Queen vs. William and Robert Donnelly, Attempted Arson of Stanley and Dight Grist Mill, 1881

Be it Remembered, that William Donnelly and Robert Donnelly being Prisoners in the Jail of the said County, committed for trial on a charge of having on the ninth day of October 1881 at the village of Lucan in the county of Middlesex, feloniously and maliciously attempted to set fire to a certain mill, the property of William Stanly and others and being brought before me, William Elliot Esquire, Judge of the County Court of the said County of Middlesex, on the fourteenth day of October 1881, and asked by me if he consented to be tried before me without the intervention of a Jury, consented to be so tried; and that upon the Eigth day of November 1881, the said William Donnelly and Robert Donnelly being again brought before me for trial, and declaring themselves ready were arraigned upon the said charge, and pleaded Not Guilty; and after hearing the evidence adduced, as well in support of the said charge as for the Prisoner's defence, I find them to be not guilty of the offence with which they are charged as aforesaid, and I accordingly fond them not guilty

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