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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Letter from Dublin dated June 13 describes the Castlebar murders, portraying participant Brecknock as insane based on his eccentric behaviors and claims, and notes Fitzgerald's horror at executing his friends after the killings.
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"If any person concerned in the Castlebar murders could be called insane, it certainly was Brecknock. He was, through life, called a singular man; and surely it is a thin partition which divides singularity from lunacy. When in Dublin, three years since, he boasted of being in the secret of the Jewish Cabala, and possessing not only a knowledge of all languages, but the gift of immortality. He had himself bled on every Good Friday, and afterwards swallowed his blood. What can this be called but madness: If an additional horror could be added to Fitzgerald's feelings, it must be the excruciating sensation, that after murdering the objects of his ire, he brought such a number of his friends to the gallows."
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Castlebar
Event Date
June 13
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murders of objects of ire; number of friends brought to the gallows
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Brecknock, involved in the Castlebar murders, is described as insane due to lifelong singularity, boasts of Jewish Cabala secrets, knowledge of all languages, immortality, and ritual of bleeding and swallowing his blood on Good Fridays. Fitzgerald experiences horror from murdering targets and then executing many friends.