The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-04-11 00:00:00

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ATROCIOUS MURDER IN WESTMEATH.

An atrocious murder arm perpetratad on Sunday
_fternoon between Mailbags+ and Hillman. Mr.
eggythei D,L., an esiessin Ls/bar/wait ia

Westmeath, was driving home from Oollleatown
Church to his residence Berbasilla Howe, aloe miles
from MulUngar, accompanied by his sistrar.indaw, Mrs.
Henry Smythe, .f Dublin, and Lady Harriet Moore,
when in the air/nue &hoot 100 yards from the bowels
a volley was fired from behind a clump of trees at the
head of the brougham, where Mos. Smythe generally
sat. On this remission Mrs. Henry Smythe was seated
there, and the unfortunate lady was killed instantly,
her brains beiog ecattered over the window and
psrtions of the skull blown &way. Several bullets
struck the carriage, and .ne passed through Vie coach.
msn's sleeve, but no other person was injured. An
arrest has been made. Captain Butler and Captain
BAIT y, rceideeat magistrates, proceeded to the scene of
the timed. r with a strong force of police, and arrested
Richard Riggs, his wife, and son. Riggs was recently
evicted by Mr. Smvihe for eon•psyment of rent, but
was treated with much considetation by that gentle-
man. The mord', hag created intense indignation in
the county, where Mr. Smythe was mtvzh respected.

The funeral of Mr. Hubert, J.P., who was shot
near Castle Island on Thursday, took place on Mon-
day. Twenty-three magistrates and many servants
on the estate attended. ,ixty eoldiers and 70 pits°.
wars al-o present. The three men 'treated at
Queenstown on Sunday on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the murder were discharged yesterday, no
evidence being forthcoming tending to incriminate
them.

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eo farmers on the es!ate of Colonel King Harman,
D.L.. m Deer-perk and Shugnors, county Itosoommoo,
have lowm evicted, having refused to pay any rent, and
roe dyed to obey the " No.rent" manifesto. The
Sheriff was proucted by a large force of constabulary.
In ea.li Cate the evicted tenant via reinstated ae care-
taker.

A blmh 1,/..11 thrown on Sunday night against the
William stret P•,lice-barricka. Liu erick. It destroyed
par; of a window and of a wall, but injured nobody,
Three men have bteu arrested._

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Two buolred men awerabled on Saturday, with 19
ploughs and 15 horses, at Kehan, on the property of
hi,. G. Rochford Boyd, D.L., iu county Westmeath,
and ploughed and sowed .lx Derain( oats, and plooghed
and borrowed and re-ploughel four acres of green
crops, fur a man named John Buckley. Mr. Rochford
Boyd has served 11 teuante .4i the property with writ..
ono tenant witi at wirred, and his house was fired
into. The Bali)more on mau left ten lettere at •
widow's house. On his return they were sung into
his face, and he ha Ito pick them up. The woman to
whom they had been given supposed that they were
write.

A suggestive scene was witnewed on Saturday,
about nine mil, from ?dome. Decree. had been
granted agaiosi 15 ten inta at I &nick, Connors-
town, and Brawn, and the Sheriff, with Ms. Dye.,
the agent, and primictrid by 40 soldiers and 20
police, went to serve them. When Mr. Dyes
saw the oindition of the place he forgave them
a quarter'a rent and allowed 20 per cent. abatement.
One man ouul.l not c imply wither= these terms, and
&collection wee made on the gro md, the military
stficers c oatributine 10s. each and the police 2.. 61.
each. The Rev. Messrs. Murray and Kesler' made up
the deficiency. The crowd cheered loudly for the
military and police., they went away.
THE MURDER IN DUBLIN.

The verdict of manslaughter returned on Thursday
by the jury who tried Matthew Kinsella for the murder
of Peter Audrews, iii 'figh•-strest, Dublin, on the 19th
of Diarch last, will be regarded as a somewhat lame
and impotent conclusion. Most people will incline to
the belief expressed by the AttomerGeneral that it
was murder or nothing.— hie! Justice Morris, in
charging the jury, said no motive for the commission
of the crime bad been assigned. Trier. seemed a
great deal to support the theory that the might be a
case of man,liii.ghter, for there wee no evidence of
premeditation, and they should not fo,get that the
prisoner and the murdered man were always friends.
Ttie jury found the prisoner not guilty of murder, but
guilty of manslaughter. The prisoner, who exhibited no
emotion on hearing ths verdict, was put back, sentence
being deferred.
Mr. Patrick Gallagher, solicitor to Catherine Robin.
son, who was sentenced to death at the late Omagh
Assizes for the murder of her infant child, has received
Intimation flom the Lord- Lieutenant of the c .mmuta.
tine of the capital sentence to penal servitude for life.
Memorials from Omagh and the neighbourhood had
been forwarded to hieexcelleucy praying for the com-
mutation, which has now been granted.