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P taw. and he having advised her to acquaint a Alagiatrate, she
w int ahrevards to Mr. Drumm!. Item the witness identified the
!Meows, Darby and William 3lalier.
Joist Kelly (now a whin r in the Royals), son of last witness,
seem— Knows William and Darby Maher; saw William Maher
01 his meether's house the Sitiirday night before the }Aiming.—
Weat with Maher from the kitchen into the inner room. Maher
told 'deems that he was to get to Me hill the nod Monday with a
piety to take Shea's arms, and 3lither malt, some slugs of a 'moon,
• d Withers eplit "on balls. Witness gave no information in crime-
spiri-e• hut inlet pat. Mullally the next night to be on their guard
at Shea's. Wltntis knew his cousin, Catherine Mullalle. who
heed at Shelia. bar her And Maher at his mother's. Mafia be-
gen to court her, and ask her particulars about the defences of
ithea's house. Witness shout at his fulier'i house the night of the
burring at Shen's; hi- and his tether went to bed, but his ninth.,
did nu. In the morning, was informs -I by bis mother of the burn.
Mg. and ran inwards the nuns with several others. At the funeral
of tie burnt bodies he did not see Daiby or Billy. Maher, but saw
Maher at his r's Moist ; site was sitting by the lire
when William Maher came to. She 'said, `.• you villain, now you
have eke lire-arms 1"—lle anut, " we could not help it ; we were
reilling rod bawling to thew. I Went SW boiler the window, and
told diem to threw out the amen, at.cl nothing should happen ; but
they did not ; en we Mild not kelp it, and they were all burnt and
deensved 1" %Finical, said his mother was then crying. W knees
went to the funeral, hut his mother did not ; lie did not know the
mann. Witness Is about twenty years of age. Is six or seven
wombs in the amiy, Enlisted. being in dread of his life of the
fellowi in the country. After the burning, liathy Maher came to
witness's hove with a warning. Ile came mitside the done, and
said if we did not bold our tongues, we at Id be treated like the
Work After that, witness often ale pt nut it, the (filches, for km
of bring °metier's! Itt .1w house. Ile identified the prisoners.
John Butler, sime,..--.Lived with Philip Dillon when Shea's
betise was learnt. A brother of witness's was burnt in it. Wit.
twos lived within WO yards of the house of Nell Shea. Knew where
,ry Kelly's house was. It was at the opposite side from Shea's.
at the other side. Witoess saw the house oct lire, and
p n le pig% inwards i•, among whom were Philip Dilltm, Richard
'Phelan, William Williams, and himself. Wittiest. advanced with-
in ten or fifteen yards of the holm. Witness knows a Tenn of the
some wf Derby Make; saw him about fifty yards distant from
thawed( (witness), behind Shea's house when it was burning;
could positively swear it. Mettle had a blunderhiiss in his hand
VT nuns heard a slim fired t it ass tired by Philip Dillon. who at
the Clew called out in a Load voice, "1)h, you rascals." A
▪ it was fired from Shia's ys;il„ another from behind the house.
k w two Idunderbtassts pointed tr.wards where himself stood.
X.'fien Dillon hired the shots, and cried out " Olt you rascals," a
wan snivel,' front thee yard, and maid " Come' forward, If you
dare I" Witness then went back to the ditch. and staid there
about ten minutes; and when he saw no more of his party, lie weld
back to billows house, got • horse, tied rode eW for time tether
owl le entire of Shea. Met Nicholas Shea, and went with him Ns far
tie Piton's. Did not tell Nicholas Shea that lie saw Darby Maher
at the burning, nor did he tell any other person of it but his mo-
ther ; and he assigned sit his minion for not telling it, that his not.
doer mei his brother told him that he would certainly be murdered
It ssi I any thing about it. Ile told it neat (ley to his brother.
These were the reasons he did not tell any Magistrate till abut
thee menths hack. When witness told his brother of it. he did
▪ t mention the mane of the perm., t but his brother told him.
w. never the offeialer was, to say nothing about it.
Witness was now told to look about ; and, after great hesitation,
littlest the not on Darby M tiller's head, and odd that was the man.
rdlip Dillon sworn- Remembered the night Shes's house was
Ulna, and raw it ; hr had been called nut by William Williams,
he sent Williams to call Richert, Phelan and other neighbour',
veil. It he did. They all got up and dressed. Witness went out
•••d Dick Phelan and his son, and pan. Butler. and they went up
• ot the have was burning, within about eleven pares of it.
B.lng there with his (rim&' he Hull a shot out of his gun, and
eel amt, "What's this tin, you rascals'" A shot yens dis-
e:nrgtel Iran near the house, anti " Conte on, if you dare !" was
vied out. Witness heard another shot when he was coming down
the hill with Butler, Phelan. he.
Alice Butler swarn.-I.irml within two or three fields of Shea's i
nirlit of the lire 11., sun John came and told her the house WAS
bmed, and that Darby Mather was cnncertied; on which she I
cautioned him not in tell the' to any one, or he would he do starved.
I about an hour after the fire her son asked if his brother Mich.
es within T—when she told him he was not, he said she never
would see any more than Ills burnt bones She had another sun,
E Imam!.
Major DfOilght wit examined touching his having arrested
W. Maher, and sow confessions trade to him, which Maher
vuluntetred. Major thought held out no threat, promise, or in.
ducement to him.
Fraiwis lkspard. Esq. was examined touching the investigation
at Cloneen, humediately after the burning. Not one of the per.
sons there examined, among whom were Mary Kelly rind John But-
-I.tr, "aid they knew any one concerned. The only questions put to
.Mary Kelly were relative to the pawns that had been drinking at
bar tonere.
The cr.e for the proserution closed here, when
Fhil;p Pm, to team. mine tip and swore that he slept at Darby
Mahee's the whole of the night tie the loaning, and in the same
Led with him : and that 31aber (mild not go nut without his know.
I.dgc ; the evidence of this what., was very far from sufficient to
produce a favmirable effect on the Jury.
Philip Burke was 111.%, sworn-. and he was a man of fair repute;
foe William Maher he deposed, that 011 the night of the horning,
WilLatit :flatter left his 111,11.1, to go sleep In an adjoining Irani ;
wane.' Inked the door diner Maher went out to the ham.
Next, to prove that Jlidier did not leave the barn during the
night,
John Walsh, in the employ of Mr. Burke was sworn hut his
evidence was much like Mat of the tailor ; and, between both, the
eMi was frailly sustained.
The definer having di eel lucre,
Th..l'itter JUSTICE williveocii the Jury in many %nand and
luminous observations, upon the evidence of which we lament our
time or limits do not permit us 10 girt• even the slightest sketch.
After the Jury retired about half an limn.. they returned into
Court at eleven clock •itli a verdict of—Gnifty against both the
peremeni.
His !amnesia. then atiolresewit them in a nuot feeling manner,
and wits evidently notch affected.
One of the prisoners. W. Maher, whiled stolid, bid neither of
the unhappy eittlyirta denied the truth and justice of the verdict.
The 'mi. e Jr ST ICE concluded by passing the ordinary sen-
tence of 5. i.)II for tomiorrtiv. mid that the bodies of the
condemned be sent to the County Infirmary fur dissection and
anatomy.
NUB DE R OF TII E KINNEAINS.
William Amid, Patrick Teabill, red IVUfGnw Rift's, wire
indicted for the murder of Michael, William, and Mertiu Kinnealy,
on the 11 th July. at linuckgridliiii.
After a long trial, the prisoners were all acquitted. hid fee-iris',
before they were discharged, a suiutble admonition from the Lean-
ed Judge.