An unnamed barrister fearing assassination applies at Henry Street Police Office, Dublin, in August 1831, to have ‘a young gentleman’ bound over to keep the peace.

The barrister was acting against the defendant’s father in a family dispute, and the defendant had offered to sell him papers which were damaging to his father’s defence. When the barrister, shocked at the son’s profligacy, refused, the young man threatened to assassinate him, hence the application. Binding over to keep the peace was the 19th century equivalent of a barring order.

The story appeared in the Dublin Express of 12 August 1831.