sides are solid. It was over the doorway I was
pulled; I think I was about a foot from the doorway.
I recovered my position just as I was losing
my balance from having put my foot against the
opposite side of the car. I did it to save myself from
being pulled out. I was at the time on my side. I did
not get back to where I had been sitting, but succeeded
in getting a seat at the bottom of the car, the place
where Miss Lyndon had been sitting. I made every
resistance I could. I kicked Mr. Carden in the chest
with one of my feet. I was then in the car. Mr.
Carden was below me on the step, or on the ground.
That occurred at the moment I recovered my position.
He was at the time holding me with both his hands by
the wrists. He pulled me very hard indeed; my wrists
were bruised from the effects of the dragging. I don't
know where my sister, Miss Arbuthnot, was at that
time. As soon as I recovered my position, I saw her
strike him on the back of the head with her closed
hand. She was behind Mr. Carden on the road at
the time. While I was in the car, after the other ladies
had left it, Mr. Carden said, 'Eleanor, it is you I want.'
He repeated my name frequently. I heard him say to
my sister, Mrs. Gough, that he should be hanged.
He said that only once. I saw three or four men about
the car. One of them was at the back of the car,
and tried to pull my sister, Miss Arbuthnot, out. He
did not succeed. That man tried to pull her out before
Mr. Carden tried to do so. The other three men were
at the back of the car. I heard Mr. Carden speak to a
tall man who was some way from the car, after he
had tried to pull me out. He said to that man, 'Pull
her out,' pointing to me, 'and don't mind the others.'
Mr. Carden was then about three or four yards from the
car. That man came over and caught hold of my
clothes, and tried to pull me out of the car. My clothes,
outer and under, were very much torn. I resisted
the attempts of that man. Mr. Carden was on the
road at the time, about two or three yards from the car.
Just before I was struggling with the tall man, I saw
the coachman, James Dwyer, close to the back of
the car: he was trying to defend me; he had placed
himself there for that purpose. I did not see anything
further done. The car proceeded through the gate
of Rathronan." Miss Laura Arbuthnot made a similar
statement, and briefly described her share in resisting
the attack. "When the car stopped, Mr. Carden came
to the door, and seized my sister. I struck him on the
head. Miss Lyndon struck him. He let my sister go.
I was lifted out of the car by Mr. Carden. He did
so by force. Mr. Carden had before that pulled Miss
Lyndon out. When Mr. Carden pulled me out, I fell
and pulled Mr. Carden down. He got up. I did so too,
and then saw him seize my sister. I went to try to pull
her off; and struck him on the back of the head."
She heard Mr. Carden say to a man, pointing to Miss
Eleanor—"Take her; don't mind the rest"; and,
"Come on, boys," and "I shall be hung for this."
Miss Lyndon, the other lady who was in the car,
corroborated the statement of the Misses Arbuthnot;
and further evidence was given by Dwyer the coachman.
John Magrath deposed that he was standing in the
avenue leading to the house, when Mr. Carden and his
band passed towards the church, while a carriage stopped
near to Captain Gough's gate. Three or four men on
foot were there, and one held the gate firm. Mr. Carden
rode up; the car was stopped; Carden dismounted and
commenced his attack. Magrath, seeing Smithwick the
shepherd coming, urged him to hasten on and not
let the ladies be killed. Magrath at once engaged
in the conflict. He heard Mr. Carden call "Cowards!
cowards! why don't you come on?" He received and
gave blows; and was driven towards the gate. Here he
armed himself with stones; struck Mr. Carden with
one, and flung others at the men on the carriage. Miss
Eleanor Arbuthnot, witness said, "appeared to face
Mr. Carden, and so she would. Carden got in dread of
her. You may be confident there was noise enough."
John Smithwick, the shepherd, deposed that he came
up while Mr. Carden was fighting the ladies; and was
struck with a skull-cracker. "Saw Mr. Carden at
it. The Misses Arbuthnot were then in the car. Heard
Mr. Carden say, 'It is you I want.' I heard no name.
I hit Mr. Carden with his whip. I saw a pistol in Mr.
