The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-17 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULAILS.

CORK. 811,P.Dhlr.
Late yesterday evening intelligence was ri...sivm
here of a singularly daring and sanguinary
outrage having been connuitted at a pl,sce
Ballycoohey, inthe neighbourhood of the LimeriA
Junction, and upon the borders of the comity
Tipperary. Mr. William Scully, brother r,f yr
Vincent Scully, formerly M.P. for thiscounty.
proceeding to execute extensive evictions on ha
property in that locality, under the prot.,,tinn 4
a party of five armed policemen. w,
fired on from one of the farm
at which desperate resistance was offered to th...
execution of the legal proct.sa, and in fit. iffriy
two of the policemen were shot dead, Mr. s, w:).
himself receiving two wounds in the head.
The scene of the outrage lies about two nil:,
south of the Limerick Junction, on the v. 9.4.•
the bread and fertile plain known as the G01d..1
'Vein. Mr. Scully and his brother hold in the,
part of the country an extensive property-.
their management of which does not ,ipp,4i
to have given satisfaction to their t.u.int.
None of the family are popular, but Mr. Willisa
Scully seems to have incurred a particularly I tr.!.
share of illwill in the locality of his estat....
causes of this feeling are those which zen.ti:ii
bring landlords into disrepute in Irclaii.l. 11 1,,
been constantly embroiled in dispute, nit:. 1::,
tenants. Evictions have been by no an nn,
frequent on his property, and in the
his territorial rights he has occasionally eone• 1.
actual collision with the people. it 111 I)
be said that in the whole of- Tipperary there is t
a better hated man. Circumstances of 11,111—
currenee have impartial peculiar bittern..., t., I:,
feeling against Mr. Scully. For the past tlit-
months thirty families ou his estate in the n‘.1411.
bourhood of Ballycoohey have hail nob..
As may be imagined, the iirospeet of 30 1At..11,:T
an eviction ut a time when a vet-) str.t:-.

feeling exists in the county upon tin. suhjert
tenant right aroused a powerful sons.• of Ml;',
tion and resentment against Mr. Sully. I
Friday the period of the notice to quit ,xpiriA.
and Mr. Scully prepared to take possessi.,n of
land. Resistance of some sort appear. I.
boon anticipated, for Mr. Scully securea
vices of a party of five policemen—four
constables and a constable—as a protection to Liu-
self and bin bailiffs while the eviction was
executed. _

Early on Friday morning Mr. Scully, I •
driver, and one bailiff, so escorted, proceed,.
in cars to the scene of the evictions, and ti
cortege was noticed with no friendly feeling
passed along the road. According to the infor-
mation received here the demand for possession
made and complied with at several of the farms, ba•
at one farm, held by a family named Dwyer, a&n•
and desperate resistance, quite toe
Paralleled in itagenomeditation and residuum... M.., vi'
experienced. us to the arrival of the tm,.
tom the occupants of this farm deliberately el ..l
the dwelling-house and other premises, and ham;
provided themselves with firearms awl aninown•
tion, retired to the barn, which was the strong-•
building of the lot, barricaded the entrance, An I
prepared to dispute the process of the law. Th.
arrangement of the farm-buildings was that tatel
in Irish holdings. The various premises forwel
an irregular square, inclosing a narrow apse.:
called here the " sawn," every part of which the
barn commanded. When Mr. Scully and his party
arrived they found the place silent and apparently
deserted. A formal demand for surrender of the
premises was made, but received no rsponse. An
attempt is stated to have been made to gain sa-
missiontothedwelling-house. Tbis brought matter.
to acrisis, and precipitated the melancholy oetnig,..
The party in the barn, the number awl identity of
whom cannot be ascertained, showed theinselvei.
and sternly warned Mr. Scully off. The ',Alpe
were then called on for assistance. and on
the
tint
demonstration made by them a deadly ,011.'hY w,"
discharged from the windows of the tram Ter,
of the sub-oonstables named lionmei mud
Morrough were shot dead, and Mr. Scully
received two wounds, not of a dangerou
character. The driver and bailiff eseapel
unhurt, as did also the three remaining
policemen. Surprised and panic-stricken by tie
sudden attack, and fearing that the barn WM held
by a numerous parry, the survivors beat a het)
retreat, leaving their dead companions on the
ground. No attempt to pursue them, or to inflict
hrther injury was made, and they regained the
Limerick junction the nearest station at which
refuge could be had, without further molestation.
The alarming and fatal occurrence was innuediste4
reported at all the adjoining polioe-stations, and
with the utmost expedition a numerous force es,
despatched to the scene of the encounter. Tiu
farmhouse was found quite deserted, ite former
occupants having availed themselves of the &demi
to make their escape. A close and extensive sesta
of the neighbourhood was at once instituted, but
without, so far as could be asoertained, revealing
the smallest trace of the perpetrators of the
wouotrageere.re,
werests up torepaortl:dte
toho urhelastve night
made. No definite information could be
obtained from the neighbouring farmers. No one
seemed to know anything of the outrage. Doggel
and impenetrable reticence foiled the investigations
of the authorities on every side. No opinion ice
uent,.
expressed about the matter—there was no exulta-
tion and no expression of regret. In co'seq
of these difficulties there is yet no certainty as tor
who are the perpetrators of the attack—whethe
they were the family threatened with eviction.
acting alone, or in combination with others, er
total strangers.
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before the evicted peasant ; and it is may
that the persons who committed the outrage
have been incited to it by connection with a seat;
ocealrganizinositiol.
the singular daring of the outrage, the coated.
it expeesuocoredur m
lion to oppose its execution, can hardly be le;
counted for. The rapid and complete escape of the
it indicated for the law, and the stern d
tenants of the barn and their evasion of an he
tamely active pursuit are only explicable on
tll:.
importance to be attached to the eff,s_l,i,
than if it were treated as an
same theory. This impression has caused
smg
individual outrage, arty eerier
el•
amount of vigdanee an is being.°
laded by the authorities. A large police f re°
aneotetahrnuerct!':