Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

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“Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis”, published in ''c.'' 1844–1846, is a work by . It explores elements such as Dennis, sufferer and Ireland.

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ Poor Dennis came out with a show of great fortitude; but it entirely forsook him when he cast his eyes on his fellow-sufferer, and beheld in him, as in a mirror, the reflection of his own funeral appearance. He uttered a wild shriek and fell senseless on the ground. The reality of death seemed now, for the first time, fairly to have struck him. It seemed never to have made a thorough impression upon him, until presented thus to his imagination through the medium of his senses. When the car arrived at the fatal spot, he could scarcely be said to be alive ”

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ He was advised to lay aside his dead-dress, now that he had so unexpectedly come among the living; but it was too valuable a piece of finery, and had cost Dennis too much oratory the preceding day, to be parted with so readily. He met nobody on the road; but if he had, his dress would have been his protection; for everyone would have run from him, as from a ghost. He might have gone in any dress, however, in security; few people, in any country, would be willing to lead to the gallows a man just escaped from it; few people in Ireland would refuse to run some risk to save him from it. ”

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ Nature was now too strong either for reason or philosophy; a cold damp bedewed his forehead, and he lay speechless and almost senseless. The phantom approached the bed, and fell on its knees before him.—"Master," said it, remember I have "saved your life, now save mine."
It was Dennis, the poor hanged Dennis; his fears had saved him. He had to be supported on the car as it was drawn slowly away, and he swung gently off: his fellow-sufferer threw himself with violence, and was almost instantly dead. Dennis was likewise a tall man, the gallows was low, and his feet at times touched the ground. ”

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ I could go to the gallows without a tear; but cannot bear your goodness, it over comes me."
It did fully overcome him, for he wept and sobbed aloud. He then, to the astonishment of Mr. S———, confessed that he was not in his employment by accident, but in consequence of a scheme of his manservant, Dennis. He had been sheltered in the cabin of the father of the latter, before he applied to Mr. S——— for employment. The misguided man had often meditated robbing his master, but shrunk dismayed from so daring a crime. The presence of so adventurous a robber encouraged him. ”

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ He is at present a porter in Baltimore, is married, and the father of several children. When Time has thrown its dark mantle over the origin of their family, the descendants of poor hanged Dennis may rank with the best in America. ”

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ Among them he recognised his man Dennis, who, notwithstanding the manner in which he parted with his employer, interfered on his behalf, and his companions allowed him to proceed.
The career of a robber is short: a few weeks after this event, Dennis and one of his companions were taken in the act of robbery, tried and convicted. Mr. S——— received a message from his unfortunate man, begging some money to assist in burying him. This is one of the strongest appeals that can be made to charity, and a man who refused this assistance, would be considered a barbarian. ”

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ The following day he and his companion were put on a car and brought, under the escort of a party of soldiers, to the neighbourhood where the robbery was committed. A gallows was erected in a field. The criminals were allowed to rest themselves for a few minutes in a cabin. They, here, as is the universal custom of the unfortunate persons who are to be executed in Ireland, put on their dead dress. ”

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ Donald More, a dashing young drover from somewhere benorth the Braes o'Doune, had purchased at Carlisle, where he had been with cattle from last Tryst, a Musical Snuff-box, and on his return home, being determined to make a display, he carried the same to church next Sunday. The snuff was prime, but, unfortunately, when handing a pinch to a cronie, and just as the minister had begun to draw his inference, off went the box to the not inappropriate tune of—"We're a' noddin." Donald applied himself to the stop catch, which he mistook and away went the music to the profane tune of Maggy Lauder." ”

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Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis (''c.'' 1844–1846)

“ An extravagant young nobleman having sold a manor which contained one hundred tenements, came ruffling into court in a new suit, saying, "Am not I a mighty man to bear an hundred houses on my back?" Cardinal Wolsey hearing this, said, "You might have employed the money better in paying your debts." ”

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