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P14 William Simpson testimony

Johanna Burke Testimony 22-34

P22 Description of Thursday 14th By Johanna Burke

P23 Friday

p26 Friday murder

P32 Friday Priest Visit

JOHANNA MURDER

We went down to the kitchen - her father, my mother & myself. (this is diferrent to what Mary said.)

Decassed and her husband sat at the fire. They were talking about the fairies & Mrs Cleary said to her husband

“Your mother used to go with the fairies and that is why you think I am going with them".

Then he asked her "Did my mother tell you that ?". She said

“she did”, adding that she gave two nights with them.

I made tea and offered Bridget Cleary a oup of it. Her hustend got three bits of bread & jam and said his wife should eat them before she would take a sup. He asked her three times - "Are you Bridget leary, my site, in the name of God ?". She answered twice and ate two pledes of the bread & fam. When she did not answer the third time he foroed her to eat the third bit of bread, saying " If you don't take it down, you will go". He flung her on the ground, put his knee on her chest and one hand on her throat and forced the bit of bread down her throat saying "Swallow it. Is it down 2. Is it down ?".

Michael Cleary (prisoner) the stripped off his wife's clothes exoept her chemise and got a lighted stick out of the fire - she was lying on the floor - and held it over her mouth.

My nother and brothers and myself wanted to leave the house, wien he flung her on the floor, but Mohael Cleary held the key of the door in his pocket and said the door would not be opened until he got his wife back.

My brothers and I threatened to break the door and call the peelers but he said no one would leave the house till he got baok his wife. When he held the stiok near her mouth he wanted her to answer her name three tines. He said he would burn her i? she did not answer. She answered him but the answer did not satisfy him, and he got an oil lamp and threw it over her. In a Lew ninutes I saw her in a blaze.

COL EVANSON ? ( Resident Magistrate ) P34

P34 Friday

P36 Thursday

P36 Description of relationship (says they never quarreled)

p36 Friday - says he threw oil on her 3 times

KATY BURKE P40

P40 Describes thursday and Fri.

P44 Mr Simpson

Seems to be a different papers report of the same examination on p14?

-46 Names who was holding her down

48 More detailed description of Thursday

P50 Holding her over the fire

p52 Describes a moment when they think she is back.

p54 Michael cleary stated what he would do at the fort to get his wife back

Fr RYAN p56

p56 Wed 13th

58 Fri Priest says mass. Asks Michael about the medicine

P60 Mary Simpson

P68 Thomas smith (Farmer)

Fri 15th March.Describes Feeding her holywater

p70 Mentions a disagreement about a shilling and a bottle of milk. Details are confusing. ie not sure who the disagreement is between or what exactly is the issue.

p72 DI WANDBOROUGH

P74- Describes finding the body

p76 Describes Michael as wearing a light brown tweed suit.

p76 SGT EGAN

** Mentions meeting the father crying “My Daughter will come back to me”

Also mentions finding nightdress.

P78 Johannah “Han” Burke

Dr William Crean

Says she had bronchitis and Catarrh (inflammation of mucus) and nervous excitement

Mentions examining the body and how she died (from burns).

Doesn’t speak about his interaction with Michael

** Describes Bridget as a nervous, irritable sort of woman. (note he might have only saw her when ill)

P82 William Heffernan

p88 States Ahearne was not in the kitchen when she was put on the fire

p90 Edward Anglin

P90 Michael Cleary Speak

Talks about how Johanna Burke was against him and his wife

P92 Pat Boland

Lots of good character stuff (his character) and descriptions of each night. (seems to just be the last day when she was burned?)

p94 Mary Kennedy

Describes Mary as weak and with a weak voice.

“He’s making a fairy of me now. He thought to burn me three months ago” - Bridget.

Thursday Michael was talking about putting something out of the house and that he hadn’t had Bridget for 6 months. (Seems like he believed she was a fairy for a long time)

John Dunne, Pat and James Kennedy held her down. “Swallow that you Devil”

“Now boys dont burn Her” - Mary

P96 Michael Cleary

Basically just denies everything and blames it on the others.

p96 Mary Kennedy

Missus Burke and Johannah and Mary sit with Bridget

Michael Refuses to give her milk and takes the Milk bottle

Tom Smyth and David Hogan Visit

Fri - Describes Burning. Michale knocks her over

"When they came in they were talking (Mary and her boys). The boys said to Bridget "I am very glad + o see you up". Two of them s.at on the table and another sat on a stool in the corner and Johannah Burke got a sup of tea for the patient and then Tom Smyth and David Hogan went in and sat in the old mans bedroom. Michael Cleary ,Johannah Burke and Bridgie- were at tbs table for a long time until nearly one o'clock in the night , so I went inside and stretched at the side of the bed myself and I was not lorg asleep when I heard a roar "Mother, mother, Bridgie is burned". I ran to the door and I said "what ails ye , what is it ye are doing to the creature ?. Is it burning her ye are?". He (Michael Cleary) gave me a shoulder and knocked me on my side.

