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compel the magistrates to bring the accused up for examination, or
that the prison authorities should not let the prisoner have an
interview with a legal adviser; but the landlord did much more.
_While Pat Ring was in jail, the landlord sent and made a wreck of
his house and farm; took the roof, thatch, and wood off the barn,
stable, and dwelling-house, save in one small portion of the
latter; and every handful of the thatch and wood so pulled down
was carried away to the landlord's own premises._ The doors and
windows he also carried away; pulled down the gates of the
farm-yard and the garden, and the garden-wall. These gates were
iron, and had been erected by the tenant a few years before at
considerable expense. The houses were also all of his own erection;
the thatch and timber of the roof, carried away by the landlord,
was Pat Ring's own property; _and all was taken away, and the whole
place wrecked, without any warrant whatever for so doing; without
any right whatever, save the right which, by the laxity of the law
and the dominancy of a faction, a landlord, belonging to that
dominant faction, may create for himself; without any authority
whatever, save the power of his own high hand, against which the
law is powerless_.

"Pat Ring, after being kept in prison for three weeks, apart from
every friend and adviser, and apart from every human creature, save
the spies with which every prison in Ireland abounds--(persons who
are kept there at the public expense, and who are put to sleep with
such men as Pat Ring; and who, pretending to make a confidant of
the fresh prisoner, tell tales of the assaults and murders which,
as a trap, they profess to have been concerned in--they urging the
new prisoner to confess all, to split on his accomplices, and take
the reward of L100 at once,--except such companions as these, some
of whom I saw produced as witnesses for the Crown at the Kilkenny
assizes, thus learning from their own mouths the nature of their
diabolical employment)--excepting these, to whom, as Pat Ring
declares, he indignantly answered again and again that he had
nothing to confess, he saw no human being during his
incarceration--was liberated, and went joyfully home; but when he
went there, alas! his home was a ruin."

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