Legal Disputes
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The Trial of Luke Dillon for the Rape and Seduction of Anne Frizell, 1831
From the Chester Courant, 26 April 1831 “TRIAL OF LUKE DILLON, FOR RAPE AND SEDUCTION (Abridged from the Dublin Papers) At five minutes to ten o’clock, the prisoner, Dillon, was removed from Newgate into the dock, when, without stopping for… Continue reading
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Tailor Arrested for Dancing the Polka in Sackville Street, 1844
From the Cork Examiner, 21 June 1844: “DUBLIN POLICE – HENRY STREET MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE – A TAILOR DANCING THE POLKA IN SACKVILLE-STREET A young man named Gaffney, whose attire was well calculated to display the symmetry of his anatomical… Continue reading
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An Unusual Ballina Libel Action, 1955
From the Ballina Herald, 30 April 1955: “Unusual Ballina Libel Case Exception Taken to Note Written by Dumb Shoemaker. The absence of an interpreter of the sign language used by deaf and dumb people caused an adjournment at Ballina Circuit… Continue reading
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A Six-Year-Old Prosecutes, 1837
From the Freeman’s Journal, 10 May 1837: “DUBLIN POLICE COURT, COLLEGE-STREET A coal porter of the name of Fogarty was brought before the magistrates, charged by a little boy of about six years of age, with having robbed him of… Continue reading
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To Fake a Death, 1861
From the Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertiser, 25 May 1861: “THE DEAD ALIVE – EXTRAORDINARY CASE Some years ago, in Dublin, a husband and wife, it appears, took it into their heads to possess themselves of £500 which had been… Continue reading