The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

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BARBAROUS MUIRDER IN SLIGO.

The correspondent of the Dublin Evening Pont
aupiilies the following particulars of the barbarous
murder of three persona in tn. town of 13allpuote,
county Sligo :

SLIGO, Jan. 8.
Great consternation was created in this town this
morning by a report ,of three persons having been
murdered in the proverbially peaceful town of
Ilallyinote.
Last night soine were inclined to doubt it, but
unfortunately, it has turned out to be true. l have
ateertaiied that Mr. Callaglien, his wife, and a servant
girl have been foully murdered by some persins at
present unknown. Mr. Callaghan and his wife kept
what is considered a strong grocer's shop in the town of
Ballyinute, about II miles from Sligo. They were in
very comfortable circumstances, and were much re-
spected in the neighbourhood.
011 account of the shop not having been opened this 1
morning as usual, inq airies were set on foot, and on an .
entrence laamr inad,, into the house' Mr end Mrs.
Callaghan were foetid dead in their beds, much bruised,
and with their throats cut, and in all outhouse the our
vent girl was foural dead, with her throat cut nearly
I from ear to rat.
Mr. Callaghan. mess about 80 years of age, and his wife
was not much he. junior, so that it is not probable the
murderer or murderers met with much opposition from
the aged couple , but it is supposed that the poor girl
heard a scuffle, 'ay WORM means became acquainted with
the dreadful sa rk going en in the bedroom. and, in the
hope of saving her own life, made for the back door,
but hail not tune to proceed many steps outside before
she was overt .I:en suit foully murdered.
It is though .t. that the object of tits perpetrators was
plunder, and that the Callaglians were known to be
poases..ed of considerable Maas j and, from the appear
anon of wire drawers, it iv thought that rubbery has
been added co the great crime.
As WWI • it the murder became known the police were ,
,
on the alert., and venue mounted innl of the force were
despatched to ;Igo to have niesaures taken 1.0 prevent
:my suspic, oust persona preceeding by steamer to Liver-
pool or WIIII4CUW. Alm espreee was also sent to Ennis-
killen tti tow the telegraph wires to put the authorities
I
, at Belfast awl other sesimrs on the qui vire.
' It is generally thought that the murders were not
perpetrated by ally person belonging to time town or
tieightimixlsood. However, it Is useless to speculate on
this point iti the present state of uncertsiinty.
The police have been wilt in all directions, and it is
hoped chat the guilty party will not be lung out of
custody.
Ma. JoHN MARTIN ON THS FUTURE Of IRELAND.—
Mr. Job's Martin, of '4B notoriety' does nut, it seems,
object to the priticip/e of foreign intervention, but he
would " not lift a auger to obtain • change of
masters." Mr. Martin declares that "to bid the Irish
people abjure foreign aid is to bid them abjure all
I hope of deliverance from the foreign yoke. We find
that the principle of foreign intervention has been
sanctioned by the examples of the English, the
Americans, the Spaniards, the Gentians, the Belgians,
the Greeks, the Italians—all of whom obtained their
deliverance with the help of foreign armies." Having
got so far in his argument, Mr. Martin is obliged to
make • damaging confession :—" Our aristocracy are
nearly all attached to England, and our middle classes
are, 'crimp'. the least patriotic in the wend." In
other worth—and the admission is most intiortaluto
coining from such a source—the discontented party
is comissed of the bumble close*, those who are the
ready victims of priestly intrigue and the arts of the
deniagugue.
MeituElt IN MoNAGHAN.—Abarbarout clouble murder
his been cominitteti near Monaghan, in Ireland. Teo
brothers named Shaw, who occupied a farm about
four miles from that town, were found ly lug across their
threshold shot dead. It is believed that no fewer than
1 four persons were colicerueel ID the crime; lint at
present no evidence exists which tends to bring to.
light either the murderers or the motive for the crime.