![]() ![]() Kelley's The Black Donnellys (1954) Orlo Miller's The Donnellys Must Die (1962) Ray Fazakas's The Donnelly Album (1977) and playwright James REANEY's Donnelly trilogy (1974-77). More than 100 factual and fictional accounts have appeared, the best known being T.P. ![]() A second jury in January 1881 returned a directed verdict of "not guilty."Ī century later the case continues to excite interest and controversy. At the first, in September 1880, the jury disagreed. In Canada over the preceding 3 decades, the vendetta had claimed a heavy toll in lives and property. Ray Fazakas best illustrates the situation in his book. Find The Donnelly Album by Fazakas, Ray at Biblio. The case aroused international interest as it became known that the killings were the result of a factional feud originating in County Tipperary, Ireland. the murder site and that horses will not ride past the former Donnelly homestead after midnight. Two eyewitnesses, 11-year-old Johnny O'Connor, and James Donnelly's eldest son, William, claimed to have identified 6 of the murderers, who were subsequently brought to trial in nearby London. Early in the morning of, a party of armed men brutally murdered James Donnelly, a farmer living near the village of LUCAN, Ont, his wife Johannah, his sons Thomas and John, and his niece Bridget Donnelly. ![]()
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