The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

THE EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO MURDER
AT CORK

At the Cork police-office, on Friday, before
Messrs. R. B. Tooker, E. Casey, and V. B. Fitzgibbon, the
young lad, William Butler, who is charged with attempt-
ing to murder a young woman named Honors Hurley, at
the Red Abbey, Cumberland-street, on the 23rd inst., was
brought up. Hells only fifteen years of age,— and is a
alight, delicate-looking boy, but evidently intelligent and
self-possessed. He preserved a silent collectednen during
the investigation. Constable Conran stated that about
half-past seven o'clock on the evening of the 23rd inst. he
received information of the attempted murder, and went
to the South Infirmary to inquire if any person had
some there to get wounds dressed. He there learned
the chief circumstances of the occurrence, and, going to '
the Red Abbey, saw the prosecutrix there, and heard
from her the facts as she would now state them to
their worships. Honore Hurley is a young women, about
20 years of age, about the middle height, with a quiet
manner. Her bead and face bore wounds. In her evi- '
dente, after stating what is already known to oar readers,
she stated that the prisoner said to her on Sunday even- ;
ing :—" Honors, if you don't tell grandfather, nor your
own father, I will tell you a secret." She said she
would not, and he then said, " I am putting 3d.
a-week for the last 'even months in the castle-house, and
when I get it I will give you what I owe you." He
said there was a hole in the boards of the floor, and
that be put the money down through it, and that it
was all in half-pence. They both went to the top of
the old tower that night and he showed her the hole
where he said he had the money buried. She asked
him wby he had buried it so deep, and he replied
(that he did so that nobody would find it out.
She asked him to come away, as there was time
enough until Monday morning, when she said he could get
the money by daylight. They then returned home. On
Monday she asked him would he get the money that day,
and he said he would when grandfather went out. About
5 o'clock in the evening, he said that his grandfather and
grandfather's brother, as well as her own father, had gone
out, " and if I had • candle now," said he, "I would go up
and do what I want." He sent • child for • candle, and
when he had got it be went to the top of the Abbey, and
yenning in about a quarter of an hour, said he could see the
box the mosey was in, but the clay had got into it through
the cover, so that it became too heavy for him
to lift himself, and he seemed to want her to come
and assist him with it. She then went with him, taking
a candle and a box of matches, and they went up to the
top. When they had got halt way up the stairs he took
a hatchet out of a bole in the wall, telling her that he
wanted it to break the bottom of the box. When she had
nearly reached the top of the stairs, he being in advance of
her, the candle was quenched, she believed, by the wind,
"and I did not know where I was when I got the first
blow on the back between the shoulders. I said, ' Wil-
liam, you are striking me,' thinking he intended to strike
the box. Then I got four or five blows in succession on
the heed. I believe I screamed, and said, for God's mercy
to save me ; I put out my hand, and some way I caught
the hatchet ; and he then cried out for me to forgive him.
I said I wbuld if I got safe down, for I thought he would '
throw me down the narrow stain, and would kill me. I
asked hint then to take me down, for I was so covered with
blood I could not see my way. He took my hand, and
led me to the front door, and I then screamed to a
man who wasat the other aide of the street. He came and
took me to my own house, and I was afterwards taken to
the South Infirmary, where my head was dressed. I
brought the hatchet away with me. I did not fall from
the first blow." Constable Conran said he had visited the
scene of the offence. The passage up to the first floor was
very dangerous, and at the top was a square platform sur-
rounded by • wall, with no roof, and at one side of it
next the wall, there was a bole about 61 feet long and
shoot • foot deep—it could not be made deeper, for the
floor had been reached. The breadth of the hole was about
the ordinary breadth of s grave. The hole might be dug by
a servant boy in an hour. The bench committed the pn.
loner for trial before the recorder, *ho can, if he chooses,
remit the case to the amine. The prisoner, who appeared
anxious but collected. then left the dock.

SALMON FISHERY IN THE FAB. WEST.—And now
all the *spears set,and the watchersanxiously look-out for
the appearance of the first salmon. Their sharp eyes full
soon detect the silvery fish, and the welcome tidings of the
salmon's arrival spreads with telegraphic rapidity. The
revels are at once abandoned, and we now see stalwart
savages standing on every available point of rock, armed
with formidable three-pointed barbed spears ; their eager
eyes are peering into the bubbling waters, on the look-
out for salmon. Onoe descried the salmon's chance of
escape is smell indeed, the unerring spear is deeply buried
in its flesh, the barbed points bold on with the tenacity of
fish-hooks, and the victim is dragged out of the water to
flap said flounder itself to death, surrounded by the de-
lighted throng. The capture of the first salmon is the
signal flee • genets& rejoicing; the " terlisisse "
go through the mast weird and absurd in-
cantations, to please, as they think, the ..Great
Spirit," and thus induce him to Bend au abundant
supply of fish, and what to these impostors is of far
greater import, to convince the assembled tribes that their
medicine making has been pro-eminently successful. The
men and women dance, and shriek, and gin, vent to yells,
war-whoops, and other uncanny sounds in sheer madness
of delight. As a general rule, the first salmon is presented
to the Hudson's Bay Company's chief trader, and twice in
my life I have partaken of the "first salmon," and I can
bear truthful testimony that its quality was equal to the
best salmon the United Kingdom produces. The fishery
business now commences in right good earnest. The
salmon day after day arrive in numbers not to be coin
pitted, and I am not in the slightest degree. over-stating
the truth by saying that, when the ' run " is at
its best, it would be almost an impossibility to throw
a stone into the eddies underneath the falls
without striking a salmon. I have stood upon the
rocks, by the side of the "salmon baskets," and tried in
vain to count the number of salmon that were leaping
clearout of the water at one and the same time. And it
is at such times as these that we witness the extraordinary
success of the redskins' basket system of fishing. The
poor salmon in their untiring efforts to master the falls,
and thus get into the mountain streams to deposit their
eggs, far too frequently for their own safety jump short of
the height they desire to achieve, and then are instantly
washed heck into the wide-mouthed baskets. Often and
often I have seen six, and sometimes as many as eight,
salmon caged at a time, and startling as the statement may
sound to persons in this country, I have myself known
over three hundred salmon landed from one basket be-
twixt sun-up and sun-down. These fish varied in weight
from 20 to 75 pounds.—J. K. Lord in Land and Water,
Dec. 28.

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