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15 privately behind the boxes of the court, where there is a large window, he bolted right through the window without being hurt by the fall; he crossed the street, and got 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 with one called O'Brien, he changed his mind; here he robbed a man of 00 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 eight days' provisions was served out to them at one time: they blocked up the doors, made a ble betwixt the two apartments, and kept in the most riotous manner. Before his trial he bribed the drover not to swear he was the person, and he was banished for seven years. In jail he was visited the magistrate of Drummore who ordered the jailor to put him in strong irons.

Haggart denied that he had ever been in Drummore, and said his name was O'Brien, and not M'Colgan. He was moved to jail among other criminals; here he made his escape, but was caught, by some