Convicts, transportation, tickets of leave
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:02 am
The following interesting newspaper notice appeared in the "Limerick Chronicle" on Wednesday 9 May 1860.
THE TICKET OF LEAVE SYSTEM IN CLARE.
We learn that a large number of convicts, who were transported from the county of Clare during the years of disturbance, have recently returned to that county on the tickets of leave system, and have created no small share of consternation amongst many respectable families.
Amongst the number we may mention Thomas Collins, Mortimer Collins, John Boland and Michael McMahon, who were convicted and transported for life for attacking the residence of H.P. Hickman, Esq., D.L. and J.P., at Fenloe, Newmarket-on-Fergus, in October 1846; also, John Griffin, Thomas McInerny (Jack), and Patrick Gueran (Soger), who were convicted at the special commission at Ennis in January 1848 for the murder of Martin McMahon at Carhumore near Six-Mile-Bridge, upon whom sentence of death was recorded, which was subsequently commuted to transportation for life; two or three others convicted and transported with the above have died at Bermuda.
We doubt very much the prudence of permitting such desperate characters as these return again to this country; already one of them (Thomas Collins) has been re-arrested and transmitted to Mountjoy convict-prison, in charge of Constable Shore, at Six-Mile-Bridge, for leading an irregular life since his return, and it is to be feared that the others will soon follow his example if they are permitted to remain amongst their former associates.
THE TICKET OF LEAVE SYSTEM IN CLARE.
We learn that a large number of convicts, who were transported from the county of Clare during the years of disturbance, have recently returned to that county on the tickets of leave system, and have created no small share of consternation amongst many respectable families.
Amongst the number we may mention Thomas Collins, Mortimer Collins, John Boland and Michael McMahon, who were convicted and transported for life for attacking the residence of H.P. Hickman, Esq., D.L. and J.P., at Fenloe, Newmarket-on-Fergus, in October 1846; also, John Griffin, Thomas McInerny (Jack), and Patrick Gueran (Soger), who were convicted at the special commission at Ennis in January 1848 for the murder of Martin McMahon at Carhumore near Six-Mile-Bridge, upon whom sentence of death was recorded, which was subsequently commuted to transportation for life; two or three others convicted and transported with the above have died at Bermuda.
We doubt very much the prudence of permitting such desperate characters as these return again to this country; already one of them (Thomas Collins) has been re-arrested and transmitted to Mountjoy convict-prison, in charge of Constable Shore, at Six-Mile-Bridge, for leading an irregular life since his return, and it is to be feared that the others will soon follow his example if they are permitted to remain amongst their former associates.