27-3-1838 From the Clonmel Advertiser. Clonmel Assizes. The unfortunate Jack Carroll, against whom sentence of death was recorded at our present assizes for returning from transportation, attempted to put a period to his miserable existence in the county gaol on Wednesday evening last. He had been in a state of distraction ever since his sentence. He was immediately attended to by a medical gentleman and by degrees recovered. The story of this man's life, even in simple narration, is deeply tinged with romance, and at some future period we hope to publish it in detail; for the present we must be satisfied with an outline. It appears that in the year 1832 he was indicted for a murder committed near Roscrea, in this county, and by the merciful verdict of the jury found guilty of manslaughter only, he was sentenced to transportation, transmitted to a hulk, and landed safely in Sydney. From thence, after some time, he contrived to effect his escape, and found his way to America. Whilst there, inhaling the air of freedom, and enjoying liberty, without which life becomes a burden, tidings of his wife's death reached him; she died in Ireland of a broken heart--as may readily be imagined, broken by the misfortunes of her husband-leaving an orphan child. Parental feeling now became predominant in the felon's breast, and even Jack Carroll, the convict, paused not to contemplate personal danger, when the feelings of a father urged him to seek out and protect his child, the offspring of his deceased wife. For this purpose he set out, homeward bound, and reached the scene of his early youth, from which he had been alienated by his own misconduct. He was not long at home when he heard that the authorities were in search of him; he was determined to find an abode where he would be more secure from observation, and accordingly left for Liverpool, where he was planning means of proceeding to London, as he says, to throw himself at the feet of the Queen, and sue for pardon; he was, however, recognised, arrested, and committed to our county gaol--and , as already mentioned, sentenced at the present assizes for returning from transportation. Since his trial he has said he would rather be hanged than transported again; and in an interview with his sisters he declared that he would die in his native land, for it would be some satisfaction to leave them his bones. He declared that he could not endure the idea of going out again as a convict to suffer the perpetual misery of being bound in irons, and doomed to the slavery that the convicts must endure. With this dread resolve he attempted with his own hands to seal a life of misery and distress.