The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-03-11 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY 3ILIRDER TRIAL.
An extraordinary murder tr el. under the Crimea Act.
conelude I at Sligo A • se on 84u 1..' nig It hefore Mr.
4.4 m Murphy agt ••p ie4l jury. 11 chi-'l Muldown•y,
formerly • mem • of Vie It •y st U .11 U 114 sbolary, was
indicted for the emu 4 r of Pe: it. Doh. tr, un the
2nd of N overnh.r. 1881. the are *vv. r oto.r per one
•weiang trial u.fltli.afl • chuff,' an VI, Cr ...a decided
to try the persons s•pc To 4 OC •na of th • murder
was sittist4 I eta 4 to In 'it mite from C • nighwelL which
wee about eix miles fr ma L ugh ea A gentleman named
Mr. Walter Ii take, hying at Rah uuso Ito,- hod sev.rel
caridahers in hi. ..motor, laid bid a guar I of two polio.-
not tbles. one of wit to *tattoo prionner and ti,. other •
non nano L rho anonn Ainer cc A use named
Trost's. Coolies., who lived at lb. Avenue gate of
It alas.= Route. surreal, rol s inns lend to o Mr Borne, and
Pt rD .herty and hii faller t ink It et 1,. sneer. lees than
Conliffe had it. He era.boycottedinci insequen v. His boa..
ie.. fired into • ti•wa,ds.leis window•broeccual bighorns
maimed. • cony racy we, set on low to iaurd7 bum
the Is iden being • men named Jame. Ryan, who 81141
the po. tine of steward to Mr. B Ate. On the night of
the monitor Rusin met • nu•uoter of moo, includlug, It
le alleged. t ..• prierner Mil I,Saney. to plbliebOUS• ann.
dlstanC 1 from D thee ty's r edam., by app .intmerv. Toe
polka had linen in the habit p strolling the roads around
thherty's ply* every night, but .1 appeared that on the
nieht of the entirder R• petrol w 4 withdrawn, all the
, evadable piths* force being engaged in piotectiog so
Orangeman owsrg.ocy exped•tioo, watch hel to us do•u
In Mr. lAnthert. • neighbouring ',twined, who had also
Imes bqcottad. The principal evid.noe reboil on ny the
I Crown we, that of • man named Rafferty and an informer
newel Moron. Tee informer Koran sold :—We all left
the pohlichonee tog.thir. Ryan, Muldownei, Fogarty.
end Conno:ly drove away on • ear towards Rehasean, and
thy rearalorier of toe waked after them. At Domeighwe's
B-dge we tuned down the loween and Joined Regan.
Muldo wimpy, end the two other.. there before us. Ryan gave
II on. tO 'itch of ill, inapt Ooneray. We Caine 4tit sod
walked doen the real ,an I than crossed the atile
I .w.rds Carrigee, where PAM. D thetts lives. We walked
some distance, and there Regan told on off In two parties
—Ole party to on to the haggard at tbe and of the house.
aid the other party to go to the front of the house. He
told Conway to go no the stable end 14 out the horse, and
then to go round to the front and call out that Peter
▪ illerty'. horse was oat. end when Doherty came out
we were I shoot him. We all did es we wore told.
0 neer went to the stable and let as the home, and
run round to the front, and cried, " P.ter, yoar hone la
out." Doherty came out and pat in the horse, and
when he was within a yard or so of his own door he
wee shot from the haggard. We all ran roond the
house and crone, the tields. Regan, and Muldoweey
were with the lot. We all stopped in Ounliffe's field.
where t ley reloaded the guns, and we then watt on
towards ',tin Doherty'. house, and dred dee or out shots
.t it. Renton. Muldowney, and another man then r•n
toward. Rs lawye, and the remainder of us went to the
new road, where itegen told tte there would be • a.,
smiting to convoy sway the gunk I saw the oar, and I
gave may gun to Fogarty to tun ou the car. I gave
infosmation to toe police lest April. By Kr. audios
hlurphy—When Fogarty told me w. no to shoot
I said, • What I. this for," an! be told me that if I did not
go lb 7 wool I bore tt me. I might have dred a shot too,
low the gun I bad wee on half cock, and 5 would nut go
off when I attempted to Sr.. In cross-examination, the
informer edati it d that he Wail discharged from the mutt
with BC. The defence was an •144 The prisoner
received an exoell int character, and the statement suede
by hirn after arrest was reed, in which he smerted that
Ito heti sirved the gleest faithfully end h meetly. Sine.
11172 be was on spe-ial detective duty, and
life m god up with land League band., mud had nothing
whatever to do with crime. Toe jury were unable to
, • •ne to • V- r bet, ant Were, alter a considerable delay,
di.ch Rae& Five oller ',dealer, await their trial on •
similar charge.

SUNDAY DRUNKENNESS IN IRELAND.
Fr,m the Par!iata-nt try rrtuin imbued o Fridey,
applera that the number of arreats du lag the year ending
A... 0 las. for drolitensasa is ail pate 01 Ir. Med
p are cl,sed thtt r'ay wee 2 917, se ,ompared
•itit 2 000 in the pritv:irie tear. and 1,7191 in 1881. Ills
advocates uf S maim decor. on the other hand, point out
Viet in the 44 yea, puori me to the 8 inday &ming.
8 Ind., arr• Ymr drunk, nue. oulnlbared 10.491 whereas
14e arre.te during the suhearient 11 years num'pered only
2.693.

A DEATH .IENTLYCS
A. reply was recei,l at L,v•re,ol ne Friday, from the
m, t, • crt.tion wh:ch had been prompted with
ref,,ience t, the to y rnn. Wen. McLean ani Dagran,
wh hare ben sentenad to death br the murder of a
Spanith mama.: in t etre.", of L riarpool, but Wore
r• commends, to curer by the jury. In tine reply the
Dome S c•,mary sy. he ell renown:l-nd the Qcl.oll to
r••-p t• Du cirna : but he can aro n reawn f.n interfering
with the course of the law in the case of McLean The
le,xer .ti. "herniae, t• execute' it kirlidele gaol. next
Monday, as axed