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i.iving fallen from their gibbets on the river, and lying
tossed about by the waves among the piles." 1
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These were two of four
pirates, murderers, as he has since
informed me, part of the crew of
the " Sandwith," bound from the
Canary Islands, which she left in
Nov., 1765, for London, Captain
Cochran, Commander, and Cap-
tain Glas, and others, passengers.
They murdered the captain and
the passengers, and made for the
Waterford river. Near the Hook,
on the 3rd of December, they left
the ship scuttled, as they hoped,
and made off in a small boat
with about two tons of Spanish
milled dollars in bags, and other
treasure. They landed two miles
from Duncannon Fort, and buried
in the sand 250 bags (at a bay
since called
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Dollar Bay ),
keeping as much as they
could conveniently carry, with
some ingots of gold, jewels, and
gold dust. They were soon after
arrested, and on Saturday, March,
1766, George Gidley, Richard
St. Quintin, Andrea Zekerman,
and Peter M'Kinlie, were tried at
Dublin, and found guilty, and,
on Monday, the 3rd, were executed
at St. Stephen's-green.s He
also furnished the
following
note from the Dublin papers of
March 9, 1766 :
u The bodies of the four mur-
derers and pirates M'Kinley, St.
Quintin, Gidley, and Zekerman,
were brought in the black cart
from Newgate, and hung in
chains, two of them near
Mnckarell's Wharf, on the South
Wall, near Ringsend, and the
other two about the middle of the
piles, below the Pigeon-house.
The bodies of the four pirates
remained suspended on the wharf
and at the Pigeon-house till the
month of March following." The
same journal for the 29th March
has the following: "The two
pirates, Peter M'Kinley and
George Gidley, who hang in
chains on the South Wall, for the
murder of Captain Coghlan
(Cochran), &c., being very disagreeable
to the citizens who
walk there for amusement and
health, are immediately to be put
on Dalkey Island, for which purpose
new irons are making, those
they hang in being faulty.
Richard St. Quintin and Andrea
Zekerman, the other two con-
cerned in this cruel affair, are to
remain on the piles at the Pigeon -
house." Accordingly, the same
journal, on the 1st and 12th of
April, 1767, announces the removal
of the bodies from the
new wall, and that they were
carried by sea to the rock on the
Muglins, near Dalkey Island,
where a gibbet was erected, and
they were hung up in irons, said to
be the completest ever made in the
kingdom.
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P. 238, n.
8 In the parish of
Templetown,
barony of Shelburn, near the Hook.
s From "A short accoant of the life
of Captain Glas, and execution of the
four pirates for his murder, at St.
Stephen's-green, Dublin."