sentences:  He had the sympathy of the crowd who believed this was divine intervention for a man distraught with grief over the death of his love.Despite the belief that MacNaghten could not be hanged a second time, he failed to use the cover of a sympathetic crowd to make good his escape and was hanged successfully at the second attempt, on 16 December 1761.The tale is one which is encased within the Ascendancy of 18th century Ireland.