Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

MURDER.

We deeply regret to say that our neighbourhood hrs
been stained by a horrid murder. It appears that on
Sunday last Henry M'Grath, Matthew Dannelly, Hugh
and John M`Carron, and others, all residing- in the town-
land of Killycloglier, near this town, who had been in
Omagh chapel together, met on returning home in the
evening, and had hot and angry altercations, it is said,
about a young woman. They again met, with others, ar,
the house of a shoemaker, named James M'Etroy,, a,
Killyclogher, about nine o'clock that night, and a regular
boxing match took place between Patrick M'Carron and
M'Grath. They had seconds, and fought two or three
rounds, when they were- separated, and it was proposed
that M'Grath and Donnelly should fight the two
M'earrons the next morning. To this Hugh M'Carroe
objected, and insisted that his brother and M‘G-atli
should then fight it out. Patrick M'Carron would not do
this, and M'Grath said he could beat either of the
brothers. While they were so (parrelling in the
street outside the house, Hugh M'Ci.rron was seen to
enter it, and appeared to be looking for something. The
woman of the house told him not to take anything from
the house, and he went out again to the street, where he
was seen to strike M'Grath on the breast. It being
rather dark, M'Grath was not observed after this for a
few minutes, when he was found about fif.teen yards off
lying on the ground, quite dead, the road from the place
.he was when struck to whore he was found, being marked
with a stream of blood. Lights were procured, and
a search made near the place, when a few yards from
the spot, on the other side of a ditch, a shoemaker's
knife was found, stained with blood. This knife had
been lying on the shoemaker's seat before Hugh
trron was seen looking in the house as if for some-
thing previous to his going out, as ahoy.? stated. An
inquest was held„ on view of the body by William 0. Orr,
coroner, when a mass of evidence was adduced, on
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and the jury found,
as their verdict, that deceased cznie by his death from
the stab of a shoemaker's knife in the left breast, which
had penetrated the heart., and that the wound was
inflicted by Hugh 11I`Carron, his brother Patrick being
aiding and assisting. Hugh is in gaol, committed for the
offence, but Patrick has not yet been made amenably,
The parties are young men, farm servants, and unr,sarried.
Deceased was about 20 years of age, and was also
unmarried. They were all under the influence of liquor
at the time of the melancholy occurrence.—Tyrone Con-
stitution.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—MO LIVES LOST —Yest( rday morn-
ing a small yawl, belonging to Mr. F. W. Birkhead, of
Rotherhithe, was bAng taken up the River Thames by
two of his sons and a you:h named Fendy, with the sup-
posA intenti)u of witnessing the launch of the Leviathan.
When off Cuckold's-point tha youths put on too much sill,
and, from want of skill in its management, the boat was
capsized and the entire party thrown into the water. Some
blots put off and r( sexed W. Birkhead ; his brother Ft ede-
rick and the lad Frendy were drowned, and their bodies
are not vet recovered.
THE WATERLOO BRIDGE 3.11-SlERY.—nOring the week
the police have received some important information
respecting the mutilated remains found on Water:cal B. idg,,
and on Saturday, further communications were r,c.ived
of the same character, and the opinion now begins to gain
ground that the victim is one of the political agents
employed by the continental police to iLsinuate themselves
into the society of the numerous refugees who fi.ck to this
country, to inveigle them into plots that will, if adopted,
lead them an easy prey into the hands of the foreign police.
Forrester, the well-mown officer, has recently been in
Paris, and some of the other experienced detectives have
been instituting minute inquiries in certain directions, that
at present it would be inopportune to mention. A foreign
police spy, named Fouat, rs missing in a most unaccount-
able manner ; the funds he was supplied with must have
been long since exhausted, and his not applying fur more
leads to the belief that he is the murdered man.