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    1. 12-4-1828 From the Times.
    2. Mary Heaphy
    3. 12-4-1828 From the Times. Clonmel Assizes Monday April 7th. The Hon. Judge Moore presided. This being the day fixed for passing sentence on the two Keogh's, found guilty on Sat. last of the conspiracy to murder Daniel Mara, the Court was excessively crowded, chiefly by the peasantry. The prisoners were put forward, and asked in the usual form what they had to say why sentence of death and execution should not be passed upon them, to which not having made any reply. Judge Moore, in a feeling manner, addressed them, exhorting them to prepare for the awful transition they were soon about to suffer, from life to death; and after pointing out to them the enormity in the eyes of God and man the crime of which had most satisfactorily been brought home to them, sentenced them to execution on Wednesday. They were moved to their cells amid the wailing and shrieking of their friends and relatives. They were immediately visited by the Roman Catholic Clergymen of the Prison, to whom it is understood they have openly confessed their participation in the conspiracy. This afternoon, Leonard, the man who was found guilty of murder before Mr. Sergeant Lefroy, in the other court on Saturday, was executed in front of the County Gaol. The unhappy man seemed very penitent , and when he came on the scaffold could hardly stand, the vital spark having neatly fled before he was placed on it. He hung the usual time and his body was given to the surgeons for dissection. Mary

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