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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1820

his I - is iiit the Cloninel rood ; knows also the
• Louse of Thomas Item.
Catheriiie Hyatt, mom—Recollects the night
Mr. S!'reliv was murdered; recollects to hove
resin Mr. Sheehy in the initicife uf the high road
about that evening; Mr. Sheehy was
walkiiiy; know% Drati-A house; saw Mr. Sheehy
ko into Dwall'A hums ; knuwr the Prisoner (here
the witness ideotified It ni), saw him the seine even-
ing ; had seen Mr. Sheehy fleet. Mr. Sheehy was
iu Dival:.ll house Issfare witnees I:4W the Prisooer,
who was about 20 Tides from Dwan's home;
prinnier was driving Iwo horses which he was after
wan-ring; he wrs going toward* ins father's house ;
kiisisss the stream where the horses were watered. it
is near the high road.
Cross-examined.—The Piisoner of!eit went to
water his horses: saw Mr. Sheehy often, by him-
, eels, walking oi, the high road ; told Mr. Sheehy.
jot . the flight idler the no pytio.A, -Apt "Ire saw the
Proloisor wetting near the barren that evening ;
saw M.r. S. come ..sit of Dawn's house, and go
lop the buMem. as if he was goisg home; witness
weal iwte Prisomit'a house and saw the ins, horses
inside of a partition lei the kitchen, and his father
and two ',lshii. but did not see the Prisoner ; wit-
ness/ went there for candles which Pi101.11e1.4
rioter bought at Clontni I for her ; does not know
when the Prisoner was taken; the day that Mr.
Sheehy was interred, pea informative to Colonel
Greene.
Misty Dronehan sworn.—Recollects the night
Mr. Sheehy was murdered; saw him that evening
star the dom of the house iii which witness lodged;
it belongs to the uncle of the Prisoner; it is on the
high road. Knows the stream; it is between the
hurter' and Mr. Sherhy's house; witness went after
Mr. Sheehy and asked him fir mine money ; lie
• bid her rend her hueband to him and lie would give
him some; witness was returning when she saw the
Plisuner behind the deceased. with a bill-hook or
plough-iron in hie hand. with whieh hr struck the
der:ever' behind the bead; the deceased stumbled a
few yards. and cried out. 45 Oh, murder! earthy'"
the Prtsouer followed and pre him a orentod blow,
by which lie was killed. and he fell within two or
three yards of she small road ditch; witness did nut
wait any longer, but ran home through the dikes as
fast a, she cool.!.

('ross•erautined—Liver in Clonmel with her huts
baud, its the house of Patrick Lonnergsas ; tea
mained a fortnight utter the murder in Ileats's
house; lived a pivot while at Bellvitonolaw, two
milts Irmo Ryan's house; knew the Prisoner sod
the deceased very well ; d d not tell the Shrehys
of what she knew until within a few days of
Easter Sunday ; did not tell it before last Assizes;
did not hear ilie Prisoner was then in custody;
kept it secret to herself; it was a eery great weight
upon her trued: her husband was the only pre.
son to whom she told it ; was married twice; was
married to her first husband by Father liessisa ;
heard that her first busbutd died in tlw west of
America; Father O'Neill recrived an account of
his death; is Married to Orooghan two tears; was
in a hurry to be married to him ; Ss a dealer, aryl
sells small articles; !ward there was a reward of
300/. or 5001. offered fur the appreliensioft of the
murder; never expected to get a farthing of the
reward ; never heard the Prisoner was taken until
Patrick's l) sy. when willies,' was going house
from Dungaree's; heard the iseighbount say that
ill'Curthy was taken for the murder; 541 V 111 V
Prisoner on the slay the inquest was ; saw
him frequently after at Rya's'', house ;" Ryan told
wittitors'a husband not it, go outside the deer at
night ; if he should. he would surely be killed by a
atone or a shot front behind the ditch.
It the course of the crierisexamitiatirm of this wit.
nese, the Learned Conned. Mr. M'Unugall, ably
endeavoured to elicit from her, th it her sole object
for prosecuting the Prisoner was tlw reward which
was offered. Against this insinuation she strongly
protested.
Derr the Learned Jud,ps asked the witness what
induced her to swear against the Prisoner ? She
said three or four ills before she gave the informs"-
tO ))) she met the Rev. Mr. Casey between Clon-
m•I
mud Cloglieeis. told hint the circumstance.
and :okra his udvr•r ; he told her she was wrong
its keeping such a secret in her breast ; and that,
if she to to concealment. she would not re-
crier Ilse rite, of the Church : this operated too very
strongly upon her wind that she went and gave
informattoo.
Nicholas Drunken, husband of the last witness,
corroborated the testimony of his wife, ail far as be
was concerned, and further remarked that he was
often awakened out of his sleep at unfit by his wife
starting up and crying out, " Oh, murder ! Car.
thy !" this witness also stated, that lie was prevent-
ed through fear frum giving information, and that
he newer 10141 10 oily person olio murdered Mr.
Sheehy, but to one John Egan.
Joins Egan being sworn. stated, he was in the
employment of Colonel Greene; that on the even-
tug of the murder Drosigliati was with witness re.
criving follynleill for work ; that three or lour days
after willies's said to Drum:kin, that it wus well fur
Droughan that he was not away that evening, he
being a stranger, or hr would be suspected of the
murder. " Ott, no," said Drotighan, " that could
not Iw, for it was APCartliy that murdered Mr.
Sheehy." Witness never told Mr. Greene who
murdered Mr. Sheehy. This oiliness protested, in
I rather a pasilloolle manner, against the insinuation
that it was for the sake of getting a share or the re-
Ward that he came forward to give his evidence;
he never expected nor would he take a shilling of
the reward.
John Altilcally, Esq. swum—The mottling after
the murder witness went to the ►pot where it was
perpetrated ; observed a large pool of blood ; went
the pool, to endeavour to trace rote foot-
steps ; saw footsteps leading from the blood to the
high rood , bait tt Kist nothing of thew, ae wit.
noes observed people going from the blood to the
high road ; witness then saw traces of blood on the
Slitter to a atomic gap, which was a few yards from

