Independent Journal, Or, The General Advertiser

A letter from a gentleman in Clonmell, dated November 7, says, "At the last execution here, a very singular circumstance occurred: a young man, a Methodist, was tried for stealing a horse, found guilty, and condemned to be hanged.—The day before his execution, it was found out that he was the son of a gentleman in the north of Ireland, and that he had purchased the horse. It was then too late to apply for his pardon, and on Friday last he was hanged with a notorious offender; they were cut down at the usual time, and the North-countryman's body carried away by some very respectable people of the place.

In the evening I was surprised to hear that he was alive; I went to the place where he was, and found him so far recovered as to be able to travel; the Quakers here generously made him a present of a horse, and six guineas to bear his expenses homewards. He passed under the name of H. Murray, but for the sake of his friends (who reside somewhere not far from D.) he concealed his real name. The friends of the other convict, who was completely hanged, are extremely angry, and say, partiality has been shewn on account of their religious tenets, the latter being a Roman Catholic."