Timothy Buckley

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Maureen Withey on 11th August 2022

CORK ASSIZES. These are the Convictions in the County of Cork, at the last assize. —and ... Timothy Buckley, burglary and robbery. ... Limerick Gazette, 25 April 1817. ---------------------------------------------------- At the Assizes for the County, Cork, on Thursday last, Wm. Connell and Timothy Buckley were put to the Bar, charged with a robbery, under circumstances of which most aggravated cruelty, the circumstances of which, as detailed evidence, were follow:-- , . . Mary Syoan, an Interesting but humble girl of about 17 years of age, being sworn, deposed that she lived at Bowersford, in that county, off the borders of the county Limerick, with her mother and brother, a boy about 13 or 14 years of age. On the night of the 6th March last, they were all in bed, when party came about the house, struck the door, and said they Wanted some tobacco and light, which articles they used to sell; her mother replied, that She had not had any for the last night. —-They Said they would smash the door If she did not open it, which she then did, and four men rushed in, two of Whom were the Prisoners at the bar.—Buckley had a sword, Connell pistol, and the others sticks and whips. Buckley seized her mother by the throat, and Connell beat the witness and her brother into the inside room, and them go into bed. They then proceeded to rob the house of every thing, took from the mother 12s. 2d. that was in her pocket, and several articles of clothes, after which they said they must get 40 guineas which they knew were in- box, of which they demanded the key. The witness’s mother said she had no more money, to which they replied, if she did not give it up they would burn her alive, and for this purpose put tongs in the fire, which they reddened and thrust down her bosom, she being all this time in bed. In endeavouring to save her mother, the witness was also dreadfully burned. Connell also gave her mother a blow of a pistol, and broke open the chest. The men, the witness said, were strangers, having come having come from the county Limerick, but she saw them so distinctly as to leave her without doubt of their persons. After stripping the house of every thing it contained, and the box which they broke open, and from which they took money, 40 yards of bleached linen, and several other articles, they tied the mother, the witness, and her brother together in bed, and went off. Upon her cross-examination she admitted, in answer a question put to her by the Attorney employed for the Prisoners, that her mother, since the night of the robbery, said she would give Buckley some little Safety, it would prosecute the rest, as he ... killing her entirely, for which one of them struck with a pistol. John the brother of the foregoing witness, an intelligent looking boy about fourteen years old, corroborated testimony in every particular, but stated additional circumstances of cruelty which the transaction; It was Buckley, he said, -Connell to redden the tongs, and was Connell that thrust it down his mothers breast. When he the witness, heard her screech from the pain, he put down his hand to take away the tongs, and was himself much burned— Buckley put his hand down her throat, and forced her tongue out her mouth, all in order extort from her where any more money concealed. Wm. O'Brien, step-brother of the former witness, being sworn, deposed, that he sometimes resided with his mother, but that on the night of the robbery he was not there; on the next day he heard what occurred and went the house, when found that his box had been broken open, and plundered its contents, money and a quantity clothes, all gone though— ... Saunders News-Letter, 15 April 1817.

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Maureen Withey on 10th August 2022

Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Timothy Buckley, age on arrival, 29, per Guildford (3) 1818, Tried Cork Co., 1817, Life. DOB, 1789, native place, Cork Co., Blacksmith horseshoer.