The following is a
list of the prisoners put forward, the names being, as afterwards
appeared, in many cases fictitious:--
William O'Mara Allen, Edward Shore, Henry Wilson, William
Gould, Michael Larkin, Patrick Kelly, Charles Moorhouse, John
Brennan, John Bacon, William Martin, John F. Nugent, James
Sherry, Robert McWilliams, Michael Maguire, Thomas Maguire,
Michael Morris, Michael Bryan, Michael Corcoran, Thomas Ryan,
John Carroll, John Cleeson, Michael Kennedy, John Morris,
Patrick Kelly, Hugh Foley, Patrick Coffey, Thomas Kelly, and
Thomas Scally.
It forms no part of our purpose to follow out the history of the
proceedings in the Manchester court on the 25th of September and the
following days: but there are some circumstances in connection with
that investigation which it would be impossible to pass over without
comment. It was on this occasion that the extraordinary sight of men
being tried in chains was witnessed, and that the representatives of
the English Crown came to sit in judgment on men still innocent in
the eyes of the law, yet manacled like convicted felons. With the
blistering irons clasped tight round their wrists the Irish prisoners
stood forward, that justice--such justice as tortures men first and
tries them afterwards--might be administered to them.
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