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  1. Feb 4, 2019 · Because Patrick Donnelly was living in Thorold instead of Lucan in 1880, he escaped the gruesome fate that his family did not. Feb. 4 marks the 139th anniversary of the night the 'Black Donnellys' were slaughtered in their beds by Lucan townspeople—with clubs, axes, pitchforks, shovels and guns. In Tipperary, Ireland, Roman Catholic James ...

  2. Nov 21, 2023 · In the spring of 1875, a fruit vendor named Thomas Gibbs stopped at Levett’s Hotel in Lucan with his son John. He put his horses and cart in the stable and retired for the night. Around 6 a.m., James Jr. arrived at the stable to take one of the horses the Donnelly’s kept there to St. Patrick’s Church for Mass.

  3. The Information and Complaint of James Carroll constable of the Township Biddulph taken this 9th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine before me the undersigned, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in and for the said County of Middlesex, who saith that John Donnelly of the Township Biddulph did, on the 9th day of October one thousand eight ...

  4. James Carroll, Information and Complaint of James Carroll re: John Donnelly Aiding Thomas Donnelly to Escape, October 9, 1879; Letters. James Carroll, James Carroll Information on Ryder vs. Donnelly Case, January 10, 1880; Miscellaneous. Unknown, Petition Requesting the Appointment of James Carroll as Constable, October 6, 1880

  5. After that horrid night, 6 of the Main ringleaders were put on trial including: Thomas Ryder, James Carroll, John Purtell, Martin McLaughlin, John Kennedy & James Ryder. However, after two years of trials no one was ever convicted for the brutal massacre of five Donnelly family members in the early hours of February 4, 1880.

  6. The witness list for the prosecution was as follows; William Donnelly, Nora Donnelly, Martian Hogan, William Blackwell Hock M.D., William Thomas Trounce Williams (Chief of London Police), Enoch Murphy, James Feeley, Robert Rojs, John O’Connor, Patrick Whelan, Anne Whelan, Mary Hastings O’Connor, Michael O’Connor, Charles Pope, William Hodge, Henry Phair, and Martin Hogan Jr. [46] The two ...

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  8. James Carroll put on His Trial for the Murder of Mrs. Donnelly. Monday, Oct. 4, 1880. Court opened this morning at 10:30. The principal event of the day was the trial of James Carroll for the murder of Judith Donnelly. The circumstances of the awful tragedy on that stormy morning in February, which were at the time graphically laid before the ...

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