The Kirwan case : illustrating the danger of conviction on circumstantial evidence, and the necessity of granting new trials in criminal cases.

Date:
1853
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    was greatly frightened, as I was unable to do anything for her, and there being no person in the house at the time. After she got out of the bath, I remarked her putting on her goAvn, the skirt where the body shoivld have been, and I found that she Avas quite queer. I induced her to go into bed, thinking she Avould get better. During the whole period I lived Avith Mr. and Mrs. KirAvan, there AA'as but one quarrel betAveen them, and it was Mrs. KirAvan who commenced it; it Avas about the purchasing of a dress; Mrs. Eor- Avan Avas very passionate, and Mr. KirAvan did all he could to pacify her, and desired me to do the same. During the period I lived Avith them, ill'. Kiiwan treated his wife Avith the greatest kindness and generosity, and I never lived under a better or quieter master. And I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, (5th and 6th Wm. IV. c. 62,) intituled “ An act to repeal an Act of the present session of Parliament, intituled. An Act for the more effec- tual abobtion of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various departments of the State, and to substitnte Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra- judicial oaths and affidavits, and to make other provisions for the abolition of imnecessary oaths.” ELLEN MALONE. . Made and subscribed before me this 24th day of December, 1852, H. O’Callaghan. Printed by Webb and Chapman, Great IJrunswIek-street.