Frank Thorpe Porter

PREFACE.

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Lonergan's Case Old Prisons 1

CHAPTER I. LONERGAN'S CASE OLD PRISONS.

CHAPTER II. VESEY AND KEOGH.

CHAPTER III. MARY TUDOR.

CHAPTER IV. THE BIRTH OF A WORD A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION THE HONOR OF KNIGHTHOOD.

CHAPTER V. A MILLIONAIRE.

CHAPTER VI. THE SHIP STREET DIAMOND SECOND-HAND PLATE THE SILVER SLAB LAW'S WINDOW OLD NEWGATE.

CHAPTER VII. GONNE'S WATCH.

CHAPTER VIII. THE MAJOR.

CHAPTER IX. COMMITTALS A BARBER WANTED DWYER THE REBEL AN

CHAPTER X. MENDICANCY.

CHAPTER XI. CARRIAGE COURT CASES DUBLIN CARMEN.

CHAPTER XII. A GRATUITOUS JAUNT THE PORTUGUESE POSTILLION MISCELLANEOUS SUMMONSES.

CHAPTER XIII. DOGS WHIPPING YOUNG THIEVES GARDEN

CHAPTER XIV. TERRY DRISCOLL'S FICTION BRIDGET LAFFAN SAILORS FISHER.

CHAPTER XV. A DUPER DUPED.

CHAPTER XVI. WHO THREW THE BOTTLE? EXCISE AND CUSTOMS CASES.

CHAPTER XVII. JOHN SARGEANT THE MAGISTERIAL OFFICES TWO MURDERS ONE REPRIEVED DELAHUNT'S CRIMES.

CHAPTER XVIII. MURDER OF MR. LITTLE DETECTIVE

CHAPTER XIX. A RUN TO CONNAUGHT A PRESENT A PUZZLE MOLL

CHAPTER XX. O'CONNELL SMITH O'BRIEN AND MEAGHER JOHN

CHAPTER XXI. CHOLERA: AN IMPATIENT PATIENT; GOOD NEWS! ONLY

CHAPTER XXII. BRUSSELS ROYAL CHILDREN THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN

CHAPTER XXIII. THE COUNT OR CONVICT, WHICH? THE FAWN'S ESCAPE.

CHAPTER XXIV. THE COUNT DE COUCY DUMAS A THREATENED SUICIDE.

CHAPTER XXV. DARGAN'S EXHIBITION A BELL AND KNOCKER LORD

CHAPTER XXVI. EFFECTS OF ENLISTMENT MARTIAL TENDENCIES THE

CHAPTER XXVII. THE COLLEGE ROW THE COOK STREET PRINTER A

CHAPTER XXVIII. GIBRALTAR. Continued.

CHAPTER XXIX. GIBRALTAR (CONTINUED) DEPARTURE FOR

CHAPTER XXX. A DUBLIN DENTIST.

CHAPTER XXXI. A TRIP TO THE NORTH METRICAL

CHAPTER XXXII. CONTRASTS FRENCH KITCHENS SHOPS AND SIGNS THE

CHAPTER XXXIII. GAIN PREFERRED TO GLORY CURIOUS

CHAPTER XXXIV. FATHER PROUT.

CHAPTER XXXV. A FRENCH LAND MURDER IRISHMEN, FRENCH

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE ARRAN ISLANDS CIRCUIT REMINISCENCES.

NOW READY. SECOND EDITION.

Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.

TWENTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS.

TWENTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS

OF AN

IRISH POLICE MAGISTRATE.

BY

FRANK THORPE PORTER, A.M., J.P.,

Barrister-at-Law,
AND FOR UPWARDS OF TWENTY YEARS A MAGISTRATE OF THE HEAD OFFICE OF
DUBLIN POLICE.

"Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te sciate hoc sciat alter."—Persius.

TENTH EDITION.

DUBLIN:
HODGES, FOSTER, AND FIGGIS.
LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT.
1880.