the spot, and which appeared as if the deceased. on
receiving the first blow, had stumbled to the litler
where he was found ;nu tracing the blood to the
gap. saw a footstep beriesili the field•siide of the !
gat►, rind a !loge drop of congealed blood, which
appeared as if it had fallen from the weapon or coat
of the assiissiii; entities% then traced the footsteps in
the field; the doitance beissecri each step could not l
be made by a person Ht 1011 111911911. ; WU.
nras traced the footstep+ to Imze in the l►rirouer's
paid ; the furze was within twenty yards of the I
house; witness did not know the Prisouer ; never
hail the least suspicion of biro.
Michael Ormond, a constable. stated, that he
was lite person who took the Prisoner ; witness I
sod Mr 1. Sheehy found him concealed tinder a
heap of straw to his uncle's house ; had taken
bun before lust Assizes on 'rigor-Mu of this mar• •
de►, but, there being uo positive evidence, he was
discharged.
I•he only witricits brought forward on the part
of the Prisoner was one Ellen White. Stir ►wore i
that three or four days before the Prisoner was
taken Ma►y Drouglion asked her to join her it,
prosecuting the Prismier, and said she would get
it share of the reward. This insertion was strongly
contradicted on the cross-rxatniaatuou of Mrs.
Droughso.
[lt may not be amiss to remark here that Thom.* I
Ryan, mentioned in the foregoing evidence. was
drowned las* Assizes in coming down to a host
from Clottmell
His Lordsh.p, Byron 11'CLELLAND, summed up '
the evidence to the Jury in an able and eloquent
manner. and passed a very handsome compliment
on the praiseworthy conduct of the Rev. Mr.
Casey. in bringing the nefarious deed to light.
The Jury, after retiring about ten antsutes, re-
turned a verdict of Gaikl.
His I'nrdship► addressed the Prisoner in a feeling
wed impressive exhortation ; he commented largely
no the heninosness of the crime. He concluded by
beseeching the culprit to employ the few hour. (eft
hint in repenting of los former iniquities, and hoped
it wits not too late for his soul to expect mercy
from his God, whom lie had so grievously oli'ersited,
sod out to expect any fuon that tribunal which now
sentenced hi• body to be hanged, dissected, and
anatomised, after the expiration of forty-eight
hour•.
The Prisoner seemed much affected, and asked
fur a long day. His Lordship declared that it
was out of hit power, as the law mode it peretop-
tory on bills 111 such a case to order the Prisoner
fur execution forty-eight hours after his convic-
tion.
Purauant to sentence. the Prisoner was brought
out for execution on Thursday. at one o'clock.—
Ile appeared perfectly calm and reconciled, but we
understood he was much distracted nn Wednesday.
However, through the pious and zealous instruc-
tions and attention of the Clergyman who encoded
him, lie was brought to a just sense of the wicked-
ness of the crime for which he was oboist to suffer.
He willingly confessed his guilt, and acknowledged
the justice of hit sentence. After spending stone
time in prayer lie ascendsd the scaffold, and with
every oppearance of sincere coiorition and cum-
in:net' implored the prayers of the numerous
spectators who assembled to witness the awful
mine, and who with sympathising feelings jollied
hum its prayer to /leaven for mercy on his soul.—
He died almost without a struggle. After lila
body had been soisperided for hall an hour, it was
cut down MA given for dissection.