Carden's side-pocket, and a belt round his waist. I took
up stones and used them. Saw Magrath struck by two
men with skull-crackers. Saw Mr. Carden on the step
of the car. I made towards him. He retreated, and
cried out, 'Murder, boys, why don't you fire?' to his own
boys. I was cut severely on the head. Mr. Carden fled
to his carriage, and at once went off at full speed. For
twenty miles he headed the pursuit: then he was taken."
Mr. M'Cullagh, the police-officer who captured Mr.
Carden, deposed that he took from the prisoner's person
a loaded pistol, and that he found in the prisoner's
carriage two other pistols, one of them a revolver, both
loaded, with two bludgeons or skull-crackers. He also
found in the carriage a bag containing bottles of chloroform,
Goulard's mixture, sal-volatile, and various other
fluids; and there was another bag containing a bottle of
iodine. He found, moreover, in the carriage, a lady's
crochet jacket, a pair of satin slippers, a coil of rope, two
balls of strong twine, a wig, air cushions, an opera-glass,
and a coat, torn and bloody. James Johnston, a man
who accompanied M'Cullagh in pursuit of Mr. Carden,
"took from his person a clasp-knife, a memorandum-
book, and a black lace veil." The Attorney-General
read the following passage from the memorandum-book:
—"Lock the demesne gate, and bully and baffle all
pursuers, but do not endanger life. Lead people to suspect
I am shut up in the tower. Rake the gravel at the
house to remove tracks; and give Johnston a hint to be
a friend and mislead the pursuit. Do not forward my
letters, but write to me yourself to the Conservative
Club, St. James's-street, London. Look after and
protect the men who went with me." Dr. James Shiel
deposed that two of the bottles contained chloroform,
one valerian, and another coculus indicus. Mr. Carden's
counsel, in defence, admitted that a gross outrage had
been committed, but submitted that the actual crime of
abduction had not been completed, and that the prisoner
could only be found guilty of an attempt at abduction.
He called Dr. Forsyth, a medical man, to show that
Mr. Carden had not purchased chloroform to make the
lady insensible, in order that he might carry out the
horrible design imputed in one count of the indictment.
Dr. Forsyth narrated what took place when he supplied
Mr. Carden with two bottles of chloroform. Walking
through his surgery, Mr. Carden asked him what was
the best thing for a lady subject to hysterics. "I said
chloroform. He said he knew a lady subject to them.
I asked him were they accompanied by spasms, and he
said they were. I then said, 'Give her from ten to
twenty drops of chloroform in a little water.' "Cross-
examined by the Attorney-General. Dr. Forsyth said
that ten or twenty drops were a dose; that each bottle
contained about one hundred and eighty drops; that
fifty drops would produce stupefaction; that he did not
usually give chloroform to men as a remedy for hysterical
ladies; that he had never once heard the name of Miss
Eleanor Arbuthnot mentioned. "You did not ask for
whom he intended these things?"—"I did not."
"Which did you think it would be, right or wrong, to
ask him?"—"I formed no idea about it: I did not wish
to pry into any matter of the kind." "What did you
mean by that? had you any suspicion?"—"Not
the most remote." " Then, why did you use the word
'pry?'"—"From his position and rank in society, I
did not wish to ask questions." The evidence having
been taken, a discussion arose as to whether there had
been a sufficient removal of Miss Eleanor Arbuthnot
from the car; and it was at length agreed that there
was not sufficient removal to constitute a felony.
The jury found the prisoner "Not guilty" of the
felony, but "Guilty" of an attempt to commit it.
A second trial took place on the following day, the
29th, when Carden and his three associates, Henry
Atkinson, James Atkinson, and Patrick Kinnealy, were
charged wth committing a felonious assault upon John
Smithwick. A collateral issue was committed to the
jury upon a legal point. It was contended for the
defence, that the felony of which Mr. Carden was
acquitted on the previous day was one and the same
with the cutting and wounding of Smithwick. On the
other side it was contended that Mr. Carden had not
been acquitted of the felony or felonies charged in the