not proved unavailing – as, although Day was on board the convict vessel,
lying in Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin), his sentence has been commuted
to 12 months imprisonment, from the 2nd inst., in the County Gaol of Tullamore,
where he arrived on Friday last.
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