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them so well with drink, that he prevailed on them to let a young woman bring him some supper, and when she came, he got leave to speak with her privately behind the boxes of the court, where there is a large window, he bolted right thro’ the window without being hurt by the fall: he crossed the street, and into an entry, where he saw his keepers below the window staring at each other; he started for Belfast, and then to Dublin, and paid his passage for America at the Pigeon house, but meeting in with one called O’Brien, he changed his mind; here he robbed a man in 100 guineas in gold, and jaunted through the country in Cars with women of bad fame; he was taken up for robbing a drover at Downpatrick, and put into jail, where he saw more scenes of wickedness than ever he had witnessed all his life; the women’s room was immediately above the men’s, and a days’ provision was served out to them at one time; they blocked up the door, made a hole betwixt the 2 apartments and kept possession in the most riotous manner; before his trial he bribed the
