6-7-1842 From the Times. Thomas Stapleton and Thomas Gleeson were respectively indicted for having, on the 27th of April, at Lissatunny, in this county, fired a loaded gun at one Patrick Gleeson, with intent; To murder him, or to disable, or disfigure him. Patrick Gleeson, sworn and examined: I live at Lissatunny, in this County and am a tenant of Mr. Stafford O'Brien. That gentleman some time since made some changes in the quantity of land held by tenants, in order to square the farms. No one was dispossed altogether. I lost abou 5 acres, and gained two. The two acres I got were previously held by men named James Gleeson and Martin Nowlan. On the 27th. of April, a little after 7 O'Clock in the evening, I was returning from my work, and as I was passing a grove of trees , I met three men on the road, one who was armed with a gun, another with a pistol, and the third with a stick. They put me on my knees, and when they did so I asked them why they were going to shoot me, and how I deserved it. They replied, for tilling Nowlan's land. The prisoner Stapleton held the pistol, and Gleeson the gun. They went behind me in the road, Stapleton snapped the pistol twice at me, but it missed fire and would not go off. Gleeson then handed Stapleton the gun , who fired a shot at me, which broke my arm near the elbow. (The witnesses arm was bandaged up, and he appeared to be in a very bad state of health.) He was quite close to me when he fired, and my clothes were burned. The men were not disguised in any way, and I am positive that the prisoners were two of the men who attacked me. I have not recovered the use of my arm since, and have been under the care of Dr. Kempster up to the present time. Dr. Dempster deposed that he was the surgical attendant of Gleeson, and that it was only within a few days he had a hope of being able to save the poor man's arm from amputation. He was also present when the prosecutor, in the fullest manner, identified the two prisoners, and singled them out from a number of men of similar appearance and dress. Mr. Joseph Tabuteau, stipendiary magistrate, also proved the identification of the prisoners by Gleeson in his presence. The case for the Crown having closed, Several witnesses for the defence swore to an alibi for both prisoners. The Chief Justice then charged the jury, who found both prisoners guilty. Sentences. The several prisoners convicted of transportable offence-namely John Pound, Michael Hayes, Cornelius Flynn, Patrick Dwyer, Thomas Stapleton, and Thomas Gleeson, having being placed at the bar. The Right Hon. The Attorney General having applied for judgement of the Court upon these prisoners. The Lord Chief Justice, addressing th prisoners, said that the offences of which they had been convicted were one and all of them crimes of no ordinary enormity-crimes, by the commission of which they had respectively brought on themselves the moral guilt of murder. It had, however, pleased God to spare their souls from the pollution of that greatest offence; but no person who had heard and considered their trials; could have a doubt left on their minds, that though death had not ensued as a consequence of the outrages of which they had been convicted, it was solely through the mercy of God, and not owing to any forbearance on their parts, that that dreadful guilt did not then rest upon them. His Lordship next adverted to the case of Gleeson and Stapleton. Who were convicted of firing at Gleeson, and fracturing his arm, and concluded by saying, that a remarkable feature in all these crimes was, that there was no attempt of concealment. His Lordship then pronounced sentence of transportation for life against all prisoners, and the commission closed. THIS PART IS POSTED >From the Nenagh Guardian March 9th 1839. >From a compendium of crime in the County Of Tipperary, as recorded in the Nenagh Guardian form the first publication on the 21st July 1838 to the 13th.March 1839. Comprising a period of 8 months. July 21st 1838. Murder. John Kennedy, who had been placed as and agent by Denis Canny, Esq, over some of his property, about three miles from Nenagh, and from a situation a man named Gleeson had been removed. Kennedy was fired at nearly two years ago, and shot through the arm, for which offence two sons of Gleeson, were prosecuted by him at the Assizes in Clonmel, but acquitted in consequence of the Prosecuter's testimony being shaken by a celebrated cross-examiner on the Leinster circuit, and ever since he has been obliged to carry fire arms for protection. He has been repeatedly served with threatening notices, and on Monday morning last, about 4 O'Clock, these notices were carried into full force against him. As he was proceeding at that early hour to look after the cattle under his care, he was pounced upon by a number of men, and murdered in a savage manner; he was a very muscular man, and the ditch and grass in the place where he was murdered bore marks of a furious struggle. At the time he was murdered he was armed with a stick and pistol, but such was the plan laid for his destruction, that these weapons were of no avail to him. It was known by his assassins, that he should pass through a narrow lane or Boreen, and inside the ditches they divided themselves into two parties, and when the fated man entered this passage, they set upon him, blockaded him up, and accomplished their deadly purpose, for as he escaped the pistol on a former occasion , they were determined , as the nature of his wounds proves, he should no more be a living witness against his assailants.