The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-28 00:00:00

HATTON.GARDEN.

An Irishman, who gave his name Patrick Hanky,
which there are some grounds to suppose was but
assumed, and that his real name is Tpacey, was
yesterday brought before the sitting Magistrate, Mr.
RoGERs, in custody of police constable Wilson,
charged on suspicion of having been concerned in
the murder of a young man of the name of John
Quinlan, at the fair of Ardpatrick, in the county
of Limerick, Ireland, on the 17th of March last.
John Fitzgerald, an Irish labourer, residing in
Buckridge-street, St. Giles's, came forward and de-
posed that the murdered man Quinlan was his
brother-in-law. He produced a letter, received
some months ago from Ireland, communicating to
him the news and circumstances of the murder of
his relative; and informing him at the same time
that three of the murderers had fled the country, and
took refuge in England ; and that a fourth, who
was only an accessory to the crime, had been appre-
hended, tried, and found guilty upon the charge at
the subsequent Assizes at Limerick, and sentenced
to transportation for life. An accurate description
of the persons of the parties who had escaped from
justice, together with their names, was given in the
letter, and Fitzgerald was desired to ascertain, if
possible, whether or not they had proceeded to
London, to exert himself in their apprehension, and
have them transmitted in custody back to Limerick.
Two of them are named Callaghan, and it was sup-
posed that they had proceeded to an uncle of theirs
residing at Islington, and the third is named Patrick
Tracey. Accordingly, since Fitzgerald received the
letter, he omitted no opportunity of detecting the
accused parties, or of finding out some clue to their
retirement. Having the description of their persous
impressed upon his mind's eye, he took more or less
notice of every stranger he met, and on Tuesday
afternoon, about three o'clock, while employed at
the Bazaar in Oxford-street, he saw the prisoner
pass, and instantaneously it struck him that he
answered the description of Tracey. His entire
frame trembled at the moment,and he felt convinced
of the prisoner's identity. He immediately went up
to him, and addressing him said, " lam glad to see
you ; how do you do, Nlr. Tracey ?" The prisoner
by his manner acknowledged the name ; he mani-
fested not the least surprise, and coolly replied that
he was quite well. At this moment the police
officer Wilson came up, and Fitzgerald gave the pri-
soner in charge, who then declared that there must
have been some mistake as to his person, for that his
name was not Tracey, but Patrick Hanley.
In reply to the Magistrate's interrogatories, the
prisoner persisted in saying that his name was Han-
' ley ; that he was a native of the province of Leinster,
and that he had never been in the county of Lime-
, rick, or any other part of Munster, in his life. He
had been nine years, he said, in England, and he
seemed to be struck with astonishment that any
suspicion of having committed a murder should at-
tach to him. He added, that he had a wife and
family in London, and that he was forty-eight years
of age.
Mr. RoGEns inquired of him where he and his
family resided in London ?
To this the prisoner replied, that he had gone
home in April last, for the benefit of his health,
leaving his wife and family here, and that he had but
just then returned, being only two days in London,
• and he was unable to trace out his wife's lodgings,
she having in the mean time left her former place
-of residence.

Fitzgerald said that there was a friend of his, of
the name of Niacnarnara, living in Gravel-lane, in the
Borough, who, if he were present, could identify
the prisoner, if he were the same man as described
in the letter under the name of Tracey.
The description, however, did not seem exactly
to

suit the prisoner, but
Mr. RoGEtts, after some hesitation, said he would
remand him till Friday next, to have the evidence
of 'Macaamara, and to give the officer an opportunity
of making further inquiries into the prisoner's cir-
cumstances.

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