Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:

Ex-Priest J.J. BOYLE who was charged with committing rape upon one Miss WHITAKER, was tried at Raleigh last week and found guilty.  He was sentenced to be hanged on Nov. 29th, but an appeal was granted which will defer the execution.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 11 October 1889.  Available online at digitalnc.org.