Johann pulled mr into the room. I looked out. after a little while "If you come out any more" said Cleary "I will roast you down as well as her". I stopped sitting on a chair over by the door and I saw her in a blase with a lamp oil. When I looked out again he caught her by the head and threw her on the floor, like you’d throw an old turnip”

“If you come out anymore, I will roast you down as well” - Michael

Threatens everyone with a knife

p100 “If I could not drive the devil out through the Chimney, I’ll drive her out through the door”

“for as sure wherever you put her, God will show the people where you put her” -

p102 if you were scraping your clothes or if you cut them off you , God will never lfet the stains go out of your clothes the stains of your poor wife". - Maru "Ah Mary" says he "she was ’nt ny wife , and I will go to-n^ght" says he " to Kildranagh Port and will get her- riding a grey horse and will cut the ropes and bring her home". So he got a lot of people for one or two nights but they would not go with him any more. That is all I have to say and sorry I am to have to say it.

p102 John “Jack” Dunne

Basically describes giving her “the cure”

Mick Mentions he got herbs from a woman in Fethard.

“I have herbs that there are nine cures, It will be very hard to make her take this. You must assist me with her and she will be cured then”

P104 (bottom of page)- Cleary said she was meeting an egg man, dunno he is implying she was unfaithful

p106 "she was burned last night and it was I that burned her". "All you vagabond , why did you do it" said I. "It’s not my wife I iiad" said he , "she was too fine a woman to be my wife”

I will cut my throat or will do something to my self before night".

p106 Cleary goes to a priest to confess (unclear what he said to the priest but he was crying)

P108 Patrick Kennedy

14 March

Cleary had a saucepan in his hand and a spoon. John Dunne caught her by the neck. I laid my hand on her arm in the bed to hold her and my brother held the other arm. John Dunne opened her mouth with a spoon - he put it into her mouth. She resisted against opening her mouth. Cleary put back the medicine in her mouth and slapped his hand on her mouth and asked her was it down.

p110 Friday Mar 15 Describes burning

Pat says he threw her across the fire (this seemed to happen as she burned)

He also said he ran away cos of the stink of it

P108 James Kennedy

14 March

.p112 Cleary said that he was not to oing to his father's funeral - that his father was no loss to him compared to his wife } and when he suffered so much about his wife he would suffer more

(I thought this was during the day?) This is the best description of the events

On the following night when he (Janes Kennedy) went to Cleary’s house he asked Mrs Cleary how she was , and she said "don’t you see I am grand". Cleary would not let them out when they wanted to go home. They said they were tired after a long journey. He locked the door and told them to stretch on Paddy's bed. They were not long asleep when he (James Kennedy) heard a screach in the kitchen and saw Bridget Cleary tnrough the fire and Michael Cleary giving his mother (Mary Kennedy) a shove and knocking her. He (James Kennedy) cried out ""or the love of God don’t burn your wife"

Cleary BBtarai said she was not wife j but ,, n old deceiver who had been seni> instes-d ox his wife. She had been deceiving him for several days , and had deceived the priest that day but she would not deceive anyone anymore , and he beginned with her and he would finish her

/*James Kennedy said to Michael Cleary, according to his own testimony, ‘For the love of God,’ ‘don’t burn your wife!’ ‘She’s not my wife,’ Cleary replied. ‘She’s an old deceiver sent in place of my wife. She’s after deceiving me for the last seven or eight days, and deceived the priest today too, but she won’t deceive anyone any more. As I beginned it with her, I will finish it with her!’ Patrick Kennedy also heard him say, ‘You’ll soon see her go up the chimney.’

Cleany said if they would'nt shut their mouths and stay inside he'd stick them with the knife - that it was'nt his wife he had at all he said. It was an old viton he said hey had. I heard him to say -*You will soon see her go out up the chimney". My not her went out and he knocked her on the He threw his wife on the floor then,and said he did nob intend to burn his wife at s11 - that he thought it was a witch was in it. */

P114 Mick Kennedy -

claims he didnt witness murder

p116 Will Kennedy

pp118 William Ahearne

nothing interesting

P128 Johannah Burke

"She’s burned now and God knows I would never do it only for Jack Dunne? I vould never have forced my wife in L o the fire but for Jack. It was lie told me my wife was a fairy.

Witness (Johannah) added "He did tell Mike Cleary that because I heard him”

Were you kneeling at any time ?. Yes , I went down on my knees and he took a knife and said he would cut his throat if he thought I would tell. I said "Well jlike , don’t do any¬ thing for my sake , fori tell you "before God and man until I go in + o my grave I will never tell”. I meant I would never tell a sinner j and I took tie oath through fear.

p130 states that locals burned Kennedys house

P132- 135 Sentencing

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