The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-17 00:00:00

FRIPAY

with violently assaulting a woman named Ann Rawlins,
and with attempting Motel) a polies-constable.
On Friday night la* Ow prkissiw, who was iatwdeabod,
quarrelled with the woman Rawlinsin a publio•house, struck
her on the mouth with his Rslt., and rat her lips. Ha was
given into the custody of a police eorMDle named Robert
'lack, and on the way to the station ha kicked and bit she
soostable, and afterwards, with an exohanattoe, rushed at
him with an open knife, but was prevented from doing any
injury by • poling sergeant, who struck him, and compelled
Mai to drop the !mite.
Mr. Paget said he should send the prisoner for trial for
attempting to murder the police-constable.
The Prisoner— I hope you will not send me for trial. I
was quite drunk at that time, and don't know anything of
the affair.
Mr. Paget—You have committed a very serious offence,
and drunkenness is no excuse but rather an aggravation
of the offence. I should recommend in this sass that
counsel be employed at the sessions. If crimes of this
nature are not prosecuted with success, no constable and
no one else will be safe from the attacks of drunken
ruffians armed with knives.

Inspector Allison, of the K division, said the recommen-
dation of the magistrate should be at once conveyed to the
Commissioner of Police.

SHOCKING MURDER OF A LANDLORD

IN IRELAND.

We announced, in a third edition of yesterday's
E.Tres.l, that Mr. Fetherston, of Brooklyn
Castle, county Westmeath, was shot dead on
Wednesday night when going from the Killucan
station to his own residence, five miles from the
station. Mr. Fetherston, who was a deputy-
lieutenant and justice of the peace, left Dublin
by the mail train, and was proceeding home from
the Killucan station in his tax-cart, accompanied
by his servant, when, about a mile and a half
from the station, he was fired at—the assassin
being so close at the time that the unfortunate
gentleman's coat was burned by the discharge.
The ball passed through the heart. Death was
instantaneous. The unfortunate gentleman has
left a widow and five children.

An inquest was held on the body yesterday,
and a verdict of " Wilful murder" returned. The
murder is agrarian, and is attributed to a recent
raising of his rental by the deceased, and to some
evictions.

The police are scouring the country, but as yet
no arrest has been made.
Mr. Fetberston was related to the Earl of
Wicklow, and was in his 35th year.

THE LATE .ATTEMPTED MURDER IN TILBURY
FORT-DEATIi OF THE WOUNDED SOLDIER

On Tuesday evening, Mr. Hilder, the borough
coroner, held an inquest at the Town-hall, Gravesend, on
the bod of Martin Connolly, a private in the 14th Regi-
ment of Foot, who was shot by Patrick Barrett, also a pri-
vate in the same regiment, stationed at Tilbury Fort. Bar.
rett has been committed for trial at the next assize for
wounding the deceased, and firing a loaded rifle at
another soldier. The affair took place as far back as the
15th of February. Barrett was somewhat in liquor, and
had had some words with Gibson, a private in the regi-
ment, and who appeared to have had charge of the barraok-
room. About 9 o'clock Barrett was ordered to bed.
He did go, and the lights were put out. It seemed that
he must have obtained possession of his flit* and loaded
it, and shortl7 afterwards he called out, " Gibson, look
' out ;I am going to shoot you." He fired, and the de-
ceased. who was in bed nearer to Barrett, called out that
be was shot. Oa lights being procurred Barrett was
seen sitting on his bed with the rile in his hand,
which had been recently discharged. The ball
was found to have passed through the ht thigh of the
deceased, and to have struck the left . He was re-
moved from Tilbury to the hospital w of the New
Tavern Fort at Gravesend, and the prisoner placed under
arrest.

Gibson, the soldier whom Barrett intended to shoot,
and other witnesses, having been examined in support of
the above facts,
Dr. Hobert Taylor, the army surgeon at the Fort,
described the character of the gnn.shot wounds, and said
that they bad healed on the 21st March. He was allowed
to move about on crutches. when he was found to be
suffering from the effects of stricture. He gradually be.
came worse and died, and his death was attributed to the
latter complaint.
The Coroner remarked upon the strange character of the
case, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with
the medical testimony.—Cklnsford Chronicle.