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police court however the prosecutor recommended that the charge be manslaughter. Witnesses testified that Edward Young had beaten her with a horse whip. Mary Ann was committed for trial in
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which created widespread starvation. People were dying of starvation and McCarthy was forced to go to a workhouse. At 17 she was selected to take part in Earl Grey Famine Orphan Scheme. After a three months at sea on the
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going inside the shop when her husband made a remark which must have offended her. She seized a butchers knife and stabbed her husband in the navel, penetrating the liver. Young died instantly.
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