The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-07 00:00:00

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MURDER AND SUICIDE AT GALWAY.—Saunderes
News Letter publishes the following in a second
edition :—" Ballinasloe, Tuesday night. The public
here have just been startled by the intelligence
of a dreadful homicide, perpetrated this day near
the village of Ballinamore, in this to inty. The gen-
tleinan who met with an untimely fate was Mr. Richard
Burke, who up to the present has been acting as land
agent to the Hon. Martin Ffrench. Mr. Burke has been
residing in the house of St. Brandons, on the property
of his employer, and it bad been arranged that he
should give it up for the use of young Mr. Ffrencli, but
recently married. Mr. Ffrencli arrived at Ballimunore-
park, the seat of his father, this morning. so early as
4 o'clock, and immediately proceeded to St. Brandon,'
to awake Mr. Burke, who accompanied him back. They
were together during the day, and, both having disap-
peared, wine apprehension warn excited. About 4 o'clock
this evening the friends of Mr. Burke began to make
inquiries, and in a short time his dead body was found,
pierced by two pistol bullets, in a plantation at Bailin..
more. Mr. Ffreneh is immissing, and the authorities are
on the alert endeavouring to obtain information. As
the matter is both a painful and delicate one, I hesitate
to mention many of the particulars which have reached
me. Mr. Burke was an amiable young man, and was
very generally esteemed. Mr. Ffrench was at the time
known to labour under it. approaching to insanity.
A message from Aliaseragh announced that Mr.
Preach has been found dead in the woods of Clonbrock.
Oneof the constabulary has been despatched by Mr. Mont-
guulery, R.M., to learn particulars, but I cannot await
his return for this parcel. The principal actor (Mr.
Ffrenell) is a son of the Hon. Martin 'french (stipendiary
magistrate), and grandson of the late Lord Ffrencli,
the failure of whose bank and subsequent fearful suicide
are yet fresh in the memory of the Irish public. Young
Mr. Ffrench has laboured under an aberration of mind
for the last two years, and attempted to take the his of
a policeman about 0_ year. and •-k•B ago. Mr. Burke
vu• gealleakaa of Mgt character in th• *minty, and

discharged the office of Deputy Sheriff at the late contes-
ted election for Galway. He has left • wile and two
children to deplore their premature bereavement.
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Tag SADMIUL—An appeal from the Landed Estates
Court, in the matter of JIIIIICII Sadlier, owner, George
M'Dowell, petitioner, was decided on Tuesday in the
Chancery Appeal Court. The case came before their
Lordships as an appeal from • derision of Judge Long-
field, one of the judges of the Landed Estates Court,
dated the 15th of January, 1859, by which he held that
Mr. George M'Dowell, the official manager of the Tip-
perary Joint-Stock Bank, was an inemnbrancer in the
matter to the amount of £61i.000; and that Mr. Thomas
Joseph Eyre, the appellant, was not entitled to be
included in the schedule of iticumbrancers. It appeared
by the petition of appeal that the appellant ought to be
declared an incunibrancer for a large amount upon the
property of Mr. James Sadleir, the ex-manager of the
Tipperary Bank, by virtue of two documents—one an
agreement dated the 13th of May, 1855, and the other a
deed alleged to have been executed in pursuance of the
agreement, dated in October, 1855; end the respondent,
Mr. M'Dowell, resisted the appellant's claim, and
insisted that lie, as a judgment creditor of James
Sadleir, was properly held to be an incumbrancer. The
petition also stated that some years ago the property of
a gentleman named Wall, consisting of the house and
demesne of Coolnainuck, in the county of Wexford,
we. sold in the Court for the Sale of Incuinbered
Estate., and several lots of it purchased by the late Mr.
J. Sadleir, including the demesne lot "No. 1," for the
SUM of £8,500 and for which he declared a trust in the
name of Mr. JIWIeS Sadleir, to whom the commissioners
executed • conveyance. The case of the appellant was,
that this property was, in fact, purchased with his
money, and by the agreement and deed in question, to
which Mr. James Sadleir was • party, he was entitled
to be considered • mortgagee, and that therefore the
decision of Judge Longheld should be set aside. It
further appeared that after Mr. Janie. Swileir left. the
country the property so bought for 8,500, ' in the matter
of Wall's estate, was againbrought into the Inciiinbered
Estates Court, when it produced • SUM of rut,uoo,
relative to the distribution of which the present pro-
ceedings were taken. Their Lordships gave judgment,
overruling the decision of the Court below.