Patrick Fox

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Maureen Withey on 31st December 2020

THE COMMISSION. Thursday their Lordships proceeded business at 10 o’clock, ... Patrick Brady, Patrick Fox, and John Kerrigan were indicted for having, the 5th January, at night, in the Parish of Coolock, feloniously and burglariously broken into the dwelling-house of Arthur Guinness, Esq., with intent to steal the goods ; there was second count in the indictment, charging the prisoners with having feloniously broken in. &c, with intent to steal the goods of Maurice Fitzgerald, Esq. There was another indictment against the prisoners, charging them with having assaulted at four in the morning, by a party of men, two of whom got in by the window, after having forced it, and another by the door, which they then opened. The rest of the party remained outside. Baker, whose wife was a washer-woman, inhabited the lodge, and the linen which she had been entrusted with to wash, was carried off by the men who entered. Baker identified the prisoner, Fox, as the first man who entered the window, and held him; and the prisoner, Brady, as the man who took out the clothes. The prisoner, Kerrigan, he stated, stood at the door with a stick. Baker’s wife corroborated her husband’s testimony; she identified Fox and Brady, and stated, that among the articles taken away, were 19 shirts, 11 of which belonged to Mr. Fitzgerald, of Eccles street, and 8 shirts, which belonged Miss Jane Fitzgerald. Kerrigan and Fox were taken into custody on the morning after the robbery, at a public house in Barrackstreet. A chemise, which was then damp, was found the pocket of Fox, who said be had it from one of the girls in the house. Afterwards he said that he found it the table, and put it into his pocket to dry. The chemise found Fox was produced, it was marked in full with the name, Jane Mary Fitzgerald, and was proved to be the property of Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald, that gentleman’s daughter being under age. All the prisoners were found guilty on each indictment. Saunders’s News-Letter, 21 Feb 1824.

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Maureen Withey on 18th December 2020

Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Patrick Fox, age on arrival, 25, per Ann and Amelia 1825, Tried Dublin, 1824, Life. DOB 1800, native of Drogheda Louth Co. Cowman.